Stolen Oscars Commentary

Profiles:

Movie Mystery: The 2000 Oscars Heist,” Very Special Episodes, iHeart Podcasts, March 11, 2026.

The Incredible True Story of the Oscar Everyone Thought Had Literally Been Stolen,” Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Mother Jones, March 2018

Missing in Action,” Chris Ujma, AIR, March 2018

“Interview with Olivia Rutigliano,” Kim Foster, KCBS Radio San Francisco, March 2018

Featured In:

Film Trivia Fact Check: The strange case of Alice Brady’s not-so-stolen Oscar,” Matt Schimkowitz, The A.V. Club, February 25, 2025

What happens when an Oscar statue is stolen or lost like Jared Leto’s,” Michael Kaplan, The New York Post, April 24, 2021

Whoopi Goldberg’s Oscar Was Once Found in an Airport Trash Can—and Other Insane Oscar Stories,” Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Mother Jones, March/April 2018

Stolen Oscars: History, Markets, and Myths,” Peter Decherney, Forbes, February 2016

Podcast Appearances

Sherlock Monthly Ep 44: The Adventure of the Second Stain with Mary Alcaro and Olivia Rutigliano,” The Rosenbach Museum Biblioventures Podcast

Episode 114: Reitz and Rutigliano on Female Anger,” Indoor Voices, October 16, 2025

Grime and Punishment: A 70s Crime Masterpiece You Need To See,” Underexposed, August 2024

Remembering Tom Stoppard,” The Lit Hub Podcast, December 2025

Sherlock Mondays Ep 31: Detectives of the Great Hiatus: Loveday Brooke,” The Rosenbach Museum Biblioventures Podcast

The Weirdest 90s Comedy You've Never Seen: Waking Ned Devine,” Underexposed, November 2024

“CrimeReads with Olivia Rutigliano,” I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere, August 2023

Olivia Rutigliano on Contempt," Keen On, August 2023

Olivia Rutigliano on Oppenheimer,” Keen On, July, 2023

How Barbie Dolls Up the Plasticity of our Surreal Times,” Keen On, July, 2023

Episode 29: Victorian Pioneers,” Shedunnit, January, 2020

Print Interviews

How Heathcliff Became a Hunk,” Anthony Breznican, Town & Country, February 16, 2026

You Should Really, Really Take a Date to Withering Heights,” Anthony Breznican, Esquire, February 13, 2026

What Trends in Crime Fiction Tell Us About Ourselves,” Jeannette Cooperman, The Common Reader, February 20, 2020

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