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  2. Lee is the first Black filmmaker to win a competitive Oscar after receiving an Honorary Academy Award. Along with Barry Jenkins nominated the same year for If Beale Street Could Talk, Lee and Jenkins are the first two black people to be nominated for screenwriting twice. Barry Jenkins If Beale Street Could Talk: If Beale Street Could Talk

  3. Feb 27, 2016 · In 2002, Denzel Washington and Halle Berry famously became the first black actors to win both lead acting awards in the same year, incidentally the same night that Sidney Poitier, the first...

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  4. For her performance as the house servant who repeatedly scolds her owner's daughter, Scarlett O'Hara ( Vivien Leigh ), and scoffs at Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), McDaniel won the 1939 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first Black actor to have been nominated and win an Oscar.

  5. Apr 2, 2014 · Actress and radio performer Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to win an Oscar in 1940, for her supporting role as Mammy in 'Gone with the Wind.' Updated: Apr 15, 2021. Photo:...

  6. Feb 22, 2018 · In 2018, EW profiled Gone With the Wind star Hattie McDaniel, who made history as the first Black actor to win an Oscar. McDaniel's award has been lost for decades, but in September 2023, the...

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  7. May 16, 2020 · Hattie McDaniel made history in 1940 when she became the first black person to win an Oscar for her role as Mammy in "Gone With The Wind." McDaniel appeared in around 300 films and was credited as a maid in 74 of them.

  8. Jan 19, 2007 · Hattie McDaniel Beulah, August 22, 1951. Public domain image by CBS Radio. Hattie McDaniel is best known as the first black Oscar winner. She won the award on February 29, 1940, for Best Supporting Actress for her role as “Mammy” in Gone With the Wind. McDaniel’s career began three decades earlier.

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