Yes, this is a little-explored downside to walking away with one of the 13-inch-high gold statuettes.

They'll feel far more comfortable sending a gold statuette his way for playing a stuffy old monarch.

A genuine gold statuette of the raising of the flag at Mount Suribachi.

This was the first year in which the gold statuettes were called "Oscars".

She watched him as he lay studying the gold statuette on the grass by the stream behind the cottage.

Upon a corner table rested a large metal casket, almost the exact size of the space that had been beneath the gold statuette.

Since 2003, a gold statuette, nicknamed "The Shorty", has been given out in conjunction with the cash prize.

Not the gold statuette in my room.

(Paramount, as the American distributor, would actually take home the gold statuette.)

Today, the gold statuette sits upstairs in the 11,000-square-foot Georgian-style house built here by his father on a two-acre lot he bought in 1925.