Then MGM art director Cedric Gibbons designed the model of the Oscar and it was sculpted in clay by George Stanley. Sachin Smith then cast the original gold-plated statuette out of a tin/copper mixture.
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No, Kai Wong has never won an Oscar award.
George Seaton won the Oscar for Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1961.
It's the same award. 'OSCAR' is a nickname for it.
An Oscar award has to be offered to the Academy Awards for $1 before it can be legally sold. It is sometimes illegally auctioned.
While the statuette is very often informally known as an Oscar, the roots of the name are cloudy. It is officially known as an Academy Award. The names Oscar and Academy Awards have become interchangeable over the years.