With the Oscars just around the corner this Sunday ... Since 1929 the golden statuette has been proudly displayed on the mantels, showdown boxes, and desks of the greatest filmmakers, actors ...

The statuette given to Academy Award winners was designed by Cedric Gibbons, chief art director at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, according to the Oscars. It depicts "[a] stylized figure of a knight holding ...