John Matsuya is an SEO and writer. You can read more of his freelance writing at matsuyacreative. Stay informed with our weekly Newsletter. Get our free, urgent prediction updates and news. In the Academy Awards, the most prestigious awards ceremony in the film industry, made a subtle but crucial change to the event. But despite the iconic status there is still some debate about where the name actually comes from.
The most popular explanation, and one generally given by AMPAS officials, is one that goes back to The story goes that when an Academy Awards librarian named Margaret Herrick first saw the golden figures she exclaimed that the blank face and stern eyebrow reminded her of her Uncle Oscar. This letter features the iconic film award; thankfully they thought up the name "Oscar" later because "Gold Statuette" just doesn't have the same pizzaz He claimed that he was doing so in reference to a classic vaudeville joke line:.
The snobbery of that particular Academy Award annoyed me. When the war was over, all recipients of plaster awards were invited to exchange them for metal ones. Emil Jannings, winner of the first ever Academy Award for his performances in silent films The Way of All Flesh [] and The Last Command [] was ruled out from the new Hollywood talkies because of his thick German accent.
When the Allies stormed Berlin in , Jannings reportedly carried his Oscar statuette around with him to win over American GIs and to demonstrate his former allegiance to the US. In the Academy decided to push back the ceremony from 8 April to 10 April following the assassination of Martin Luther King , whose funeral was scheduled for 9 April.
The ceremony was also postponed following an assassination attempt on US President Ronald Reagan. He did not attend the ceremony, instead sending Native American activist actress Sacheen Littlefeather to make a speech in his place.
A confused Roger Moore, who attempted to present the award, apparently took the statuette home with him after Sacheen Littlefeather refused to accept it. Brando was not the first person to have refused an Oscar: in Dudley Nichols rejected his Best Adapted Screenplay award for The Informer due to ongoing strike action by the Screen Writers Guild. Later, after receiving a Best Actor nomination for his titular role in Patton in , George C Scott informed the Academy that if he won he intended refuse the award.
Everyone was therefore very surprised to hear him announced as the winner. She accepted her award wearing a mini tuxedo and platform shoes. With 14 nominations and 11 wins, the blockbuster epic Titanic dominated the Academy Awards in Starring Leonardo Dicaprio and Kate Winslet, it tells the tragic story of the passenger ship that sank on its maiden voyage in I started hitting the keys During the next year of columns, whenever referring to the Academy Award, I used the word 'Oscar.
It proved to be the magic name. Though Skolsky has actual evidence to back his claim, his assertion that he coined the nickname is still slightly in doubt. The term Oscar was commonly used as a mocking nickname for the Academy Award as Skolsky claims he used it , but in this theory, Walt Disney was supposedly the first in the industry to publicly use the name in a positive light.
Perhaps Herrick really did think the statuette resembled her uncle. Or maybe Skolsky really did come up with the moniker whether he did or not, he certainly helped popularize it.
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