The Big Picture Missing for decades, the first-ever Oscar won by a Black actor, Gone With the Wind's Hattie McDaniel, will be replaced. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will donate the replica award to Howard University. Deadline reports that the award will be donated to the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts at the University. McDaniel won the original award in the Best Supporting Actress category for her performance as Mammy in 1939's Gone with the Wind.
Unlike modern Oscars, McDaniel's award is a plaque, not a statuette, as were all the awards given to supporting actors and actresses between 1936 and 1942. Howard University will host a ceremony commemorating the award's return, “Hattie’s Come Home”, at its Ira Aldridge Theater in Washington, D.C., on October 1.
Nevertheless, she won Best Supporting Actress for the film, one of eight Oscars it earned. While she attended the awards ceremony, it was segregated. McDaniel's win was controversial in the Black community, due to the stereotypical nature of her role and the film's romanticization of the Confederacy's white supremacy.
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