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Steven Meissner "Keeper of the Oscars (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Steven Meissner "Keeper of the Oscars (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Steven Meissner, the Motion Picture Academy’s “Keeper of the Oscars”, died last week at his home in Los Angeles of a heart attack, aged 48 years.

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Each year, Steven would don white gloves to ready the film industry’s coveted golden statuettes for their close ups. He took charge of the glittering trophies from their delivery in L.A. from the R. S. Owens foundry in Chicago, where they are forged, then would log each one into a computer file, and keep them safe until a final rubdown on the day of the Oscars, when he would hand each one over to the presenters of the winning movie categories, carefully recording which individually numbered Oscar went to whom. Later he would arrange with every winner the retrieval of the statuette for final engraving.

Additionally, he was executive assistant to academy executive director Bruce Davis and president Sid Ganis.

AP Photo by Chris Carlson.

 
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