The Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences and the Academy Museum stated at present that they may reward a alternative of Hattie McDaniel’s 1939 Greatest Supporting Actress Academy Award for Gone with the Wind to the Howard College Chadwick A. Boseman Faculty of High quality Arts.
The college will host a ceremony titled “Hattie’s Come Dwelling” at its Ira Aldridge Theater in Washington, D.C., on October 1.
“Hattie McDaniel was a groundbreaking artist who modified the course of cinema and impacted generations of performers who adopted her. We’re thrilled to current a alternative of Hattie McDaniel’s Academy Award to Howard College,” Academy Museum Director and President Jacqueline Stewart and Academy CEO Invoice Kramer stated in a press release. “This momentous event will have a good time Hattie McDaniel’s exceptional craft and historic win.”
McDaniel acquired not a statuette however a plaque, as was customary for supporting efficiency winners from 1936-42. McDaniel bequeathed her Academy Award to Howard College upon her dying in 1952, and the award was displayed on the college’s drama division till the late Sixties. Its whereabouts are unknown at present.
McDaniel’s award stands out in Academy historical past in that it will be 51 years earlier than one other Black girl would win an performing Oscar, when Whoopi Goldberg took the Supporting prize for 1990’s Ghost.
“After I was a pupil within the Faculty of High quality Arts at Howard College, in what was then referred to as the Division of Drama, I might typically sit and gaze in marvel on the Academy Award that had been introduced to Ms. Hattie McDaniel, which she had gifted to the Faculty of High quality Arts,” stated Phylicia Rashad, dean of the Boseman Faculty of High quality Arts. “I’m overjoyed that this Academy Award is returning to what’s now the Chadwick A. Boseman Faculty of High quality Arts at Howard College. This immense piece of historical past might be again within the Faculty of High quality Arts for our college students to attract inspiration from. Ms. Hattie is coming house!”
