No black film director has ever won an Oscar.
Sydney Pollack won the Oscar for Best Director for the film Out of Africa.
Coppola won his only Oscar for Best Director for The Godfather: Part II (1974).
No black film directors have ever won an Oscar.
Wings (1927) is the first black and white film to win the Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Picture. It is also the only silent film to win Best Picture.
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Oscar Micheaux was the first major African American film director. He directed and produced more than 44 films from 1919 to 1948.
Coppola won his only Oscar for Best Director for The Godfather: Part II (1974).
Sydney Pollack won the Oscar for Best Director for the film Out of Africa.
No black film directors have ever won an Oscar.
Wings (1927) is the first black and white film to win the Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Picture. It is also the only silent film to win Best Picture.
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Kathryn Bigelow won a 2009 Best Director Oscar for her work on "The Hurt Locker." She won a second Oscar for co-producing the film, which was named Best Picture.
Oscar Micheaux was the first Independent Afro-American Director. He was also a novelist and owned his own company called Micheaux Film and Book Company.
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