NEW YORK — Hattie McDaniel's best supporting actress Oscar in 1939 for "Gone With the Wind" is one of the most important moments in Academy Award history. McDaniel was the first African American ...

Hattie McDaniel’s Lost Historic Oscar to Be Replaced by Academy. The "Gone with the Wind" actress was the first Black person to be nominated for or win an Academy Award.

Hattie McDaniel's Oscar went missing from Howard University decades ago. Howard celebrated McDaniel's legacy Sunday as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences replaced the missing plaque.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — It was the first Oscar ever awarded to a Black actor: The plaque presented to actress Hattie McDaniel in 1940 for her iconic supporting role in the landmark 1939 film “Gone ...

Hattie McDaniel was historically the first Black person to win an Oscar. But the award went missing from Howard University years ago.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) – organization behind the Oscars – will posthumously honor Hattie McDaniel by reinstating her missing best supporting actress Academy ...

The Oscar — for McDaniel’s performance as “Mammy” in the 1939 big-screen epic “Gone With the Wind” — was the first awarded to a Black actor. It later disappeared.

Hattie McDaniel’s Oscar: Still ‘Gone With the Wind’ WASHINGTON (AP) - A professor might have walked away with it. Perhaps it was stolen, then sold to a collector.

Hattie McDaniel and award presenter Fay Bainter at the 1940 Oscars (AP1940) “I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry,” McDaniel said during ...

Hattie McDaniel proclaimed her Academy Award for playing Mammy in Gone With the Wind to be a “beacon” for her future. The first Black actor to win an Oscar, she remained the only woman to do ...

The new Oscar will reside at Howard University, which McDaniel donated the award to after her death. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays. Watch Now. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures are replacing “Gone with the Wind” actress Hattie McDaniel’s lost Oscar 80 years after her historic ...