text: It would take between three and four weeks to manufacture 50 statuettes.In 2016, the Academy returned to bronze as the core metal of the statuettes, handing manufacturing duties to Walden, New York–based Polich Tallix Fine Art Foundry, now owned and operated by UAP Urban Art Projects.While based on a digital scan of an original 1929 Oscar, the statuettes retain their modern-era dimensions and black pedestal.Cast in liquid bronze from 3D-printed ceramic molds and polished, they are then electroplated in 24-karat gold by Brooklyn, New York–based Epner Technology.The time required to produce 50 such statuettes is roughly three months.R.S.Owens is expected to continue producing other awards for the Academy and service existing Oscars that need replating.Naming The origin of the nickname of the trophy has been disputed as multiple people have taken credit for naming the trophy "Oscar".Bette Davis, in her 1962 autobiography, claimed she named it in 1936 after her first husband, Harmon Oscar Nelson, of whom the statue's rear end reminded her.But the term had been in use at least two years before, and in a 1974 biography written by Whitney Stine with commentary from Davis, Davis wrote "I relinquish once and for all any claim that I was the one — so, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the honor is all yours." Margaret Herrick, librarian and president of the Academy, may have said she named it after her supposed uncle Oscar in 1921.The only corroboration was a 1938 clipping from the Los Angeles Examiner, in which Herrick told a story of her and her husband joking with each other using the phrase, "How's your uncle Oscar".Columnist Sidney Skolsky wrote in his 1970 memoir that he came up with the term in 1934 under pressure for a deadline, mocking Vaudeville comedians who asked "Will you have a cigar, Oscar?