LEGO Ideas will be offline for maintenance in the next couple hours for about 15 minutes. Thank you for your patience. Before you can vote for cool new LEGO sets, or submit your own you'll need to sign in with or register for a LEGO ID: Official LEGO Comments 3 You saw it on the 2015 Oscars. Here's your chance to own one. In case you missed it, last night Oprah won* the Oscar for Best Performance as a Deity Impersonating a Human Being. *JK, she got this fake Lego Oscar for shits and gigs during the “Everything Is Awesome” performance. And though Emma Stone didn’t take home a real statue, she too was awarded this superior Lego version. If those Legos could talk… Now, you can DIY your own Oscar out of awesomeness and Legos! Did you catch that? Let’s slow it down… The secret is glue! So Oprah doesn’t shatter your handiwork in her excitement. Nathan Sawaya, the artist behind these brick statues, has also made lots of other awesome Lego art.
And he’s even written a book called The Art of the Brick. Now if only we could make a real Oscar to give The Lego Movie :(Did you see Emma Stone and Oprah Winfrey holding giant Lego Oscars and get a bit jealous? The statues from the insane "Everything Is Awesome" live-performance at the 2015 Academy Awards were made by artist Nathan Sawaya, whose creations ended up in the hands of notable nominees in the audience: Sawaya tweeted a video of how he made the statue: Want to see the #LEGO #Oscars in the making? — Nathan Sawaya (@NathanSawaya) February 23, 2015 But if that was too quick of an instruction for you, below is a longer instructional video on how to make a larger version of the Oscar statue: And for the more avant-garde, here's an instructional video on how to make an Oscar ... something: HuffPost Entertainment is your one-stop shop for celebrity news, hilarious late-night bits, industry and awards coverage and more — sent right to your inbox six days a week.
While actors, writers, directors and other filmmaking folk were anxiously hoping to take home a shiny golden Oscar trophy at Sunday's Academy Awards, many ended up with something arguably even cooler -- an Oscar trophy made of Lego bricks. New York-based Lego artist Nathan Sawaya created 20 statuettes made from Lego bricks for the ceremony. "The team behind 'The Lego Movie' approached me. They wanted to do something extra special for the Academy Award performance of best song nominee 'Everything is Awesome,'" Sawaya told Crave. "They had seen my earlier version of a Lego Oscar statue, and I was happy to take on the challenge." Sawaya had already built a Lego Oscar statuette for , who tweeted about it last month when the movie was passed over by the Academy Awards. "It made for the perfect tweet when the movie was snubbed," Sawaya told Crave. Each Lego Oscar statuette takes 500 bricks. "Each one is glued together so that the Lego bricks won't come apart," Sawaya said. Everyone from Oprah to Emma Stone was presented with their very own Lego Oscars during the Academy Awards, but Sawaya has a favorite moment.
"I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget," Sawaya said. "Even if I try." While celebrities were the happy recipients of Lego Oscar statuettes, Sawaya thinks we all deserve one. "So many people have asked me about getting their own Lego Oscar that I submitted it to Lego Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one," Sawaya said. "Hopefully it will be approved in the next few days and we can all start supporting it." Sawaya has made everything from a life-sized T-rex dinosaur to a 7-foot-long (2.1-meter) replica of the Brooklyn Bridge all out of Lego bricks. He recently re-created classic art pieces such as the Venus de Milo and the Mona Lisa in Lego. His artwork can be seen at Discovery Times Square in New York City, among other galleries around the world. , as well as his Facebook page.Oprah's Lego Oscar Was the True Winner of the Academy AwardsGood night. /KmdQkcZ3Ur- Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) February 23, 2015Who needs a real Oscar when you can have an Oscar made out of yellow Legos, like Oprah?
Oprah's fabulous reaction to her Lego Oscar was an early winner for best meme of the night — and it served as sweet revenge for those viewers annoyed that The Lego Movie was snubbed in the Best Animated Movie category.Now, if only Leonardo DiCaprio could get one...If I can now just win a Grammy, Tony and a LEGO Oscar, I'll be a LEGOT!- Michael Moore (@MMFlint) February 23, 2015I want a LEGO Oscar statue.- roxane gay (@rgay) February 23, 2015You get a fake Oscar made of Legos. You get a fake Oscar made of Legos. Everybody gets a fake Oscar made of Legos. //mB3DNueciZ- Allison P Davis (@AllisonPDavis) February 23, 2015It just goes to show—when the Academy gives you lemons, make fake Oscars out of yellow toys. Emma Stone attends the 87th Annual Academy Awards on Feb. 22, 2015 in Hollywood, Calif.1 of 69Usually everyone at the Academy Awards hopes they’ll go home with a gold-plated Oscar, but this year it was all about the Lego versions of the iconic statuettes. “The great thing about Lego is everyone loves Lego – from adults to the kids,” artist Nathan Sawaya tells PEOPLE.
Sawaya, 41, says he was recruited by the Lego Movie directors Christopher Miller and Phil Lord to construct 20 Oscar statuettes out of Lego pieces to be used as props during the star-studded performance of “Everything is Awesome“, which was nominated for Best Song on Sunday. “I didn’t have a lot of time,” explains Sawaya, who says he only had “a few days” to complete the statuettes – each consisting of “about 500 Lego pieces.” “It was just about coming up with a nice design that was accurate to the size and scale of a real Oscar,” Sawaya says of designing the statuettes in his Los Angeles studio, which he says is stocked with over 4 million Lego pieces. “I didn’t have a real Oscar to work with so I was just looking at images online and kind of putting it together. I was pretty much just slapping the bricks together and gluing them together and making it work.” Sawaya – who was practicing corporate law until ten years ago when he decided to follow his passion and become an artist – says it was “surreal” to see his work on the telecast.