A History of African-Americans and the Oscars

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Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier was the first Black male actor to receive an Oscar nod in 1958 for The Defiant Ones. Also, he is the first Black male to win an Oscar, which was for best actor in Lilies of the Field in 1963. (Photo: Archive Photos/Getty Images)

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