The Oscars!

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Originally Posted by madformac

http://www.filmsite.org/bestactor.html

About halfway down the page.

THANKS!!!!!!

Here is what it said:

African-American Notables:

There have only been fourteen African-American nominations for Best Actor. Three actors (Poitier, Freeman, and Washington) were nominated twice (or more) for the top award:

Sidney Poitier, nominated for The Defiant Ones (1958)

Sidney Poitier, nominated (and winning) for Lilies of the Field (1963)

James Earl Jones, nominated for The Great White Hope (1970)

Paul Winfield, nominated for Sounder (1972)

Dexter Gordon, nominated for 'Round Midnight (1986)

Morgan Freeman, nominated for Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

Denzel Washington, nominated for Malcolm X (1992)

Laurence Fishburne, nominated for What's Love Got to Do With It (1993)

Morgan Freeman, nominated for The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Denzel Washington, nominated for The Hurricane (1999)

Will Smith, nominated for Ali (2001)

Denzel Washington, nominated (and winning) for Training Day (2001)

Don Cheadle, nominated for Hotel Rwanda (2004)

Jamie Foxx, nominated (and winning) for Ray (2004)

In total, there have only been 17 different African-American performers nominated for the top award (either Best Actor or Best Actress). In all films considered for Academy Awards from 1927/8 up through year 2004 films, performances by black actors/actresses received only 45 acting nominations (in either lead or supporting roles) if one counts West African Djimon Hounsou's Best Supporting Actor nomination in 2003. Only ten awards have been won by African-Americans in both lead and supporting categories (three Best Actor, one Best Actress, four Best Supporting Actor, and two Best Supporting Actress).

Four/five of the 20 acting nominees in 2004 were African-American nominees, besting the record of three nominated blacks that occurred in three different years: in 2001 (the year that both Halle Berry and Denzel Washington won Oscars), in 1985 when three were nominated for The Color Purple (1985), and in 1972 when Diana Ross was nominated for Lady Sings the Blues (1972) and Cicely Tyson and Paul Winfield were nominated for Sounder (1972). Jamie Foxx also set a record for being the first black to debut as a nominee in two categories in the same year, lead and supporting, for Ray (2004) and Collateral (2004).

Only four black performers have won the Oscar in the lead category (three Best Actor, one Best Actress). Only three African-American actors have won the Best Actor Oscar:

Sidney Poitier for Lilies of the Field (1963)
Denzel Washington for Training Day (2001)
Jamie Foxx for Ray (2004)
Denzel Washington is the only black actor nominated five times for Best Actor or Best Supporting Actor. He is the only black actor to have won two competitive Oscars (as Best Supporting Actor for Glory (1989) and as Best Actor for Training Day (2001)).

The first time that two African-American actors were nominated for Best Actor in the same year was in 2001:

Will Smith for Ali (2001)
Denzel Washington for Training Day (2001)
This also re-occurred in 2004, when black actors Don Cheadle (for Hotel Rwanda (2004)) and Jamie Foxx (for Ray (2004)) were nominated for Best Actor. Morgan Freeman's Best Supporting Actor win for Million Dollar Baby (2004), paired with Jamie Foxx's Best Actor win for Ray (2004), made it only the second time blacks won two of the four acting prizes [the first time was in 2001 with Halle Berry and Denzel Washington. It was the first time that African-American actors won both of their acting categories.]

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Then:

African-American Notables:

There have been only seven African-American actresses nominated for Best Actress. All nominees were nominated only once:

Dorothy Dandridge, nominated for Carmen Jones (1954)
Diana Ross, nominated for Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
Cicely Tyson, nominated for Sounder (1972)
Diahann Carroll, nominated for Claudine (1974)
Whoopi Goldberg, nominated for The Color Purple (1985)
Angela Bassett, nominated for What's Love Got to Do With It (1993)
Halle Berry, nominated (and winning) for Monster's Ball (2001)
In total, there have only been 17 different African-American performers nominated for the top award (either Best Actor or Best Actress). In all films considered for Academy Awards from 1927/8 up through year 2004 films, performances by black actors/actresses received only 45 acting nominations (in either lead or supporting roles), if one counts West African Djimon Hounsou's nomination in 2003. Only ten awards have been won by African-Americans in both lead and supporting categories (three Best Actor, one Best Actress, four Best Supporting Actor, and two Best Supporting Actress).

Four/five of the 20 acting nominees in 2004 were African-American nominees, besting the record of three nominated blacks that occurred in three different years: in 2001 (the year that both Halle Berry and Denzel Washington won Oscars), in 1985 when three were nominated for The Color Purple (1985), and in 1972 when Diana Ross was nominated for Lady Sings the Blues (1972) and Cicely Tyson and Paul Winfield were nominated for Sounder (1972). Morgan Freeman's Best Supporting Actor win for Million Dollar Baby (2004), paired with Foxx's Best Actor win for Ray (2004), made it only the second time blacks won two of the four acting prizes [the first time was in 2001 with Halle Berry and Denzel Washington.]

Only four black performers have won the Oscar in the lead category (three Best Actor, one Best Actress).

Only one African-American actress has ever won the Best Actress Oscar:

Halle Berry (with her first nomination) for Monster's Ball (2001)
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I did not get the supporting actor and actress ones.

In the end, I think it reflects a progression ahead of the population. But, I wish it would go faster. Interestingly and hitting on what Chili mentioned earlier, if the studios do not put them up for it in a part, they cannot be nominated and, sadly, all black films do not sell as well or are comedy, which rarely gets the statute.