The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) – organization behind the Oscars – will posthumously honor Hattie McDaniel by reinstating her missing best supporting actress Academy ...

McDaniel, the first Black person to win an Academy Award, donated her Oscar to Howard University before her death. But the plaque mysteriously went missing, likely sometime around the 1960s or 1970s.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy Museum said today that they will gift a replacement of Hattie McDaniel’s 1939 Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Gone with ...

The plaque that McDaniel, the first Black winner of an Academy Award, bequeathed to Howard University has been missing for about 50 years. Now a replacement is on its way.

Houston Matters Hattie McDaniel made history with her Oscar win – but she also had to sit in the back of the room. Author ReShonda Tate explores what happened next for the actress in “The ...

Hattie McDaniel made history as the first Black person to be nominated, win Academy Award 03:31. Hattie McDaniel was an African-American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian.

On the legacy of Hattie McDaniel, a history-making Oscar winner who sparked dreams yet to be realized 83 years later, only 9 more Black women have won Oscars, leaving broken but uncultivated ground.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) – organization behind the Oscars – will posthumously honor Hattie McDaniel by reinstating her missing best supporting actress Academy ...