Sidney Poitier was the first black man to win a competitive Academy Award. He received the 1963 Best Actor Oscar for his performance in "Lilies of the Field."
Arthur Ashe is an African American and the first and only black man ever to win the singles title at Wimbledon. He is also the only black man to win the singles title at the US Open and the Australian Open.
First African American to win an oscar.She was the first black performer to win an Academy Award. She won the 1939 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as Mammy in "Gone With the Wind."
Julia Phillips for The Sting (1973).
Hattie McDaniel, who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as Mammy in "Gone With the Wind" (1939).
Vivien Leigh who won for Gone with the Wind (1939).
Sidney Poitier was the first black man to win a competitive Academy Award. He received the 1963 Best Actor Oscar for his performance in "Lilies of the Field."
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Hattie McDaniel was the first black performer to win an Oscar for her work as Mammy in "Gone With the Wind" (1939). She was presented the Best Supporting Actress award.
The first African-American male to win an Academy Award was Sidney Poitier, who won the Best Actor Oscar in 1963 for his role in Lilies in the Field.
Irene Cara is the first black woman to win an Oscar since 1940. She won the Oscar for Best Original Song for "Flashdance (What A Feeling)" from Flashdance (1983). She shares the award with composer Giorgio Moroder and co-lyricist Keith Forsey. She is also the first (and only) black woman to win an Oscar outside of the acting categories.Whoopi Goldberg was the first black woman to win an Oscar since 1940 for acting. She won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for Ghost (1990). She is also the first black actress to receive two acting nominations, having previously been nominated for Best Actress for The Color Purple (1985)
Sidney Poitier.
Sidney Poitier.
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.
Jose Ferrer, born in Puerto Rico, won the Oscar as Best Actor for Cyrano de Bergerac (1950).
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The first black actor to win a competitive Academy Award was Sidney Poitier, who won the 1963 Best Actor Oscar for "Lilies of the Field." The first black man to receive an Oscar was James Baskett, who was presented an honorary award on March 20, 1948 for his performance as Uncle Remus in Walt Disney's "Song of the South.
Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for Gone with the Wind (1939). The first Grammy awards were presented in 1959.