The following table lists Academy Awards held in museums and public collections:
Year | Award | Award Recipient | Film | Current location | Country | Acquisition Date | Notes |
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1927/28 | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Emil Jannings | The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh | Filmmuseum Berlin, Berlin | Germany | Unknown | [1] |
1930/31 | Best Story | John Monk Saunders | The Dawn Patrol | Flight Museum, Seattle, Washington | United States | Unknown | Displayed alongside a jacket worn by Errol Flynn in the remake, eight years later.[2] |
1931/32 | Honorary | Walt Disney | Creation of Mickey Mouse | The Magic of Disney Animation, Bay Lake, Florida | United States | Unknown | Displayed along with several other Academy Awards won by Disney. However, the others in the case are noted on their plaques as being replicas "for studio display case".[3] |
1932/33 | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Katharine Hepburn | Morning Glory | National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. | United States | 2009 | Displayed along with three other Academy Awards won by Hepburn.[4] |
1938 | Best Adapted Screenplay | George Bernard Shaw | Pygmalion | Shaw's Corner, Hertfordshire | England | 1950 | Displayed alongside Shaw's Nobel Prize in a display case, covered by a green cloth.[5] |
1942 | Best Documentary Feature | John Ford | The Battle of Midway | International Spy Museum, Washington, D.C. | United States | Unknown | [6] |
Ken G. Hall | Kokoda Front Line! | National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Acton, Australian Capital Territory | Australia | 2015 | [7] | ||
1945 | Best Documentary Feature | The Governments of Great Britain and the United States of America | The True Glory | Imperial War Museum North, Trafford Park, Greater Manchester | United Kingdom | Unknown | [8] |
1949 | Best Costume Design, Color | Leah M. Rhodes | Adventures of Don Juan | Museum of the Gulf Coast, Port Arthur, Texas | United States | Unknown | Displayed in the Notable People Section of the Museum (second floor) |
1951 | Academy Award for Best Actress | Vivien Leigh | A Streetcar Named Desire | Victoria and Albert Museum, London | United Kingdom | Unknown | Displayed in the theatre and stage exhibition.[9] |
Best Documentary Feature | Olle Nordemar | Kon-Tiki | Kon-Tiki Museum, Oslo | Norway | 1952 | Displayed in the Kon-Tiki exhibition, in the same room as the original Kon-Tiki raft. The film is screened every day at noon in the museum cinema.[10] | |
Honorary | Gene Kelly | Achievement in choreography on film | Mugar Memorial Library, Boston, Massachusetts | United States | Unknown | Part of the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, located on the fifth floor of the library.[11] | |
1954 | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Frank Sinatra | From Here to Eternity | Sinatra restaurant, Encore Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada | United States | Unknown | Displayed inside the Sinatra restaurant.[12] |
1955 | Best Effects, Special Effects | Walt Disney Studios | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Walt Disney: One Man's Dream, Bay Lake, Florida | United States | Unknown | Displayed with props from the film in a special case.[3] |
1959 | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Shelley Winters | The Diary of Anne Frank | The Anne Frank House, Amsterdam | Netherlands | 1976 | Donated by Winters to The Anne Frank House in 1976. Displayed inside the museum.[13] |
Best Documentary Feature | Bernhard Grzimek | Serengeti Shall Not Die | Haus der Geschichte, Bonn | Germany | Unknown | [14] | |
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award | Bob Hope | Bob Hope Memorial Library, Ellis Island National Museum, New York City | United States | 2008 | Hope came to the United States through Ellis Island. The statuette is displayed with other Hope memorabilia at the library entrance.[15] | ||
1961 | Best Short Subject, Cartoons[16] | Dušan Vukotić | Surogat | Zagreb City Museum, Zagreb | Croatia | Unknown | Inside the Animation History exhibit.[17] |
1964 | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Rex Harrison | My Fair Lady | Mugar Memorial Library, Boston, Massachusetts | United States | Unknown | Part of the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, located on the fifth floor of the library.[11] |
Best Art Direction, Black-and-White | Vassilis Photopoulos | Zorba the Greek | Benaki Museum, Athens | Greece | 2007 | Displayed in the Ghika Gallery on the Third Floor.[18] | |
Best Documentary Short Subject | Charles Guggenheim | Nine from Little Rock | National Archives, Washington, D.C. | United States | 2007 | Displayed outside of The William McGowan Theater.[19] | |
1966 | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Paul Scofield | A Man for All Seasons | Victoria and Albert Museum, London | United Kingdom | 2011 | [20] |
1967 | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Katharine Hepburn | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. | United States | 2009 | Displayed along with three other Academy Awards won by Hepburn.[4] |
1968 | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Katharine Hepburn | The Lion in Winter | National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. | United States | 2009 | Displayed along with three other Academy Awards won by Hepburn.[4] |
1969 | Best Documentary Feature | Bernard Chevry | Arthur Rubinstein - The Love of Life | Museum of the City of Łódź, Łódź | Poland | 2001 | Displayed with awards given to Arthur Rubinstein.[21] |
1971 | Best Original Song | Isaac Hayes | Shaft | Stax Museum of American Soul Music, Memphis, Tennessee | United States | 2011 | "Sits on a pedestal in the museum not far from Hayes' custom 1972 gold-trimmed, peacock-blue Cadillac Eldorado"[22] |
1978 | Honorary | Museum of Modern Art Department of Film | Film preservation and promotion efforts | Museum of Modern Art, New York City | United States | 1979 | Awarded "for the contribution it has made to the public's perception of movies as an art form." Displayed in the lobby of the museum. |
1981 | Best Picture | David Puttnam | Chariots of Fire | National Media Museum, Bradford, West Yorkshire | England | Unknown | [23] |
Best Actress in a Leading Role | Katharine Hepburn | On Golden Pond | National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. | United States | 2009 | Displayed along with three other Academy Awards won by Hepburn.[4] | |
1985 | Best Art Direction | Josie MacAvin | Out of Africa | Irish Film Institute, Dublin | Ireland | 1992 | Donated to the IFI in 1992.[24] |
1988 | Academy Award of Merit | Ray Dolby and Ioan Allen | Dolby Theatre, Los Angeles, California | United States | Unknown | [25][failed verification] | |
1989 | Sound | Russell Williams II, Donald O. Mitchell, Gregg C. Rudloff and Elliot Tyson | Glory | National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C. | United States | 2015 | Donated by Russell Williams[26] |
1990 | Sound | Jeffrey Perkins, Bill W. Benton, Gregory H. Watkins and Russell Williams II | Dances with Wolves | National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C. | United States | 2015 | Donated by Russell Williams[27] |
2003 | Best Foreign Language Film | Denys Arcand | The Barbarian Invasions | TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto, Ontario | Canada | Unknown | Displayed near the entrance to the home of the Toronto International Film Festival |
Best Animated Short Film | Adam Elliot | Harvie Krumpet | Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Victoria | Australia | Unknown | Displayed in the Screen Worlds gallery.[28] | |
2005 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Larry McMurtry | Brokeback Mountain | Booked Up bookstore, Archer City, Texas | United States | 2006 | Displayed inside the entrance to McMurtry's bookstore, alongside his Golden Globe for the same screenplay. |
Best Original Song | Three 6 Mafia | Hustle & Flow | Memphis Music Hall of Fame, Memphis, Tennessee | United States | Unknown | Displayed in the Three 6 Mafia exhibit.[29] | |
Numerous | Varied | Walt Disney | Various works | Walt Disney Family Museum, San Francisco, California | United States | 2009 | Displays Disney's 27 individual Academy Awards.[30] |
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