Best Actress’s Oscar lost and found
Amid the flowing champagne and towers of seafood, one of the most bizarre moments following Sunday’s Academy Awards telecast happened at the Governors Ball when a partygoer swiped Frances McDormand’s freshly engraved statue.
A man lifted the trophy while McDormand was chatting.
The man reportedly then paraded the statuette around the party and boasted that he had won it himself.
Claiming to be a music producer, he held the trophy up high at the Governors Ball as he filmed a Facebook Live video and urged other partygoers to congratulate him.
“Lookit baby. My team got this tonight,” he proclaims in the video before kissing the statue. “This is mine!”
McDormand, meanwhile, was seen laughing and crying and telling a Los Angeles Times photographer, “I lost my Oscar.” Another photographer reportedly stopped the man.
Later at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party, a happier McDormand let everyone know there was a reason she didn’t have her award with her: “Somebody tried to steal my Oscar at the Governors Ball,” she told producer Jason Blum. “Let me see someone try to pawn that!”
Los Angeles police say 47year-old Terry Bryant was arrested Sunday night on suspicion of felony grand theft and was being held on $20,000 (U.S.) bail Monday morning.
The award has since been returned to McDormand. “Fran and Oscar are happily reunited and are enjoying an In-N-Out burger together,” her rep told USA Today.