Cast
Hattie McDaniel
1893 – 1952
- Active years (films on this site)
- 1936–1939
- Schools and movements
- Classical HollywoodHorror and the Uncanny
Directors worked with
Biography
Hattie McDaniel was an 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. She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1975, and in 2006, became the first black Oscar winner honored with a U.S. postage stamp. In 2010, she was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame.
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Awards and honours
International
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress 1940
National / local
- Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame 1975
- Colorado Women's Hall of Fame 2010
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
2 films on this site
- Show Boat 1936 · James Whale · IMDb 7.4 · Cast
- Gone with the Wind 1939 · Victor Fleming · IMDb 8.2 · Cast