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Columbia Pictures
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Columbia Pictures

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Columbia Pictures
A commemorative miniature 'Oscar', the gilt metal statuette on a black painted metal plinth with two rectangular plaques to the front and back, one inscribed Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences, First Award, Columbia Pictures, For The Best Picture Of The Year, the other inscribed 15th Anniversary, Columbia Pictures, 1928 - 1935 -- 5½in. (14cm.) high
Literature
DICK, Bernard F. (Ed.) Columbia Pictures: Portrait Of A Studio, Kentucky: University Press, 1992
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Lot Essay

Apparently, a small number of these miniature Oscars were produced and presented to executives at Columbia Pictures during a dinner in 1935 to commemorate the company's 15th Anniversary to celebrate a hugely successful year. In 1935 Columbia released a film that, more than any other, moved them into a different league -- It Happened One Night. At the Academy Award Ceremony of that year, Columbia Pictures won its first Oscars since the company's inception - It Happened One Night winning five and One Night Of Love winning two. At the time, It Happened One Night was the only film in Hollywood history to have swept all five categories - a record only surpassed in 1974 by One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

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