33 Stars Revealed Where They Keep Their Oscars, From the Bathroom to a Museum
33 Stars Revealed Where They Keep Their Oscars, From the Bathroom to a Museum
Grace Gavilanes, Carson BlackwelderMon, March 16, 2026 at 11:00 AM UTC
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Julia Roberts holds her Best Actress Oscar during the 73rd Academy Awards at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on March 25, 2001; Viola Davis poses with her Best Supporting Actress Oscar in the press room during the 89th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in L.A. on Feb. 26, 2017; Emma Stone poses with her Best Actress Oscar in the press room during the 96th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in L.A. on March 10, 2024Credit: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic; FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty; Arturo Holmes/Getty
Stars run the gamut when it comes to where they keep their hard-earned trophies.
Take the trio of Julia Roberts, Viola Davis and Reese Witherspoon, who have displayed their Oscars in plain sight — specifically in the parlor, office and living room, respectively.
Others have chosen less conspicuous places worthy of a scavenger hunt, including bathrooms, kitchens, museums or even their loved ones' homes.
The answers are so varied that you'll never guess where some stars have decided to show off or store their golden statuettes.
In honor of the 98th Academy Awards, here's a look at where past winners have displayed their coveted prize from Hollywood's biggest night.
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Robert De Niro: At the University of Texas
Robert De Niro with his Best Actor Oscar during the 53rd Academy Awards at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in L.A. on March 31, 1981Credit: Snap/Shutterstock
In a 2024 chat with PEOPLE, two-time Academy Award winner Robert De Niro said his Oscars are in the care of a team at the University of Texas.
"They keep everything, preserve things very well, they're archiving," De Niro said. "I didn't donate them, but they're in their care."
De Niro has won Best Supporting Actor for The Godfather Part II at the 1975 Academy Awards and Best Actor for Raging Bull at the 1981 Academy Awards out of nine career Oscar nominations.
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H.E.R.: On the Dining Table
From left: Tiara Thomas, H.E.R. and Dernst "D'Mile" Emile II pose with their Oscars for Best Original Song in the press room during the 93rd Academy Awards at Union Station in L.A. on April 25, 2021Credit: Chris Pizzello/Pool/Getty
"My Oscar, as of now, is in the middle of my dining table, kind of like a centerpiece," H.E.R. — whose song "Fight for You" from Judas and the Black Messiah won Best Original Song at the 2021 Academy Awards — told PEOPLE in 2022.
"People are like, 'Is that — is that the Oscar?' I don't have a full build-out yet. I'm working on that," she continued. "But I do have a little shelf situation in my living room with the Grammys and the Soul Trains and all those awards."
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Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz: In a "Place That's Not So Obvious"
Javier Bardem poses with his Best Supporting Actor Oscar in the press room during the 80th Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in L.A. on Feb. 24, 2008; Penélope Cruz poses in the press room with her Best Supporting Actress Oscar during the 81st Academy Awards at Kodak Theatre in L.A. on Feb. 22, 2009Credit: Vince Bucci/Getty; Jason Merritt/Getty
Javier Bardem gave fans some insight during the 2019 Academy Awards when he told PEOPLE that he and wife Penélope Cruz keep their Oscars — his for Best Supporting Actor for No Country for Old Men (2007) and hers for Best Supporting Actress for Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) — in "a place that's not so obvious."
"We can see in the corner of our eye, so it's not like they are there," he continued. "And if you miss them, you go there in secret, and you hold it, then you go back to the living room."
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Olivia Colman: In Bed
Olivia Colman poses with the Oscar for Best Actress in the press during the 91st Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in L.A. on Feb. 24, 2019Credit: Kurt Krieger/Corbis via Getty
Given Olivia Colman's sense of humor, it's hard to tell if she is joking when she told reporters after winning the Best Actress trophy in 2019 for her role in The Favourite that she'd be keeping her Oscar in a very special place: "In bed with me."
"Between me and my husband," she said, referring to longtime husband Ed Sinclair. "He doesn't know yet; he won't mind."
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Viola Davis: In Her Office
Viola Davis poses with her Best Supporting Actress Oscar in the press room during the 89th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in L.A. on Feb. 26, 2017Credit: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
After winning the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 2017 for her performance in Fences, Davis revealed that she keeps the award in the office she shares with her longtime husband and creative collaborator, Julius Tennon.
