MAN WHO STOLE MCDORMAND'S OSCAR ARRESTED

During the 90th Academy Awards something unusual happened. Frances McDormand won the award for her performance as a grieving mother seeking justice for her murdered daughter in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and while she was celebrating at the ball, someone allegedly swiped the trophy from her table.

A New York Times reporter, Cara Buckley, tweeted a photo of Terry Bryant and said a photographer working for the chef Wolfgang Puck stopped him and retrieved the statuette.

Security at the Governors Ball are looking for this guy, who grabbed Frances McDormand’s Oscar and ran out with it. Wolfgang Puck’s photographer stopped him, got the Oscar back, and the guy disappeared back into the ball. Apparently Frances has said to let him go. #Oscars #Drama pic.twitter.com/5tlsx4Ulwt

— Cara Buckley (@caraNYT) March 5, 2018

Terry Bryant is the guy who apparently swiped Frances McDormand’s Oscar trophy boasted about it on Facebook, claiming he won it for music, before being arrested on suspicion of felony grand theft. He posted a video on fFacebookquoting, "Sup babies, look, my team got this tonight. Who wants to tell me congratulations? This is mine. We got it tonight, baby!”

A telephone number for Bryant couldn’t immediately be located and it wasn’t clear if he had an attorney who could comment on his behalf.

Bryant was being held on $20,000 bail for allegedly stealing the statue at the Governors Ball party soon after Sunday night’s 90th Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said in a statement: “Best Actress winner Frances McDormand and her Oscar were happily reunited after a brief separation at last night’s Governors Ball. The alleged thief was quickly apprehended by a photographer and members of our fast-acting Academy and security teams.”

It is the second time McDormand has picked up the best actress award.