Film Academy to Replace Hattie McDaniel’s Long-Missing ‘Gone with the Wind’ Oscar

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A new statuette will be gifted to Howard University, to which McDaniel bequeathed the plaque she received in 1940 upon her death in 1952, and from which it went missing the late 1960s.

Jacqueline StewartStewart will also host a moderated conversation about McDaniel’s career with, Ph.D., Howard University Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies;Kevin John Goff, Ph.D., Howard University Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, author, director and dramaturg; and Rashad.

“Hattie McDaniel was a groundbreaking artist who changed the course of cinema and impacted generations of performers who followed her,” Stewart and Academy CEOsaid in a statement. “We are thrilled to present a replacement of Hattie McDaniel’s Academy Award to Howard University. This momentous occasion will celebrate Hattie McDaniel’s remarkable craft and historic win.”

“When I was a student in the College of Fine Arts at Howard University, in what was then called the Department of Drama, I would often sit and gaze in wonder at the Academy Award that had been presented to Ms. Hattie McDaniel, which she had gifted to the College of Fine Arts,” said Rashad. “I am overjoyed that this Academy Award is returning to what is now the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts at Howard University.

 

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