He was not nominated
Hattie McDaniel was the first African American to win the Academy Award for best-supporting actress in Gone With The Wind (1939)
Yes, she did.
1939's Gone with the Wind was the first color film to win the Oscar for Best Picture, but the 1937 short, Give Me Liberty, was the first color movie to receive an Oscar at all.
Hattie McDaniel, who won the 1939 Best Supporting Actress award for her performance as Mammy in "Gone With the Wind," was the first black to win an Academy Award.
Hattie McDaniels Best Supporting actress in Gone with The Wind
It was Hattie McDaniel, who won the 1939 Best Supporting Actress award for her performance as Mammy in "Gone With the Wind."
Hattie McDaniel won the supporting actress Oscar for Gone With the Wind (1939).
She received the 1939 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Mammy in "Gone With the Wind."
Hattie McDaniel was the first African-American performer to win an Academy Award. She won the Best Supporting Actress Award for her performance as Mammy in "Gone With the Wind" (1939).
Hattie McDaniel, who won the 1939 Best Supporting Actress award for her performance as Mammy in "Gone With the Wind."
"Gone With the Wind" did not win Oscars for either category. Although Clark Gable was nominated as Best Actor for his performance of Rhett Butler, the Oscar went to Britain's Robert Donat for "Goodbye, Mr. Chips." Thomas Mitchell, who played Scarlett O'Hara's father in "Gone with the Wind," received the Best Supporting Actor award. But it was for his performance in John Ford's classic Western "Stagecoach."