The curious case of Frances McDormand's lost and found Oscar and more post-show party scenes



"That's my baby boy!" Frances McDormand gushed while clutching her Oscar inside the Governors Ball after her win at the 90th Academy Awards on Sunday.

The actress was talking about her son, Pedro, but McDormand would soon be searching for her newest baby boy — her lead actress Oscar for her performance in "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri."

Amid the flowing champagne, towers of seafood and passed plates of Wolfgang Puck cuisine, one of the most bizarre moments following Sunday's telecast happened at the Governors Ball when a partygoer swiped McDormand's freshly engraved statue.


Late in the evening, McDormand was spotted red-faced from laughing and crying after a man lifted the trophy while she was chatting and tried to dart out of the Ray Dolby Ballroom where the party was being held.

At one point, she turned to L.A. Times photographer Jay Clendenin and said, "I lost my Oscar." Her handlers quickly rushed over to figure out where the sticky-finger bandit had gone off to.



Given the tight security around the Dolby, the alleged thief didn't make it far. Another photographer intervened and stopped the man holding the Oscar.

According to whispers around the party, McDormand was initially reluctant to press charges. But not long afterward, a man named Terry Bryant was arrested at the Governors Ball, accused of stealing McDormand's statue — after he took time to post a Facebook video of himself bragging and gloating to others at the party about the prize his "team" was taking home.

"Lookit baby, my team got this tonight. This is mine. We got it tonight, baby," said the man in the video before kissing the statue. "Governors Ball, baby. Who wants to wish me congratulations?" Hoots and air kisses from partygoers attracted to the celebration followed as Bryant tried to find out the location of Jimmy Kimmel's afterparty. He said at one point he had won it for "music" and later that he'd won for "best producer."




Source: latimes

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