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Snipes made his screen debut in Michael Jackson's "Bad" video, which was directed by cult director Martin Scorsese. After such successful work, success and attention did not take long to arrive. Film roles literally fell on Wesley. So, at the beginning of his professional career, he starred in such films as “Major League”, “King of New York”, “Better Life Blues”, “New Jack City” and “Dance on the Water”. And his role in the film “Passenger 57” received high marks from film critics and the public in general. In general, the actor’s filmography includes many films, but viewers remember Snipes most of all for his role as a vampire in the science-fiction film “Blade.” For someone who practices Brazilian martial arts, this look was just perfect. It would seem that luck was on the side of the Hollywood actor, but in 2008 the actor went to prison for tax evasion. However, this unpleasant fact did not have such a strong impact on Snipes’ career. He also continues to act in films, and his loyal fans believe that their idol will again delight them with brilliant works.
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Will Smith
Will Smith is perhaps one of the most recognizable and beloved black actors in Hollywood. Together with his irrepressible charm and charisma, this talented actor seems to have easily won the love of the public, and in particular the entire female audience. By the way, Smith, it is worth noting, owes his fame solely to his strengths and abilities. Thus, he does not hide the fact that since childhood he had the nickname “Prince,” meaning that he could easily get out of any trouble thanks to his flexibility and charm. His attractiveness greatly helped him achieve success in the acting field. Will Smith has several nominations for an Oscar, a Golden Globe, and a Grammy statuette. In addition, the man has repeatedly been among the most beautiful and richest people on the planet.
He spent his childhood in Chatnouga, Tennessee. His father left the family, and little Sam was raised by his mother and grandparents. In general, there was little to predict that Samuel would become a Hollywood star, and a cult one at that. In addition to “Pulp Fiction,” he also has films such as “Django Unchained” to his credit.", several parts of "Star Wars", "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children", "The Hateful Eight" etc.
Eddie Murphy
Once upon a time this guy could have been called the #1 black actor! — the peak of its popularity occurred in the 80s. Perhaps the best and main black comedic actor of our time. He is best known for his role as Axel Foley in the Beverly Hills Cop film series, as well as for his leading roles in the films Trading Places, Boomerang, Doctor Dolittle, Coming to America, How to Steal a Skyscraper and others . Murphy has also recorded music albums and provided the voice for several cartoon characters, including Donkey in Shrek and its sequels.
Halle Berry
Halle Berry is the first black actress in cinema history to win an Oscar for Best Actress. She is also a Golden Globe and Emmy winner. Her filmography includes such super-pictures as “Cloud Atlas”, several parts of “X-Men”, “Perfect Stranger”", "Die but not now"etc. She is also a model, shark whisperer, Catwomanand simply beautiful!
Will Smith
At the beginning of his career, everyone perceived this guy as the comedic funnyman of their “Men in Black” and a hip-hop artist. But after the release of the wonderful film “The Pursuit of Happyness,” it turned out that he is an excellent dramatic actor (something that Eddie Murphy never managed to do). Then there was the biographical drama “Ali,” the philosophical film “Seven Lives,” and one of his last works, “Phantom Beauty.”
Octavia Spencer
She is well known to us as a supporting actress in TV series - where she has starred: ER, The X-Files, C.S.I. Crime Scene Investigation, The Big Bang Theory, but it deserves better. First, she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for The Help. Secondly, she starred in more than a hundred films, including Divergent, Seven Lives and, of course, Hidden Figures.
Morgan Freeman
This is an absolutely legendary actor!!! I am sure that someday he will be given an Oscar for special achievements - not a single failed role in his entire acting career!!! As soon as he appeared in the legendary drama The Shawshank Redemption, he was immediately nominated for an Oscar in the Best Actor category for this film, but received it only 10 years later for his role in the film Million Dollar Baby. It is simply impossible to count his iconic roles - there are several dozen of them!
