Film folklore has it that Margaret Herrick, who served as the first librarian (and eventually executive director) of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, remarked in the 1930s that the statuette "looked like your Uncle Oscar". The Academy officially adopted the nickname "Oscar" in 1939, but the statue's full technical name remains "Academy Award of Merit".
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Film folklore has it that Margaret Herrick, who served as the first librarian (and eventually executive director) of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, remarked in the 1930s that the statuette "looked like your Uncle Oscar". The Academy officially adopted the nickname "Oscar" in 1939, but the statue's full technical name remains "Academy Award of Merit".
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