Film Academy to Replace Hattie McDaniel’s Long-Missing ‘Gone With the Wind’ Oscar. A new statuette will be gifted to Howard University, to which McDaniel bequeathed the plaque she received ...

I don’t like "Gone With the Wind," but I know how few artistic opportunities McDaniel had at her disposal in the ‘20s and '30s, and how important the movie was to her.

Academy to Replace Hattie McDaniel's 'Historic' Missing Oscar Trophy for Gone with the Wind. McDaniel became the first Black person ever to take home an Oscar at the 12th Academy Awards in 1940 ...

The Movie Academy of Motion Picture Arts will gift a replacement of Hattie McDaniel’s long-missing Oscar for Gone with the Wind to Howard University Chadwick.

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 ...

McDaniel then was escorted, not to the Gone With the Wind table — where Selznick sat with de Havilland and his two Oscar-nominated leads, Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable — but to a small table ...

In Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood, biographer Jill Watts explores the Gone With the Wind trailblazer’s highs and lows.

Actress Hattie McDaniel won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as "Mammy" in "Gone with the Wind" on this day in history, February 29, 1940.

At the 12th Academy Awards, Hattie McDaniel, the daughter of former slaves, became the first African American to win an Oscar. "I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the ...

Hattie McDaniel holds the Academy Award she received for best supporting actress for her role in 1939’s “Gone With the Wind.” The statue went missing and will be replaced next month in a ...

Hattie McDaniel's historic Oscar is being replaced by the Academy. On Tuesday, the group announced their plans to issue a replacement of the trophy that McDaniel won for Best Supporting Actress at the ...

Hattie McDaniel's historic Oscar is being replaced by the Academy. On Tuesday, the group announced their plans to issue a replacement of the trophy that McDaniel won for Best Supporting Actress at ...