Fifteen Oscars will be up for grabs and not a red carpet in sight when Nate D. Sanders Auctions brings the statuettes to market two days after the Award ceremony this Sunday. Wags might advise–if you can’t win one, buy one, but it could be pricey. In 1999 Michael Jackson paid $1.5m for the “Gone With The Wind” best picture trophy.Generating the most interest is the “Citizen Kane” best screenplay statue won by Herman Mankiewicz. He shared winning with Orson Welles whose family sold his Oscar last year at a Sanders auction for $861,542. Oscar winners after 1950 can’t sell them since they first have to offer them back to the Academy that disapproves of their sale.
No Votes, Just Cash: 15 Oscars For Sale
February 22, 2012
Go Out Of This World With DiCaprio For $1.5m
May 24, 2013Leonard DiCaprio is going into space on Richard Branson’s rocket this fall. Last night at a Cannes charity auction a Russian bid $1.5m to go with him. They will undergo astronaut training for 3-days before they blast off in the mothership from a California desert, detach, and go into orbit for nearly 3-hours. Nicole Kidman and Sharon Stone were the guest auctioneers.
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Bizarre Topless Photo of Jolie, $45,500
May 16, 2013A bizarre topless photo of Angelina Jolie called “Horseplay” sold at Christie’s London auction last night for $45,500. The “Wild Side of Photography” sale was scheduled well before Jolie’s double mastectomy announcement. Taken when she was 25, the photo also prominently displays a “Billy Bob” tattoo, referring to former husband Thornton who has since been removed from her shoulder and her life.
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Milton Berle’s Jokes Laugh To The Bank
May 8, 2013For $158,000 a bidder got Milton Berle’s library, including books and boxes of bound scripts and personal correspondence, but he didn’t get the comedian’s thousands of one-liners and jokes carefully catalogued over the decades. That file went for another $65,000 at Bonham’s Entertainment auction this week.
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Rising Value of Unrestored Cars
By Malcolm Welford, Vintage Car Specialist
