The Academy Awards 2025 are right around and past the corner. With the date set of March 3, 2025, a question pops up in the minds of those watching, over and over again. And an important one for sure, is that of the monetary worth of the Oscars statuette. Is it pure gold? How much does it take to get one made? And more such queries weaved from the same thread.

While winning one surely makes name for one on stage, almost as if having won a humungous lottery, but does it not compel the human instinct within the awardee, to dig a little deeper, to turn it into a gift that keeps giving? 

Winning an Oscars lands one in projects about twenty-percent more paying than their last gig. However, it would be surprising to know that the actual worth of the statuette that is getting the entity the rite of passage to greater name, is only about a dollar, in monetary terms. This has been established by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that originally give out the Oscars themselves.  

The managers of the accolade are known to purposely set the profit of the Hollywood amulet such, to prevent any further gains and profiting off of that might ensue with the accolade in one's hands, be it out of curiosity. And as a matter of fact, the Academy regulates rules for winners such that it complicates the process of even thinking of trading the award for capital. The Academy specifies that the awardees cannot sell or even dispose the statuette without offering to sell it to them first, and so do the children stand required to do, of passed awardees. 

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Regardless there is no doubt a weightage of the award that has been formed, through decades upon decades of proven and backed up promotive hype of the Academy Awards that stays true to itself and the awardees and nominees alike. 

With its 97th year in tow, The Academy Awards, or, the Oscars have come up with the most heated list of potential yet. With some of the most stars-studded and tastefully dramatized in the line-up of 2025, first-timers and several timers, from Selena Gomez, veteran actress Demi Moore, the most expressive and bound for "greatness", Timothée Chalamet, Ariana Grande for bringing life to one of the most enjoyed plays of Wicked. The Brutalist, Anora and many more, in the Best Picture category. The 2025 showdown is going to be the most heated one yet, but all in good spirit and sport. 

The Oscars is for sure one of the most giving accolades of the industry, going out of the way to sell which, might come off as biting the hand that feeds one. For the amount that it gives and keeps giving long after its presentation, it is only fair to show respect to the gold-plated token of prosperity. Entirely deserving of being hoisted up on to a shelf, high enough to suffice for the flourish, it brings its victor.

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