One of the most famous movie prizes in the world is the Oscar. _____ in the United States,the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gives Oscars to people who have done ______ the movies. There is an Oscar for the best movies of the year,another for the best actor,and Oscars for doing many other things well in the movies.

Oscars are very important ______ people want to see movies that won them. They want to see actors who have won Oscars, ______. This means that movies that have won Oscars make a lot of ______. The Academy first gave prizes to movies ______ 1927,but they were not called Oscars. That happened ______ four years. Most people think that Oscar was someone famous in the movies,but he ____. He was no one important. He was someone that a woman called Margaret Herrick knew. She worked for the Academy and one day she saw the ______on a table. She said. “He _______ my friend,Oscar. ” From that time on,the prizes were called the Oscars.