Jared Leto reveals his Oscar 'magically kind of disappeared' three years ago

Jared Leto's Oscar is missing in action.

The actor revealed on "The Late Late Show with James Corden" Tuesday that he hasn't seen the best supporting Academy Award statuette he won for his performance in 2013's "Dallas Buyer's Club" in quite a while. Leto portrayed a fictional character named Rayon – a trans woman living with HIV– in the biographical film, alongside Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner.

"You know, I found out that it's been missing for, like three years, and I didn't know that," Leto, 49, told James Corden. "I don't think anyone wanted to tell me."

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Leto explained that his Oscar "somehow just magically kind of disappeared" while he was moving in Los Angeles. Although he can't be sure, the actor believes someone may be in possession of his trophy.

"It could be somewhere, but everyone's searched for it high and low," he said. "I hope it's in good hands wherever it is. We haven't seen it for quite some time."

Acknowledging that his statuette isn't "something someone accidentally throws in the trash," Leto said the award is in less than stellar condition after making the rounds at the infamous Oscars after-parties.

"I remember the night I got it, I passed it around to so many people," he recalled. "It was beat up and scratched up, but people had fun taking pictures with it. It's nice to share it so hopefully, someone is taking good care of it."

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Leto isn't the only actor to misplace their Oscar.

In 2018, Frances McDormand won the award for best actress for "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri," but she couldn't find the statuette after having it engraved at the Governors Ball. After her Oscar went missing, McDormand was spotted crying outside the ball near her husband, filmmaker Joel Coen.

Hours later, McDormand was reunited with her trophy. Los Angeles prosecutors charged Terry Bryant with felony grand theft, but later dropped the charges.

In 2002, Whoopi Goldberg’s Academy Award was stolen after it was sent out for cleaning, but was later recovered in a trash bin by a security guard at the Ontario, Calif., airport.

"Oscar will never leave my house again,″ Goldberg, who won the supporting-actress Oscar for "Ghost″ in 1990, said in a statement at the time.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has safeguards in place just in case someone gets their hands on a coveted trophy. When any post-1950 Oscar is put up for sale, the Academy has the right to buy it for $1, a spokeswoman for the academy told the New York Times in 2018.

Contributing: The Associated Press

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