Analysis: How the Academy Award got its famous nickname

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ALEX CHADWICK
NPR Special
02-25-2005
Analysis: How the Academy Award got its famous nickname

Host: ALEX CHADWICK
Time: 4:00-5:00 PM

ALEX CHADWICK, host:

And come Sunday night at the Oscars, those lucky enough to take home a statuette whose name is known around the world can pass around congratulations. But there is this question: How did the Academy Award get its famous name? Here's Slate's Andy Bowers with an Explainer.

ANDY BOWERS reporting:

The answer is: Nobody knows for sure, not even the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. We do know that the first Academy Award of Merit, as ...

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