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Mar 29, 2024 · FILE - Louis Gossett Jr., poses with the Oscar for best supporting actor for his role in “An Officer and a Gentleman,” at the annual Academy Awards presentation in Los Angeles on April 11, 1983. Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries “Roots,” has died.
Jan 7, 2022 · In addition to Washington’s award, Berry’s watershed win came the same night as an honorary Oscar for Sidney Poitier, who became the first Black man to win a best actor Oscar in 1964.
Feb 19, 2015 · Hattie McDaniel was named best supporting actress at the 12th Academy Awards in 1940, making history by being the first black actor to win — or be nominated — for an Oscar.. Wearing a ...
Mar 13, 2023 · Carter made history as the first Black woman to win an Oscar for costume design in 2019; she had received earlier nominations for Spike Lee’s “Malcolm X” and Steven Spielberg’s “Amistad
Jan 7, 2022 · Remembering the Hollywood trailblazer and first Black man to win a Best Actor Oscar. By. Mark Harris. Mark Harris. Columnist. EW's editorial guidelines. Published on January 7, 2022 12:36PM EST.
Meet the First Black Actor to Win an Oscar. Sidney Poitier was an actor, film director, writer and American diplomat. Most notably, he was the first African American actor (not actress) in history to win an Oscar — but he was nominated twice. Poitier was born in 1927 in Miami, Florida but was raised in the Bahamas.
Jan 7, 2022 · While Hattie McDaniel and Whoopi Goldberg won Best Supporting Actress Oscars in 1940 and 1991, respectively, Berry was the first Black woman to win the Best Actress Oscar in 2002.
