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Second film to feature Black nominees for both Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress. First Muslim actor to win an Oscar. First time two African-American performers won in supporting role Oscars in the same year ( Viola Davis , Fences ).
Hattie McDaniel (June 10, 1893 – October 26, 1952) was an African-American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian. For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939), she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first African American to win an Oscar.
Spencer's roles as other black women in 1960s America, as Dorothy Vaughan in the biopic Hidden Figures (2016) and a cleaning woman in the fantasy The Shape of Water (2017), earned her two consecutive nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first black actress to achieve such feat, as well as the first, and to ...
At the 41st Academy Awards, Barbra Streisand and Katharine Hepburn received the same number of votes and thus tied for Best Actress (the only time this has occurred). Italian actress Sophia Loren became the first actor, in any category, to win for a foreign language performance in Two Women (1960).
Lupita Amondi Nyong'o (US: / l uː ˈ p iː t ə ˈ n j ɔː ŋ oʊ / loo-PEE-tə NYAWNG-oh, Swahili: [luˈpitɑ ˈɲɔŋɔ] ⓘ, Spanish: [luˈpita ˈɲoŋɡo]; born 1 March 1983) is an actress who has received various accolades, including an Academy Award and a Daytime Emmy Award, as well as nominations for two British Academy Film Awards, a Golden Globe Award and a Tony Award.
In the Academy Awards’ 95-year history, only six horror films have been nominated for best picture: “The Exorcist” (1973), “Jaws” (1975), “The Sixth Sense” (1999), “Black Swan ...
Academy Award for Best Costume Design [note 3] Year Name Film Status Notes 1948 [note 1] Black-and-White: Irene: B.F.'s Daughter: Nominated Among the inaugural nominees in costume categories. Color: Dorothy Jeakins Karinska: Joan of Arc: Won First women to win in costume categories. Among the inaugural nominees in costume categories. Edith Head ...
M. Eva Marcille; Brandi Chavonne Massey; Chenoa Maxwell; Lady May (rapper) X Mayo; Nomzamo Mbatha; Rose McClendon; Marilyn McCoo; Hattie McIntosh; Stephanie McKay