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.
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."
Halle Berry won the 2001 Best Actress Oscar for her performance in "Monster's Ball."
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.
Halle Berry, who won the 2001 Best Actress Oscar for her performance in "Monster's Ball."
Hattie McDaniel won the 1939 Best Supporting Actress award for her performance as Mammy in "Gone With the Wind."
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."
Yes, it was a really wonderful performance.
The first black woman to win an Academy Award was Hattie McDaniel, who received the 1939 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as Mammy in "Gone With the Wind." The first black woman to win the Best Actress Oscar was Halle Berry, who won for her 2001 performance as Leticia Musgrove in "Monster's Ball."
Hattie McDaniel was the first African-American to win an Academy Award. She won the 1939 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as Mammy in "Gone With the Wind." Twenty-four years later, Sidney Poitier became the first black man to win an Oscar. He won the Best Actor award for his performance as handyman Homer Smith in "Lilies of the Field."
It was Dorothy Dandridge, who was nominated as Best Actress of 1954 for her performance as the title character in "Carmen Jones."
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.
Whoopi Goldberg won a Grammy for Best Comedy Album in 1985 and the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Ghost (1990).