Why are Academy Awards called Oscar?

I was wondering about that myself. The origin of the name Oscar is still contested. These are some of the claims on how the Academy Award was also called Oscar: *A biography of Bette Davis said that she named the Oscar after her first husband Harmon Oscar Nelson *Another earliest mention in print was at a Time Magazine article about 1934 6th Academy Awards and to Bette Davis is a recipient of the award.

*Walt Disney was also heard and quoted thanking the Academy for his Oscar as early as 1932 *It was also claimed that Academy's Executive Secretary, Margaret Herrick first saw the award in 1931 and said that the statuettes reminds her of her uncle "Oscar", a nickname of her cousin Oscar Pierce. Sidney Skolsky heard Herrick's naming and used the name in his byline and stated that "Employees have affectionately dubbed their famous statuette 'Oscar'. *The trophy was then officially called "Oscar" by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science in 1939.

*It was also said that Eleanor Lilleberg, a Norwegian-American and an executive secretary to Louis B. Mayer exclaimed that it looks like King Oscar III and asked at the end of the day what they should do with Oscar, and ever since then, the name stuck. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award#Oscar_statuette http://www.mahalo.com/oscar-history.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.