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Hattie McDaniel's performance as "Mammy" in _Gone with the Wind_ earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1939. The ceremony took place at the Coconut Grove nightclub in The Ambassador Hotel, which had a strict "no blacks" policy, [according](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/oscars-first-black-winner-accepted-774335) to The Hollywood Reporter, but a producer called in a special favor to have McDaniel allowed in the building. Still, the actress wasn't seated at the _Gone With The Wind_ cast table, but instead escorted to a small table against a far wall where she sat with her escort and her white agent.

Hattie McDaniel was the first Black person to win an Academy Award.

Who was the first Black person to win an Oscar?  
  


The film and TV icon received a Best Actress nomination for her star turn as Tina Turner in 1994's _What's Love Got to Do With It_.

Angela Bassett has received one Academy Award nomination.

Angela Bassett has been in at least 43 movies. How many nominations does she have?

Three 6 Mafia won a Best Original Song award for _Hustle & Flow_'s "Hard Out Here For A Pimp" in 2005, becoming the first hip hop group to do so. And in 2014, John Legend and Common won for _Selma_'s "Glory." Although Beyoncé has performed at several Oscar ceremonies, she has yet to receive a nomination for this award.

Beyoncé has never received (or been nominated for) Best Original Song.

Which of these musicians have NOT received an Oscar for Best Original Song?

In 2004, the acclaimed actor earned both a Best Actor nod (and win) for his portrayal of Ray Charles in _Ray_ and a Best Supporting Actor nod for his portrayal of Max Durocher in _Collateral_. Only 10 other actors — all white — have achieved this feat, including Jessica Lange, Emma Thompson, and Cate Blanchett.

Jamie Foxx is the first and only black actor to have received two acting nominations in the same year.

Who is the first and only black actor to have received two acting nominations in the same year?

The 1972 film earned Cicely Tyson and Paul Winfield a Best Actress and Best Actor nod, respectively.

_Sounder_ was the first film to feature black nominees for both Best Actor and Best Actress.

Which film was the first to feature black nominees for both Best Actor and Best Actress?

The Best Supporting Actress category has 24 black nominees, Best Actor has 23, Best Supporting Actor has 19, and Best Actress has 11.

The Best Music, Original Song category has the highest number of Black nominees (41) than any other category.

Which category has had the most Black nominees in Oscar history?

Angela Bassett received a Best Actress nod for1994's _What's Love Got to Do With It_; Daniel Kaluuya received a Best Actor nod in 2017 for his lead role in _Get Out_; Lupita Nyong'o received a Best Supporting Actress award in 2013 for her role in _12 Years A Slave_; and Forest Whitaker received a Best Actor award in 2006 for his lead role in _The Last King of Scotland_. And while _Black Panther_ is nominated for Best Picture this year, that category technically nominates the film's producers, not the cast.

Four members of the _Black Panther_ cast have received Oscar nominations.

How many people from the _Black Panther_ cast have received Oscar nominations in the past?

Ruth Carter became the first black person to be nominated for Best Costume Design in 1992. She and Sharen Davis (_Ray_ and _Dreamgirls_) are the only Black people who've ever been nominated for this category since its introduction in 1948.

Ruth Carter has received Best Costume Design nominations for _Malcolm X_ (1992), _Amistad_ (1997), and _Black Panther_ (2018).

Which movies has costume designer Ruth Carter been nominated for?

Dee Rees directed the critically-acclaimed film _Mudbound_, which garnered Mary J. Blige a Best Supporting Actress nomination in 2017 (Blige was also nominated for Best Music, Original Song that year for her performance of the film's track "Mighty Track"). Furthermore, Rees also became the first black woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Dees Rees is the first black woman to direct a film for which an actor or actress was nominated for an Academy Award.

Who became the first African-American woman to direct a film for which an actor or actress was nominated in 2017?

Quincy Jones received a Best Picture nod in 1985 for _The Color Purple_ (becoming the first Black producer to do so), two Best Music, Original Song nods (1967, 1985), two Best Music, Original Score nods (1967, 1985), and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1995.

