Where the nickname Oscar comes from
The unconfirmed story about the source of the name is that Academy executive director Margaret Herrick mentioned that the statuette looked like her Uncle Oscar.
The Academy officially started using the nickname Oscar for its awards in 1939.
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The nickname "Oscar" for the Academy Awards
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A popular theory is that the nickname for the statuette was coined by Margaret Herrick when she said that the figure looked like her Uncle Oscar.
The design of the Academy Award statuette
The design came from MGM director Cedric Gibbons. He thought to have a knight holding a sword while standing on a film reel.
The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, in Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel. The nickname Oscar was only adopted for the statuette by the Acad...
Other claims to the name "Oscar"
Sidney Skolsky made the first documented use of "Oscar" as a nickname for the statuette in a 1934 New York Daily News article, but his assertion that he coined the nickname is still in doubt.
Many claim that during Walt Disney's Academy Award acceptance spee...
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