Hattie McDaniel’s Academy Award has returned to its forever home at Howard University. McDaniel became the first Black actor to win an Academy Award in 1940 for her memorable role as “Mammy” in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Director and President of the Academy Museum Jacqueline Stewart and McDaniel's great-grandnephew Kevin John Goff take EW behind ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hattie McDaniel arrived at her audition for the role of Gone With the Wind’s Mammy wearing a maid’s uniform. It wasn’t a costume — ...

Hattie McDaniel, left, was given the Motion Picture Academy award for the best performance of an actress in a supporting role in 1939 for her work as “Mammy” in the film version of “Gone With the Wind ...