Oscar likes to spread the bounty, and three gongs might be considered tantamount to canonisation.
The gamelan gongs, however, came from China, which in turn were brought from further west.
It was during that time that he was hit with the notion to sell gongs.
Others who worked hard to get their gongs may be wondering just how secure they are now.
Sky News received four gongs, including best news coverage for the UK riots.
Described by critics as the ultimate method actor of Indian cinema, Mr Kumar has more gongs than any other Bollywood star.
Seated alongside Bradley at the top table is the gaunt-looking Brian Dooher, who has five Ulster medals and three All-Ireland gongs.
Musicians play oboe-like ''suona, '' bell-shaped gongs and a variety of drums, while masked or unmasked dancers move farcically to the accompaniment.
The Indonesian gamelan orchestra uses gongs, xylophones and percussion to produce a rhythmic pulsing with the melodic beauty of bells and chimes.
If he wants to defuse the whole row over executive pay, he could present business leaders with a stark choice: gongs or bonuses?
New York City native Andrew Borakove keeps his inventory for Gongs Unlimited in the building tucked away on the southwest edge of the city.
And each day, he "tests" the merchandise for customers who call wanting a certain sound by holding the phone up to the gongs as they're struck.
Around 1086, a Chinese emperor commissioned one 40 feet tall, replete with ringing gongs and indicators that told the time of day, date and position of the planets.
In the piece, Boyar plays at three different percussion stations, dashing between them to play as many as 30 instruments drums cymbals, wood chimes, gongs and maracas, to name just a few.
But behind the glitz and the glamour, behind the gongs and the speeches, behind the seemingly endless parade of beards, lies a highly-competitive international movie business, in which the stakes are high, there is no time for losers and second chances are rare (hence the 'phew and thanks' nature of Ben Affleck's speech).
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