Investigating the Missing 2000 Oscar Statue Heist
With four wins from 12 nominations, the late Katharine Hepburn holds the record for most Academy Award wins.
Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson and Daniel Day-Lewis trail her with three a piece. But for a few short hours on the evening of March 19, 2000 Willie Fulgear, a 61-year-old unemployed junk scavenger, was able to claim he had "more Oscars than any of the movie stars." Never heard of him? Ahead of the 2020 Oscars this Sunday, allow us to share the 20-year-old story that features his unlikely hero's journey. The 2000 Oscars season had already hit a production snag in the form of 4,000 misrouted ballots when Academy executive director Bruce Davis received the phone...
