Rita Moreno was the first Hispanic entertainer (third person, second woman) to win this "Grand Slam" (Emmy Grammy Oscar Tony).
Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for Gone with the Wind (1939). The first Grammy awards were presented in 1959.
Oscar Hijuelos was the first Hispanic American author to win the Pulitzer Prize.
Helen Hayes.
Bob Dylan, Frank Sinatra, Rita Moreno, Richard Rogers, Mike Nichols, Barbra Streisand, Marvin Hamlisch, Helen Hayes, Audrey Hepburn, Kate Winslet, John Gielgud, Cher, Jonathan Tunick, Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams and Mel Brooks. Julie Andrews also has won an Oscar and a Grammy, and is the only winner to have received both awards for the same performance (Best Actress 1964 for MARY POPPINS and best children's recording for the soundtrack). And now Jennifer Hudson! Eminem also won both in the same year and for the same character 2002 for best rap ablum(Grammy) and best original score (Oscar) for 8 Mile. Paul McCartney has 18 Grammys and an Oscar (for "Let It Be"). You can also add Prince (Oscar for Purple Rain Soundtrack and many Grammy Awards) and Jamie Foxx (Oscar for "Ray" and Grammy for "Blame It")
Sidney Poitier.
Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for Gone with the Wind (1939). The first Grammy awards were presented in 1959.
Oscar Hijuelos was the first Hispanic American author to win the Pulitzer Prize.
Whoopi Goldberg won a Grammy for Best Comedy Album in 1985 and the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Ghost (1990).
It was Stanford quarterback Jim Plunkett, who won the 1970 Heisman.
Jose Ferrer, born in Puerto Rico, won the Oscar as Best Actor for Cyrano de Bergerac (1950).
Rita Moreno.
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The first Hispanic person to star on a television show was Desi Arnaz, the Cuban-born husband of Lucille Ball. He starred with her on I Love Lucy, which started in 1951.
Gabriela Mistral of Chile was the first Hispanic author to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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).
It seems to have become traditional to present the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor first every night at the Academy Award (Oscar) ceremony.
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