The statuette given to Academy Award winners was designed by Cedric ... It depicts "[a] stylized figure of a knight holding a crusader's sword standing on a reel of film with five spokes ...

officially calls him the Academy Award of Merit. But the familiar gold-plated statue of a sword-holding knight is universally referred to as the Oscar. The catchy nickname has been around so long ...

He specifically shared an idea he had for a bit that involved the coveted Academy Awards statue, known as "Oscar." "At one point, I thought, 'Wouldn't it be great if it's just on the couch?' ...