The Surprising Spots Where Matthew Rhys & More Stars Keep Their Emmys

Matthew Rhys

Though Matthew Rhys scored an Emmy in 2018 for his work on The Americans, he did not keep his disappointment that onscreen wife and IRL love Keri Russell wasn't also named a winner. 

So now, "it's in the basement," he revealed to CNN after he added to his Emmy haul with an additional three trophies at the 2026 ceremony, "because I kind of said, when Keri wins one, I'll take mine out." 

Rhea Seehorn

For Rhea Seehorn, the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama series trophy she won for her work on Pluribus is a true work of art. 

Therefore, "she's going in my partially converted garage that's an office and a painting studio," the actress revealed to E! News in an interview backstage at the 2026 ceremony, "and one of my favorite places to be."

Sheryl Lee Ralph

There may just be a lesson to learn about how Sheryl Lee Ralph treats the trophy she won in 2022. "My Emmy loves to roam the house," the Abbott Elementary star told Architectural Digest, noting that "sometimes I find her in my office sitting on top of the champagne cooler. A reminder that every day is a celebration." 

Other times the trophy might go on display next to the star's collection of African artwork. But we'll toast to her favorite spot, Ralph noting the hardware "loves to be in my arms."

Be he ever so humble, at first, the two-time Oscar winner didn't want to set out the statues he'd picked up in 1980 for Kramer vs. Kramer and 1989 for Rain Man. By the early aughts, though, Dustin Hoffman told InStyle that they'd earned a place on his study's mantle next to his six Golden Globes (including 1997's Cecil B. DeMille Award). 

"What made me change?" he asked. "Probably years of therapy! I am proud of them, but they are not what propels me in my work."

And she is telling you, she's not going...to stand for any touching of the trophy. "Where I come from, no one has ever seen an Oscar," Chicago native Jennifer Hudson told InStyle of her 2007 prize for Dreamgirls. "So I let people take pictures with it—but I do not allow them to touch it. Sorry, no touching the Oscar! It's the ultimate honor, and I need to protect it."

Not to mention, give the hardware its proper due: The 13.5-inch piece sits atop its own pedestal, said Hudson, "that I keep lit."  

After Kevin Costner finally got over his fear that someone might walk off with the two Oscars he won for Dances With Wolves in 1991, he retrieved them from his underwear drawer and built them a home inside his screening room.

Calling it the "perfect spot," he told InStyle, "As you go to my screening room, you pass posters of movies that have influenced me (Gone With the Wind, Lawrence of Arabia, Bridge on the River Kwai). And it feels appropriate that you have to see a movie to see them."

Somehow we missed this Jane Fonda's Workout video. Speaking to InStyle in 1998, Jane Fonda joked of her Academy Awards for 1972's Klute and 1979's Coming Home, "What's great about having won two Oscars is that I can do a workout with them!"

Still wed to media magnate Ted Turner at the time, she told the mag that when they met "he showed me his wall-to-wall sailing trophies in an office big enough for a skating rink, I turned to him and said, 'Honey, I've won a few trophies too. Where am I going to put mine?' So we built a trophy case in Montana and keep them all together."

How 'bout them trophies? Well, Matt Damon reportedly misplaced his 1998 statue after a flood in his New York City apartment, while his Good Will Hunting cowriter Ben Affleck took a more go-with-the-flow approach.

"At first the award lived in my apartment in L.A.," Affleck told InStyle in 2004. "Then I gave it to my mother. I allowed her to hold it hostage in Boston in lieu of a grandson." After awhile, though, "I stole it back and it kicked around from office to office. I've kept it in pretty mundane locations, on desks or bookshelves."

After nabbing a Best Actress Oscar in 1984 for Terms of Endearment, the five-time Golden Globe winner put that little guy to work. "I live more simply now. I don't care about clothes, and many of my awards are in drawers or in storage," Shirley MacLaine explained years later to InStyle.

Her Academy Award, though, lived in her den next to a statue of the Hindu God Siva that she got in India. "Oscar serves a very practical purpose," she continued of the eight-and-a-half-pound trophy. "When the winds blow through my New Mexico ranch, he keeps The New York Times from blowing away."

A regular Shakespearean tragedy. Though Gwyneth Paltrow emerged victorious at the 1999 Oscars thanks to her lead part in Shakespeare in Love, she never truly felt great about her win, telling Contact Music she stashed the trophy "at the back of the bookshelf in my bedroom because it weirds me out." F

or whatever reason, she continued, "I haven't been able to feel really good about it. I just feel sort of embarrassed and it brings up weird, traumatic feelings. It's associated with a tough time in my life."

Someone turn this into a movie. With Swedish actress Alicia Vikander not settled into a permanent pad at the time, she left her 2016 Best Actress trophy for The Danish Girl with a friend in L.A., prompting her pal's daughter to turn the experience into an adventure.

The little girl "has been sending me photos to prove she's taking good care of him," Vikander told People. "I love my little updates from her!"

Sounds like Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson's trophy shelf is a bit like a box of chocolates. You never quite know what you're going to get.

At one point, the actor said his two Oscars (for 1993's Philadelphia and 1994's Forrest Gump) were holding court with some soccer awards. Added Hanks, "I think the World's Greatest Mom trophy from Mother's Day is up there as well."

Emma Stone

Emma Stone has got her little man covered thanks to an assist from pal Jimmy Kimmel. After hosting the ceremony 2017 when the actress won for La La Land, Kimmel "sent underwear for [my Oscar], like rubber underwear, so he's wearing tighty-whities," she revealed to People. "Jimmy said, 'I'd like to bring some decency into your home.'"

Well, her mother's home, really, Stone sharing that mom Krista "holds on to it."

Lupita Nyong'o

As Henry Golding discovered, there's a perk to answering nature's call while at Emma Thompson's pad. With his Last Christmas costar keeping her two Oscars in the bathroom ("They look far too outré anywhere else. They're great big, gold, shiny things," she explained), he happened upon them during a Sunday get-together with the cast.

"I'm conducting business," he shared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, "and then suddenly my eyes just reach these two golden statues in the toilets, and they are the Oscars." So naturally he took a pic to prove it happened. "I had to," he exclaimed. "Look how amazing that is!" Even better: She's placed a mirror just to the side so guests can snap selfies.