Who was the first black director to be nominated for an Academy Award?

Answer 1

No African American has yet won Best Director. Only two have ever been nominated.

• John Singleton was nominated for Boyz n the Hood(1991). He was the first black person to be nominated for Best Director. He is also the youngest person ever nominated in this category (age 23)
• Lee Daniels was nominated for Precious (2009). He is the second black person to earned a best director nomination. Daniels is also the first black director to earn a best picture nomination.

Answer 2

The first African-American filmmaker to be nominated for a Best Director Oscar was John Singleton for the 1991 drama "Boyz n the Hood." Singleton was 24 when he received the nomination and a second one for Best Original Screenplay. The film, however, was not nominated for Best Picture.

The first African-American filmmaker to receive a Best Director nomination for a film that received a Best Picture nod was Lee Daniels, whose 2009 drama "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" was nominated for six Oscars. It won for Best Supporting Actress (Mo'Nique) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Geoffrey Fletcher).

Answer 3

Gordon Parks was the first African American Hollywood director. His very first film was called The Learning Tree, which was released in 1969.

Answer 4

John Singleton was the youngest Oscar-nominated director and the first black nominated director. He was nominated as director and screenwriter of Boyz n the Hood (1991).

Answer 5

Hattie McDaniel, who won, for Best Supporting Actress in Gone with the Wind (1939).

Answer 6

No black film director has ever won an Oscar.

Answer 7

The first African-American to be nomited for an Academy Award, (who also was the first to win one,) was Hattie McDaniel, who played as "Mammy", in the Movie "Gone with the Wind".

Answer 8

32-year-old Norman Taurog for Skippy (1931).