The $85,000 Oscar Consolation Prize

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Mar 5th 2010 at 8:06AM

Some Oscar nominees who don't walk away with the coveted trophy will still get a lovely consolation prize in the form of a gift basket valued at $85,000. Distinctive Assets has created the 'Everybody Wins at the Oscars' nominee gift baskets for the candidates for best actor, best actress, best supporting actor, best supporting actress and best director. The baskets are not officially affiliated with the awards and include chocolates from Chocolatines by Sweet Endeavours, an HGTV Green Home Mattress Collection by Serta, a $4,000 limited edition luxury Leather Travel Bag from Victorinox, makers of the Original Swiss Army Knife, a private island vacation at the Turks & Caicos Sporting Club at Ambergris Clay, a $45,000 private & exclusive use of an African Safari Lodge from Premier Tours.

Other trips include a $14,500 four-night resort stay in a seaside suite with breakfast in bed at the Monte Carlo Beach Hotel in the Principality of Monaco and a $7,000 three-night all-inclusive rustic getaway to Winvian Luxury Hotel in the Litchfield Hills of Connecticut. Fitness is represented in the form of Slimware portion-control plates, 10 personal training sessions from Huntley Drive Fitness and a one week all-inclusive fitness bootcamp from Live In Fitness Enterprise. The total list of goodies is after the jump.

-- Gourmet artisan chocolate creations from Chocolatines by Sweet
Endeavours that will sweeten the bitter Oscar loss with a 16-piece
Contempo Collection, Chocolate-dipped Bacon, Matcha Sesame Bark, Mini
Lux Turtles and Diamond Collection Champagne Ganache
-- Fancy Feast's "Celebrate the Moment" gift package including a FlipCam
Mino, Tiffany crystal-studded cat collar and an assortment of Fancy
Feast Appetizers for Cats
-- HGTV Green Home Mattress Collection by Serta
-- The Oral-B Pulsonic slim & sleek electric toothbrush
-- $4,000 limited edition (only 125 made) luxury Leather Travel Bag from
Victorinox, makers of the Original Swiss Army Knife
-- Private island vacation at the Turks & Caicos Sporting Club at
Ambergris Clay
-- $45,000 private & exclusive use of an African Safari Lodge from
Premier Tours (includes four nights at the luxurious Lion Sands
Private Game Reserve in South Africa for up to 8 adults and 8 kids,
all meals prepared daily by a private chef, daily private game drives
in open safari vehicles and guided nature walks)
-- $14,500 four-night resort stay in a seaside suite with breakfast in
bed at the Monte Carlo Beach Hotel in the Principality of Monaco
-- DeLea Signature Perfume Oil
-- A $7,000 three-night all-inclusive rustic getaway to Winvian Luxury
Hotel in the Litchfield Hills of Connecticut (2009 "losing" nominees
Ron Howard and Frank Langella redeemed last year)
-- AG Hair Cosmetics deluxe Colour Savour gift set
-- Ideeli.com special access online shopping cards
-- Professional dog studio photography package from Otis & Lucy (Paris
Hilton is a fan)
-- BlueFox Extreme Bluetooth headset
-- An "Exclusively Scandinavian Gift Basket" from The Scandinavian
Company (items from the line can be found in Heidi Klum's closet)
-- A year's supply of Altoids Smalls
-- The Pig Board from Snout a Pig
-- Modern Meditations - Rock Goes Zen CD sets
-- Ila DUSK personal security alarm
-- iFLY indoor skydiving experience
-- Eco-friendly certified carbon free SoHo Ultra-Quiet personal shredder
from GoECOlife
-- Herbalife Nutritional Products including Shake Mix and Best Defense
immune booster supplement
-- The Fifth Agreement by don Miguel Ruiz
-- Assortment of all-natural designer dog toys, bowls and leashes from
Petprojekt
-- Wellness WellBites and Pure Rewards all-natural dog snacks from
Wellpet
-- WooLoot waterproof tourmaline sport watches
-- Fashion-forward costume jewelry from MILLIANNA Jewelry
-- La Peau Couture Organic Wrinkle Diminishing Serum (priced at $499 per
jar)
-- Slimware portion-control plates (used by body-conscious Hollywood
stars such as Rene Russo, Kristin Chenoweth, Emily Procter and Ashlee
Simpson)
-- 10 personal training sessions from Huntley Drive Fitness (where
previous nominees Melissa Leo and Jason Reitman train)
-- One week all-inclusive fitness bootcamp from Live In Fitness
Enterprise (former Oscar nominee Angela Bassett just finished the Red
Carpet Bootcamp Program)

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robert Mar 5th 2010 12:02PM

that is just way overboard

capecod Mar 6th 2010 8:59PM

My husband was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay one year and we got zip. Less than zip actually, we were treated like garbage. sigh. He won the BAFTA that same year and we were treated like royalty in England.