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Tilted Cat Head
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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
As for the "racism" in the oscars stuff... I think thats a bit silly. Jamie Foxxx won best actor this year, and Halle Berry won best actress a little while ago, lots of black actors have won awards, and lots of white actors, and so on...
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Halle Berry and Denzel Washington are the first black to win best actor/actress category. The last time a black person won that category was in 1964. Best actress before that? No black woman ever. Black women had to have leading roles in order to be nominated, but there were no nominees either.
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At the 2002 Academy Awards Sidney Poitier was awaded an Honorary Award. In recognition of his remarkable accomplishments as an artist and as a human being.
At the 1964 Academy Awards Sidney Poitier won an Oscar for Best Actor for his work in Lilies of the Field.
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