Monique Won!

[sealybobo]

Isn't it amazing that up until only a few years ago, very few black people ever won an Oscar? Only as far back as Halle Berry. And she only won because she was black. Wasn't she like the first black woman to have ever won? She certainly didn't deserve it for that role in Monsters Ball. "Make me feel good!"

But Monique was GREAT. She just won!!!

And that black guy just won before her for something like Screenwriter? I'm so happy for her and that guy.

 

[Luissa]

There is another black women who won before Halle I believe.

 

[boedicca]

No, Halle Barry wasn't the first.

Hattie McDaniel won the Oscar for playing Mammy in Gone With The Wind in 1940.

 

[sealybobo]

There is another black women who won before Halle I believe.

The slave from Gone with the Wind?

 

[RadiomanATL]

Isn't it amazing that up until only a few years ago, very few black people ever won an Oscar?

Only if you consider 1963 only "a few years ago". Sidney Poitier

Also Louis Gossett Jr won for an Officer and a Gentleman in the early 80's.

Yer only right about the black women part.

 

[RadiomanATL]

There is another black women who won before Halle I believe.

Not for Best Actress.

Best supporting actress, yes. But not the top female performance.

Also, Isaac Hayes won for the theme song for Shaft.

 

[sealybobo]

Isn't it amazing that up until only a few years ago, very few black people ever won an Oscar?

Only if you consider 1963 only "a few years ago". Sidney Poitier

Also Louis Gossett Jr won for an Officer and a Gentleman in the early 80's.

Yer only right about the black women part.

Thats only a handful of men. Consider all the roles that were good in all those years that were overlooked.

Or blacks were only in black movies. Things are better now. Or getting better. More fair. More opportunities. Lets just say Dr. Kings dream is slowly becoming reality.

I think and hope blacks feel more today that America is theirs too. Certainly better than it was for their grandparents. Amen.

 

[RadiomanATL]

There is another black women who won before Halle I believe.

The slave from Gone with the Wind?

Yes.

She was THE first black person to win any Oscar.

 

[sealybobo]

Isn't it amazing that up until only a few years ago, very few black people ever won an Oscar?

Only if you consider 1963 only "a few years ago". Sidney Poitier

Also Louis Gossett Jr won for an Officer and a Gentleman in the early 80's.

Yer only right about the black women part.

And actually, 1963 is a very long time ago. Closing in on 50 years.

 

[RadiomanATL]

Isn't it amazing that up until only a few years ago, very few black people ever won an Oscar?

Only if you consider 1963 only "a few years ago". Sidney Poitier

Also Louis Gossett Jr won for an Officer and a Gentleman in the early 80's.

Yer only right about the black women part.

Thats only a handful of men. Consider all the roles that were good in all those years that were overlooked.

Or blacks were only in black movies. Things are better now. Or getting better. More fair. More opportunities. Lets just say Dr. Kings dream is slowly becoming reality.

I think and hope blacks feel more today that America is theirs too. Certainly better than it was for their grandparents. Amen.

There's more, across all categories. I just listed the first two that came to mind.

 

[Zoom-boing]

Whoopi Goldberg was nominated for The Color Purple (1985) and won for Ghost (1990).

Morgan Freeman won for Million Dollar Baby (2005?).

 

[RadiomanATL]

Isn't it amazing that up until only a few years ago, very few black people ever won an Oscar?

Only if you consider 1963 only "a few years ago". Sidney Poitier

Also Louis Gossett Jr won for an Officer and a Gentleman in the early 80's.

Yer only right about the black women part.

And actually, 1963 is a very long time ago. Closing in on 50 years.

That was my point.

 

[Luissa]

Didn't Cuba win also?

 

[RadiomanATL]

Here, look 'em up:

List of black Academy Award winners and nominees - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[xotoxi]

I just waiting for a guy with no arms and no legs to win.

 

[RadiomanATL]

I just waiting for a guy with no arms and no legs to win.

No good. Still a guy.

It's gotta be a no-armed, no-legged, black hermaphrodite lesbian.

 

[xotoxi]

I just waiting for a guy with no arms and no legs to win.

No good. Still a guy.

It's gotta be a no-armed, no-legged, black hermaphrodite lesbian.

What if it was a no-armed, no-legged guy playing Tyra Banks on Next American Top Model: The Movie.

 

[RadiomanATL]

I just waiting for a guy with no arms and no legs to win.

No good. Still a guy.

It's gotta be a no-armed, no-legged, black hermaphrodite lesbian.

What if it was a no-armed, no-legged guy playing Tyra Banks on Next American Top Model: The Movie.

I'd ask you if you wanted me to shoot you and then myself. Or would you prefer pills.

 

[sealybobo]

Only if you consider 1963 only "a few years ago". Sidney Poitier

Also Louis Gossett Jr won for an Officer and a Gentleman in the early 80's.

Yer only right about the black women part.

Thats only a handful of men. Consider all the roles that were good in all those years that were overlooked.

Or blacks were only in black movies. Things are better now. Or getting better. More fair. More opportunities. Lets just say Dr. Kings dream is slowly becoming reality.

I think and hope blacks feel more today that America is theirs too. Certainly better than it was for their grandparents. Amen.

There's more, across all categories. I just listed the first two that came to mind.

I just heard that coming up next is another possible first for an african american, or woman.

I tell you what. Woman might have it worse than men. They haven't had a US President yet either.

This is a man's world. James Brown.

Actually, I believe it is a womans world. Tiger had to win golf tournaments to become a billionaire. All his wife had to do was marry him.

 

[sealybobo]

Only if you consider 1963 only "a few years ago". Sidney Poitier

Also Louis Gossett Jr won for an Officer and a Gentleman in the early 80's.

Yer only right about the black women part.

And actually, 1963 is a very long time ago. Closing in on 50 years.

That was my point.

Remember Denzel was constantly being overlooked?

That was back when Michael Jackson was black and OJ was white.