Whoopi Goldberg
Queen of comedy, universally and popularly loved Whoopi... And how can you not love her? She has never had unique beauty, but her talent eclipses all possible boundaries and standards of cinema. One of the few celebrities to have received four major American prestigious awards: Oscar, Grammy, Emmy and Tony. Her collection of awards also includes two Golden Globes, a BAFTA and a Star on the Walk of Fame. Undoubtedly, Whoopi Goldberg is one of the brightest Hollywood stars of the 80s and 90s! It’s a pity that there are no roles for her in modern Hollywood ((
Forest Whitaker
This modest guy with a charming smile became the fourth African-American to win an Oscar for Best Actor. The award went to him for his role as the President of Uganda, General Idi Amin, in the film The Last King of Scotland" In our country, he is better known for his iconic role in Jim Jarmusch’s film “Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai”", as well as the films "Phone Booth" and "Platoon" and many others. There is no doubt that he is one of the most talented African American dramatic actors.
Denzel Washington
Not only a wonderful actor, but also a successful producer and director (TV series Grey's Anatomy) and an Oscar-nominated film "Fences", where he played the main role. His list includes such films as “Hurricane”, “Remember the Titans”, “Gangster”, “Wrath”, “Philadelphia”. Winner of two Oscars for Best Actor in the film Training Day and for his supporting role in the film Valor.
This is due to the fact that among the contenders in the acting categories there was not a single African American. The editors of TASS-DOSSIER have prepared material about African Americans who in different years became laureates of the main American film award. In the entire history of the Oscars, among the three thousand winners, only 31 are African-American. Seven more black Americans have received special awards for their contributions to cinema, which are awarded along with the Oscar by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts.
The first black actress to win an Oscar was Hattie McDaniel, who played the role of Mammy in the film Gone with the Wind. In 1940, she won the Best Supporting Actress category.
Main nominations
In four categories - best actor and actress and best supporting actor and actress - 15 black people received Oscars.
The first Best Actor award in 1964 was Sidney Poitier (Lilies of the Field). Subsequently, Denzel Washington (2002), Jamie Foxx (2005) and Forest Whitaker (2007) were recognized in this category.
The only black woman in the Best Actress category is Halle Berry, who won the award in 2002 for her role in Monster's Ball.
The first black winner for Best Supporting Actor was Louis Gossett Jr. He was awarded the award in 1983 for his role in the film An Officer and a Gentleman. After him, the list was supplemented by Denzel Washington (1990), Cuba Gooding Jr. (1997) and Morgan Freeman (2005).
Best Supporting Actress, 51 years after Hattie McDaniel, went to Whoopi Goldberg for her performance in Ghost (1991). In 2007, the award was received by Jennifer Hudson, in 2010 - by Mo'Nique, in 2012 - by Octavia Spencer. In 2014, the nomination was won by Kenyan actress (who does not have US citizenship) Lupita Nyong'o, who played in the film "12 Years slavery."
African Americans have never won best director. However, in 2014, the film “12 Years a Slave” by the black British director Steven McQueen, a native of Grenada, won in the “best film” category.
Other nominations
Over the years, African Americans have become winners in the following categories:
- “best documentary” (director T. J. Martin for the film Undefeated, 2013);
- “best short documentary” (producer Roger Ross Williams for the film Music by Prudence, 2010);
- “Best Original Score” (musician Prince Rogers Nelson for the music for the film Purple Rain, 1985);
- "best song" (a total of nine performers, including Stevie Wonder, who received the award in 1985 for the song I Just Called to Say I Love You for the film "The Woman in Red", and Lionel Richie, awarded in 1986 for the song Say You, Say Me for the film White Nights);
- “best sound” (sound engineers Willie Burton and Russell Williams received the award twice: Burton in 1989 and 2007; Williams in 1991 and 1992);
- “Best Adapted Screenplay” (Geoffrey Fletcher for the screenplay for the film “Precious” in 2010 and John Ridley for “12 Years a Slave” in 2014)
Among the African-Americans awarded special prizes are musician and producer Quincy Jones and television presenter Oprah Winfrey. In 1996 and in 2011 they were awarded by them. Gene Hersholt for his contributions to the cause of humanism.
This top presents the most beautiful black actresses and singers of the last century and modern times.
27. Keke Palmer(born August 26, 1993, Illinois, USA) - American actress and singer.
26. Kenya Moore / Kenya Moore(born January 24, 1971) is an American actress, model, author and producer. Winner of competitions "Miss Michigan 1993" And "Miss USA 1993", entered the Top 6 at the competition "Miss Universe 1993".
25. Whitney Houston / Whitney Houston(August 9, 1963, Newark - February 11, 2012, Beverly Hills) - American pop, soul and rhythm and blues singer, actress, producer, model. One of the most commercially successful performers in the history of world music.
