Why Do We Call The Academy Awards The Oscars?
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msn.comNew York Daily News column that ‘Employees have affectionately dubbed their famous statuette “Oscar. ”’ It quickly stuck, although it took until 1939 for the Academy to officially adopt the name.
Skolsky, however, went on to claim it was in fact he who coined the famous name, writing in his 1975 memoir Don’t Get Me Wrong, I Love Hollywood that 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?’Confused yet?
Us too. As Skolsky put it in his memoir:‘It was my first Academy Awards night when I gave the gold statuette a name. I wasn’t trying to make it legitimate.
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