1947 Best-Picture Oscar Sells for Nearly $500,000 at Auction
The best-picture Oscar for "Gentleman's Agreement," the 1947 film starring Gregory Peck that took on anti-Semitism, sold for $492,000, in a rare auction of Oscars that ended on Dec. 14, 2018, in Los Angeles. Lou Bustamante/Profiles in History via AP
LOS ANGELES—One Academy Award trophy sold for nearly $500,000 and the second for well over $200,000 in a rare auction of Oscars that ended in Los Angeles on Dec. 14.
A best-picture Oscar for “Gentleman’s Agreement,” the 1947 film starring Gregory Peck that took on anti-Semitism, sold for $492,000. A best picture statuette for 1935’s “Mutiny on the Bounty” fetched $240,000.
