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Via EPIC: The Irish Emigration Museum: Did you know that an Irish American designed the original Oscar statuette? One of the ...

And it ain't going to suddenly appear now." The trophy's origins are clear. MGM art director Cedric Gibbons sketched the figure of an impressively ripped knight as an art crusader for the first ...

Theory no. 1 on where the Oscars' title came from was put forward by showbiz veteran and much-loved movie star Bette Davis. In her 1962 autobiography The Lonely Life, she claimed she'd once recognised ...

Winning multiple Oscars! Each year, the Academy Awards honors the best in motion pictures, recognizing talent in categories ...

How did Irish man Cedric Gibbons go from being an electrician in New York to the second most successful Academy Award winner of all time? The top Academy Award winner of all time should come as no ...

And it ain't going to suddenly appear now." The trophy's origins are clear. MGM art director Cedric Gibbons sketched the figure of an impressively ripped knight as an art crusader for the first ...

The Oscar Statuette, officially named the Academy Award of Merit, stands as one of the most iconic symbols of achievement in ...

From film producer Walt Disney to art director Cedric Gibbons, and films such as Titanic, Ben-Hur and West Side Story, here ...

George Bernard Shaw earned Ireland's first screenwriting Oscar in 1939 when he was awarded Best Adapted Screenplay for Pygmalion. The prize - which the Dubliner famously referred to as an insult - ...