Every year, a couple of days before the big event, the New York chapter of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences delivers two oversize Oscar statues to the location of its annual viewing dinner, and the media are invited to watch. This year, in a playful stunt designed to build public excitement for the awards, the Academy gave the eight-foot-tall pieces a little more exposure by taking them out on a tour of the city.The idea was to “make it look like the Oscars are really coming into New York,” said Patrick Harrison, the Academy’s New York program director. Placed on the back of a special trailer draped with gold-colored fabric, the two Oscars toured Times Square and Columbus Circle before being dropped off at the Carlyle Hotel.
Photo: Kevin MacDonald/A.M.P.A.S.
Photo: Kevin MacDonald/A.M.P.A.S.
Photo: Kevin MacDonald/A.M.P.A.S.
Photo: Kevin MacDonald/A.M.P.A.S.