Four-time Oscar-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood left three of her statuettes, along with three Baftas and two Emmy Awards, behind when her Pacific Palisades home was evacuated during the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles last year.
While her Oscar for Chicago was safely on display at the film academy’s museum, the bronze-filled trophies she earned for her work on Memoirs of a Geisha and Alice in Wonderland completely melted, and the Oscar for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was barely recognisable after its golden overcoat was charred away in the blaze that incinerated her home.
After the fires, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said it would repair or replace statuettes belonging to living winners in cases of catastrophic loss or severe damage, according to the Los Angeles Times, external.