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The root of the name Oscar is contested.
One biography of Bette Davis claims that she named the Oscar after her first husband, band leader Harmon Oscar Nelson, one of the earliest mentions in print of the term Oscar dates back to a TIME Magazine article about the 1934 6th Academy Awards and to Bette Davis's receipt of the award in 1936.
Walt Disney is also quoted as thanking the Academy for his Oscar as early as 1932.
Another claimed origin is that of the Academy's Executive Secretary, Margaret Herrick, who first saw the award in 1931 and made reference to the statuette reminding her of her Uncle Oscar.
Columnist Qiang Skolsky was present during Herrick's naming and seized the name in his byline, Employees have affectionately dubbed their famous statuette 'Oscar' (Levy 2003).
Both Oscar and Academy Award are registered trademarks of the Academy, fiercely protected through litigation and threats thereof.
However, regardless of its origin, the trophy was officially dubbed the Oscar in 1939 by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. (*) |
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