Q 01/05

Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award, for playing Mammy in Gone with the Wind?

A) Hattie McDaniel

B) Lena Horne

C) Ethel Waters

D) Butterfly McQueen

Answer · why

A) Hattie McDaniel

Hattie McDaniel was barred from the film's Atlanta premiere by Georgia's segregation laws, and at the Oscars she sat at a segregated table against the...

Q 02/05

Sidney Poitier became the first Black actor to win Best Actor in 1964 for which film?

A) In the Heat of the Night

B) Lilies of the Field

C) The Defiant Ones

D) A Raisin in the Sun

Answer · why

B) Lilies of the Field

In Lilies of the Field, Poitier plays Homer Smith, a handyman who stops at a desert farm for water and ends up building a chapel for a group of nuns.

Q 03/05

Halle Berry became the first African American woman to win Best Actress for which 2001 film?

A) Swordfish

B) Jungle Fever

C) Monster's Ball

D) Losing Isaiah

Answer · why

C) Monster's Ball

In Monster's Ball, Halle Berry plays a death-row widow who falls for the prison guard who helped execute her husband.

Q 04/05

Louis Gossett Jr. became the first African American to win Best Supporting Actor for which 1982 film?

A) Travels with My Aunt

B) The Laughing Policeman

C) Iron Eagle

D) An Officer and a Gentleman

Answer · why

D) An Officer and a Gentleman

In An Officer and a Gentleman, Gossett's drill instructor Emil Foley hazes Richard Gere's officer candidate to the brink of quitting.

Q 05/05

Denzel Washington's second Oscar came for which 2001 film, in which he plays a corrupt LAPD officer?

A) Training Day

B) Man on Fire

C) American Gangster

D) Flight

Answer · why

A) Training Day

Training Day won Washington Best Actor the same night Sidney Poitier got an honorary Oscar, and Washington said he had been chasing Sidney for 40 year...