Jared Leto just closed the case on Hollywood’s sassiest game of hide-and-seek: Find the Missing Oscar. That’s right, the 52-year-old actor and part-time rock star has reunited with his long-vanished golden statue, nearly a decade after snagging it and almost half a decade after forgetting where he put it.
Let’s rewind to 2014, a simpler time when Jared’s flowing hair and dramatic performance in Dallas Buyers Club earned him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Everything was coming up Leto—until the Oscar decided to ghost him. By 2021, Jared confessed on The Late Late Show With James Corden that his prized statue had been MIA for “like three years.” In his words: “I moved houses, and then it just…poof! Magically disappeared.”
Magically, Jared? Sounds like the Oscar took a gap year to “find itself” in a crystal shop somewhere in Topanga Canyon.
Fast forward to this week, and voilà—our intrepid actor finally located the runaway trophy. He triumphantly announced the reunion on Instagram with a selfie that screamed, “It’s been a long time, babe, but I found you.” The caption? A succinct, “Found my Oscar.” Jared, ever the minimalist with words, though definitely not with eyeliner.
As for where the award was all these years? Jared’s keeping that detail under wraps. Maybe it was hiding in a vegan pantry. Perhaps it was chilling in the pocket of one of his Gucci capes. Or maybe—just maybe—it had joined a cult led by his alter ego on Mars Island. The world may never know.
But one thing’s for sure: Jared and his Oscar are back together, ready to tackle their next big adventure. Will it be another film? A rock opera? A weeklong silent retreat in Malibu? Stay tuned. Jared’s world is nothing if not unpredictable—and apparently, so is his storage system.