Sidney Howard who won Best Screenplay for Gone with the Wind (1939).
Peter Finch is the only posthumous winner of the Best Actor award, though he was alive when his nomination was announced (the only other posthumous winner in any acting category was another Australian, Heath Ledger, who won the Best Supporting Actor award in 2009). The only posthumously nominated performers for Best Actor were James Dean, Spencer Tracy, and Massimo Troisi. Dean was posthumously nominated twice.
Helen Hayes.
Sidney Poitier.
The first Black person to win an Oscar in the motion picture industry was Hattie McDaniel. She received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mammy in "Gone with the Wind" at the 12th Academy Awards held in 1940. McDaniel's historic win marked a significant moment in Oscar history, although she faced considerable racism and segregation during the ceremony.
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The answer is Green. Actually he was yellow for the first show and orange for almost the first month. My first experience was seeing an orange Oscar the Grouch singing I Love Trash.
Yes, for her Humanitarian work with UNICEF, making it her second Oscar, the first being awarded to her for 'Roman Holiday' (1953) :)
The German actor, Emil Jannings was the first person ever to be awarded an Oscar for Best Actor in 1929.
The first Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Documentary was awarded in 1942.
In 1976, Peter Finch died of a heart attack a couple of months before being awarded the Oscar for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in Network. He was the first actor to have won the award posthumously.
The first nomination and award for an Australia was in 1942 when Ken Hall and Damien Parer (posthumously) received an Oscar for their documentary Kokoda Front Line.
Captain Bernhard Warburton-Liegh RN at the first battle of Narvik April 10 1940
The first gold medals at the Olympics were not awarded until 1904. The first person that was awarded a gold medal was Charles Jewtraw.
He was the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and remains the only person to have two posthumous acting nominations (although other people had more than one posthumous nomination in other Oscar categories).
1940 - 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).
Yes, Emil Jannings was the first person to with the Oscar for Best Actor. Since this was the first Oscar presented at the first Academy Awards ceremony, he is also the firs man ever to win an Academy Award (Oscar).
It seems to have become traditional to present the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor first every night at the Academy Award (Oscar) ceremony.
Helen Hayes.