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The first black person to win an acting Oscar since Hattie McDaniel?
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Sidney Poitier.
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First black person to win an Oscar?
Hattie McDaniel won the 1939 Best Supporting Actress award for her performance as Mammy in "Gone With the Wind." She was the only black woman to win an Oscar for acting until Whoopi Goldberg won the supporting actress award for "Ghost" (1990).
Where did Hattie McDaniel win an Oscar?
Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar in a banquet in the Coconut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California at the 12th Annual Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1939, on February 29, 1940. It was hosted by Bob Hope (for the first time).
What actors from Gone With the Wind won Oscars in 1939?
Vivien Leigh and Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar for their roles in Gone with the Wind (1939).
Who was the first African-American Academy Award winner?
The first one was Hattie McDaniel, who won Best Supporting Actress for her role in Gone with the Wind (1939).
Who is the first black to win an Oscar or Grammy?
Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for Gone with the Wind (1939). The first Grammy awards were presented in 1959.
Who was the first black person to win an acting oscar since hattie mcdaniel?
Sidney Poitier.
Who was the first black to get Oscar?
Hattie Mcdaniel
What is hattie mcdaniel's middle name?
Hattie McDaniel did not have a full name, her full name was Hattie McDaniel. In 1940 she became the first African American to win an Oscar.
What happened to Hattie McDaniel's Oscar?
It was either lost or stolen.
Who was the second black woman to win an acting Oscar?
Hattie McDaniel, who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as Mammy in "Gone With the Wind" (1939).
Who was the first African American actress to win an Oscar?
Hattie McDaniel
Who was the last African American to win an Oscar?
Hattie McDaniel for "Gone with the Wind"
When did hattie mcdaniel win her second Oscar?
She never won a second Academy Award.
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.
She was the first black person to win an Oscar but Georgia segregation laws kept her from attending the Atlanta premiere of the movie she won it for Who?
Hattie McDaniel
How did hattie win the best support award actress?
Hattie McDaniel won the supporting actress Oscar for Gone With the Wind (1939).
In 1939 Hattie McDaniel became the first black person to win an Oscar in one of the four competitive acting categories How long was it before the next black actor won such an award?
1963 (Sidney Poitier, for Lilies of the Field)
