Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar in a banquet in the Coconut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California at the 12th Annual Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1939, on February 29, 1940. It was hosted by Bob Hope (for the first time).
Sidney Poitier.
Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for Gone with the Wind (1939). The first Grammy awards were presented in 1959.
Hattie McDaniel won the 1939 Best Supporting Actress award for her performance as Mammy in "Gone With the Wind." She was the only African-American to win a competitive Oscar until Sidney Poitier won the 1963 Best Actor award for "Lilies of the Field."
In 1940 she won for a little film called Gone with the Wind (1939) as Best Supporting Actress.Gone With the Wind
Hattie McDaniel had no children.
Hattie McDaniel did not have a full name, her full name was Hattie McDaniel. In 1940 she became the first African American to win an Oscar.
Hattie McDaniel
Hattie McDaniel for "Gone with the Wind"
She never won a second Academy Award.
Sidney Poitier.
Sidney Poitier.
Hattie McDaniel won the supporting actress Oscar for Gone With the Wind (1939).
Just one, a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Gone with the Wind. It was groundbreaking, however, as McDaniel was the first African-American to be nominated for an Oscar, and therefore the first to win an Oscar.
Hattie Mcdaniel
Hattie Mcdaniel was the first black woman to sing on the radio. She was also the first black woman to win an Oscar(she played the role of "mammy" in Gone With The Wind).
She won the 1939 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as Mammy in "Gone With the Wind."
1940 - Hattie McDaniel was the first African-American win an Oscar. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, and she won for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939).