"That's [all] Julius," she reportedly told Michael Strahan. "If it were up to me, I'd keep it in my garage to keep me humble."
In 2023, Davis achieved another feat by adding another trophy alongside her Oscar, Emmy and Tony, reaching the coveted EGOT status thanks to a Grammy win.
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Anna Paquin: In the Back of Her Closet
Anna Paquin holds her Oscar for Best Supporting Actress at the 66th Academy Awards at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in L.A. on March 21, 1994; Anna Paquin attends 'A Bit of Light' screening at Crosby Street Hotel in New York City on April 3, 2024Credit: Steve Starr/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty; Theo Wargo/Getty
It's been decades since Anna Paquin revealed to InStyle where she keeps her Oscar, which she won in 1994 at age 11 for The Piano.
The actress' answer showed just how low-key she was about winning the honor.
"I keep it next to my boots at the back of my closet," she once told the publication, per a since-deleted post shared on X in 2014.
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Lupita Nyong'o: On a Shelf
Lupita Nyong'o poses in the press room with her Best Supporting Actress Oscar during the 86th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in L.A. on March 2, 2014Credit: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
Lupita Nyong'o, who earned the 2014 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her work in 12 Years a Slave, said her award's location is as simple as it gets.
"It's just on a shelf on its own," Nyong'o told Variety in April 2016, adding that she welcomes guests to hold her statuette whenever they please.
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Tom Hanks: On the Family Trophy Shelf
Tom Hanks holds his Best Actor Oscar backstage during the 67th Academy Awards at Shrine Auditorium in L.A. on March 27, 1995Credit: Bob Riha, Jr./Getty
"Where are they now? They are on the family trophy shelf, next to the soccer trophies," Tom Hanks reportedly said of the location of his two Best Actor Oscars — for Philadelphia (1993) and Forrest Gump (1994). "I think the World's Greatest Mom trophy from Mother's Day is up there as well."
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Goldie Hawn: In Her Meditation Room
A film still of Goldie Hawn in 1969's 'Cactus Flower'Credit: Snap/Shutterstock
When it came time to put her Best Supporting Actress Oscar — which she won in 1970 for her role in Cactus Flower, but was not in attendance to accept — on display, Goldie Hawn chose her meditation room.
"My award is in the room where I study and practice meditation. Sometimes it's on the mantel; sometimes I put it away," Hawn told InStyle (via E! News) in 2005.
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Jamie Foxx: With His Manager
Jamie Foxx holds his Best Actor Oscar during the 77th Academy Awards at Kodak Theatre in L.A. on Feb. 27, 2005Credit: J. Vespa/WireImage
"My manager holds the Oscar. He keeps it at his crib," Jamie Foxx, who won Best Actor in 2005 for Ray, once shared with InStyle (via Just Jared). "I got too much traffic at my house!"
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Kate Winslet: In the Bathroom
Kate Winslet speaks onstage after winning the Oscar for Best Actress during the 81st Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in L.A. on Feb. 22, 2009Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty
With so many of her guests asking where she keeps her Best Actress Oscar, which she won in 2009 for The Reader, Kate Winslet made it easier for everyone by placing her prized possession in the bathroom.
"The whole point is for everybody to pick it up and go, 'I'd like to thank my son and my dad' — and you can always tell when someone has because they're in there a little bit longer after they flushed," she told WSJ. Magazine in September 2015. "They'll come out looking slightly pink-cheeked. It's hysterical."
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Alicia Vikander: With a Friend's Daughter
Alicia Vikander poses in the press room with her Best Supporting Actress Oscar during the 88th Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre in L.A. on Feb. 28, 2016Credit: Dan MacMedan/WireImage
"I haven't seen him since that night!" said Alicia Vikander, who won Best Supporting Actress in 2016 for The Danish Girl. "I very recently moved into my new place, and because I've been away working so much, I gave him to a friend in L.A."
However, she revealed that she might bring her Oscar "to Europe soon" after settling into her home.
Fortunately, Vikander has managed a healthy long-distance relationship with the statuette, as her friend's daughter has been taking care of it.
"[My friend's] daughter has been sending me photos to prove she's taking good care of him," she explained. "I love my little updates from her!"
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Emma Stone: Her Mom's House
Emma Stone poses with her Best Actress Oscar in the press room during the 96th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in L.A. on March 10, 2024Credit: Dania Maxwell/Los Angeles Times via Getty
When asked where she keeps her award, Emma Stone told PEOPLE she allows only one VIP to look after it.
