Did you know that Dorothy Dandridge was the first Black to receive a Oscar Nomination for Best Actress ?

Did you know that:















Hattie McDaniel, was the first black supporting actress, to win an Oscar for Gone with the Wind in 1940.







Sidney Poitier was the first black actor to win an Oscar for Best Actress for Lilies of the Field in 1963.








Halle Berry was the first Black to receive a Oscar for Best Actress for Monster's Ball in 2001.








Dorothy Dandridge was the first Black to receive a Oscar Nomination for Best Actress for Carmen Jones in 1954.








The First Black Film director Oscar Micheaux, in 1919, wrote, directed, and produced The Homesteader, a feature film.








Gordon Parks was the First black Hollywood director who directed and wrote The Learning Tree for Warner Brothers in 1969.








Nat King Cole, 1956, became the first black television host "The Nat King Cole Show";









Oprah Winfrey became the first black woman television host in 1986, "The Oprah Winfrey Show."








Bill Cosby, was the first black Star of a network television show: in 1965, "I Spy".