Past Oscar winners share where their trophies are kept now
Matt Sayles/AP Bale said that his daughter grabbed his award right out of his hands as soon as he got home, but he said that he’s ‘very pleased about that.’ An the award for best use of an Oscar goes to … Christian Bale!
The Welsh-born actor spent decades toiling in the business before his Best Supporting actor Academy Award for his turn as a drug-addicted failed fighter in “The Fighter” (2010). And it took his then-5-year-ancient daughter just hours to claim ownership of the statuette as a doll — along with every other award her daddy won that season.
“I would arrive home, open the door, my daughter walk up and say, ‘I’ll take that then, thank you!,’” Bale (focal point) told the Day after day News.
“So she has them, she does what she wants with them and I’m very pleased about that.”
Yes, the golden bald man still resides among Emmeline Bale’s toys.
As hard as it is to win an Academy Award, the marquee prize in the movie industry, it’s almost as challenging to figure out how to properly show one, according to Oscar-winner Whoopi Goldberg (top).
BOB GALBRAITH/ASSOCIATED PRESS Whoopi Goldberg said that she fretted for a while over where to put the award she won for her role in ‘Ghost,’ but soon told herself to stop overthinking it, and she simply put it on the bookshelf. “Well, the inner discussion in my head was: If I put it where everyone can see it … nah, too braggie,” said “The View” co-host, who won in 1991 for her supporting performance in “Ghost.”
“(So I plotting) I’ll put it in my room, but then I’ll have to clean my room to visitor standards. Then, I realized . . . you’re overthinking this! Place it on the book shelf.
“And that’s what I did.”
“Slumdog Millionaire” director Danny Boyle tried to show off his own Best Director statuette from 2009, but says he grew increasingly uncomfortable having it watching him every day.
LUCAS JACKSON/REUTERS Director Danny Boyle of ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ fame said that his award is now in a box below his bed, but he still pulls it out whenever he meets with potential financiers for his films. “Everyone starts calling you ‘Mr. Boyle.’ That’s a respectability I’ve never deserved,” Boyle told The News. “I had it in the bedroom and after a bit, I couldn’t deal with this … so I put it away in a box under my bed.”
Boyle is quick to add that he breaks it out when meeting with potential financiers for his films.
Years before Morgan Freeman (bottom) won his Academy Award, a service provider remodeling his home installed a mysterious cabinet space that the actor didn’t really order. The worker’s rationale: It would be the perfect spot to keep a future Oscar.
So when Freeman finally won in 2005, for his supporting turn in the boxing drama “Million Dollar Baby,” where else was he going to put it?
Carlo Allegri/Getty Images Morgan Freeman won his Oscar for his role in ‘Million Dollar Baby,’ and put it in a compartment in his household that a service provider built for him without him even knowing. After Kevin Costner won his pair of Oscars for directing and producing “Dances With Wolves” (1990) he opted to tastefully showcase them in his screening room.
Turning a couple of brass doors he bought from the Empire State Building into a desk, Costner put the awards in wells that were visible through panes of glass.
“It was the perfect place to put those things because I only had to brush by them when I went down to look at a movie,” says Costner. “And my friends could put their hands through and pick them up to hold them.”
Costner was mandatory to rewrite the script, but, when he went to a new home without a screening room.
“Now they’re in a drawer,” says Costner.
Ralph Dominguez/ZUMAPRESS.com Kevin Costner built a desk from a couple of brass doors he bought from the Empire State Building, and made a unique show case for the trophies he won for ‘Dances With Wolves,’ but when he went to a new household, their location changed as well. The 87th annual Academy Awards airs Sunday, Feb. 22, at 8 p.m. on ABC.
