ABCNEWS.com. After Octavia Spencer won the Academy Award for best supporting actress, Jennifer Hudson, who won the same award in 2006, was first to welcome her into the very exclusive club of black women Oscar winners. Yes!!!! Welcome to the family Octavia!! Congrats!!! Amazing!! she tweeted Sunday night.
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. . one answer at a time. Hattie McDaniel won Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Mammy in 'Gone With the Wind' (1939). Sidney Poitier was first to win a Best Actor Oscar for the movie 'Lilies of the Field' (1963).
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However, Javier Bardem was the first Spanish-b … orn actor to win an Oscar for his supporting work in No Country for Old Men.     A year later, Penelope Cruz became the first Spanish-born actress to win an Oscar for her supporting work in Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
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The first actor to win an Academy Award (Oscar) was Emil Jannings. He won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1929 for his work in The Way of All Flesh and The Last Command. He was b … orn in Rorschach, Switzerland, the son of a German mother and an American father.
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Halle Berry rocks boots while filling up her gas tank at a station on Wednesday (March 4) in West Hollywood, Calif. The 48-year-old actress just started shooting the second season of her CBS hit show Extant, which is set to return on Wednesday, July 2. PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Halle Berry. Halle recently shared her thoughts on being the only black woman to win Best Actress at the Oscars.
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The first black male actor to win an Oscar for best actor was Sidney Poitier, Lilies of the Field 1963 and the second black actor to win an Oscar for best actor was Denzel Wa … shington, Training Day 2001.
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Hattie McDaniel won as Best Supporting Actress for Gone with the Wind (1939). Hattie McDaniel was the first African American to win an Oscar for her role in Gone With the Win … d (Best Supporting Actress, 1939). The first African American woman to win an Best Actress was Halle Berry for Monsters Ball (2001).
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Louis Gossett, Jr. was the first man to win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor when he won the 1982 award for his performance as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley in An Officer and a Gentleman..
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The first hispanic woman to win an Oscar was Emile Kuri. She is also the first hispanic person to win an Oscar. She won the Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Art Direction for he … r work in the film The Heiress (1949). She was born in Mexico.
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He was nominated for the Best Actor award, and he won for his role in Lilies of the Field (1963). Louis Gossett, Jr. was the first African-American to win the Best Supporting Actor award. He won for his role in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982).
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who was the first black woman to win best supporting oscar
Hattie McDaniel was the first African American to win best supporting Oscar. Hattie McDaniel was the first black woman to win the best supporting Oscar.