24. Michael Michele(born August 30, 1966) is an American actress of African-American descent on her mother's side. She is best known for her role as Dr. Cleo Finch in the television series ER.
23. Pam Grier(born May 26, 1949) - American actress. A notable actress in the 1970s exploitation films of the woman-in-prison genre, such as “The Big Cage,” “Black Mama, White Mama,” and “Women in a Cage,” as well as the blaxploitation genre, who later became one of the favorite actresses of feminists and African Americans.
22. Kerry Washington(born January 31, 1977, Bronx, New York) is an American actress and political activist. She is best known for her roles in the films "Ray", "Fantastic Four", "The Last King of Scotland", "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer", "Django Unchained" and others.
20. Rihanna / Rihanna(born February 20, 1988, Barbados) - R&B and pop singer and actress. At the age of 16 she moved to the United States to begin her singing career. She later signed a contract with Def Jam Recordings. She is of Afro-Guyanese descent on her mother's side.
19. Paula Patton(born December 5, 1975, Los Angeles) is an American actress. Famous films: "Deja Vu", "Treasure". He is of African-American descent on his father and Caucasian on his mother.
18. Vanessa Williams / Vanessa Williams(born March 18, 1963) is an American singer, songwriter, producer, actress and model who entered history in 1984, becoming first black winner of the Miss America title.
16. Alicia Keys / Alicia Keys(born January 25, 1981, New York) is a singer, pianist, poet and composer performing in the styles of rhythm and blues, soul and neo-soul, winner of fourteen Grammy awards.
15. Ciara / Ciara(born October 25, 1985) is an American singer, songwriter, producer, dancer, actress, model, music video director. Ciara made her debut in the summer of 2004 with the single “Goodies,” which reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The album sold more than five million worldwide and received numerous awards and nominations.
13.Lupita Nyong'o(born March 1, 1983) is a Kenyan actress, director and producer, winner of numerous awards, including an Oscar, for her role as slave Patsy in the historical drama 12 Years a Slave.
12.Christina Milian / Christine Milian(born September 26, 1981) is a famous American actress and singer of Afro-Cuban origin.
11. Christina Milian
/ Tamara Dobson(May 14, 1947 – October 2, 2006) was an African-American actress and model. Films: "Cleopatra Jones", "Women Behind Bars".
10. Katerina "Kat" Graham / Kat Graham(born September 5, 1989, Geneva, Switzerland) is an American actress, singer, model, music producer and dancer. She is best known for her role as Bonnie Bennett from the television series The Vampire Diaries. Has Liberian roots on his father's side.
9. Joy Bryant(born October 19, 1976) is an American actress and former model. Films with her participation: “The Story of Antoine Fischer”, “Scoundrel”, “Bobby”.
8. Nicole Scherzinger / Nicole Scherzinger(born June 29, 1978) is an American pop R&B singer, dancer, songwriter, record producer, actress and fashion model of Filipino-Hawaiian-Russian descent, best known as the vocalist of The Pussycat Dolls.
7. Gugu Mbatha-Raw / Gugu Mbatha-Raw(b. 1983 Oxford, UK) - English actress. Her father is from the Republic of South Africa. Films with her participation: "Doctor Who", "Desire for Revenge", "Larry Crown", "Odd Thomas".
4. Dorothy Dandridge / Dorothy Dandridge(November 9, 1922 – September 8, 1965) - American actress and singer became the first African-American woman to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress.
3.Beyonce Knowles / Beyonce Knowles(born September 4, 1981, Houston) is an American R’n’B singer, music producer, actress, dancer and model. She became famous in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the female R&B group Destiny's Child. Knowles' father is African-American, and her mother is Creole.
2. Lisa Bonet / Lisa Bonet(born November 16, 1967 in San Francisco, California, USA) is an American actress, best known for her role in the sitcom The Cosby Show and its spin-off A Different World. He has African American roots on his father's side.
1. Jane Kennedy / Jayne Kennedy(born October 27, 1951) - American actress, sports commentator. She was chosen "Miss Ohio USA" in 1970 and thereby became the first African American woman to win this title. She was also one of 15 semi-finalists in the competition "Miss USA 1970",which was a rare achievement for an African American woman. Films with her participation: “Women’s Prison”, “Forces of Death”, “Body and Soul”.