"My mom holds on to it," she said.
Stone has recently added another Oscar to the mix, thanks to her Best Actress win for Poor Things in 2024, so her mother is now responsible for two tiny gold men.
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Catherine Zeta-Jones: In Bermuda
Catherine Zeta-Jones poses with her Best Supporting Actress Oscar in the press room during the 75th Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in L.A. on March 23, 2003Credit: Jeff Vespa/WireImage
"He's in our home in Bermuda," Catherine Zeta-Jones told InStyle (per The Hollywood Reporter) of her Best Supporting Actress win in 2003 for Chicago. "I figured that not many Oscars have lived there. Of course, everyone who visits wants a photograph with him."
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Jordan Peele: Near the Get Out Chair
Jordan Peele accepts the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay onstage during the 90th Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre in L.A. on March 4, 2018Credit: MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty
Jordan Peele, who won Best Original Screenplay in 2018 for Get Out and made history as the first Black screenwriter to do so, revealed he keeps his statuette near one of the most iconic props from his award-winning film.
"Btw that IS the GET OUT chair," Peele confirmed to a fan in a since-deleted post on X, who thought the chair in the background of his snapshot (which featured his Oscar) was a look-alike.
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Reese Witherspoon: In the Living Room
Reese Witherspoon poses with her Best Actress Oscar during the 78th Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in L.A. on March 5, 2006Credit: J. Vespa/WireImage
Witherspoon, who earned the 2006 Best Actress Oscar for Walk the Line, initially considered turning her award into a door knocker or a statement necklace.
However, she told PEOPLE she took a more traditional route: "Neither one of those options was very practical. I just keep it in my living room."
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Gwyneth Paltrow: The Back of a Bookshelf
Gwyneth Paltrow holds her Best Actress Oscar during the 71st Academy Awards at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in L.A. on March 21, 1999Credit: SGranitz/WireImage
"I keep it tucked away at the back of the bookshelf in my bedroom because it weirds me out," Gwyneth Paltrow told The Sydney Morning Herald in February 2005 of her Oscar, which she won in 1999 for Shakespeare in Love. "For weeks after I won, I kept it in storage ... I won't even put it on the mantelpiece, the thing freaks me out."
Paltrow's plus-one for the ceremony was her dad Bruce, who died in 2002.
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She continued, telling the newspaper of the association her Oscar conjures up of her late father, "For some reason, I haven't been able to feel really good about it. I just feel sort of embarrassed, and it brings up weird, traumatic feelings. It's associated with a tough time in my life."
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Jennifer Lawrence: On Her Parents' Piano
Jennifer Lawrence poses in the press room with her Best Actress Oscar during the 85th Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre in L.A. on Feb. 24, 2013Credit: Jason Merritt/Getty
Following her Oscar win in 2013 for Best Actress for Silver Linings Playbook, Jennifer Lawrence initially attempted to hide her statuette in places throughout her home, but it "felt odd" to have it out.
"If anybody's coming over to my house, I didn't want them to remember that. Just kind of puts a weird energy out," Lawrence once told Access Hollywood (per Vulture).
Ultimately, she kept her trophy in her parents' home, where it currently resides on the piano in the family's Kentucky home.
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Natalie Portman: In the Safe (Maybe)
Natalie Portman poses with her Best Actress Oscar in the press room during the 83rd Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in L.A. on Feb. 27, 2011Credit: Jason Merritt/Getty
"I don't know where it is," Natalie Portman told The Hollywood Reporter in May 2015 when asked about the whereabouts of her trophy, which she won in 2011 for Black Swan. "I think it's in the safe or something. I don't know."
She went on to explain that placing such focus and admiration on the statuette is something she tries to avoid.
"I haven't seen it in a while," she said. "I mean, [Darren Aronofsky] actually said to me something when we were in that whole thing that resonated so deeply. I was reading the story of Abraham to my child and talking about, like, not worshipping false idols. And this is literally like gold men. This is literally worshipping gold idols — if you worship it. That's why it's not displayed on the wall. It's a false idol."
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Julia Roberts: In the Parlor
Julia Roberts holds her Best Actress Oscar during the 73rd Academy Awards at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on March 25, 2001Credit: Steve Granitz Archive 1/WireImage
When Roberts appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in December 2019, host Ellen DeGeneres put the actress in the hot seat for a rousing round of "Burning Questions," where she revealed that she keeps her Best Actress Oscar — which she won in 2001 for Erin Brockovich — in her "parlor."
