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" The 86th Academy Awards are set to take place on Sunday (March 2) with Ellen Degeneres hosting the glittering ceremony at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. As we anticipate which nominated stars \u2014 including Lupita Nyong&amp;#039;o, Cate Blanchett and Chiwetel Ejiofor \u2014 will pick up the prestigious golden statue on the night, we also wonder where previous winners keep theirs. So we&amp;#039;ve uncovered the unusual places stars have placed their awards \u2014 from the back of Kate Winslet&amp;#039;s loo to Russell Crowe&amp;#039;s chicken coop. 1. Jennifer Lawrence has admitted that her Oscar, which she won for her leading role in Silver Linings Playbook last year, resides on the top of her parents&amp;#039; piano in Kentucky. 2. Russell Crowe reportedly keeps his Oscar for his leading role in 2001&amp;#039;s Gladiator in a chicken coop on his ranch in Australia, insisting its presence helps his hens lay bigger eggs. RELATED: Throw a Stylish (and Fuss-Free!) Oscars Party 3. Emma Thompson keeps her two Oscars \u2014 a &amp;#039;Best Actress&amp;#039; statuette for her role in Howards End and an Academy Award for &amp;#039;Best Adapted Screenplay&amp;#039; for Sense and Sensibility in 1996 \u2014 in her bathroom. She reportedly told Time magazine: &amp;quot;They look too outr\u00E9 anywhere else. They&amp;#039;re great big, gold, shiny things.&amp;quot; 4. Kate Winslet admitted to Kate Garraway on GMTV that she keeps her Best Actress Academy Award for The Reader pride of place on the &amp;quot;the back of the loo.&amp;quot; She jokingly added: &amp;quot;Everybody wants to hold it and go &amp;#039;Oh, my gosh,&amp;#039; and, &amp;#039;How heavy is it?&amp;#039; So I figured if I put it in the loo, then people can avoid the whole, &amp;#039;Where&amp;#039;s your Oscar?&amp;#039; thing.&amp;quot; 5. Timothy Hutton said of his &amp;#039;Best Supporting Actor&amp;#039; Oscar for Ordinary People to USA Today: &amp;quot;About five years ago, my sister and I were having a party at my house in upstate New York. She put it in the refrigerator. She thought that would be kind of funny to put the Oscar in the refrigerator when people would go grab a beer or something... It&amp;#039;s still there.&amp;quot; 6. Anna Paquin won a &amp;#039;Best Supporting Actress&amp;#039; Oscar in 1994 for her role in The Piano and revealed that she used to keep it hidden in her &amp;quot;sock drawer.&amp;quot; She later admitted during an interview that it&amp;#039;s currently placed &amp;quot;next to my boots.&amp;quot; 7. Jamie Foxx reportedly revealed that he handed his Academy Award, for &amp;#039;Best Leading Actor&amp;#039; in Ray in 2005, to his manager. RELATED: 4 Better-Than-Butter Popcorn Toppings 8. Gwyneth Paltrow won an Oscar for her leading role in Shakespeare in Love in 1999 and told Contact Music later in 2005: &amp;quot;[I] keep it tucked away at the back of the bookshelf in my bedroom because it weirds me out. For weeks after I won, I kept it in storage... I won&amp;#039;t even put it on the mantlepiece, the thing freaks me out. &amp;quot;For some reason, I haven&amp;#039;t been able to feel really good about it. I just feel sort of embarrassed and it brings up weird, traumatic feelings. It&amp;#039;s associated with a tough time in my life.&amp;quot; 9. Jodie Foster put her two Oscars, one for &amp;#039;Best Leading Actress&amp;#039; in The Accused in 1989 and the other for her leading role in Silence of the Lambs in 1992, in her bathroom, quipping: &amp;quot;They looked good with the faucets.&amp;quot; She&amp;#039;s since moved them into a trophy case in her study. 10. Goldie Hawn keeps her Oscar for &amp;#039;Best Supporting Actress&amp;#039; in Cactus Flower in 1970 in her &amp;quot;India room&amp;quot; where she also likes to meditate. This story original appeared on Digital Spy "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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