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

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

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The first competitive Oscar ever awarded to a Black person, the best supporting actress Oscar that Hattie McDaniel won for her performance in Gone with the Wind in 1940, went missing from Howard University, to which McDaniel bequeathed it after her death in 1952, sometime in the late 1960s. This…

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