List of black Academy Award winners and nominees

Hattie McDaniel was the first African American to win an Academy Award, in 1940.

This list of Black Academy Award winners and nominees is fully current as the 95th Academy Awards, which was held on March 12, 2023.

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Best Animated Feature

Best Cinematography

Best Costume Design

Best Director

Best Documentary Feature

Best Documentary Short Subject

Best Film Editing

Best International Feature Film

In the International Feature Film category (formerly known as Best Foreign Language Film), although the Oscar is presented to and accepted by the film's director, the submitting country is officially credited as the nominee, not the director.^[4] The following is a list of films directed by Black people which have been nominated for Best International Feature Film.

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Best Music, Original Score

Best Music, Original Song

Best Picture

Best Production Design

Best Short Film (Animated)

Best Short Film (Live Action)

Best Sound

Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Best Writing (Original Screenplay)

Special awards

Nominees by decade (acting categories)

See also

• Film portal

• Cheryl Boone Isaacs, first African-American president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (but not herself an Oscar winner or nominee)
• List of African Academy Award winners and nominees
• List of African-American Tony nominees and winners
• List of Asian Academy Award winners and nominees
• List of Black Golden Globe Award winners and nominees
• List of Hispanic-American (U.S.) Academy Award winners and nominees
• List of indigenous Academy Award winners and nominees

References

1. Cohn, Gabe (March 12, 2023). "Oscars 2023 Winners: The Complete List". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 13, 2023.
2. Saad, Nardine (February 24, 2019). "Oscars 2019: 'Black Panther's' Ruth E. Carter makes the record book with costume design win". Los Angeles Times.
3. "Ruth Carter makes history as the first Black woman to take home two Academy Awards". Los Angeles Times. March 13, 2023. Retrieved March 13, 2023.
4. "93rd Academy Awards of Merit" (PDF). Oscars.org. January 12, 2021. p. 20. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 2, 2020. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
5. Giardina, Carolyn (April 25, 2021). "Oscars: Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson Make History With Makeup and Hairstyling Win". Hollywood Reporter.
6. Cohn, Gabe (March 12, 2023). "Oscars 2023 Winners: The Complete List". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 13, 2023.
7. Cohn, Gabe (March 12, 2023). "Oscars 2023 Winners: The Complete List". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 13, 2023.
8. Rachel Withers (January 23, 2018). "The 2018 Oscar nominees include these historic firsts". Slate.com. Retrieved January 24, 2018.

General sources

• "Winners and Nominees". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved September 21, 2011.