For the third consecutive year, The Hollywood Reporter has handed Hollywood’s most coveted trophy to a group of revered Los Angeles artists and asked them to reinvent it. As happens every year, the resulting statuary would have Cedric Gibbons — the original Oscar artist who first whipped up the figurine in 1928 — spinning in his grave.
Previous Oscar art portfolios gave us Kenny Scharf launching the little gold man into deep space, Karon Davis recasting him as an ancient Egyptian deity and Austyn Weiner turning him into a mischievous mail-art project. This year’s class is no less unruly. Among the highlights: a glazed earthenware candelabra evoking a biblical oil lamp, a mirrored cupid doll titled This Is Spinal Tap, an Oscar in a wheelchair and one gold statuette sharing a still life with a loaded revolver. Idol worship this is not.
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