2006-06-27 19:37:45 · 4 answers · asked by steve herrick 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Officially named the Academy Award of Merit, the statuette is better known by a nickname, Oscar, the origins of which aren't clear. A popular story has been that an Academy librarian and eventual executive director, Margaret Herrick, thought it resembled her Uncle Oscar and said so; and that the Academy staff began referring to it as Oscar.
2006-06-27 19:44:55 · answer #1 · answered by Some Random Chick 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is said that a librarian at the Academy remarked that the statue looked like her uncle Oscar. A journalist overheard her comment and later included the phrase in an article in the early 1930s. By 1939, the Academy officially adopted the nickname.
2006-06-27 19:46:52 · answer #2 · answered by Mrs. Mojo Jojo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nobody, but it got it's name when somebody suggested it looked like their uncle Oscar.
2006-06-27 19:41:37 · answer #3 · answered by gregory_dittman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nobody in particular.
2006-06-27 19:40:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