The Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences says it would now substitute an extended misplaced Oscar awarded to Hattie McDaniel throughout the twelfth Academy Awards in 1940 for finest supporting actress for her function as Mammy in “Gone With the Wind.”
On the time, the plaque which McDaniel gained was typical for supporting function wins, whereas the extra well-known statuette award was reserved for main roles.Â
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McDaniel grew to become the primary Black actor to win a aggressive Academy Award for appearing. That did not occur once more till many years later.Â
McDaniel mentioned throughout the ceremony, “It has made me really feel very, very humble and I shall all the time maintain it as a beacon for something I could possibly do sooner or later, she mentioned. “I sincerely hope I shall all the time be a credit score to my race and to the movement image business.”
Howard College says the award will go to its Chadwick A. Boseman Faculty of Positive Arts, celebrating the alternative throughout a ceremony titled “Hattie’s Come Residence,” which might be held at first of December in Washington, D.C.
Phylicia Rashad, the dean of the Faculty of Positive Arts, is anticipated to ship the opening remarks for the celebration.Â
McDaniel, who died in 1952 from breast most cancers, had requested that her unique award be donated to Howard College. It then later went lacking for years, and the thriller grew about the way it seemingly disappeared.Â
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