[DOC] [TLE] List of black Academy Award winners and nominees - Wikipedia [PAR] 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... [DOC] [TLE] Every African-American Oscar Winner Amid #OscarsSoWhite ... [PAR] 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,... [DOC] [TLE] Academy Awards Best Actor - Greatest Films [PAR] 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... [DOC] [TLE] Actor Sidney Poitier made film history on April 13, 1964, when he ... [PAR] 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... [DOC] [TLE] Actors with the most Oscar nods, fewest wins | WRIC [PAR] 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... [DOC] [TLE] Blacks Actors of the 1950's and 1960s by Ryan Garcia [PAR] black actors were depicted in stereotypical roles such as the butler, chauffeurs, ... 
The Harlem Renaissance was unique because of the opportunity .... the first 
African American to win the Academy for Best Actor in 1963 ... While Sidney 
strived to break down the walls of racism in film he like ... won his Oscar for Best 
Actor. [DOC] [TLE] 1000+ ideas about Academy Award Winning Movies on Pinterest ... [PAR] Actors .... Sidney Poitier was the first Black actor to win the Academy Award for 
Best ... holds her best-supporting-actress Oscar for her role in the 1963 film "The 
Miracle Worker". .... John Wayne when he won his Oscar for True Gritt - April 7th, 
1970 ... while holding an Oscar that she had just received because of her 
wonderful... [DOC] [TLE] Blackface! - The History of Racist Blackface Stereotypes [PAR] The mask which the actor wears is apt to become his face -- Plato ... White 
America's conceptions of Black entertainers were shaped by minstrelsy's ... best 
known for her Oscar-winning role as "Mammy" in Gone With the Wind. .... In the 
film, his character is a black prostitute who is forced to go on the run after he 
saves a... [DOC] [TLE] Actors | The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed [PAR] James Baskett, the first male African American to win an Academy Award, was 
born in ... Baskett was not confined to film and theater; he also played Gabby 
Gibson, .... Paul Robeson is best known as a world famous athlete, singer, actor, 
and ...... and sex symbol in Micheaux's films) and Julia (later a Broadway 
performer),... [DOC] [TLE] Bi.org  Famous Bi People [PAR] He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Colonel Nicholson in 
The .... She remarked "I don't

Question: A symbol for black performers in film since the '50's, he won an Oscar as Best Actor in '63
Answer: Sidney Poitier