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I suppose the answer to this question depends on your definition of color. Vivien Leigh won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1939. She is the only Asian actress to win this award. Her mother was of Irish and Indian descent. In Gone with the Wind, Vivien Leigh played a white girl.
Halle Berry, who won in 2002 for her role in Monster's Ball, is the only woman of African-American descent to win the Best Actress award. Seven other black actresses have been nominated: Dorothy Dandridge, Diana Ross, Cicely Tyson, Diahann Carroll, Whoopi Goldberg, Angela Bassett, and Gabourey Sidibe.
No women of hispanic origins have won this award; although five have been nominated: Helena Bonham Carter (1997; her mother is Spanish); Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian, (1998); Salma Hayek, Mexican (2002); Catalina Sandino Moreno, Colombian (2004); and Penélope Cruz, Spanish (2006). Cruz won the Best Supporting Actress award for her role in the 2008 film Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 12y agoThe first Hispanic-American to win an Oscar was Mercedes Ruehl, receiving the Best Supporting Actress for 'The Fisher King' in 1991. She was of Cuban descent.
Another answer:José Ferrer, born in Puerto Rico, won the Oscar as Best Actor for Cyrano de Bergerac at the 23rd Academy Awards in 1951.Wiki User
∙ 13y agoRita Moreno won the award for her performance in "West Side Story" (1961).
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When did Hattie McDaniels win an Oscar?
1940 - Hattie McDaniel was the first African-American win an Oscar. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, and she won for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939).
Why Hattie McDaniel was famous?
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."
Was Dorothy Dandridge the first African American to win an Oscar?
No, Halle Berry was the first African-American to win the Best Actress award. She won for her role as Leticia Musgrove in Monster's Ball (2001).However, Whoopi Goldberg won Best Supporting Actress for playing Oda Mae Brown in Ghost (1990). She had previously been nominated for Best Actress in 1985 for her role as Celie in The Color Purple.And, Hattie McDaniel won Best Supporting Actress for playing Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939).Dorothy Dandridgewas the first African-American woman to be nominated for Best Actress for her role in Carmen Jones (1954)
First black male to win an Oscar?
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."
Who was the first African American to receive an Oscar?
AnswerHattie McDaniel won Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Mammy in 'Gone With the Wind' (1939) Sidney Poitier was first to win a Best Actor Oscar for the movie 'Lilies of the Field' (1963)
Who is Oscar Hijuelos?
Oscar Hijuelos was the first Hispanic American author to win the Pulitzer Prize.
Who was the first American to win an Oscar?
Almost all of the Oscar-winners are Americans.
Who was the first hispanic female to win an Oscar for best sopporting actress in west side story?
Rita Moreno.
Who was the first Hispanic male to win an Oscar?
Jose Ferrer, born in Puerto Rico, won the Oscar as Best Actor for Cyrano de Bergerac (1950).
What is the first American film to win an Oscar?
Wings (1927)
Who was the first African American actress to win an Oscar?
Hattie McDaniel
Was Eddie Robinson the first African American to win an Oscar?
No, Hattie McDaniel was the first African-American win an Oscar. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, and she won for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939).
What Oscar was Halle Berry first African American to win?
Best Actress
Why is Severo Ochoa famous?
Severo Ochoa was the first Hispanic American to win the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
Who was the first African American to win Best Song?
Isaac Hayes was the first African American to win the Oscar for Best Song. He won for writing the "Theme from Shaft" in 1971.
How many Oscar did hattie mcdaniel have?
Just one, a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Gone with the Wind. It was groundbreaking, however, as McDaniel was the first African-American to be nominated for an Oscar, and therefore the first to win an Oscar.
Who was the first Hispanic to win the Nobel Prize in physics and in what year?
Luiz Alvarez was the first Hispanic to win the Nobel Prize in the year 1869
