Becoming a celebrity is one thing, but what better recognition of dedication to one’s art is there than a prestigious award like an Oscar, an Emmy or a Grammy?
While some can only dream of one day winning one of these awards and placing them with pride on a mantlepiece, other celebrities are more humble about their accolades.
Let’s look at the weirdest places and the strangest things celebrities do with their prestigious awards.
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Russell Crowe
Aussie actor Russell Crowe clinched the Oscar for Best Actor for his stellar performance in Gladiator.
He allegedly stores the statuette in a chicken coop on his Australian ranch.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Paltrow nabbed the Oscar for Best Actress for her role in Romeo and Juliet in 1999.
While this is a huge accomplishment for any actor, for Paltrow it became the factor that led to her stepping back from Hollywood and acting altogether.
The actress garnered backlash for winning against the likes of Meryl Streep and Cate Blanchett.
Earlier this week, in a video with Vogue, Paltrow revealed she uses the prestigious award as a doorstop, later clarifying it was a joke.
Scott Cam
The Block‘s Scott Cam has also repurposed his two gold Logie awards into something rather unconventional.
While you’d think two Logies would be placed front and centre on a mantlepiece, Cam turned them into something any tradie would consider practical: a bottle opener.
He calls it the “gold stubby opener” and it’s an easy way to show it off to your mates when they come over, rather than just pulling it off the shelf.
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Kate Winslet
Kate Winslet keeps her treasured Academy Award in perhaps one of the most bizarre places – the toilet.
Winslet finally nabbed herself an Oscar in 2009 for The Reader, winning Best Actress and promptly decided the bathroom would be a superb place for the prestigious award – and her justification for it is hilarious.
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“The whole point is for everybody to pick it up and go, ‘I’d like to thank my son and my dad’ – and you can always tell when someone has, because they’re in there a little bit longer after they flushed,” Winslet told the Wall Street Journal.
“They’ll come out looking slightly pink-cheeked. It’s hysterical.”
Drake
In 2013, Drake found a unique way of repurposing his brand new Grammy Award.
Hours after receiving his Best Rap Album trophy for Take Care, Drake took a shot out of the golden gramophone.
However, it’s worth noting Jay-Z was the first person to do this. The rapper drank Cognac out of his Grammy Award.
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Rosamund Pike
Rosamund Pike doesn’t use her awards as drinking glasses, or even décor.
In fact, she doesn’t use them for anything – she buries them in her back garden.
Pike revealed during an interview with Ellen DeGeneres that she buries all of her awards in her garden, calling them “an uneasy thing to display in your home.”
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“I think it’s amusing, because in the future, when I am dead and gone, or when somebody else buys the house, they’ll be doing some landscaping and they’ll hit metal and think they’ve found buried treasure,” Pike added sardonically.
Timothy Hutton
At just 20 years old, Timothy Hutton was the youngest person to ever win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 1981 for his role in Ordinary People.
Hutton revealed that his sister thought it’d be a good gag to place the coveted statuette in the fridge next to beers at a party they hosted.
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Richard Dreyfuss
Just like Timothy Hutton, Richard Dreyfuss also keeps his Oscar in a rather ~cool~ place (pun intended).
The veteran star took home a Best Actor award in 1978 for his work in The Goodbye Girl. Dreyfuss revealed that he keeps his Oscar in his fridge as a subtle brag.
“I don’t like to brag, but I like everyone to know about it,” Dreyfuss told The Hollywood Reporter. “Sooner or later, I know they are all going to go to the refrigerator.”
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Shirley MacLaine
Terms of Endearment star (and sister to Warren Beatty) Shirley MacLaine might just have the most practical use for her Oscar Award. Speaking to InStyle back in 2001, MacLaine revealed she uses her statuette as a paper weight.
“Oscar serves a very practical purpose,” MacLaine said.
“When the winds blow through my New Mexico ranch, he keeps The New York Times from blowing away.”
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Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift’s most infamous award – the 2009 moonman she won for best music video at the VMAs – sits right next to her coffee machine in a very nonchalant manner.
If you can recall, Swift was in the middle of accepting the award in 2009 for best music video when Kanye West stormed the stage, snatching the microphone from her and humiliating her on live television.
While the moment was mortifying, Swift has cathartically dealt with the event through a number of songs.
In an interview with Vogue in 2016, Swift was giving a house tour when eagle-eyed fans spotted the infamous moonman being used as décor in her kitchen, nestled next to her coffee machine.