Almost all artists and performers feel excited and enjoyable when winning an award. And the joy can't be described when they receive an Oscar, Golden Globe, Grammy, or Emmy award. Our actors have confirmed this. And it's such a priceless moment when these actors win one of those awards. Also, they are supposed to keep their statuettes in the most favorite place in their house to show off them to the guests. However, some celebrities don’t think that is the best choice.
Many celebrities came up with unexpected ideas to display their awards.
Jennifer Lawrence is among these people. She puts her Oscar in the hallway next to her bathroom. And Marlon Brando is also worth mentioning. He had no clue where his Oscar statuette for the best actor in1955 was.
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#1 Darren Criss
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Darren Criss places his Emmy and SAG awards on his piano so that he can see them every day. It would be a place of creativity. He won them both as best actor for his participation in American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace.
#2 Tom Hanks
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Tom preferred to not make it complicated like the above celebrities. So he kept his two Academy Awards in a glass case, next to the soccer trophies. He also put in that glass case a trophy for the best mother in the world for his wife’s Mother’s Day which he won in 1993 and 1994 for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump, respectively.
#3 Jennifer Lawrence
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Jennifer gained her first Oscar for Best Actress for the movie Silver Linings Playbook. The actress felt weird having the statuette at home and it emitted a strange vibe in her house. So, Jennifer
put her Oscar in the hallway next to her bathroom. Her parents disagreed with that idea and brought it to their Kentucky home where they put the statuette on top of the piano.
#4 Angelina Jolie
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The actress chose to give her mom, Marcheline Bertrand, the Oscar she won in 2000 for Best Supporting Actress for the film Girl, Interrupted. However, Mrs. Bertrand passed away 7 years later and since then, no one knows where the statuette is.
#5 Matt Damon and Ben Affleck
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Both Damon and Affleck won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Good Will Hunting in 1998. Matt misplaced his statuette and Ben took it with him. Now, he kept it in the office they share the statuette. This office is also displayed with a signed Celtics basketball, a Red Sox cap, and photos of both actors.
#6 Viola Davis
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Although Viola Davis would prefer to keep her Oscar award in the garage of her home. Maybe, there was an argument between Viola and her husband Julius Tennon before displaying it in the office she shares with him. Viola keeps the statuette she won in 2017 for Best Supporting Actress for the film Fences, along with her Emmy and her 2 Tony Awards.
#7 Reese Witherspoon
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Reese won that statuette for Best Actress in the movie Walk the Line in 2006. She wanted to put her Oscar into a special place instead of keeping it in her home as an ornament. Then, she decided to turn it into an awesome necklace. But she changed her mind when she realized that the idea wasn’t very practical, so she kept it in her living room.
#8 Cate Blanchett
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Cate Blanchett won best supporting actress for The Aviator in 2004, and 10 years later, the best actress for Blue Jasmine. Cate Blanchett decided to donate one of her golden statuettes to ACMI, which is a film, television, video game, and art museum in her native Australia. “I can pay an entrance fee and go see it from time to time,” she revealed. The second statuette is at her home.
#9 Catherine Zeta-Jones
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Catherine Zeta-Jones, who won an Oscar for best-supporting actress in 2002 for the musical film Chicago, revealed that she keeps her statuette in the home she shares with her partner Michael Douglas in Bermuda. “I figured not many Oscars have lived there. Of course, everyone who visits wants a picture with it,” she revealed.
#10 Lupita Nyong’o
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The Best Supporting Actress winner for her role in the 2014 film 12 Years a Slave confessed that she keeps her statuette in the simplest place there can be a shelf. When she has guests in her home, she lets them hold her trophy if they want to. If her guests ask to hold her trophy for a while, she will never refuse.
#11 Rosamund Pike
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The I Care a Lot star confessed that she finds it difficult to display any of her awards at home. And she was sicked about her guest’s question about her awards. So she decided to bury them in her garden! “I think it’s
funny because, in the future, when I’m gone or when someone else buys the house, they’ll be tidying up the garden, they’ll bang on the metal and think they’ve found buried treasure,” Pike said.
#12 Marlon Brando
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Marlon Brando once revealed that he had lost his two Oscars. He didn’t know what happened to the statuette for best actor that he received for On the Waterfront in 1955, saying, “Somewhere over time, it disappeared.” Years later, he won another Academy Award for The Godfather in the same category. However, he turned it down because he protested Hollywood’s portrayal of Native Americans in film. “The Motion Picture Academy may have sent it to me, but if they did, I don’t know where it is now,” he said.
#13 Nicole Kidman
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Kidman received these awards for her brilliant work as an executive producer and actress on the Big Little Lies. And Nicole Kidman thinks that her young daughters, Sunday and Faith, will keep her Emmys safe. She told them that they could put each one on their respective shelve.
#14 Natalie Portman
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Natalie Portman who won Best Actress in 2011 for Black Swan, also has no idea where to put her Oscar, “I think it’s in a safe or something, I don’t know,”. She said that she didn’t want to pay so much attention and admiration to a statuette.
#15 Kevin Costner
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Kevin Costner is the winner of 2 Oscars for his Best Picture, and Best Director wins for Dancing with Wolves in 1991. He kept his statuettes for many years in his underwear drawer so that no one would take them. Later, he took them to his screening room, which seems to be the perfect place. The room is full of posters of films that have influenced him.