Quincy Jones has the most combined nominations and wins.

Who has the most Oscar nominations and wins combined?

Marianne Jean-Baptiste was nominated for Best Actress in 1996 for her role as Hortense Cumberbatch in _Secrets & Lies_.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste is the first black British actress to have ever received an Academy Award nomination.

Which of these nominated actors was the first black Brit to receive a nomination?

In 1972, Diana Ross became the first black actress to receive an Academy Award nomination for a debut film performance for her lead role as Billie Holiday in 1972's _Lady Sings the Blues_. That nomination also made her the second ever black person nominated for Best Actress, after Dorothy Dandridge's nod in 1954.

Diana Ross received a Best Actress nomination for her debut film performance.

Which nominee received a nomination for their debut film performances?

Filmmaker Yance Ford earned a Best Documentary Feature nod in 2017 for his film _Strong Island_, becoming the first openly transgender man and director to be nominated for any Academy Award.

In 2017, Yance Ford became the first-ever openly transgender man nominated for an Oscar.

What year was the first openly transgender man nominated for an Oscar? And for what category?  
  


In 2015, two years after she became the Academy's first black president, Isaacs launched A2020, “a five-year plan to study practices at the Academy with the aim of improving the diversity of its own staff and governance while also bringing new voices into the organization,"[according](https://www.indiewire.com/2015/11/academy-launches-5-year-diversity-initiative-212421/) to IndieWire. "It is also intended to encourage and to push the industry to examine its hiring practices and to begin to make changes.”

Cheryl Boone Isaacs launched A2020 in 2015.

Which diversity initiative was launched by Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the Academy's first black president, in 2015?

As a result, Williams became the first and only black person to win consecutive Oscar awards in any category.

Russell Williams won Best Sound Mixing awards back-to-back for his work on 1989's _Glory_ and 1990's _Dancing With Wolves_.

Russell Williams won back-to-back Academy Awards in Sound Mixing for which films?

Both actresses are tied at three, with Spencer having three Best Supporting Actress nods (_The Help_, which she won, _The Shape of Water_, and _Hidden Figures_) and Davis having two Best Supporting Actress nods (_Doubt_ and _Fences_, which she won) and a Best Actress nod for _The Help_.) Spencer is also the first black actress to be nominated after previously winning and to be nominated two years in a row.

Octavia Spencer is tied with Octavia Spencer as the most nominated black actress ever.

Which actress is tied with Viola Davis as the most nominated black actress ever?

In 1983, actress and singer Irene Cara won Best Music, Original Song with Keith Forsey and Giorgio Moroder for her performance of "Flashdance... What a Feeling" for _Flashdance_.

Irene Cara is the first (and only) black woman to win a competitive, non-acting Academy Award.

How many black women have ever won an Oscar in a non-acting category?

In 1991, Singleton became the first black person to be nominated for Best Director and remains the youngest person ever nominated in this category.

John Singleton was 24-years-old when he was nominated for Best Director for _Boyz In The Hood_.

How old was John Singleton when he was nominated for Best Director for _Boyz In The Hood_?

A nine-year-old Wallis received the nomination in 1991, making her the first person born in the 21st century to receive an Academy Award nomination.

Quvenzhané Wallis became the youngest ever Best Actress nominee for her performance in _Beasts of the Southern Wild_.

Quvenzhané Wallis became the youngest actor ever nominated for Best Actress for her debut performance in which film?

Not only was de Passe the first black person ever nominated for that category, but she was also the first black person ever nominated for a screenwriting Oscar award. She and Dee Rees (2017's _Mudbound_) remain the only black women ever nominated in any screenwriting category.

In 1972, Suzanna de Passe became the first (and still only) black woman nominated for Best Writing (Original Screenplay).

In 1972, Suzanna de Passe became the first (and still only) black woman nominated for which category?

A previous version of this quiz incorrectly stated that three members of the Black Panther cast have received Academy Award nominations, when actually four have. My bad, y'all!!!

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