business. scott siegel, the owner and president of chicago's r.s. owens, gave us his behind-the-scenes tour of what it takes to make an oscar. >> i see quality. i see the most prestigious award in the world. >> reporter: this oscar has just been poured. it's about 850 degrees right now. it's made of britannium. and it's still silver. soon, though, it will be oscar gold. after the oscar is poured, it needs to be polished. and polished. and then polished again. it's buffed out to a very shiny silver. but not for long. >> we hand-dip it into a copper tank. the copper is for conductivity. and then we dip it into a nickel tank. there's a heavy layer of nickel that goes on there. and that's for the durability of the award. and then we coat that with silver and then with a heavy layer of 24 karat gold. >> reporter: and once that's done the oscar heads to the engraving department, where louise white gives its own serial number. >> and then when someone wins