MEET OSCARS® CHICAGO, presented by Kodak February 25, 2010

Meet the Oscars returns to Chicago!

• Chicagoans will be the first to see the Oscar that will go to Jeff Bridges, George Clooney, Colin Firth, Morgan Freeman or Jeremy Renner before they do!

• Hold and have your photo taken with a real Oscar statuette for FREE

• Learn how Oscars are manufactured at R.S. Owens & Company in Chicago.

• See the historic Oscar that Bette Davis won for her performance in “Jezebel” (1938). Davis' Oscar was purchased at auction by an anonymous buyer for $578,000 in 2001 and returned to the Academy. The anonymous buyer was later revealed to be Oscar winner Steven Spielberg. This is one of three Oscars purchased by Spielberg and returned to the Academy.

• See the historic Oscar awarded to the DuPont Film Manufacturing Corp. and to Eastman Kodak Company for super-sensitive panchromatic film (1930/31).

Watch the Oscars on WLS-TV Channel 7 at 7 p.m. on ABC, hosted by Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin. For additional information on the 82nd Academy Awards®, visit www.oscars.com or www.oscars.org.

Monday–Saturday 10 a.m.–7 p.m.
Sunday 11 a.m.–6 p.m

Phone Number 312- 327- 2300

Official Website: http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/82/meettheoscars.html