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Oscar Auction Final Values
Orson Welles Oscar Best Screenplay “Citizen Kane” 1941        
 December 2011
 $861,542.00
Richard Day Oscar Best Black and White Art Direction 1942        
 June 2009        
 $53,775.00
Best Documentary Short 1949
 April 2008
 $65,725.00
Nathan Levinson Oscar Best Sound “Yankee Doodle Dandy” 1942        
 November 2009
 $89,625.00
Vivien Leigh Oscar Best Actress “Gone with the Wind” 1939
 1993                
 $563,000.00
Clark Gable Oscar Best Actor “It Happened One Night” 1934 (Purchased by Steven Spielberg and donated
back to Academy)
 December 1996
 $607,500.00
David O. Selznick Best Picture Oscar “Gone with the Wind” 1939 (Purchased by Michael Jackson)
 June 1999        
 $1, 542,500.00
George Stolls Oscar Best Score “Anchors Aweigh” 1945 (Purchased by Kevin Spacey and donated back to
Academy)
 September 2001
 $156,875.00
James Cagney Oscar Best Actor “Yankee Doodle Dandy” 1942        
 October 2005
 Failed to sell
William S.Darling Oscar Best Art Direction “Anna and the King of Siam”        
 January 2005
 $22,000.00
Harold Russell Oscar Best Supporting Oscar “Best Years of Our Lives” 1946
 August 1992               
 
 $60,500.00
Best Picture Oscar “An American in Paris” 1951
 1989
 $16,000.00
Bette Davis Oscar Best Actress “Jezebel”  1938 (Purchased by Steven Spielberg and donated back to
Academy)       
 July 2001        
 $578,000.00
Michael Curtiz Oscar Best Director “Casablanca” 1942
 2003        
 $232,000.00
Geza Herczeg Oscar Best Screenplay “The Life of Emile Zola”  1937
 May 2005        
 $35,250.00
Unknown Sci-Tech plaque/tablet Style award no inscription        
 March 2011
 $7,636.00
Norman Taurog Oscar Best Director “Skippy” 1931        
 February 2012
 $301,973
Best Picture Oscar “Cavalcade” 1933        
 February 2012
 $332,165
Farciot Edouart Sci-Tech plaque/tablet Oscar 1937   Dual Screen Transparency Setup     
 February 2012
 $72,295
First Special Effects Oscar Farciot Edouart  1938 Outstanding Transparency Special Effects “Spawn of the
North”        
 February 2012
 $96,227
“Wuthering Heights” Oscar Black & White Cinematography 1939
 February 2012
 $226,876
Herman Mankiewicz Oscar Writing “Citizen Kane” 1942        
 February 2012
 $588,455
Best Picture Oscar “How Green Was My Valley” 1941
 February 2012
 $274,520
Oscar Transparency Special Effects 1941 “Reap the Wild Wind” Farciot Edouart
 February 2012
 $87,475
Charles Coburn Best Oscar Supporting Actor The More the Merrier” 1943
 February 2012
 $170,459
Daniel Mandell Film Editing Oscar “The Best Years of Our Lives”        1946
 February 2012
 $116,428
Hugo Friedhofer Oscar Best Music “The Best Years of Our Lives” 1946
 February 2012
 $187,511
Paul Groesse Oscar Color Art Direction  “The Yearling” 1946
 February 2012
 $116,428
Oscar for "The Yearling" -- Best Color Cinematography 1946
 February 2012
 $128,066
Oscar for "A Double Life" -- Best Actor to Ronald Colman
 February 2012
 $206,250
Oscar for "Little Women" -- Color Art Direction
 February 2012
 $154,962
Oscar for "Gone with the Wind" -- Best Director Victor Fleming
 December 1994
 $244,500
John Lennon's  Oscar for the song "Let It Be" 1970
 October 1992
 $110,000