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Oscar's origins
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How did the Academy Award statuettes come to be known as Oscars?
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Nobody is certain how the statuette got its name. The best-accepted versions is that the Academy librarian Margaret Herrick, thought it resembled her Uncle Oscar and said in the presence of a newspaper reporter who immediately used the description in his column.
The Academy itself didn't use the nickname officially until 1939.
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