WAMG NY and Chicago Readers: Have Your Picture Taken With Oscar

“Calling all Oscar fans in Chicago and New York! See some of the actual statuettes that will be presented at this year’s Academy Awards, take a picture holding an Oscar statuette and more!” So comes word from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with this latest dangling of Oscar cheese to the mice.

For our readers living in Chicago, you can see the actual Oscar statuette to be presented to the Best Actor Winner at the 82nd Academy Awards. While there check out the Oscar statuette that Bette Davis won for her role in Jezebel (1939) and the Oscar awarded to the DuPont Film Manufacturing Corporation and Eastman Kodak Company in 1930/31 for super-sensitive panchromatic film. “Meet the Oscars, Chicago” exhibition will also have a display of Oscars in various stages of completion.

When

• Thursday, February 25 through Sunday, March 7
• Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Where

• The Shops at North Bridge on Michigan Avenue. Admission is FREE.

For those living in New York, you’ll be the first to see the actual Oscar statuette that will be presented to the Best Actress winner at the 82nd Academy Awards. The New York exhibition will feature a display of Oscars in various stages of completion, as manufactured by R.S. Owens & Company in Chicago. Also on display will be the miniature statuette that actress Judy Garland received for her screen performance as a juvenile in 1939 and the Scientific and Technical Award – an Oscar statuette – presented to the Eastman Kodak Company in 2007. “Meet the Oscars, New York” also will give movie fans the opportunity to have their picture taken holding an actual Oscar statuette.

When:

• Thursday, February 25 through Sunday, March 7.
• Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Where:

• The Shops at Columbus Circle at Time Warner Center. Admission is FREE.

On Friday, March 5, the statuettes designated for this year’s Best Actress and Best Actor will make their way back to Hollywood where they will be reunited with the rest of the Oscars.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2009 will be presented on Sunday, March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network beginning at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.