Hattie McDaniel, who once lived in Fort Collins, made history as the first Black actor to win an Academy Award. How did her historic Oscar go missing?

Hattie McDaniel's 1939 Oscar for her supporting role as Mammy in Gone With the Wind is finally replaced at Howard University. McDaniel was the first Black person to be nominated for and win an Oscar.

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 Oscar — for McDaniel’s performance as “Mammy” in the 1939 big-screen epic “Gone With the Wind” — was the first awarded to a Black actor. It later disappeared.

Hattie McDaniel, who once lived in Fort Collins, made history as the first Black actor to win an Academy Award. How did her historic Oscar go missing?

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.

The Academy will replace Hattie McDaniel's missing Oscars trophy she won for Best Supporting Actress for 'Gone With the Wind' in 1940.

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 ...

Gone with the Wind actor Hattie McDaniel will finally have her Oscar replaced decades after it went missing, The location of the original trophy remains a mystery, but McDaniel, who became the ...

Where Did Hattie McDaniel’s Oscar Go? The historic Oscar plaque went missing sometime in the 1970s. Many theories abound about its loss, though none have been proven.

McDaniel became the first Black person ever to take home an Oscar at the 12th Academy Awards in 1940, where she won Best Supporting Actress Getty Hattie McDaniel's historic Oscar is being replaced ...

Sixty years after Hattie McDaniel’s Oscar went missing, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will replace it next month. The academy will present the replacement Oscar for McDaniel ...