Editing Academy Juvenile Award (section)

==Lost, stolen and found==
===Lost Garland award===
[[Judy Garland]] had reportedly lost her award over the years, and in June 1958 contacted the academy to obtain a replacement at her own expense.<ref name="Los Angeles Times 2"/><ref name="Los Angeles Times 3">{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-aug-27-mn-11104-story.html|title=Academy Sues for Garland Oscar|access-date=July 12, 2011|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|first=Dan|last=Whitcomb|date=August 27, 2000|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140308123659/http://articles.latimes.com/2000/aug/27/news/mn-11104|archive-date=March 8, 2014}}</ref>  The academy obliged, but asked Garland to sign its well-known [[right of first refusal]] agreement covering the duplicate Oscar as well as her original, should it ever turn up.<ref name="Los Angeles Times 2"/>  The agreement, put into implementation by the academy in 1950, states that Oscar recipients or their heirs who want to sell their statuettes must first offer the academy the opportunity to buy the Oscar back for the sum of $10. (An amount which was subsequently dropped to $1 in the 1980s.)<ref name="Los Angeles Times 2"/><ref name="Los Angeles Times 3"/>

After her death in 1969, many of Garland's personal effects came into the possession of her former husband, [[Sidney Luft]] who attempted to sell a miniature Oscar statuette at a [[Christie's]] auction in 1993.<ref name="Los Angeles Times 2"/><ref name="New York Mag">{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7VMAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA26|title=Garland Oscar Auction|date=November 1, 1993|work=New York Magazine}}</ref>  Upon learning of the impending auction, the academy quickly filed a legal injunction to halt the sale of the Award and, after some research, determined that the statuette in question was Garland's 1958 replacement Oscar, using photographs that showed the original 1940 statuette's unique base differed from the one being put up for auction.<ref name="Los Angeles Times 2"/><ref name="Orlando Sentinel">{{cite web|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1993/12/20/garlands-oz-oscar-pulled-from-list-of-auction-items/|title=Garland Oscar Pulled from Auction|access-date=July 12, 2011|work=OrlandoSentinel.com|date=December 20, 1993 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121002065709/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1993-12-20/news/9312200294_1_garland-oscar-academy|archive-date=October 2, 2012}}</ref>  The courts ruled in the academy's favor in 1995 and ordered Luft to return the 1958 statuette to the academy; prompting Luft to instead turn the award over to daughter [[Lorna Luft]] who had expressed a desire to keep it in the family.<ref name="Los Angeles Times 2"/>

In 2000, a second statuette was put up for auction, which the academy determined this time to be Garland's long-lost "original" 1940 Oscar.<ref name="Los Angeles Times 2"/><ref name="Hollywood.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.hollywood.com/news/EXTRA_The_Case_of_Judys_MIA_Oscar/312563|title=The Case of Judy's MIA Oscar|access-date=July 12, 2011|work=Hollywood.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004044707/http://www.hollywood.com/news/EXTRA_The_Case_of_Judys_MIA_Oscar/312563|archive-date=October 4, 2012}}</ref>  After once again tracing the auction back to Sidney Luft, the academy again took legal action to halt the sale claiming the 1940 statuette fell under the terms of the agreement Garland had signed in 1958.<ref name="Los Angeles Times 2"/><ref name="Hollywood.com"/>  The academy again won its lawsuit in 2002 and Luft was ordered to turn the 1940 statuette over to the academy.<ref name="Los Angeles Times 2"/>  In February 2010, Garland's original 1940 Juvenile Oscar was put on display to the public at an exhibit held by the academy in New York City called "Meet The Oscars".<ref name="Oscars.org 19">{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/82/meettheoscars.html |title=Meet The Oscars, New York |access-date=July 12, 2011 |work=Oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706085044/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/82/meettheoscars.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref>  {{as of|2020}}, its 1958 replacement is believed to still be in the possession of Garland's heirs.<ref name="Variety2"/><ref name="Variety3"/><ref name="Variety"/><ref name="All Business">{{cite web|url=http://www.allbusiness.com/services/legal-services/4468396-1.html|title=Protecting Oscar From Legal Trouble|access-date=July 12, 2011|work=AllBusiness.com}}</ref>

