# List of Academy Award trophies on public display

The following table lists Academy Awards held in museums and public collections:
| Year | Award | Award Recipient | Film | Current location | Country | Acquisition Date | Notes |
| 1927/28 | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Emil Jannings | The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh | Filmmuseum Berlin, Berlin | Germany | Unknown | |
| 1930/31 | Best Story | John Monk Saunders | The Dawn Patrol | Flight Museum, Seattle, Washington | United States | Unknown | Displayed alongside a jacket worn by Errol Flynn in the remake, eight years later. |
| 1931/32 | Honorary | Walt Disney | Creation of Mickey Mouse | The Magic of Disney Animation, Bay Lake, Florida | United States | Unknown | Displayed along with several other Academy Awards won by Disney. However, the others in the case are noted on their plaques as being replicas "for studio display case". |
| 1932/33 | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Katharine Hepburn | Morning Glory | National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. | United States | 2009 | Displayed along with three other Academy Awards won by Hepburn. |
| 1937 | Best Story | William A. Wellman and Robert Carson | A Star is Born | Mugar Memorial Library, Boston, Massachusetts | United States | Unknown | Part of the Robert Carson Collection at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center. Displayed on the fifth floor of the library. |
| 1938 | Best Adapted Screenplay | George Bernard Shaw | Pygmalion | Shaw's Corner, Hertfordshire | England | 1950 | Displayed alongside Shaw's Nobel Prize in a display case, covered by a green cloth. |
| 1939 | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Hattie McDaniel | Gone With the Wind | Chadwick Boseman College of Fine Arts, Howard University, Washington, D.C. | United States | 1952, replaced 2023 | A plaque rather than a statue; stolen c.1969 and replaced by the Academy. |
| 1942 | Best Documentary Feature | John Ford | The Battle of Midway | International Spy Museum, Washington, D.C. | United States | Unknown | |
| 1942 | Best Documentary Feature | Ken G. Hall | Kokoda Front Line! | National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Acton, Australian Capital Territory | Australia | 2015 | |
| 1945 | Best Documentary Feature | The Governments of Great Britain and the United States of America | The True Glory | Imperial War Museum North, Trafford Park, Greater Manchester | United Kingdom | Unknown | |
| 1949 | Best Costume Design, Color | Leah M. Rhodes | Adventures of Don Juan | Museum of the Gulf Coast, Port Arthur, Texas | United States | Unknown | Displayed in the Notable People Section of the Museum (second floor) |
| 1951 | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Vivien Leigh | A Streetcar Named Desire | Victoria and Albert Museum, London | United Kingdom | Unknown | Displayed in the theatre and stage exhibition. |
| 1951 | Best Documentary Feature | Olle Nordemar | Kon-Tiki | Kon-Tiki Museum, Oslo | Norway | 1952 | Displayed in the same room as the original Kon-Tiki raft. The film is screened every day at noon in the museum cinema. |
| 1951 | Honorary | Gene Kelly | Achievement in choreography on film | Mugar Memorial Library, Boston, Massachusetts | United States | Unknown | Part of the Gene Kelly Collection at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center. Displayed on the fifth floor of the library. |
| 1954 | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Frank Sinatra | From Here to Eternity | Sinatra restaurant, Encore Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada | United States | Unknown | |
| 1955 | Best Effects, Special Effects | Walt Disney Studios | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Walt Disney: One Man's Dream, Bay Lake, Florida | United States | Unknown | Displayed with props from the film in a special case. |
| 1959 | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Shelley Winters | The Diary of Anne Frank | The Anne Frank House, Amsterdam | Netherlands | 1976 | Donated by Winters to The Anne Frank House in 1976. Displayed inside the museum. |
| 1959 | Best Documentary Feature | Bernhard Grzimek | Serengeti Shall Not Die | Haus der Geschichte, Bonn | Germany | Unknown | |
| 1959 | Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award | Bob Hope | | Bob Hope Memorial Library, Ellis Island National Museum, New York City | United States | 2008 | Hope came to the United States through Ellis Island. The statuette is displayed with other Hope memorabilia at the library entrance. |
| 1961 | Best Short Subject, Cartoons | Dušan Vukotić | Surogat | Zagreb City Museum, Zagreb | Croatia | Unknown | Inside the Animation History exhibit. |
| 1964 | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Rex Harrison | My Fair Lady | Mugar Memorial Library, Boston, Massachusetts | United States | Unknown | Part of the Rex Harrison Collection at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center. Displayed on the fifth floor of the library. |
| 1964 | Best Art Direction, Black-and-White | Vassilis Photopoulos | Zorba the Greek | Benaki Museum, Athens | Greece | 2007 | Displayed in the Ghika Gallery on the Third Floor. |
