We may never know how the Oscars got their name, but at least we know who bestows the golden Academy Awards. You hear the film group thanked in almost every Oscar speech: It's the Academy. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,

Oscars, Cillian Murphy won the best actor Oscar for his role of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, known as "the father of the atomic bomb."

Kris Bowers and Ben Proudfoot won Oscars last year in the Best Documentary Short category. This year, Bowers will be back on the red carpet, nominated for composing the original score for the animated film,