'Who Designed Your Monkey Mask?" Academy Awards Prepare for a Banksy Oscar Win

The other day when we were talking about the possible Oscar-campaigning-in-the-form-of-street-art that has popped up in Los Angeles, in one way or another promoting Banksy‘s nominated documentary, Exit Through the Gift Shop, the most obvious question about the whole thing never even dawned on us: what if he actually wins an Academy Award? Given the illusive, mysterious nature of the artist (or artists, if you believe Banksy is perhaps a collective of street artists, as that’s the theory we’ve been believing lately), it seems like either a) he wouldn’t show up, b) he’d show up wearing a mask, or c) he’d show up wearing a mask and pull a stunt.

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