| 1964 | Best Documentary Short Subject | Charles Guggenheim | Nine from Little Rock | National Archives, Washington, D.C. | United States | 2007 | Displayed outside of The William McGowan Theater. |
| 1966 | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Paul Scofield | A Man for All Seasons | Victoria and Albert Museum, London | United Kingdom | 2011 | |
| 1967 | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Katharine Hepburn | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. | United States | 2009 | Displayed along with three other Academy Awards won by Hepburn. |
| 1968 | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Katharine Hepburn | The Lion in Winter | National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. | United States | 2009 | Displayed along with three other Academy Awards won by Hepburn. |
| 1969 | Best Documentary Feature | Bernard Chevry | Arthur Rubinstein - The Love of Life | Museum of the City of Łódź, Łódź | Poland | 2001 | Displayed with awards given to Arthur Rubinstein. |
| 1971 | Best Original Song | Isaac Hayes | Shaft | Stax Museum of American Soul Music, Memphis, Tennessee | United States | 2011 | "Sits on a pedestal in the museum not far from Hayes' custom 1972 gold-trimmed, peacock-blue Cadillac Eldorado" |
| 1974 | Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation | Marvin Hamlisch | The Sting | Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. | United States | 2015 | Displayed on the first floor at the library’s Music Division, in its Performing Arts Reading Room, along with all of Hamlisch's other awards. |
| 1974 | Best Music, Original Dramatic Score | Marvin Hamlisch | The Way We Were | Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. | United States | 2015 | Displayed on the first floor at the library’s Music Division, in its Performing Arts Reading Room, along with all of Hamlisch's other awards. |
| 1974 | Best Music, Original Song | Marvin Hamlisch | The Way We Were | Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. | United States | 2015 | Displayed on the first floor at the library’s Music Division, in its Performing Arts Reading Room, along with all of Hamlisch's other awards. |
| 1978 | Honorary | Museum of Modern Art Department of Film | Film preservation and promotion efforts | Museum of Modern Art, New York City | United States | 1979 | Awarded "for the contribution it has made to the public's perception of movies as an art form." Displayed in the lobby of the museum. |
| 1981 | Best Picture | David Puttnam | Chariots of Fire | National Media Museum, Bradford, West Yorkshire | England | Unknown | |
| 1981 | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Katharine Hepburn | On Golden Pond | National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. | United States | 2009 | Displayed along with three other Academy Awards won by Hepburn. |
| 1985 | Best Art Direction | Josie MacAvin | Out of Africa | Irish Film Institute, Dublin | Ireland | 1992 | Donated to the IFI in 1992. |
| 1988 | Academy Scientific and Technical Award | Ray Dolby and Ioan Allen | | Dolby Theatre, Los Angeles, California | United States | Unknown | |
| 1989 | Best Sound | Russell Williams II, Donald O. Mitchell, Gregg C. Rudloff and Elliot Tyson | Glory | National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C. | United States | 2015 | Donated by Russell Williams |
| 1990 | Best Sound | Jeffrey Perkins, Bill W. Benton, Gregory H. Watkins and Russell Williams II | Dances with Wolves | National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C. | United States | 2015 | Donated by Russell Williams |
| 1990 | Honorary | Myrna Loy | | Mugar Memorial Library, Boston, Massachusetts | United States | 1994 | Part of the Myrna Loy Collection at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center. Displayed on the fifth floor of the library. |
| 2003 | Best Foreign Language Film | Denys Arcand | The Barbarian Invasions | TIFF Lightbox, Toronto, Ontario | Canada | Unknown | Displayed near the entrance to the home of the Toronto International Film Festival |
| 2003 | Best Animated Short Film | Adam Elliot | Harvie Krumpet | Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Victoria | Australia | Unknown | Displayed in the Screen Worlds gallery. |
| 2005 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Larry McMurtry | Brokeback Mountain | Booked Up bookstore, Archer City, Texas | United States | 2006 | Displayed inside the entrance to McMurtry's bookstore, alongside his Golden Globe for the same screenplay. McMurtry died in 2021. The bookstore was sold in 2022 and again in 2024, this time to a non-profit organization with the plans to open the Larry McMurtry Literary Center. |
| 2005 | Best Original Song | Three 6 Mafia | Hustle & Flow | Memphis Music Hall of Fame, Memphis, Tennessee | United States | Unknown | Displayed in the Three 6 Mafia exhibit. |
| Numerous | Varied | Walt Disney | Various works | Walt Disney Family Museum, San Francisco, California | United States | 2009 | Displays Disney's 27 individual Academy Awards. |