The American Fine Arts Foundry has begun the process of creating the SAG Award statuettes with each individually cast in solid bronze using the lost wax process

CP12203404 | The American Fine Arts Foundry has begun the process of creating the SAG Award statuettes with each individually cast in solid bronze using the lost wax process

Casting Oscar: Statuette Treated as Work of Art

Every Oscar cradled by Academy Award winners is first cast, buffed and fussed over at a foundry far from Hollywood. Workers at the Polich Tallix foundry in New York spent the last several months making 60 identical Oscars for the Feb. 26 awards. (Feb. 15)
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