A popular but unsubstantiated story has been that the moniker caught on after Academy librarian and eventual executive director Margaret Herrick said that the statuette resembled her Uncle Oscar.

• 有种虽然没有根据，但流传很广的说法是这样的，时任电影艺术与科学学院图书馆的女管理员的玛丽特．赫里奇（后来她当上了图书馆长）声称金像奖雕像很像她的叔叔奥斯卡。