15 Most Shocking Oscar Injustices Of All Time

6. Hattie McDaniel Segregated On Her Winning Night

With the increased presence of black winners at the 2014 Academy Awards, the media were all-too-keen to talk about what a big moment it was and how the Academy was finally starting to recognise black filmmakers, actors and directors after years of neglect. Of course, they had done the same in 2002 when Halle Berry won Best Actress for Monster's Ball and Denzel Washington won Best Actor for Training Day. These things are cyclical. After the success of Twelve Years A Slave last year, it's back to business as usual for the Oscars - a major talking point this year is the lack of recognition for the Martin Luther King biopic Selma. But things used to be so, so much worse than they are now. Hattie McDaniel won Best Supporting Actress for her role as the stereotypical Mammy in Gone With The Wind, becoming the first African American to win an Academy Award in the process. It was a watershed moment and McDaniel said in her speech that she wished to be seen as a "Credit to her race". But Hattie McDaniel was given a stark reminder of just how far the Academy, and America in general, still had to go when it came to racial equality. The actress and her escort had to sit at a segregated table for two, away from her Gone With The Wind colleagues and the rest of the motion picture industry.