Although there are seven other types of annual awards presented by the Academy ( the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, the Scientific and Engineering Award, the Technical Achievement Award, the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation, and the Student Academy Award ) plus two awards that are not presented annually ( the Special Achievement Award in the form of an Oscar statuette and the Honorary Award that may or may not be in the form of an Oscar statuette ), the best known one is the Academy Award of Merit more popularly known as the Oscar statuette.

In 1975, the Academy officially recognized Trumbo as the winner and presented him with a statuette.

When Hieron of Syracuse presented a golden statuette of the goddess to Rome, the Senate had it placed in the temple of Capitoline Jupiter among the greatest ( and most sacred ) deities.

Winners of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award are presented with an Oscar statuette.

The statuette, not yet known as the " Oscar ", was presented by Douglas Fairbanks to Clara Bow on behalf of the producers ; Adolph Zukor and B. P.

At the height of their popularity in 1938, Bergen was presented an Honorary Oscar ( in the form of a wooden Oscar statuette ) for his creation of Charlie McCarthy.

When the Rough Riders returned to the U. S., they presented their courageous leader Roosevelt with Remington ’ s bronze statuette, The Broncho Buster, which the artist proclaimed, “ the greatest compliment I ever had … After this everything will be mere fuss .” Roosevelt responded, “ There could have been no more appropriate gift from such a regiment .”

In addition to the Young Artist Award statuette presented to the winners, all nominees are presented with a special nomination plaque at the ceremony, commemorating their nominations in their respective categories.

Visitors could have a picture taken outside with a giant prop Oscar that was to be used on the red carpet and in the exhibit could learn about the history of the Academy Awards, see the statuettes that were to be presented, and even get their picture taken holding an actual Oscar statuette.

The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award was presented to George Lucas by the crew of the space shuttle Atlantis during the STS-45 mission, which also included an actual Oscar statuette aboard the spacecraft.

Each artist was responsible for sculpting one astronomer ; one of the artists, George Stanley, was also the creator of the famous " Oscar " statuette presented at the Academy Awards.

After the Bourbon Restoration the statue was pulled down and melted down to provide the bronze for the recast equestrian statue of Henry IV on the Pont Neuf ( as was bronze from sculptures on the Column of the Grande Armée at Boulogne-sur-Mer ), though the statuette of Victory is still to be seen in the salon Napoléon of the Hôtel des Monnaies ( which also contains a model of the column and a likeness of Napoleon's face copied from his death mask ).

The more recognizable incarnation is the current Young Artist Award statuette, still reminiscent of a child-size Oscar, but now displaying a star above its head and standing upon a decidedly smaller base, much less cumbersome for its young recipients.

The winner of the 1936 art drawing at the Grand Central Art Galleries, Walter S. Gifford of AT & T, selected a Pushman still life of a Chinese statuette.

Donald Harden in The Phoenicians discusses a statuette of Astarte from Tutugi ( Galera ) near Granada in Spain dating to the 6th or 7th century in which Astarte sits on a throne flanked by sphinxes holding a bowl beneath her pierced breasts.

In 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned for the first time in its history by New York firm Society Awards, after a year-long collaboration with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to select a unique marble and enhance the statuette ’ s quality and gold content.

On archaeological plan these transformations are visible through the new materials ( new types of pottery, jewelry and other handcraft products ), spiritual ( new way of burial: cremation instead of inhumation, accepting the cults of the Greek gods ) and other characteristics, which at the beginning were accepted as prestige by the most elite social circles, and afterwards by the rest of the people, that best can be seen from so called ‘ Princely Crypts ’ of which most famous is the one from Tetovo where the well known statuette of the Maenad was found.

Haniwa horse statuette, complete with horse tack | saddle and stirrup s, 6th century.

Kelly offers to let Matthew erase the debt by breaking into rival producer Hugo Posh ( James Remar )' s home to steal an award statuette, but after Matthew has entered the house Kelly quietly calls in a robbery report and leaves the premises.

In the years that followed, O ' Brien attended memorabilia shows and searched antique shops, hoping she might find the original statuette, until one day in 1995 when Bruce Davis, then executive director of the Academy, was alerted that a miniature statuette bearing O ' Brien's name had surfaced in a catalogue for an upcoming memorabilia auction.

A statuette long in the collections of the British Museum bearing an inscription naming Tetisheri was identified as a forgery by W. V. Davies, based on the slavish imitation of its inscription from a fragmentary lower portion of a similar statue of the queen ( now lost ).

In the years that followed, O ' Brien attended memorabilia shows and searched antique shops, hoping she might find the original statuette, until one day in 1995 when Bruce Davis, then executive director of the Academy, was alerted that a miniature statuette bearing O ' Brien's name had surfaced in a catalogue for an upcoming memorabilia auction.

A silver statuette found at Cockersand Moss, Lancashire, in 1718 but now lost, had an inscription on the base which read:

However, some scholars question this attribution, and have been raising questions as to the potential authenticity of the statuette itself, if not the inscription.

From other archaeological documents though it has become clear that the Etruscans had another god iconographically corresponding to Janus: Culśanś, of which there is a bronze statuette from Cortona ( now at Cortona Museum ).

From 1949 – 1979, the awards were named the Canadian Film Awards ( they were also known as the " Etrog Awards ," for sculptor Sorel Etrog, who designed the statuette ).

The Oscar statuette is officially named the Academy Award of Merit and is one of nine types of Academy Awards.

In addition to axes, adzes and pottery, there is also a statuette, the Venus Thiaroye

On the obverse of this coin a woman swimmer is depicted, preparing to dive from the starting platform, while in the background another woman athlete is just about to dive into the water in a scene from an Archaic bronze statuette.

" ( The award, unique in the history of the Oscars, is one large statuette and seven miniature statuettes.

The trophy for award recipients is in the form of a bust of Thalberg rather than the familiar " Oscar " statuette.

On a similar theme is a 3rd century BC bronze votive statuette, high, from Tarquinia, of a sitting infant peering upward with an adult's head and visage.

A small statue, usually small enough to be picked up, is called a statuette or figurine.

He is said to have joked about melting down a statuette of the goddess of victory Nike which was held in the hand of a Zeus statue, saying " Zeus has given me Victory ".

The awarded trophy for the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award is an Oscar statuette.

Pointers include an inscribed statuette of the god Mars found in it at Torksey, which is now in the British Museum,

Another ( possible ) work from his period in Ferrara is the statuette of St. Maurelius ( both on in display in the Museo del Duomo ).

Additionally, he invented the ( then ) fictitious Sarah Siddons Society and its award, which is a statuette modeled upon the painting.

A notable feature of the room is the bronze statuette of Florence Nightingale ( on loan from the Silver Trust ).

Most Egyptologists believe the statuette is contemporary, but some scholars, such as Zahi Hawass, think that it was an artistic reproduction of the 26th dynasty.

The Emperor statuette is made by the same company that makes the Oscars.

A figurine ( a diminutive form of the word figure ) is a statuette that represents a human, deity or animal.

The Venus of Willendorf, also known as the Woman of Willendorf, is an high statuette of a female figure estimated to have been made between 24, 000 and 22, 000 BCE.

The Venus of Lespugue is a Venus figurine, a statuette of a nude female figure of the Gravettian, dated to between 26, 000 and 24, 000 years ago.