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Variety reports:

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will bestow a replacement Oscar for supporting actress winner Hattie McDaniel to Howard University’s Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts during a ceremony titled “Hattie’s Come Home” in Washington D.C. on Oct. 1.

Taking place at the Ira Aldridge Theater, the ceremony will celebrate McDaniels’ life and legacy, her historic Academy Award win, and reunite her prize with the long-running HBCU, as she originally intended.

The event will include opening remarks by Phylicia Rashad, dean of the College of Fine Arts, along with a performance of a medley of songs from current students and an excerpt from LaDarrion Williams’ play “Boulevard of Bold Dreams.”

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Hattie McDaniel (“Gone With the Wind”) became the first Black actor to win a competitive Oscar, but her statue went missing 60 years ago. The Academy is finally set to gift a replacement Oscar to Howard University in October. https://t.co/IZWkRyqphi

— Variety (@Variety) September 26, 2023