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  2. List of black Academy Award winners and nominees - Wikipedia

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    Youngest African-American to win an Academy Award (age 25) First film to feature African-American nominees for both Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress. 2007: Ruby Dee: American Gangster: Mama Lucas Nominated At age 83, oldest African-American actress to be nominated for an Academy Award. 2008: Viola Davis: Doubt: Mrs. Miller ...

  3. Sidney Poitier - Wikipedia

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    Sidney Poitier (/ ˈ p w ɑː t j eɪ / PWAH-tyay; [1] February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, activist, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first Black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. [2]

  4. Hattie McDaniel - Wikipedia

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    Hattie McDaniel (June 10, 1893 – October 26, 1952) was an African-American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian. For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939), she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first African American to win an Oscar.

  5. Lilies of the Field (1963 film) - Wikipedia

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    Sidney Poitier became the first African-American actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor and the second African-American Oscar winner overall (after Hattie McDaniel won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Gone with the Wind in 1939). [16] [a] Also, the film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:

  6. Timeline of African-American firsts - Wikipedia

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    First African-American man to win an Oscar: Sidney Poitier (Best Actor, Lillies of the Field, 1963) First movie with African-American interracial marriage: One Potato, Two Potato, [240] actors Bernie Hamilton and Barbara Barrie, written by Orville H. Hampton, Raphael Hayes, directed by Larry Peerce

  7. 36th Academy Awards - Wikipedia

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    Poitier had been aware of the significance of Hattie McDaniel having won an Oscar in the 1940 ceremony at the time that he accepted his Best Actor Oscar, and he was the only winner present at the ceremony. [1] It would take almost forty years for another African-American male to win Best Actor, when Denzel Washington won in 2001 for Training ...

  8. List of African Academy Award winners and nominees

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    First African film to win an Academy Award. 1976: Black and White in Color: Jean-Jacques Annaud: Won 1983: Le Bal: Ettore Scola: Nominated 1995: Dust of Life: Rachid Bouchareb: Nominated 2004: Yesterday: Darrell Roodt: Nominated 2005: Tsotsi: Gavin Hood: Won First African film in a language other than French to win in this category. 2006: Days ...

  9. Dorothy Dandridge - Wikipedia

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    Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922 – September 8, 1965) was an American actress and singer. She was the first African-American film star to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Carmen Jones (1954). [1] Dandridge had also performed as a vocalist in venues such as the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater.