The reason is actually quite sweet.
will take place - but how did the did the iconic little gold men earn the name ‘Oscar'?
The origins of the nickname are uncertain, but the most popular story is that when Margaret Herrick – an Academy librarian who went on to become the Executive Director – first saw the golden statuettes in 1931, she said they reminded her of her Uncle Oscar. Journalist Sidney Skolsky, who was present when she said this, went on to write in hiscolumn that ‘Employees have affectionately dubbed their famous statuette “Oscar.
Skolsky, however, went on to claim it was in fact he who coined the famous name, writing in his 1975 memoirthat he called the statue Oscar in a 1934 news piece as a way of mocking the Academy, in reference to an old-fashioned vaudeville joke that goes ‘Will you have a cigar, Oscar?’‘It was my first Academy Awards night when I gave the gold statuette a name. I wasn’t trying to make it legitimate. The snobbery of that particular Academy Award annoyed me.
As if that wasn’t baffling enough, it seems that there are a handful of other claimants to Oscar naming glory. According to some reports, Walt Disney referred to his little gold man as ‘the Oscar’ in his acceptance speech forThen there’s the case of Bette Davis, who was convinced she was the ‘Oscars’ originator. Speaking in 1955, she said:
‘I am convinced that I was the first to give the statuette its name when I received one for my performance in‘I was married at that time to Harmon O. Nelson Jr. For a long time I did not know what his middle name was. I found out one day that it was Oscar, and it seemed a very suitable nickname for the Academy statuette.’
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