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60-years after it went missing, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will bestow a replacement Oscar for supporting actress winner Hattie McDaniel to Howard University’s College of Fine Art.
The ceremony titled “Hattie’s Come Home” will be held in Washington D.C. on Oct. 1.
McDaniel made history as the first Black actor to be nominated for and to win an Academy Award for her supporting performance as “Mammy” in “Gone with the Wind” (1939).
Before McDaniel succumbed to breast cancer in 1952, she specified that her Oscar be donated to Howard University.
“Hattie McDaniel was a groundbreaking artist who changed the course of cinema and impacted generations of performers who followed her,” Stewart and Bill Kramer, Academy CEO, said in a statement. “We are thrilled to present a replacement of Hattie McDaniel’s Academy Award to Howard University. This momentous occasion will celebrate Hattie McDaniel’s remarkable craft and historic win.”
It's still a mystery to this day as to what happened to her original statuette and plaque.