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Jun 18, 2024 · Sidney Poitier (born February 20, 1927, Miami, Florida, U.S.—died January 6, 2022, Los Angeles, California) was a Bahamian American actor, director, and producer who broke the colour barrier in the U.S. motion-picture industry by becoming the first African American to win an Academy Award for best actor (for Lilies of the Field [1963]) and the first Black movie star.
Mar 7, 2023 · Julia Phillips was the first female producer to win an Oscar for best picture. She won for "The Sting" in 1973. Julia Phillips. Columbia TriStar/Courtesy of Getty Images. Phillips co-produced the ...
Mar 27, 2022 · In 2012, T.J. Martin won for Best Documentary Feature for Undefeated, and in 2013, Steve McQueen shared his Best Picture Oscar with his producing partners for 12 Years A Slave. In 2017, NBA legend Kobe Bryant won in the Best Animated Short Film category for Dear Basketball, and Jordan Peele won in the Best Original Screenplay category for Get Out.
Goldberg is the first African American winner, the first to win the Oscar as their second award, and the third person after Audrey Hepburn (1954) and Marvin Hamlisch (1974) to win two of their qualifying awards in the same year (she won both her Tony and her first competitive Emmy in 2002). Academy Awards:
Apr 10, 1984 · One of Mr. Roach's shorts won him an Oscar more than 50 years ago, the Laurel and Hardy two- reeler ''The Music Box'' in 1931-32. He also won another award, in 1936, for an Our Gang short, ''Bored ...
Feb 27, 2017 · The first film by a black director to win Best Picture was “Twelve Years a Slave” and not “Moonlight”, as your article says. THOMAS B. ABRUZZINI says: February 26, 2017 at 10:52 pm
Jan 25, 2024 · The Big Picture. David O. Selznick is the only person to have won the Academy Award for Best Picture two years in a row. The film Gone with the Wind was a huge box office success and won eight ...
