“Honoring Hattie McDaniel: Past, Present and Future of Representation in Media Arts,” at the 22nd annual Tallgrass Film Festival will include a film retrospective, panel discussions and a ...

Hattie McDaniel, who once lived in Fort Collins, made history as the first Black actor to win an Academy Award. ... his great-granduncle Sam and his great-grandaunt Hattie. ...

I had no idea at the time that those individuals were my aunt (Hattie McDaniel), my uncle (Sam McDaniel), and great-grandmother (Etta McDaniel Goff).

Hattie McDaniel at the Academy Awards in 1940. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images And it did — on Oct. 1, 2023, when the Academy presented Howard with a replacemen t.

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 ...

Actress Hattie McDaniel in a promotional photo from 1939, the same year that “Gone With the Wind” premiered, ... so she took a job as a bathroom attendant at Sam Pick’s club in Milwaukee.

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.

NEW YORK — Hattie McDaniel's best supporting actress Oscar in 1939 for "Gone With the Wind" is one of the most important moments in Academy Award history. McDaniel was the first African American ...

McDaniel originally bequeathed her Academy Award to Howard University upon her death in 1952. The award was displayed at the university’s drama department until the late 1960s when it disappeared.

Hattie McDaniel with her Oscar on March 2, 1940, in Los Angeles Hattie McDaniel 's historic Oscar is being replaced by the Academy. On Tuesday, the group announced their plans to issue a replacement ...

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 ...