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RINGER
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Registered: ‎03-10-2010

? for Oscar viewers

‎03-03-2014 09:02 AM

How did the Oscar get its name and when was the first award given??

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Re: ? for Oscar viewers

‎03-03-2014 09:22 AM

Date of first Academy Awards held in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel: May 16, 1929

As for why the statue is called "Oscar", no one knows for sure although there is one theory that a librarian and future Director of the Academy saw the statue and said it looked like her Uncle Oscar.

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Re: ? for Oscar viewers

‎03-03-2014 02:21 PM

Google also credits Bette Davis after her husband.

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We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel 1986
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Re: ? for Oscar viewers

‎03-03-2014 02:58 PM

They renovated the old Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, which had fallen into disrepair- This was about 20 years ago, and it is now back to its former glory...

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