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Why are Academy Awards called Oscar?
Can you tell me why the Academy Awards are called Oscar? Thanks!
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Hi @malibub!
I was wondering about that myself. The origin of the name Oscar is still contested. These are some of the claims on how the Academy Award was also called Oscar:
*A biography of Bette Davis said that she named the Oscar after her first husband Harmon Oscar Nelson
*Another earliest mention in print was at a Time Magazine article about 1934 6th Academy Awards and to Bette Davis is a recipient of the award.
*Walt Disney was also heard and quoted thanking the Academy for his Oscar as early as 1932
*It was also claimed that Academy's Executive Secretary, Margaret Herrick first saw the award in 1931 and said that the statuettes reminds her of her uncle "Oscar", a nickname of her cousin Oscar Pierce. Sidney Skolsky heard Herrick's naming and used the name in his byline and stated that "Employees have affectionately dubbed their famous statuette 'Oscar'.
*The trophy was then officially called "Oscar" by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science] in 1939.
*It was also said that Eleanor Lilleberg], a Norwegian-American and an executive secretary to exclaimed that it looks like King Oscar III and asked at the end of the day what they should do with Oscar, and ever since then, the name stuck.
source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award#Oscar_statuette
http://www.mahalo.com/oscar-history/
I was wondering about that myself. The origin of the name Oscar is still contested. These are some of the claims on how the Academy Award was also called Oscar:
*A biography of Bette Davis said that she named the Oscar after her first husband Harmon Oscar Nelson
*Another earliest mention in print was at a Time Magazine article about 1934 6th Academy Awards and to Bette Davis is a recipient of the award.
*Walt Disney was also heard and quoted thanking the Academy for his Oscar as early as 1932
*It was also claimed that Academy's Executive Secretary, Margaret Herrick first saw the award in 1931 and said that the statuettes reminds her of her uncle "Oscar", a nickname of her cousin Oscar Pierce. Sidney Skolsky heard Herrick's naming and used the name in his byline and stated that "Employees have affectionately dubbed their famous statuette 'Oscar'.
*The trophy was then officially called "Oscar" by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science] in 1939.
*It was also said that Eleanor Lilleberg], a Norwegian-American and an executive secretary to exclaimed that it looks like King Oscar III and asked at the end of the day what they should do with Oscar, and ever since then, the name stuck.
source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award#Oscar_statuette
http://www.mahalo.com/oscar-history/
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