Each year , the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences bestows awards for excellency in the art of filmmaking . This class , filmslikeThe Power of the Dog , Belfast , andCODAwill vie for statues bang as " Oscar . " One theory is that the statues plunk up the nickname when Academy librarian ( and future Director of the Academy ) Margaret Herrick remark in 1931 that the figure looked like her Uncle Oscar .
Circulated by newsprint columnist Sidney Skolsky , the throwaway scuttlebutt stuck , and both the ceremony and the trophies have been known as “ The Oscars ” ever since .
So has anyone named Oscar ever won an Oscar ?
The answer isyes , though it ’s a very , very rare event . In the 1940s , lyricistOscar Hammerstein IIpicked up two Oscars for his work on 1941’sLady Be Goodand 1945’sState Fair . The Best Song victory was share with Jerome Kern forLady Be Good ’s “ The Last sentence I watch Paris ” and Richard Rodgers forState Fair ’s “ It Might As Well Be Spring . ”
The Rodgers and Hammerstein duo was fecund , creating hit Broadway musical comedy likeOklahoma!,South Pacific , The King and I , andThe auditory sensation of Music . Oklahoma!received the Pulitzer Prize Special Award and Citation in 1944;South Pacificscored another Pulitzer , this one in the drama category . Tonys ? Hammerstein nabbed wad of those , too .
Other Oscars have been acknowledged by the Academy . In 1929 , Oscar Lagerstrom was recognize for his strait directing work onRaffles , though at the clip the Academy listed only film title in the family of Sound Recording and not campaigner . In 1948 , Oscar Homolka start out a nod for his supporting function inI Remember Mama . In 1951 , Oscar Millard got a screenwriting nominating speech forThe Frogmen .
No Oscar has been nominated for an Oscar since Oscar Brodney for write 1954’sThe Glenn Miller Story , a nod shared with co - writer Valentine Davies .
Could anyone join Hammerstein in this rare pantheon of Oscars with Oscars ? well-thought-of actor Oscar Isaac is one theory ; so isOscar Micheaux , the pioneering Black film maker dynamic in the 1920s through 1940s who some industry beholder feel is deserving of a posthumous award .
For now , though , this finical bit ofOscar triviabelongs to Oscar Hammerstein .
