The company is working overtime, seven days a week, to produce 55 more statues. Siegel said that normally his workers take a month and a half to craft the gold-plated figures. But they're worth millions to the recipient. We have extra-tight security here. The Oscars are locked up in a truck that goes to the plant.
Nobody can enter our premises without a badge.
They're going be picked up by security from our plant and taken to the airport. Earlier this month, sacks containing 4,000 ballots for Academy members to vote in the awards were misrouted after delivery to the Beverly Hills Post Office by an accounting firm. The academy was forced to print and mail new ones. The deadline for returning the ballots was extended from March 21 to March 23, just three days before the awards show. Prior to that, The Wall Street Journal reportedly made a concerted effort to figure out the award winners ahead of time by polling the Academy members.