Academy Award, Best Sound, Dances with Wolves, presented to Russell Williams, II

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2015.29.22.1: Academy Award, Best Sound, Dances with Wolves, 1990 owned and received by Russell Williams, II. 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: [2542]. A label, etched into a gold-plate, on the front of the base reads: [ACADEMY AWARD / TO / JEFFREY PERKINS, BILL W. BENTON, / GREGORY H. WATKINS AND RUSSELL WILLIAMS II / SOUND / "DANCES WITH WOLVES" / 1990] in various text sizes.

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