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Academy to replace Hattie McDaniel's missing Oscar

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is finally replacing Hattie McDaniel's long-lost Oscar. McDaniel was the first African-American person to win an Oscar, but the statue went missing from Howard University, where it had been donated after her death, decades ago.
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