According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' publication titled A Brief History of the Oscar: "Since the initial awards banquet on May 16, 1929, at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel's Blossom Room, 2,484 statuettes have been presented. Each January, additional new golden statuettes are cast, molded, polished and buffed by R. S. Owens and Company, the Chicago awards specialty company retained by the Academy since 1982 to make the award. Since 2000, when the shipment of Oscars on its way from the Owens plant in Chicago was stolen from the shipper's dock in Bell, California, the Academy always keeps a show's-worth of statuettes on hand."