The Oscars In Black And White - African American actors and the Academy Awards

Ebony, April, 2000 by Aldore Collier

Black Nominated For Best Actor or Best Actress Awards

NAME                  MOVIE                             YEAR

DOROTHY DANDRIDGE     Carmen Jones                      1954

SIDNEY POITIER        The Defiant Ones                  1958

SIDNEY POITIER        Lilies of the Field               1963

JAMES EARL JONES      The Great White Hope              1970

DIANA ROSS            Lady Sings The Blues              1972

CICELY TYSON          Sounder                           1972

DIAHANN CARROLL       Claudine                          1974

WHOOPI GOLDBERG       The Color Purple                  1985

DEXTER GORDON         'Round Midnight                   1986

MORGAN FREEMAN        Driving Miss Daisy                1989

DENZEL WASHINGTON     Malcolm X                         1992

LAURENCE FISHBURNE    What's Love Got To Do With It     1993

ANGELA BASSETT        What's Love Got To Do With It     1993

MORGAN FREEMAN        The Shawshank Redemption          1994

DENZEL WASHINGTON     The Hurricane                     2000

NAME                  WINNER

DOROTHY DANDRIDGE     Grace Kelly
                      (Country Girl)
SIDNEY POITIER        David Niven
                      (Separate Tables)
SIDNEY POITIER        Sidney Poitier

JAMES EARL JONES      George C Scott
                      (Patton)
DIANA ROSS            Liza Minnelli
                      (Cabaret)
CICELY TYSON          Liza Minnelli

DIAHANN CARROLL       Ellen Burstyn
                      (Alice Doesn't Live
                      Here Anymore)
WHOOPI GOLDBERG       Geraldine Page
                      (The Trip To
                      Bountiful)
DEXTER GORDON         Paul Newman
                      (The Color of Money)
MORGAN FREEMAN        Daniel Day-Lewis
                      (My Left Foot)
DENZEL WASHINGTON     Al Pacino
                      (Scent of a Woman)
LAURENCE FISHBURNE    Tom Hanks
                      (Philadelphia)
ANGELA BASSETT        Holly Hunter
                      (The Piano)
MORGAN FREEMAN        Tom Hanks
                      (Forrest Gump)
DENZEL WASHINGTON     --