Why is the Oscars also called Academy Awards? Doesn't two names make it confusing?
2007-02-27 22:31:59 · 11 answers · asked by bopx 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Celebrities
Interchangeably used. But the fact remains these are Academy Awards
2007-02-27 22:43:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Academy awards is the title of the ceremony, the Oscar is the award they give to the winners.
It may be confusing but someone decided it would be a good idea to have two names.
2007-02-28 06:35:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its actual name is the "Academy Awards". Oscar is a slang nickname given to it by someone backstage who, as the story goes, claimed the Statue looked like his Uncle Oscar. The name stuck and thats why the statue (and sometimes the award itself) is called an Oscar.
2007-02-28 06:39:54 · answer #3 · answered by mekounknown 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe that the official name for the ceremony is "The Academy Awards" but the name of the actual award (statue) is "Oscar". People just shorten the name to "The Oscars".
2007-02-28 06:36:54 · answer #4 · answered by BarbKor 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The official name is an Academy Award.
'Oscar' is a nickname.
2007-02-28 06:34:23 · answer #5 · answered by ladybugewa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is really called the Academy Awards.
The term Oscars started when one of the makers of the statue said that the statue looks like her uncle Oscar
2007-02-28 06:41:36 · answer #6 · answered by Kent 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the name of prizes are Oscar but these goes by an academy named academy award.
2007-02-28 06:36:21 · answer #7 · answered by ahmadan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the Oscar is the name of the trophy that they get. the actual ceremony is the Academy Awards. It can get confusing.
2007-02-28 06:39:34 · answer #8 · answered by Chelsea 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Academy Awards is the name of the organization that people belong to who vote for the winners.
Oscar is the name they call the golden statue.
2007-02-28 09:17:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not called the Oscars. This is the name of the statue that people recieve when they win. It is called Oscar. It is like calling the World Series baseball. or the SuperBowl football. People just call it the Oscars.
2007-02-28 06:35:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