Rather, a statuette provides buzz and bragging rights for a show, its studio and its host network.
In fact, their careers may even take a bit of a dive after bringing home a statuette.
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Hers is not the sort of achievement that will be honored with a statuette Sunday at the 84th Academy Awards ceremony, but rest assured she knows the score.
Other favorites to nab a statuette, according to Avello, are Kate Winslet for Best Actress, Mickey Rourke for Best Actor, and Heath Ledger for Best Supporting Actor.
Though neither is a first time nominee--Smith nabbed a nod for his title role in Ali and DiCaprio snagged two for What's Eating Gilbert Grape and The Aviator--a win would mark the first time either took home a statuette.
Conversely, works like Orazio Mochi's finely modeled statuette of a "Black Court Jester" (c. 1600-10) and a Flemish or French statuette of a "Black Woman at her Bath" (1580s) reveal the aesthetic delight European sculptors took in the use of bronze with various patinations as a natural medium to represent the variety of African skin tones.
In a case alongside him stands a 20-inch marble statuette of a much younger Herakles, beardless, sleek and classically muscled in the late Athenian manner.
When De Sole left, his longtime Italian employees at Gucci showed their devotion with a solid-silver statuette featuring him as a fearless sea captain steering a wheel made of Gucci 'G's.
It became easy to dupe him with a fake gold ring or an ivory statuette of a bare-breasted Minoan goddess.
You can buy a stars-and-stripes-decorated statuette of the Liberty Bell with an eagle perched on it.
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The riveting film "Precious" yielded a best supporting actress win for African-American performer Mo'Nique, and the first ever statuette for an African-American screenwriter in the best adapted screenplay category went to Geoffrey Fletcher.
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