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Flipboard Culture Desk | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced it will bestow a replacement Oscar on Hattie McDaniel, 60 years after hers went missing. The statue will be given to Howard University, as McDaniel intended. She was the first Black person to win a competitive Academy Award, which was given in 1940 for her supporting performance in “Gone with the Wind.” Variety has the details.

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Flipboard Culture Desk | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The story of McDaniel's missing Oscar statue is a decades-old mystery, which The Coloradoan details here: 

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b5e96bb0 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @78474ccf Good news. A few years back I saw her memorial in Hollywood Forever Cemetery. She had wanted to be buried there but the cemetery had a "whites only" policy in those days. The memorial was installed decades later.

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