Why The Oscars?

I was watching the Oscars yesterday and I started to think.... why the Oscars have that name, so today I did a research and this is what I found.

The prize most desired by all members of the film industry, is known by many names: "The Academy statuette", "The golden trophy" or "The statuette to Merit". Even the publication Weekly Variety tried to popularize it by the term "iron man" (without any success). But without a doubt, the name by which we all know the famous award is "the Oscar".

But why this name? well there are some theories but none of them is confirmed so we might never know the real origin.

1. 1931 - Margaret Herrick, executive secretary of the Academy, when she first saw the statuette she said it looked like her cousin Oscar. he phrase was heard by an accredited journalist who later disseminated and popularized.

2. Another executive secretary of the Academy, Eleanor Lilleberg, who remarked in a production meeting the similarity between the award and King Oscar III.

The prize was officially named Oscar only in 1939.