Academy Award, Best Sound, Glory, presented to Russell Williams, II

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2015.29.21.1: Academy Award, Best Sound, Glory, 1989 presented to Russell Williams II at the 62nd Academy Awards ceremony on March 26, 1990. The statuette is gold-plated britannium and depicts a knight rendered in Art Deco style holding a crusader's sword (vertically down from its chest) standing on a flat reel of film with five spokes. The entire statuette is on a circular metal base. Two things are etched into the film reel on the back of the statuette, (top) reads: [(c)/AMPAS/(R)] in one of the spokes, (side of reel) reads: [2491]. A label, etched into a gold-plate, on the front of the base reads: [ACADEMY AWARD / RUSSELL WILLIAMS, II, DONALD O. MITCHELL, GREGG C. RUDLOFF and ELLIOT TYSON / SOUND / "GLORY" / 1989].

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