'Gone With the Wind' Star Hattie McDaniel's Missing Oscar to Be Replaced

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Hattie McDaniel's Missing 'Gone With the Wind' Oscar to Be Replaced by The Academy

By Rob London

Published Sep 26, 2023

The Academy will gift the replacement to the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts at Howard University.

The first-ever Oscar won by a Black actor, Hattie McDaniel, will be replaced and donated to Howard University's Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts after being missing for decades.
The award, a plaque given to supporting actors between 1936 and 1942, was willed to Howard University but disappeared in the '60s or '70s.
McDaniel's won the Best Supporting Actress award for her role as Mammy in Gone With the Wind.