"It's in a room that has a piano in it that my daughter plays, that we call the piano room," the mom of three further explained. "I thought it might sound pretentious, so I said 'parlor.' "
"So you thought 'parlor' sounded less pretentious?" DeGeneres joked, making Roberts laugh.
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Jennifer Hudson: On the Piano
Jennifer Hudson poses in the press room with her Best Supporting Actress Oscar at the 79th Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in L.A. on Feb. 25, 2007Credit: Frank Micelotta/Getty
Jennifer Hudson clinched her first Tony for her role in A Strange Loop in 2022, solidifying her EGOT status. The actress and talk show host posted a photo on Instagram of her holding the statuette.
In the background, lined up on her grand piano, sat her Emmy, Grammy and Oscar trophies for all to see. Hudson won a Daytime Emmy in 2021 for the animated short Baba Yaga.
Previously, she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 2007 for her role in Dreamgirls and her first Grammy in 2009 for her self-titled debut album.
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Octavia Spencer: Always in Sight
Octavia Spencer poses in the press room with her Best Supporting Actress Oscar during the 84th Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in L.A. on Octavia Spencer poses in the press room with her Best Supporting Actress during the 84th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in L.A. on Feb. 26, 2012Credit: Dan MacMedan/WireImage
Octavia Spencer takes her awards-display philosophy very seriously: Never let the statuettes leave your sight — at least for the first few months.
"For those new winners, you're never gonna wanna let it out of your sight," she told PEOPLE. "So you might wanna have it in bed with you, and then it's okay to put it on the shelf — not that I've ever done that!"
Since winning Best Supporting Actress in 2012 for The Help, Spencer shared that she kept her awards safely on a shelf in her home.
"I keep mine on the shelf," she added. "But sometimes it's good to have it right there next to you. If it's your first time having one, you don't want to let it out of your sight."
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Cate Blanchett: All Over the Place
Cate Blanchett poses with her Best Supporting Actress Oscar in the press room during the 77th Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in L.A. on Feb. 27, 2005Credit: J. Vespa/WireImage
After Cate Blanchett won her first Oscar, for Best Supporting Actress in 2005 for her role in The Aviator, she once told InStyle (via The Hollywood Reporter) that "life goes on," which may explain why her trophy isn't in one place for long.
"It's been in the study recently," Blanchett said at the time. "It moves around a bit like my family and I do. I don't look at it every day, though."
She claimed her second statuette in 2014, winning Best Actress for Blue Jasmine.
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Jodie Foster: In the Bathroom
Jodie Foster holds her Best Actress Oscar backstage during the 61st Academy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in L.A. on March 29, 1989Credit: Bob Riha, Jr./Getty
Oscar winner Jodie Foster — who won Best Actress for The Accused (1988) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991) — once shared she kept both statuettes in her bathroom because "they looked good with the faucets," according to ABC News.
"But when they started getting corroded on the bottom, I had to move them to a trophy case in my den," Foster said.
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Jared Leto: In the Kitchen
Jared Leto poses in the press room with his Best Supporting Actor Oscar during the 86th Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre in L.A. on March 2, 2014Credit: Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage
In 2014, Jared Leto admitted he keeps his Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Dallas Buyers Club in the kitchen, conveniently next to some movie-night snacks.
"The Oscar is sitting in my kitchen, guarded by some vegan butter and a bag of popcorn!" the star told Entertainment Tonight Canada at the time. "That is the first place I go when I go home, you put your keys down, you take off your jacket and you put your Oscar in your kitchen."
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John Legend: On a Trophy Wall
John Legend poses with his Best Original Song Oscar in the press room during the 87th Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre in L.A. on Feb. 22, 2015Credit: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)
After winning an Emmy in 2018, John Legend became the first Black man to achieve EGOT status.
When his wife, Chrissy Teigen, filmed him putting his Emmy on his trophy wall, his Best Original Song Oscar for "Glory" with Common from the 2014 film Selma was also on display by his piano in the Instagram video.
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Susan Sarandon: In a Museum Exhibit or the Bathroom
Susan Sarandon holds her Best Actress Oscar during the 69th Academy Awards at Shrine Auditorium in L.A. on March 23, 1997Credit: Bob Riha, Jr./Getty
In 2011, Susan Sarandon told Oprah Winfrey that her 1996 Best Actress Oscar for Dead Man Walking previously resided in her guest bathroom.
