EMMA THOMPSON - EMMA'S OSCAR MAGIC AT THE AIRPORT

The true magic of winning an Oscar hit EMMA THOMPSON at the airport when she was heading back to Britain after her 1992 Best Actress win, when security staff cooed over her little golden man. The movie star was transporting her statuette home, wrapped in a pair of socks in her handbag, when airport officials asked her to step aside. She recalls, "I took it wrapped in a pair of socks in my handbag because you don't get another one if they steal it - the Academy won't give you another one. "It went through the security thing and it, of course, read like a small bomb... or perhaps a very complicated vibrator... and they took it out and they took its socks off. "It was as though they had unveiled the Ark of The Covenant and they all passed it round. It was very moving to me."