OSCAR STATUETTES FETCH $3 MILLION AT ONLINE AUCTION
March 1, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
The largest sale of Oscar statuettes in history fetched a total of more than $3 million on Tuesday, auctioneers Nate D. Sanders said Wednesday, with Herman Mankiewicz’s Oscar for his Citizen Kane screenplay going for $588,455. The Oscar to cowriter Orson Welles sold last December for $861,542. (Mankiewicz had maintained throughout his life that he […]
MORE OSCARS TO FIND NEW HOMES ON TUESDAY
February 23, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
Two days after this year’s Oscars are handed out, 14 additional Oscars will be awarded to the winning bidders of a Hollywood memorabilia auction — believed to be twice the total number of Oscar trophies that have been sold to date. The sale, being featured online by the Los Angeles auction house Nate D. Sanders, […]
WELLES’S CITIZEN KANE OSCAR TO GO ON SALE FOR ABOUT $1 MILLION
The only Oscar ever won by Orson Welles — for co-writing Citizen Kane — is due to be auctioned off online by Nate D. Sanders Auctions on December 20, and presumably between now and then, the Academy will make some effort to prevent the sale from going forward. It has long fought efforts to sell […]
