With the Oscars just around ... that their annual award needed to be “a majestic trophy.” For its creation, MGM art director Cedric Gibbons designed a statuette standing on a reel of film ...

ROCK TAVERN, New York -- The famous Oscar statues are made at a workshop in ... For the better part of the last decade, they've been made at Urban Art Projects in Orange County.

And the Oscar goes to... Wait, wait, wait... The statue was originally ... the most Academy Awards with 22. The runner-up is Cedric Gibbons, who won 11 Oscars for best art direction.