How Many African American Oscar winners have there been?

Question

Never actually thought about it. Does anyone know?

Answer 1

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
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Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

The African American Actors who have won Academy Awards (Oscars)
1.1939 Hattie McDaniel for Gone With the Wind
Best Supporting Actress
2.1963 Sidney Poitier for Lilies of the Field
Best Actor
3.1982 Louis Gossett, Jr. for An Officer and a Gentlemen
Best Supporting Actor
4.1989 Denzel Washington for Glory
Best Supporting Actor
5.1990 Whoopi Goldberg for Ghost
Best Supporting Actress
6.1996 Cuba Gooding, Jr. for Jerry Maguire
Best Supporting Actor
7.2001 Denzel Washington for Training Day
Best Actor
8.2001 Halle Berry for Monster s Ball
Best Actress
9.2004 Jamie Foxx for Ray
Best Actor
10.2004 Morgan Freeman for Million Dollar Baby
Best Supporting Actor
11.2006 Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland
Best Actor
12.2006 Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls
Best Supporting Actress
13.2009 Mo Nique for Precious
Best Supporting Actress

Answer 4

African individuals are not "continuously" triumphing Oscars purely 2 gained final nighttime,besides what distinction does it make what colour the winner became besides.Forrest Whitaker has continuously been an miraculous actor. I easily have not seen one action picture that he wasn't great in and Jennifer Hudson is a organic. there are a number of great actors of all nationality. needless to say the international isn't changing if persons are nevertheless asking those form of questions.

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

OSCAR WINNERS 2014 http://yourworld-life.blogspot.in/2014/03/oscars-winners-list-2014-86th-academy.html

Answer 7

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

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Answer 8

i think 4

Answer 9

All of them.