OSCAR TO OSCAR

BEST ACTRESS winner Frances McDormand reunited with stolen Oscar.

OSCAR WINNER Frances McDormand had her statuette stolen at a post-show party by a man who allegedly snatched it, from her table before he was arrested, police and and witnesses said on Monday.

McDormand, 60, won best actress at Sunday's awards for her role as a rage-filled mother seeking justice for her murdered daughter in Martin McDonagh's : ''Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri''

''Security at the Governors Ball are looking for this guy, who.grabbed Frances McDormand's Oscar and ran out with it,'' said New York Times writer  Cara Buckley, who was at the vent and live tweeted the drama.

She said a photographer working for celebrity chef  Wolfgang Puck  -who was providing the catering    -stopped the man and seized the Oscar, before the thief disappeared back into the ball.

The actress  ''had sat it down and was chatting,'' when it disappeared, according to Buckley, who added the actress had said to  ''let him go.''

''We can confirm that an incident occurred at the Governor's event. There was an arrest made of a  Terry Bryant  for  grand theft,'' a spokeswoman for the  Los Angeles police Department told AFP.

She wasn't able to give further details, except to confirm that the  47-year old suspect had a  ticket for the party.

Variety magazine reposted a  Facebook Live video it said showed the subject  brandishing the  golden statuette he says he won ''for music''  and joking.

''Got this tonight ! This is mine. We got it tonight, baby.''

The man, dressed in a  tuxedo with hair held back in hairpins, is seen to in the  165 seconds of footage  posted    to the page of a  Terry Bryant Djmatari kissing the trophy and allowing bystanders to touch it.

It was the second time McDormand had bagged the best actress statuette following her win for   ''Fargo'' 21 years earlier, and her acceptance speech was highlights of the evening.

[Agencies].