The Hollywood Academy announced that it will return the missing Oscar to Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American actress to receive the award, to Howard University at a ceremony to be held on October 1 in Washington, DC.
The tribute, to be titled “Hattie’s Come Home,” will be held at the Aldrige Theater and seeks to recognize the life and legacy of the performer who, thanks to her work in the 1939 movie “Gone with the Wind” (Prohujalo s vihorom,) changed made film history by becoming the first African-American woman to win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1940.
“We are thrilled to be able to bring Oscar back to life Hattie McDaniel to Howard University“, the president of the Academy Museum, Jacqueline Stewart, and the executive director of the Hollywood Academy, Bill Kramer, said in a statement, who described the actress as a “revolutionary artist who changed the direction of cinematography”.
McDaniel received a plaque from Oscar instead of a popular statuette gold because from 1936 to 1942 these were the accolades that the Academy awarded to supporting actors.
During the ceremony, the actress had to sit on separate space from the Coconut Grove restaurant, from Los Angeles, where the delivery was made due to the racial segregation of the time.
McDaniel bequeathed his award Howard University and his current whereabouts are unknown.
It’s in the 1990s University He said he could not find him and suggested that Oscar may have disappeared in the protests that took place between 1960 and 1970.
During the event scheduled for October 1, the dean Faculty of Fine Arts, Phylicia Rashad, will give a speech, and the students of the institution will perform a medley of songs and perform an excerpt from the play “Boulevard of Bold Dreams” by LaDarrion Williams, an emblematic work related to the African-American experience in Hollywood that takes place in 1940.
After McDaniel It took 51 years for another African-American woman to win an Oscar.
It was actress Whoopi Goldberg, who would have received the same recognition as McDaniel for his role in the movie “Ghost“, and to this day, Hally Berry is the only African-American actress to win a statuette for best leading actress.
Source: Panama America
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