Hattie McDaniel was an African-American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian. Before she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, she made ...

Hattie McDaniel made history by being the first Black actor to win an Academy Award in 1940 for her role in "Gone with the Wind." Hattie McDaniel, the first Black Oscar winner, started her career ...

“Gone With the Wind” would win 10 Academy Awards, ... would earn an Academy Award for Best Actress. None of the Black actors in the film were allowed to the premiere at the segregated Lowe’s ...

Although Dorothy Dandridge did not win the award for Best Actress in 1954 at the 27th Academy Awards, she did become the first Black actress to be nominated in that category.

McDaniel, of course, was the first Black actor to ever win an Oscar. She won best supporting actress in the 1940 ceremony for her role as Mammy in Gone With the Wind .

Another awards season is winding down, and Halle Berry, who famously became the first Black woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2002 for her role in “Monster’s Ball,” has ...

Halle Berry continues to be disappointed with the Oscars as she remains the only Black performer to ever win the Academy Award for best actress. She took home the prize for “Monster’s Ball ...

The 97th Academy Awards were held on Sunday.; A few records were broken with this year's crop of winners. Adrien Brody joined an elite club of two-time best actor winners.

Halle Berry is opening up about being the first — and only — Black woman to have won the Oscar for best actress in the nearly 100-year history of the Academy Awards.. In the Apple TV+ ...

Hattie McDaniel was an African-American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian. Before she won an Academy Award for Best ...