"There's a bathroom that has a number of statuettes, not just the Oscar, but all the different things ... the kids always called it the 'famous bathroom,'" she said to Winfrey. "But right now, my Oscar got bored of being in the bathroom, and now it's on tour. The Museum of Natural History [in Chicago] took it. I lent it to them for their gold exhibition."
Sarandon's trophy must have eventually come home, with the actress sharing photo proof it was in her bathroom in a post on X (formerly Twitter) in April 2017.
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Emma Thompson: In the Bathroom
Emma Thompson poses with the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay during the 68th Academy Awards at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in L.A. on March 25, 1996Credit: Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty
British actress Emma Thompson told TIME in January 2006 that her two Academy Awards — Best Actress for Howards End (1992) and Best Adapted Screenplay for Sense and Sensibility (1995) — "look far too outré anywhere else."
"They're great big, gold, shiny things," Thompson said. "They're up there tarnishing quietly along with everything else I own, including my body."
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J.K. Simmons: On a Bookshelf
J.K. Simmons accepts the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor onstage during the 87th Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre in L.A. on Feb. 22, 2015Credit: ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty
After his Best Supporting Actor win in 2015 for Whiplash, J.K. Simmons told USA Today he was still adjusting to seeing his Oscar at home.
The trophy was once placed atop his mini fridge in the bathroom next to the tub, but was moved to a bookshelf inside his Los Angeles home.
"It's a lovely little statue," Simmons said at the time. "It's still kind of surreal when I walk past it. It's like, 'There's my Oscar.' I don't know if it will ever become commonplace."
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Holly Hunter: In a Display Case
Holly Hunter poses with her Best Actress Oscar at the 66th Academy Awards at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in L.A. on March 21, 1994Credit: Steve Starr/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty
In January 2011, The Piano star Holly Hunter also appeared alongside Sarandon on The Oprah Winfrey Show, where she revealed the whereabouts of her Best Actress Oscar for The Piano that she won in 1994: in a display case next to the trophies of pal Frances McDormand and filmmaker brothers Joel and Ethan Coen, whom she has collaborated with several times, at their New York office.
"Joel and Ethan said, 'Do you want to keep your Oscar at the office?' And I just said, 'Yeah, sure,'" Hunter said, according to Oprah.com. "We just have them as a little family down there."
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Sissy Spacek: Wherever She Is
Sissy Spacek holds her Best Actress Oscar during the 53rd Academy Awards at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in L.A. on March 31, 1981Credit: Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty
Actress Sissy Spacek — who also joined Sarandon and Hunter on Winfrey's couch — wasn't as willing to part ways with her Best Actress statuette that she won for Coal Miner's Daughter in 1981, joking that she's "rarely without it" and that she "take[s] it everywhere."
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Jamie Lee Curtis: In the Home Office
Jamie Lee Curtis poses in the press room with her Best Supporting Actress Oscar during the 95th Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre in L.A. on March 12, 2023Credit: Rodin Eckenroth/Getty
Jamie Lee Curtis doesn't just keep her Best Supporting Actress Oscar she won for 2022's Everything Everywhere All at Once close by; she has decorated it too.
"The Oscar sits in my office in my home," she told Entertainment Weekly, revealing it has "a googly eye attached."
It also has a "little whale" from Stephanie Hsu — her former costar and fellow nominee — who had gone whale watching before the film's first screening at SXSW. Curtis said they "talk[ed] about what an incredible balance that was for her and for all of us, to connect back to nature and the ocean and all our beginnings."
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Diane Warren: On the Piano
Diane Warren holds up her Honorary Oscar during the 13th annual Governors Awards at the Fairmont Century Plaza in L.A. on Nov. 19, 2022Credit: VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty
Diane Warren snagged an Honorary Oscar in November 2022 and promptly took it home to display it in the perfect spot for any musician: atop her piano.
"My Honorary Oscar has a special place on my piano. I look at him, and I like to think he's looking back at me, but I can't be sure since he has no eyes," she told EW.
Warren added, "He means a lot to me, and I like to think I mean a lot to him, but again, I can't be sure because he doesn't talk. If he could talk, I have a feeling he might say it took us a long time to find each other, but it was worth the wait. Oh, and he might say he would like a little friend!"
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