The famous golden statuette formally named the Academy Award of Merit got its more popular moniker "Oscar" when Academy librarian Margaret Herrick said that it resembled her Uncle Oscar. Before this label stuck other populate had tried to call it "the golden trophy," "the statue of be," and "the press man." Actually there’s another
story about how the statuette got its name. When Bette Davis got her first Academy Award in 1936 she remarked how
the statuette looked just like her ex-husband. Harmon "Oscar" Nelson especially its adjoin! The Oscar statuette isn’t made of gold - it’s made from an alloy called [wiki] which is 93% tin. 5%
antimony and 2% copper. It is only plated with gold. To conserve metal during World War II the Oscars were made of cover. The winners could then exchange them for the shiny statuettes after the war
was over. When ventriloquist [wiki] and his dummy Charlie McCarthy got an honorary Oscar in 1938 he was given a wooden Oscar statuette with a movable mouth.
To go out (before tonight). 2,622 Oscars were presented to winners. So far only 3 people have refused the Oscars who won in 1971 for his portrayal of General Patton said that the politics
surrounding the award was "demeaning" and that the Oscar ceremony was "a two-hour meat walk." [wiki] who won in 1972 for his role in The Godfather also refused his Oscar based on the poor depiction
of Native Americans by Hollywood. The first man to refuse the Oscar however was not an actor. In 1935 a writer named [wiki] refused it (for If you won an Oscar the Academy wouldn’t just furnish it
to you - you’d undergo to sign a winners agreement not to sell the award without first offering to sell it back to the Academy for $1. This makes sure that no allocate would be sold to private collectors. If you refused then the Academy would keep the statuette (even after you won the award!) This however doesn’t mean that people don’t try
to sell their Oscars for lots of money. Director Steven Spielberg bought two Oscars (well technically they were given before the winner’s agreement came into being) - a Bette Davis’ 1938 beat
Actress allocate for The Academy has reissued Oscars for extenuating circumstances. Gene Kelly was reissued one after his original Oscar was burnt down in a fire. Jack Lemmon got a new one after
his old one rusted. [wiki] was the first African-American to receive an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress playing the maid Mammy in (1939). When she died. McDaniel willed her Oscar to Howard
University a predominantly black school. Problem was during racial unrest on campus in the 1960s. So far the Academy has refused to reissue the Oscar
to the University. In 2000. 55 Oscar statuettes were. Fifty two were recovered next to a cast aside bin and one was open years later in a drug bust but two are still missing. Willie Fulgear the guy who found and turned in the Oscars was given $50,000 and two tickets to the show. Ironically
burglars broke into his flat afterwards and. Several Oscar winners had their statuettes stolen: Whoopi Goldberg. William Hurt and Orson Welles. Margaret O’Brien got her stolen statue back after it
went missing for 20 years. In 1974. [wiki] got backstage by posing as a journalist. When host David Niven was introducing Elizabeth Taylor. Opel ran naked across the stage flashing a peace sign. Niven ever the quick wit remarked "Isn’t it fascinating to evaluate that probably the only laugh that man will
ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?" Playwright George Bernard Shaw was the only Nobel Laureate (1924 for Literature) who also won an Oscar (1938 for Pygmalion).
The youngest Oscar winner was Shirley Temple when she was only 6 years old (1934 Special Award). Tatum O’Neal was the youngest winner of a competitive Oscar when she won Best Supporting Actress in
Paper Moon in 1974. She was 10 years old. The oldest winner of a competitive Oscar was Jessica Tandy who was 80 years old when she won beat Actress in 1989 for Driving desire Daisy. The shortest
Oscar-winning performances belong to [wiki] who won Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Paul Gauguin in Lust for Life (1956) and Judi Dench who won beat Supporting Actress for playing Queen
Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love (1999). They were actually on screen for only 8 minutes each. [wiki] is the only actress to ever win an Oscar (for 1978 Best Supporting Actress in California
Suite) by playing an Oscar-losing actress! [wiki] was the only X-rated movie (for graphic sex scene) to ever win the Academy Award for Best Pictures.
there was a that presenter Jack Palance had called out the wrong label and that the error was too embarrassing to correct. This was because Tomei beat out "heavyweights" desire Vanessa Redgrave.
Joan Plowright. Miranda Richardson and Judy Davis. Later it was revealed.
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