A symbol for black performers in film since the '50's, he won an Oscar as Best Actor in '63
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List of black Academy Award winners and nominees - Wikipedia  Hattie McDaniel was the first African American to win an Academy Award. This list of black Academy Award winners and nominees is current as of the 88th Academy Awards ceremony held on February 28, 2016. Contents. [hide]. 1 Best Actor in a Leading Role; 2 Best Actress in a Leading Role; 3 Best ... First time two African-American performers won in leading role Oscars in the...
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Academy Awards Best Actor - Greatest Films  Eight actors have won the Best Actor Oscar twice: .... 1963-1984; Denzel Washington (4) - with one win (Training Day (2001)); highest .... In 1946, he won Best Supporting Actor and was voted an Honorary Oscar .... Some regard Denzel Washington as the first African-American performer to win Best Actor -- because previous...
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Actor Sidney Poitier made film history on April 13, 1964, when he ...  See more about Lilies Of The Field, Actors and Academy Awards. ... Here he is with his Oscar won for Best Actor in his role on the film Lilies of the Field (1963) ... Sidney Poitier:the first black Best Actor Oscar winner in 1963 for Lilies of the Field ... In 2002, thirty-eight years after receiving the Best Actor Award, Poitier was...
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Every African-American Oscar Winner Amid #OscarsSoWhite ...  Feb 27, 2016 ... With zero nonwhite actors nominated for Oscars for the second year in a row, The ... year after zero nonwhite performers were nominated in the acting categories ... The first African-American to win the best supporting actor Oscar took ... He also said he was sharing the award with the other four nominees,...
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Actors with the most Oscar nods, fewest wins | WRIC  Feb 28, 2016 ... He elevated his status as a character actor in the 1950s on ... Though she never won an Academy Award, Jane Alexander was ... After nearly every other A-list actress in Hollywood turned down the .... Far ahead of her time, she was a natural comedian and regarded as one of the best character actors to...
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2002: Oscar Makes History - CBS News  Mar 2, 2006 ... In 2002, Hollywood's top acting awards for the first time both went to African Americans. Halle Berry won Best Actress, for her work in "Monster's Ball," ... He was only the second black to win the award, following Sidney Poitier, ... Oscars host Whoopi Goldberg took almost immediate notice of the controversy.
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19 People Who Won Oscars For Their First Movie | Mental Floss  Feb 1, 2016 ... Lupita Nyong'o wasn't a total film novice when she landed the role of Patsey in Steve McQueen's Best Picture winner 12 Years a Slave (2013). ... But 12 Years a Slave marked her debut in front of the camera, and what a debut it was. ... At 10 years old, Tatum O'Neal was the youngest winner in history,...
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Sidney Poitier wins Best Actor Oscar for Lilies of the Field - Apr 13 ...  On this day in 1964, Sydney Poitier becomes the first African American to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his role as a construction worker who helps build a chapel in Lilies of the Field (1963).
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The End of Cinema: Movies Of The Year: 1973  Mar 1, 2006 ... Save The Tiger - Jack Lemmon won the best actor Oscar for his ... Businessman has a midlife crises in the 70s, yipee. ... But he eventually played the coach in Rudy 20 years later, so that's nice. 10. ... dialogue for them to speak (he did have help with the screenplay, but that didn't help in Episodes 2 and 3).
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Tom Jones: 1963 Best Picture  Fikkle Fame  Aug 16, 2014 ... 1963 is one of those years in film where movies that were not nominated ... FIELD $800: 1963 film in which Sidney Poitier played a handyman who ... film whose title comes from the flowers Jesus referred to in Matthew 6:28
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64th Academy Awards - Wikipedia  The 64th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 1991 in the United States and took place on March 30, 1992, ... and the Beast earned the first Best Picture nomination for an animated feature film. ..... The New York Times Company.
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Oscar Dances With 'Wolves' : Costner Film Leads Pack With 12 ...  Feb 14, 1991 ... "I'm glad 'Dances With Wolves' got all those nominations, but I'm just as glad for ourselves. ... Gerard Depardieu, who was included in the best actor competition. Depardieu plays the classic, love-torn title character in the film based ... first appeared in 1950 and earned actor Jose Ferrer the best actor Oscar.
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43 years later, Native American activist Sacheen Littlefeather reflects ...  Feb 27, 2016 ... At the 45th Annual Academy Awards in 1973, Marlon Brando was awarded ... you  that he very regretfully cannot accept this very generous award, ... She said after leaving the stage, she was escorted away by two security...
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George Kennedy poses April 10,1968 with his Oscar in Santa ...  He won the award for his role in the film "Cool Hand Luke. ... for his powerful performance won for best actor for "Elmer Gantry" 1960 he also won a ... Vintage photos show classic Hollywood stars at the Oscars ...... Gabriel Byrne (born 1950) Irish actor, film director, film producer, writer, ...... The Audrey Hepburn Look Book.
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Gandhi: 1982 Best Picture  Fikkle Fame  Sep 4, 2014 ... Gandhi won 8 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor, at the 55th Academy Awards. ... MOVIES $200: Dustin Hoffman & Alec Guinness were considered for this role that won an Oscar for Ben Kingsley
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'I always admired true artists, so I learned from them': The enigmatic ...  Oct 13, 2016 ... ... won Grammys, Golden Globes and Oscars; won the Nobel Prize in literature; ... "It's only natural to pattern yourself after someone," he says, opening a door on ..... in three landmark albums ("Bringing It All Back Home," "Highway 61 ... "Wonder Boys," "Things Have Changed," that won an Oscar in 2001 for...
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Humphrey Bogart - Biography - IMDb  In 1947, he joined wife Lauren Bacall and other actors protesting the House Un-American Activities Committee witch hunts. ... Bogie won the best actor Academy Award for The African Queen (1951) and was nominated for ..... [on Ingrid Bergman] "I didn't do anything I've never done before, but when the camera moves in on...
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Halle, Denzel Make Oscar history - ABC News  Halle, Denzel Make Oscar history. ... March 24, 2002 ... Halle Berry became the first African-American to win the Best Actress Oscar and Denzel ... Berry burst into tears as she accepted her award for her daring role as the widow of a ... Whoopi Goldberg, hosting her fourth Oscar show, made a grand entrance from the ceiling.
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Sidney Poitier - Wikipedia  Poitier was the first male actor of African descent to be nominated for a competitive Academy Award (for The Defiant Ones, 1958). He was also the first actor of African descent to win the Academy Award for Best Actor (for Lilies of the Field in 1963).
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5 Great Oscar-Winning Songs Through The Years  WCBS-FM 101.1  Feb 22, 2013 ... Introduced at the 7th annual Academy Awards in 1934, the category of Best ... 1971: Theme from Shaft, Shaft ... Hayes also made history as the first African-American to pick up an Academy Award for a non-acting category. ... gave Sir Elton John his first and only Oscar win in the Best Song category, and...
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Out of Africa: 1985 Best Picture  Fikkle Fame  Sep 7, 2014 ... Out of Africa won 7 Oscars at the 58th Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director, but it did not win any of the acting Oscars. The other Best ... THE CANINE FILM FESTIVAL $1000: Lasse Hallstrom received an Oscar nomination for directing this 1985 film about a Swedish boy in the 1950s