===Stolen O'Brien award===
Throughout her childhood, [[Margaret O'Brien]]'s awards were displayed in a special room.  One day in 1954, the family's maid asked to take O'Brien's Juvenile Oscar and two other awards home with her to polish, as she had done in the past.<ref name="LA Times 1">{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-03-07-mn-39699-story.html|title=Fairy Tale End for Stolen Oscar|access-date=July 12, 2011|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|first=Nora|last=Zamichow|date=March 7, 1995|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107132838/http://articles.latimes.com/1995-03-07/news/mn-39699_1_oscar-statuette|archive-date=November 7, 2012}}</ref>  After three days, the maid failed to return to work, prompting O'Brien's mother to discharge her, requesting that the awards be returned.<ref name="Hollywoodland 1"/>  Shortly thereafter, O'Brien's mother, who had been sick with a heart condition, suffered a relapse and died.<ref name="LA Times 1"/> In mourning, 17-year-old O'Brien forgot about the maid and the Oscar until several months later when she tried to contact her, only to find that the maid had moved and had left no forwarding address.<ref name="Hollywoodland 1"/><ref name="LA Times 1"/>

Several years later, upon learning that the original had been stolen, the academy promptly supplied O'Brien with a replacement Oscar, but O'Brien still held onto hope that she might one day recover her original Award.<ref name="Hollywoodland 1"/><ref name="LA Times 1"/>  In the years that followed, O'Brien attended memorabilia shows and searched antique shops, hoping she might find the original statuette, until one day in 1995 when Bruce Davis, then executive director of the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|Academy]], was alerted that a miniature statuette bearing O'Brien's name had surfaced in a catalogue for an upcoming memorabilia auction.<ref name="LA Times 1"/>  Davis contacted a mutual friend of his and O'Brien's, who in turn phoned O'Brien to tell her the long-lost Oscar had been found.<ref name="Hollywoodland 1"/><ref name="LA Times 1"/>

Memorabilia collectors Steve Neimand and Mark Nash were attending a flea market in 1995 when Neimand spotted a small Oscar with Margaret O'Brien's name inscribed upon it.<ref name="SF Gate">{{cite news|url=https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Actress-Gets-Stolen-Oscar-Back-3046489.php|title=Actress Gets Stolen Oscar Back|access-date=July 12, 2011|work=SFGate.com|date=June 23, 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119021251/http://articles.sfgate.com/1995-02-09/entertainment/17795084_1_oscar-outstanding-child-actress-steve-neimand|archive-date=January 19, 2012}}</ref>  The two men decided to split the $500 asking price hoping to resell it at a profit and lent it to a photographer to shoot for an upcoming auction catalogue.<ref name="LA Times 1"/>  This led to Bruce Davis' discovery that the statuette had resurfaced and, upon learning of the award's history, Nash and Neimand agreed to return the Oscar to O'Brien.<ref name="LA Times 1"/>  On February 7, 1995, almost fifty years after she had first received it, the academy held a special ceremony in Beverly Hills to return the stolen award to O'Brien.<ref name="LA Times 1"/><ref name="SF Gate"/> Upon being reunited with her Juvenile Oscar, Margaret O'Brien told the attending journalists:<ref name="Hollywoodland 2">{{cite web|url=http://allanellenberger.com/book-flm-news/margaret-obriens-stolen-oscar/|title=Margaret O'Brien's Stolen Oscar|access-date=July 12, 2011|work=Hollywoodland|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120729123346/http://allanellenberger.com/book-flm-news/margaret-obriens-stolen-oscar/|archive-date=July 29, 2012}}</ref>{{blockquote|For all those people who have lost or misplaced something that was dear to them, as I have, never give up the dream of searching – never let go of the hope that you'll find it because after all these many years, at last, my Oscar has been returned to me.}}

===Stolen Mills award===
[[Hayley Mills]] was in California filming a [[Good Morning, Miss Bliss|television series in the late 1980s]]. When she returned home to London, her Oscar was gone. As Mills was the last person to win a miniature Oscar, she was told the mold had been broken and a new one could not be made. In 2022, Academy president [[David Rubin (casting director)|David Rubin]] surprised Mills with a full sized replacement Oscar statuette.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Feinberg |first1=Scott |title=Film Academy Surprises Legendary Child Star Hayley Mills by Replacing Her Stolen Oscar |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/film-academy-surprises-hayley-mills-by-replacing-her-lost-oscar-1235073402/ |access-date=12 January 2022 |publisher=The Hollywood Reporter |date=11 January 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Aquilina |first1=Tyler |title=The Academy gifted former child star Hayley Mills a replacement for her stolen Oscar |url=https://ew.com/awards/oscars/academy-gives-hayley-mills-replacement-oscar/ |access-date=12 January 2022 |issue=11 January 2022 |publisher=Entertainment Weekly}}</ref>