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How Many African American Oscar winners have there been?

01 May

Never actually thought about it. Does anyone know?

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  1. The Go To Guy

    May 1, 2010 at 1:02 pm

    All of them.

     
  2. Rose

    May 1, 2010 at 1:44 pm

    Unfortunately not as many as there should be. But I do know from Entertainment magazine there was an article recently talking about there is a special event right before the Oscars just to honor African American actors/actresses.

     
  3. lucky b

    May 1, 2010 at 2:01 pm

    The whiteys rule the oscars never gonna be more than a token award now and then.
    :)

     
  4. coco lopez

    May 1, 2010 at 2:27 pm

    i think 4

     
  5. Moviequeen

    May 1, 2010 at 2:49 pm

    Hattie McDaniel, Sidney Potier, Whoopi Goldberg, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Jaime Foxx, Morgan Freeman and Three Six Mafia.

     
  6. ssgilmer

    May 1, 2010 at 3:21 pm

    List of black Academy Award winners and nominees
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    The following is a list of persons of African descent who have been winners and nominees of Academy Awards from 1929 to the present.

    Contents [hide]
    1 Best Supporting Actress
    2 Best Supporting Actor
    3 Best Actress
    4 Best Actor
    5 Honorary Award
    6 Best Director
    7 Best Picture
    8 Best Documentary, Feature
    9 Best Short Film, Live Action
    10 Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
    11 Best Screenplay Adaptation
    12 Best Original Song
    13 Best Music Score
    14 Best Costume Design
    15 Best Film Editing
    16 Best Sound
    17 Best Sound Effects Editing
    18 Best Cinematography

    [edit] Best Supporting Actress
    1939: Hattie McDaniel, Gone with the Wind (winner)
    1948: Ethel Waters, Pinky
    1959: Juanita Moore, Imitation of Life
    1967: Beah Richards, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
    1983: Alfre Woodard, Cross Creek
    1985: Margaret Avery, The Color Purple
    1985: Oprah Winfrey, The Color Purple
    1990: Whoopi Goldberg, Ghost (winner)
    1996: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Secrets and Lies
    2002: Queen Latifah, Chicago
    2004: Sophie Okonedo, Hotel Rwanda
    2006: Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls

    [edit] Best Supporting Actor
    1969: Rupert Crosse, The Reivers
    1981: Howard E. Rollins Jr., Ragtime
    1982: Louis Gossett Jr., An Officer and a Gentleman (winner)
    1984: Adolph Caesar, A Soldier’s Story
    1987: Morgan Freeman, Street Smart
    1987: Denzel Washington, Cry Freedom
    1989: Denzel Washington, Glory (winner)
    1992: Jaye Davidson, The Crying Game
    1994: Samuel L. Jackson, Pulp Fiction
    1996: Cuba Gooding Jr., Jerry Maguire (winner)
    1999: Michael Clarke Duncan, The Green Mile
    2003: Djimon Hounsou, In America
    2004: Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby (winner)
    2004: Jamie Foxx, Collateral
    2006: Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond
    2006: Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls

    [edit] Best Actress
    1954: Dorothy Dandridge, Carmen Jones
    1972: Diana Ross, Lady Sings the Blues
    1972: Cicely Tyson, Sounder
    1974: Diahann Carroll, Claudine
    1985: Whoopi Goldberg, The Color Purple
    1993: Angela Bassett, What’s Love Got to Do with It
    2001: Halle Berry, Monster’s Ball (winner)

    [edit] Best Actor
    1958: Sidney Poitier, The Defiant Ones
    1963: Sidney Poitier, Lilies of the Field (winner)
    1970: James Earl Jones, The Great White Hope
    1972: Paul Winfield, Sounder
    1986: Dexter Gordon, ‘Round Midnight
    1989: Morgan Freeman, Driving Miss Daisy
    1992: Denzel Washington, Malcolm X
    1993: Laurence Fishburne, What’s Love Got to Do with It
    1994: Morgan Freeman, The Shawshank Redemption
    1999: Denzel Washington, Hurricane
    2001: Denzel Washington, Training Day (winner)
    2001: Will Smith, Ali
    2004: Don Cheadle, Hotel Rwanda
    2004: Jamie Foxx, Ray (winner)
    2005: Terrence Howard, Hustle & Flow
    2006: Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness
    2006: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

