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First Black actor to direct himself to an Oscar nomination (for acting only). First Black actor to be nominated for both acting and producing (Best Picture) in the same year. 2017: Roman J. Israel, Esq. Roman J. Israel Nominated First Black actor to be nominated two years in a row (nominated the same years as first Black actress). Daniel Kaluuya
Hattie McDaniel, the first Black actor or actress to win an Academy Award in 1940 for "Gone with the Wind.". Sidney Poitier, the first Black man to win an Oscar in 1964 for "Lilies of the Field ...
The major award categories, known as the Academy Awards of Merit, [5] are presented during a live-televised Hollywood ceremony in February or March. It is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony. [1] The 1st Academy Awards were held in 1929. [6] The second ceremony, in 1930, was the first one broadcast by radio.
The 1st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and hosted by AMPAS president Douglas Fairbanks, honored the best films from 1 August 1927 to 31 July 1928 and took place on May 16, 1929, at a private dinner held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Tickets cost $5 ...
He also holds the second-most Oscar wins after Disney, eleven total for Best Art Direction, beginning with 1929's The Bridge of San Luis Rey and ending with 1956's Somebody Up There Likes Me ...
Academy President Douglas Fairbanks emceed the event on May 16, 1929, where gold statuettes – designed a year earlier by MGM’s art director, Cedric Gibbons – were handed out in 12 ...
The 1970s Black variant sought to tell Black stories with Black actors to Black audiences, but they were usually not produced by African Americans. As Junius Griffin, the president of the Hollywood branch of the NAACP , wrote in a New York Times op-ed in 1972: "At present, Black movies are a 'rip off' enriching major white film producers and a ...
Racial issues have plagued the film industry for decades, as highlighted by the first black Academy Award winner, Hattie McDaniel. McDaniel won the award in 1940 for her portrayal of a slave named ...