Hattie McDaniel's 1939 Oscar for her supporting role as Mammy ... but 20 years later, it went missing. MARTÍNEZ: Last night, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gave Howard a replacement.

One exhibition, the Academy Awards History gallery, debuted that day, luring visitors to its gleaming golden rotunda lined with a semicircle of 20 glass-encased Oscar statuettes. Each statuette ...

She also had an eternal resting spot in mind for that beacon, bequeathing the Oscar plaque to Howard University in Washington. But for about 50 years, McDaniel’s plaque has been missing ...

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 ...

“It was Hattie McDaniel’s intention that her Oscar should be placed here at Howard University in the College of Fine Arts in perpetuity,” Rashad said. Rumors have swirled for decades about ...

Hattie McDaniel's historic Oscar is being replaced by the Academy. On Tuesday, the group announced their plans to issue a replacement of the trophy that McDaniel won for Best Supporting Actress at ...

Despite being placed in a display case in the university’s drama department following McDaniel’s death in 1952, the Oscar, which she won for Best Supporting Actress, went missing in the late ...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is sending Howard University a replacement Oscar for the groundbreaking actress Hattie McDaniel, whose original award has been missing for at least ...

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 ...

The first Oscar to be awarded to a Black performer ... The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Tuesday that Hattie McDaniel’s dying wish to have her historic honor in the ...

But the replacement will be a proper Oscar, which will be presented at a celebration of McDaniel’s life and legacy at Howard’s Ira Aldridge Theater on Oct. 1, entitled “Hattie’s Come Home.” ...