Here is a list of black actors and actresses who have won competitive Academy Awards through February 2015:
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."
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."
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 was the first black performer to win an Oscar for acting, which she won as Best Supporting Actress for "Gone With The Wind" in 1939. It would be 24 years before another black actor won an Oscar, when Sidney Poitier won Best Actor for "Lilies of the Field" in 1963.
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No he didn't. He was nominated for Best Actor, but did not win it.
Yes, Emil Jannings was the first person to with the Oscar for Best Actor. Since this was the first Oscar presented at the first Academy Awards ceremony, he is also the firs man ever to win an Academy Award (Oscar).
He is the only actor to win an Oscar posthumously (after his death).