Film Academy To Replace Hattie McDaniel’s ‘Gone With The Wind’ Oscar; Howard University To Get Statuette
deadline.comThe 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 Wind to the Howard University Chadwick A.
Boseman College of Fine Arts. The school will host a ceremony titled “Hattie’s Come Home” at its Ira Aldridge Theater in Washington, D.C., on October 1. “Hattie McDaniel was a groundbreaking artist who changed the course of cinema and impacted generations of performers who followed her.
We are thrilled to present a replacement of Hattie McDaniel’s Academy Award to Howard University,” Academy Museum Director and President Jacqueline Stewart and Academy CEO Bill Kramer said in a statement. “This momentous occasion will celebrate Hattie McDaniel’s remarkable craft and historic win.” McDaniel received not a statuette but a plaque, as was customary for supporting performance winners from 1936-42.
McDaniel bequeathed her Academy Award to Howard University upon her death in 1952, and the award was displayed at the university’s drama department until the late 1960s.
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