Oscar statuettes are displayed in Feb. 2008 at a “Meet the Oscars” event in New York’s Times Square. (Photo by Stan Honda/AFP via Getty Images) The origins of the name “Oscar” are disputed, but one of the most common beliefs, according to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and ...
America is known to all around the world as the “Land of the Free” but, why is America called the “Land of the Free” or the “Land of Opportunity” when most people that have lived or are currently living in America have to fight every day for equality especially if it pertains ...
To most, the glitzy Academy Awards show and the statuettes are known as the Oscars. Here's the story behind the nickname.
Discusses theories of why the Academy Awards statues are called Oscars. Official adoption of the name in 1939; First use of the term in print by reporter Sidney Skolsky; Claim of actress Bette Davis that she named the statue after her husband, Harmon Oscar Nelson; Popular theory that Academy...
On February 1, the World Health Organization (WHO) released its latest "Smoke-free movies" report, which called on governments to tackle the use of tobacco products in movies, in a bid to prevent future generations from adopting the habit of smoking. As the Oscars got underway on Sunday, ...
Why Are They Called "the Oscars"? It is also interesting to note that the first two ceremonies didn't have actual Oscar statues, and the winners were notified three months before the banquet. We suppose that almost 100 years ago, it was necessary to have some serious advanced notice so tr...
The aim of the subfield of social robotics called socially assistive robotics is to interact with ever more diverse groups of people. Its practitioners' noble intention is "to create machines that will best help people help themselves," writes one of its pioneers,Maja Matarić. The robots ar...
None of the above heard their names called on Thursday morning when the nominations for the 2025 Oscars were unveiled. Regretfully, we are not immune to this powerful urge to gripe. Goofy though it may be to expend any emotional energy on the Academy Awards, which have been getting it ...
He called the movie an “opera” and not intended to be “realistic," and said, “If there are things that seem shocking in "Emilia Pérez" then I am sorry … Cinema doesn’t provide answers, it only asks questions. But maybe the questions in 'Emilia Pérez...
The proceedings went smoothly; there seemed to be very few surprises concerning the case, or so I thought. I went to my hotel room alone, flicked on the Oscars, and watched the lights of Georgetown grow dim before me. And it was that moment, as I watched the suited dolls below my wi...