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Academy Award or an Oscar is also called film awards most notably in the United States. Cup nicknamed the Oscar Academy Award as an Academy librarian Margaret Herrick saw it on a table and said, “looks exactly like my uncle Oscar!”. The name was still attached and is now used as common name of an Academy Award himself, even by the Academy itself 

Academy Awards in Hollywood began around 1927 and is an award ceremony for the hard work members of the Academy Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the professional association of film workers. This group requires a kind of gift-giving trophies to show for dinner. Told, that’s when the term Oscar appeared. A statue maker from Los Angeles to see a knight statue that stood on the roll of film with a sword in his hand. Knight statue was first made using bronze. And now Oscar is made of alloy, britanium, and coated with gold. Height 34.3 cm and weighs 3.8 kg

The reason why the Oscars are used as the name of the award trophy is still unclear. One story mentions that the statue knight looks similar to a librarian academy they used to call Uncle Oscar. Based on that similarity, the members of the academy started calling the small Oscar as the name of the knight statue. In the sixth year of presentation, columnist referring to what the staff refer to as the Academy Award of Meritas be Oscar. Staff Academy using the name of this small in 1939.

All that began at a dinner attended by 270 members turned into an international tradition that no fewer than 6000 members to attend academy

And here are the Oscar awards-winning 2011:

Best Film – The King’s Speech

Best Actor – Colin Firth – ‘The King’s Speech’

Best Actress – Natalie Portman – ‘Black Swan’

Best Director – ‘The King’s Speech’ – Tom Hooper

Best Supporting Actor – Christian Bale, ‘The Fighter’

Best Supporting Actress – Melissa Leo’s ‘The Fighter’

Best Adapted Script – ‘The Social Network’ – Aaron Sorkin

Best Original Screenplay – “The King’s Speech ‘- David Seidler

Best Visual Effects – ‘Inception’

Best Cinematography – ‘Inception’ – Wally Pfister

Best Animated Film – ‘Toy Story 3′ – Lee Unkrich

Short Film (Animation) Best – ‘The Lost Thing’ – Shaun Tan & Andrew Ruhemann

Short Film (Live Action) Best – God Of Love ‘- Luke Matheny

Documentary (Short) – ‘Strangers No More’ Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon

Documentary Film (Feature) – ‘Inside Job’ – Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs

Best Foreign Film – ‘In a Better World’ (Denmark)

Best Costume Design – ‘Alice in Wonderland’ – Colleen Atwood

Art Director – ‘Alice in Wonderland’ – Robert Stromberg, Karen O’Hara

Best Makeup – The Wolfman

Music (Original Score) – ‘The Social Network’ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

Sound Editing – ‘Inception’ – Richard King

Sound Mixing – ‘Inception’ – Lora Hirschberg, Gary A Rizzo & Ed Novick