Where can you find an Oscar in New York City? And the winner is … The New York Public Library. In honor of this weekend’s 83rd Academy Awards ceremony, we thought we’d share an image of one of two Oscars that can be found in the Billy Rose Theatre Division at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The Oscars belonged to actors Burl Ives and Paul Muni — Muni won his for Best Actor in 1937’s “The Story of Louis Pasteur” and Ives won in 1959 for Best Supporting Actor in “The Big Country.” Both Academy Awards were donated to LPA by each actor’s family (when the Library received the rest of their papers).
