Bidding auction Profiles in History will be held in Los Angeles on December 11th. Other Oscar figurines obtained by winners of the award for the "best film" will be among other lots. Buyers will be able to acquire the producer of the producer of the Irving Talberg for the "Mount of Bounty" tape 1935, whose initial price ranges from 200-300 thousand dollars. Oscar also leaves the Oscar for the film "Gentlemen Agreement" of the 1947 release, which will begin bidding from the mark of 150-200 thousand dollars.
As the "Oscar" "Gentleman's Agreement" was presented:
This is not the first time that the statuettes of the Oscar premium are free. In 1999, the singer Michael Jackson paid $ 1.5 million to acquire the reward of David O. Selznik for the film "Gone by the Wind". In 2011, the descendants of Orson Wells, the director of the film "Citizen Kane", sold him "Oscar" for 860 thousand dollars. In 2012, at once, 15 figurines left the hammer, among them there were awards Actress Vivien Lee and the Scenarist German Mankievich. The Academy was outraged by the trading, but could not prevent them from, as the auction was participating only the figurines for films, awarded to 1950 - that is, before to act an agreement on the transfer of Oscars back to the film academy for 1 dollar.