Academy’s ‘Keeper of the Oscars’ dead at 48 (AP)

July 31, 2009 · Filed Under Movies 

FILE - In this Saturday, Feb. 21, 2009 file picture, Steve Miessner packages a statue for transport to Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles in preparation for the 81st Academy Awards. Miessner, the motion picture academy's devoted 'Keeper of the Oscars' who each year donned his signature white gloves to get the golden statuettes ready for their closeup before a worldwide audience, is dead at age 48. Miessner died at his home on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 of a heart attack. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)AP – Steven Miessner, the motion picture academy’s devoted “Keeper of the Oscars” who each year donned his signature white gloves to get the golden statuettes ready for their closeup before a worldwide audience, is dead at age 48.

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