Up until 2012, Barbra Streisand is the only woman to have won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director.
The first black woman to win an Academy Award was Hattie McDaniel, who received the 1939 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as Mammy in "Gone With the Wind." The first black woman to win the Best Actress Oscar was Halle Berry, who won for her 2001 performance as Leticia Musgrove in "Monster's Ball."
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in 1983 the Arjuna award went to Ms. D. Edulji. She became the first Indian women cricketer to win the Arjuna Award.after that mithali raj has also won the arjuna award.
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).Other firsts for African Americans at the Academy AwardsJames 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)Dorothy Dandridgewas the first African-American woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Carmen Jones (1954)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).John Singleton was the first African American nominated for a Best Director Academy Award for his work on Boyz N The Hood (1991)Halle Berry was the first African-American to win the Best Actress award. She won for her role in Monster's Ball(2001).
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her first performance was at a basketball game and it was in 2001
In 1950, Juanita Hall became the first African-American woman to win a Tony Award in the supporting actress category. She won the award for her performance as Bloody Mary in South Pacific.In 2004, Phylicia Rashad became the first African-American woman to win a Tony Award in lead actress category. She won the award for her performance of the hardened matriarch Lena Younger in the revival of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun.
It was Hattie McDaniel, who won the 1939 Best Supporting Actress award for her performance as Mammy in "Gone With the Wind."
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Up until 2012, Barbra Streisand is the only woman to have won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director.
Ashok Kumar won the first lifetime achievement award for cinema.
He won his first award at the NJA :P
Do Bigha Zamin won the first Filmfare Award for Best Movie in 1954.
the year justin won his first award was in late 2008. he won for his first platinum hit One Time.
It was Halle Berry, who won for her performance in "Monster's Ball" (2001).
The award was first won in 1970