And the Oscar goes to... Wait, wait, wait... The statue was originally named the Academy Award of Merit. The legend goes that former Academy librarian Margaret Herrick, after seeing the statue for the ...

The Academy Awards are better known as the Oscars and have been for many decades, but where did the nickname originally come from?

The value of an Oscar is both everything and nothing. The statue itself is relatively modest. Studios shell out tens of ...

Oscars blend prestige with mystery and controversy, evolving from a modest 1929 ceremony into a billion-dollar industry ...

NEW YORK -- What do NASA satellites, sports trophies and the Oscar statue all have in common? They all get their golden shine in New York. Inside the Epner Technology workshop in Brooklyn, New York ...

We hear it year after year during the Academy Awards. A surprised winner walks up to the stage, reaches for the Oscar and is even more stunned by the heft of the trophy. It usually leads to the winner ...

Oscar may be commonly known as a little gold man, but just how golden is he? First of all, the statues handed out to winners at the Academy Awards, otherwise known as the Oscars, is cast in bronze and ...

Why is the most famous trophy in Hollywood even called an "Oscar”? The golden statuette given to each Academy Award winner goes primarily by its famous nickname. How exactly it got that nickname is ...

The golden statuette given to each Academy Award winner goes primarily by its famous nickname. How exactly it got that nickname is somewhat of a Hollywood mystery. But based on the leading theory, ...

And the Oscar goes to... Wait, wait, wait... Stream San Diego News for free, 24/7, wherever you are with NBC 7. The statue was originally named the Academy Award of Merit. The legend goes that former ...