There’s a fun detail in Albany-based AP reporter Michael Hill’s look at the pair of New York state vendors responsible for the new-look Oscar statuette.
Beginning with the 2016 ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences partnered with Polich Tallix in Rock Tavern, N.Y. to get back to casting the statuette in bronze rather than relying on a pewter-like alloy, and with Epner Technology Inc. in Brooklyn to apply the final gold plating. As the latter firm’s president David Epner explains, his company had several earlier brushes with Oscar before being chosen for this prestigious assignment:
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