Actually, there have been five black winners of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress:
Dorothy Dandridge, who was nominated for Best Actress of 1954.
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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).
There is no Academy Award for black actresses. But on March 24, 2002, Halle Berry became the first African-American woman to win the Best Actress award for her performance in "Monster's Ball" (2001).
Halle Berry won the 2001 Best Actress award for her performance in "Monster's Ball."
Yes. Hattie McDaniel was the first black person to be nominated for and receive an Academy Award. She won the Best Supporting Actress Award for her performance as Mammy in "Gone With the Wind" (1939).
Halle Berry, who won the 2001 Best Actress Oscar for her performance in "Monster's Ball."
Actually, there have been five black winners of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress:
Rani Mukerji for the film Black
Dorothy Dandridge, who was nominated for Best Actress of 1954.
Dorothy Dandridge, who was nominated for Best Actress of 1954.
Dorothy Dandridge.
Black
Hattie McDaniel, who won the 1939 Best Supporting Actress award for her performance as Mammy in "Gone With the Wind," was the first black to win an Academy Award.
Halle Berry won the 2001 Best Actress Oscar for her performance in "Monster's Ball."
Rani Mukerji – Black as Michelle McNally