How did the Academy Award get its name?

PostDateIconThursday, 29 July 2010 01:09 | PostAuthorIconWritten by The Portly Irishman | PDF | Print | E-mail
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The Academy Award statue is named after a librarian's uncle. One day Margaret Herrick, librarian for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, made a remark that the statue looked like her Uncle Oscar, and the name stuck.
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