Frances McDormand places her award for best performance by an actress in a leading role for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” on the stage at the Oscars on Sunday, March 4, 2018, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) 
Frances McDormand, winner of the award for best performance by an actress in a leading role for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”, poses in the press room at the Oscars on Sunday, March 4, 2018, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP) 
Allison Janney, left, congratulates Frances McDormand as she accepts the award for best performance by an actress in a leading role for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” at the Oscars on Sunday, March 4, 2018, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) 
Frances McDormand, winner of the award for best performance by an actress in a leading role for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”, attends the Governors Ball after the Oscars on Sunday, March 4, 2018, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Eric Jamison/Invision/AP) 
This Sunday, March 4, 2018, still image from AP video appears to show the man who authorities say stole Frances McDormand’s best actress Oscar walking out of the official Academy Awards after-party in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jeff Turner)
LOS ANGELES | A 47-year-old man was charged Tuesday with stealing Frances McDormand’s Academy Award.
Los Angeles County prosecutors said that Terry Bryant was charged with one felony count of grand theft for stealing the statuette McDormand won for best actress from the official Oscars after-party on Sunday. Bryant faces up to three years in jail if convicted.
Video captured by The Associated Press appears to show Bryant walking with the statuette out of the party, the Governors Ball, and holding it up proudly to photographers and gawkers waiting outside.
One photographer didn’t recognize him as an Oscar winner and followed and confronted him.
Police say Bryant handed back the statuette without a struggle. It was soon returned to McDormand, and Bryant was arrested.
McDormand won the award for her performance in “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”
Bryant is expected to be arraigned in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday.