Film Academy Gifts Replacement of Hattie McDaniel s Historic Oscar to Howard University – Los Angeles Sentinel lasentinel.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lasentinel.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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 to win an Oscar, and it would be half a century before another Black woman again won an acting award. But the whereabouts of her…
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced it will replace Hattie McDaniel’s Oscar, the first won by a black performer, after it disappeared