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Hattie McDaniel (June 10, 1893 – October 26, 1952) was an African-American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian. For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939), she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first African American to win an Oscar.
Etta McDaniel (December 1, 1890 – January 13, 1946) was an American actress who appeared in over 60 films between 1933 and 1946. She was the sister of actor Sam McDaniel and Academy Award winning actress Hattie McDaniel .
In its 94-year-long history, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has bestowed an Oscar, one the industry's most coveted acting awards, to just 10 Black women. This year, actor Angela ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — It was the first Oscar ever awarded to a Black actor: The plaque presented to actress Hattie McDaniel in 1940 for her iconic supporting role in the landmark 1939 film “Gone ...
Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress with her performance as "Mammy" in Gone with the Wind in 1939. [20] In 1940, shortly after the win, the NAACP scrutinized McDaniel's role, and criticized Hollywood for the lack of diverse Black roles and characters outside of servitude. [21]
It has been decades since anyone has seen Hattie McDaniel’s historic Oscar for best supporting actress. Now, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will replace it.
She was personal secretary and publicist to actress Hattie McDaniel from 1936 to 1951. [8] She is said to have helped McDaniel write her 1940 Oscars acceptance speech. [9] She worked for Ethel Waters in a similar capacity. With her syndicated column, "Hollywood in Bronze", [4] she was "the first accredited Black Hollywood correspondent". [2]
And it was through McDaniel, who made history in 1940 as the first Black performer to win an Oscar for her portrayal as Mammy, the house slave in "Gone With the Wind," that the academy established ...