Which black actor and actress won Oscars the same year?

Answer 1

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).

James Baskett was the first African-American man to receive an academy award. He was given an Honorary Academy Award for his portrayal of Uncle Remus in Song of the South(1946)

Sidney Poitier was the first African American man to win an academy award. He was nominated for the Best Actor award, and he won for his role in Lilies of the Field(1963).

Louis Gossett, Jr. was the first African-American to win the Best Supporting Actor award. He won for his role in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982).

Denzel Washingtonwas the second African American to win Best Supporting Actor for his role in Glory (1989).

Whoopi Goldberg was the second African American to win 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.

John Singleton was the first African American nominated for a Best Director Academy Award for his work on Boyz N The Hood (1991)

Cuba Gooding, Jr. was the fourth African American to win Best Supporting Actor for his role as Rod Tidwell in Jerry McGuire (1996)

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).

Denzel Washingtonwas the second African American to win Best Actor. He won for his role in Training Day(2001). He had previously been nominated in the Best Actor category for The Hurricane in 1999 and Malcolm X in 1992.

Morgan Freeman was the third African American to win Best Supporting Actor for playing Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris in Million Dollar Baby (2004). He had previously been nominated for Best Actor for his roles in Driving Miss Daisy(1989) and The Shawshank Redemption (1994).

Jamie Foxx was the third African American to win Best Actor for his role as ray Charles in Ray (2004). He was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role of the cab driver in Collateral(2004).

Forest Whitaker was the fourth African American to win Best Actor for his role as Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland (2006).

Jennifer Hudson was the third African American to win Best Supporting Actress for her role as Effie White in Dreamgirls (2006).

Answer 2

In 2002 Denzel Washington won Best Actor for Training Day(2001) and Halle Berry won Best Actress for Monster's Ball(2001). In 2006 Forest Whitaker won Best Actor for The Last King of Scotland (2006) and Jennifer Hudson won Best Supporting Actress for Dreamgirls (2006).

Answer 3

No one has ever won an Oscar and a Nobel prize in the same year.

The only person to win both an Oscar and a Nobel prize was George Bernard Shaw.

• He won his Nobel in 1925, for services to literature, including plays such as Arms and the Man (1894) and Saint Joan(1923),
• He won his Oscar, for best adapted screenplay, was for Pygmalion (1938), with Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller, adapted from the 1913 play.

Born in 1856 in Dublin, Shaw moved to London at the age of 20, where he became an anti-establishment, radical writer of reviews, polemical material, novels and plays. He was highly political and a bastion of the socialist Fabian Society but was equally as well known for comedy writing.

Some claim that Al Gore has also won an Oscar and a Nobel prize.

• Al Gore DID receive the Nobel Peace Prize (together with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) in 2007,
• And he DID star in the 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2007, but the Oscar for Best Documentary is not presented to the film's star. It is presented to the film's director: Davis Guggenheim. The film also won the Oscar for Best Song, but that award was presented to the song writer: Melissa Etheridge for "I Need to Wake Up."