    [edit] Honorary Award
    1948: James Baskett, for his characterization of Uncle Remus in Song of the South
    1995: Quincy Jones, Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
    2002: Sidney Poitier

    [edit] Best Director
    1991: John Singleton, Boyz n the Hood

    [edit] Best Picture
    1985: Quincy Jones (producer), The Color Purple

    [edit] Best Documentary, Feature
    1997: Spike Lee (director) and Samuel D. Pollard (Producer), 4 Little Girls
    2004: Karolyn Ali (producer), Tupac: Resurrection

    [edit] Best Short Film, Live Action
    1991: David Massey, Last Breeze of Summer
    1995: Dianne Houston, Tuesday Morning Ride

    [edit] Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
    1972: Suzanne De Passe, Lady Sings the Blues
    1989: Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing
    1991: John Singleton, Boyz n the Hood

    [edit] Best Screenplay Adaptation
    1972: Lonne Elder III, Sounder
    1984: Charles Fuller, A Soldier’s Story

    [edit] Best Original Song
    1967: Quincy Jones and Bob Russell, Banning
    1968: Quincy Jones and Bob Russell, For Love of Ivy
    1971: Isaac Hayes, Shaft (winner)
    1981: Lionel Richie, Endless Love
    1983: Irene Cara, Flashdance (winner)
    1984: Stevie Wonder, The Woman in Red (winner)
    1984: Ray Parker Jr., Ghostbusters
    1985: Lionel Richie, White Nights (winner)
    1985: Quincy Jones and Lionel Richie, The Color Purple
    1987: Jonas Gwangwa, Cry Freedom
    1988: Lamont Dozier, Buster
    1993: Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis and Janet Jackson, Poetic Justice
    1994: James Ingram, Beethoven’s 2nd
    1995: James Ingram, Junior
    2005: Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman, and Paul Beauregard, Hustle & Flow (winner)
    2006: Siedah Garrett, Dreamgirls

    [edit] Best Music Score
    1961: Duke Ellington, Paris Blues
    1967: Quincy Jones, In Cold Blood
    1971: Isaac Hayes, Shaft
    1978: Quincy Jones, The Wiz
    1984: Prince, Purple Rain (winner)
    1985: Quincy Jones, [et al.], The Color Purple
    1986: Herbie Hancock, ‘Round Midnight (winner)
    1987: Jonas Gwangwa, Cry Freedom

    [edit] Best Costume Design
    1992: Ruth E. Carter, Malcolm X
    1997: Ruth E. Carter, Amistad
    2004: Sharen Davis, Ray
    2006: Sharen Davis, Dreamgirls

    [edit] Best Film Editing
    1969: Hugh A. Robertson, Midnight Cowboy

    [edit] Best Sound
    1978: Willie D. Burton, The Buddy Holly Story
    1980: Willie D. Burton, Altered States
    1983: Willie D. Burton, Wargames
    1988: Willie D. Burton, Bird (winner)
    1989: Russell Williams II, Glory (winner)
    1990: Russell Williams II, Dances With Wolves (winner)
    1994: Willie D. Burton, The Shawshank Redemption
    1999: Willie D. Burton, The Green Mile
    2006: Willie D. Burton, Dreamgirls

    [edit] Best Sound Effects Editing
    1992: Lee Lemont, Under Siege
    1993: Lee Lemont, The Fugitive
    1994: Lee Lemont, Clear and Present Danger

    [edit] Best Cinematography
    1998: Remi Adefarasin, Elizabeth
    Retrieved from “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_black_Academy_Award_winners_and_nominees”

     
 

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