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HOW FRANCES MCDORMAND REUNITED WITH HER OSCAR
Like a scene right out of a Hollywood caper film, a tuxedo-clad photographer foiled another man’s attempt to make off with actor Frances McDormand’s Oscar from an official Academy Awards afterparty on Sunday.
Los Angeles police said on Monday that party-goer Terry Bryant was arrested on a grand theft charge and was being held on $20,000 bond.
Bryant was arrested after McDormand’s Best Actress Oscar went missing briefly at the lavish Governor’s Ball party in Hollywood, where Academy Award winners have their statuettes engraved following the annual ceremony. McDormand, 60, won the award for her role as an angry, grieving mother in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
“I lost my Oscar,” the twotime Oscar winner was seen saying in a video, shrugging her shoulders as she left the party. The video captured Bryant leaving the ball with the Oscar and saying, “We got it. We did it. We did it. I got to go.”
The unidentified photographer grew suspicious when he failed to “recognise Bryant as a recipient from the awards show.” He followed Bryant out of the party “and without any resistance from Bryant, took the Oscar from him,” an LA police statement said. Bryant had earlier posted a video on social media of himself at the event holding the Oscar statuette.
“After a brief time apart, Frances and her Oscar were happily reunited. They celebrated the reunion with a double cheeseburger,” the actor’s representative, Simon Halls, said in a statement.
Halls did not say whether McDormand planned to press charges. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which retains some rights to Oscar statuettes, did not return a request for comment on Monday.
After a brief time apart, Frances and her Oscar were happily reunited. They celebrated the reunion with a double cheeseburger from InNOut. SIMON HALLS ACTOR FRANCES MCDORMAND’S REPRESENTATIVE