Black Oscars : from mammy to minny, what the Academy Awards tell us about African Americans / Frederick W. Gooding Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gooding Jr., Frederick, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Academy Awards (Motion pictures).

African American motion picture actors and actresses.

African Americans in the motion picture industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

Black Oscars is a timely exploration of the complicated legacy of the Academy Awards and African American participation in film. Reflecting on how the Oscars have recognized Black actors from the award's inception to the present, this book is an indispensable guide to understanding race in mainstream Hollywood and American history.

Contents:

Intro

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION Setting the Stage: What's So Oscar Worthy?

There's Nothing Like a Good Movie

Now Showing

Red Carpet Treatment

But Why Memorialize Movies?

CHAPTER 1 Lights, Camera, Analysis!

More than Meets the Eye

Black Oscar Angles

Setting the Stage

Racism 2.0

Sneak Preview: What to Expect

CHAPTER 2 Early Drama behind Early Black Images (1927-1939)

The Birth of an Academy

Hollywood Gains Influence

But What Does This Mean for Blacks?

Acting out Racism On-screen

Was the Academy Ever Racist?

CHAPTER 3 Oscar's Uneasy Breakthrough (1940-1949)

Keeping the Past in the Present

There Was a Land of Cavaliers

No More than a Dream Remembered

Nomination #1, Win #1-Hattie McDaniel

CHAPTER 4 New Roles Not Leading Anywhere (1950-1959)

Nomination #2-Ethel Waters

Nomination #3-Dorothy Dandridge

Nomination #4-Sidney Poitier

CHAPTER 5 Sidney in the Sixties (1960-1969)

Nomination #5-Juanita Moore

Nomination #6, Win #2-Sidney Poitier

Nomination #7-Beah Richards

CHAPTER 6 The Blaxploitation Effect (1970-1979)

Nomination #8-Rupert Crosse

Nomination #9-James Earl Jones

Nomination #10-Paul Winfield

Nomination #11-Diana Ross

Nomination #12-Cicely Tyson

Nomination #13-Diahann Carroll

CHAPTER 7 The Color Purple through the Bluest Eye (1980-1989)

Nomination #14-Howard E. Rollins Jr.

Nomination #15, Win #3-Louis Gossett Jr.

Nomination #16-Alfre Woodard

Nomination #17-Adolph Caesar

Nomination #18-Whoopi Goldberg

Nomination #19-Margaret Avery

Nomination #20-Oprah Winfrey

Nomination #21-Dexter Gordon

Nomination #22-Morgan Freeman

Nomination #23-Denzel Washington

CHAPTER 8 The Denzel Effect (1990-1999)

Nomination #24-Morgan Freeman

Nomination #25, Win #4-Denzel Washington.

Nomination #26, Win #5-Whoopi Goldberg

Nomination #27-Denzel Washington

Nomination #28-Jaye Davidson

Nomination #29-Laurence Fishburne

Nomination #30-Angela Bassett

Nomination #31-Morgan Freeman

Nomination #32-Samuel L. Jackson

Nomination #33, Win #6-Cuba Gooding Jr.

Nomination #34-Marianne Jean-Baptiste

CHAPTER 9 New Century, New Beginning? (2000-2009)

Nomination #35-Denzel Washington

Nomination #36-Michael Clarke Duncan

Nomination #37-Will Smith

Nomination #38, Win #7-Denzel Washington

Nomination #39, Win #8-Halle Berry

Nomination #40-Queen Latifah

Nomination #41-Djimon Hounsou

Nomination #42-Don Cheadle

Nomination #43, Win #9-Jamie Foxx

Nomination #44-Jamie Foxx

Nomination #45, Win #10-Morgan Freeman

Nomination #46-Sophie Okonedo

Nomination #47-Terrence Howard

Nomination #48-Will Smith

Nomination #49, Win #11-Forest Whitaker

Nomination #50-Djimon Hounsou

Nomination #51-Eddie Murphy

Nomination #52, Win #12-Jennifer Hudson

Nomination #53-Ruby Dee

Nomination #54-Viola Davis

Nomination #55-Taraji P. Henson

CHAPTER 10 Oscars So White? (2010-2019)

Nomination #56-Morgan Freeman

Nomination #57-Gabourey Sidibe

Nomination #58, Win #13-Mo'Nique

Nomination #59-Viola Davis

Nomination #60, Win #14-Octavia Spencer

Nomination #61-Denzel Washington

Nomination #62-Quvenzhané Wallis

Nomination #63-Chiwetel Ejiofor

Nomination #64-Barkhad Abdi

Nomination #65, Win #15-Lupita Nyong'o

Nomination #66-Denzel Washington

Nomination #67-Ruth Negga

Nomination #68, Win #16-Mahershala Ali

Nomination #69, Win #17-Viola Davis

Nomination #70-Naomie Harris

Nomination #71-Octavia Spencer

Nomination #72-Daniel Kaluuya

Nomination #73-Denzel Washington

Nomination #74-Mary J. Blige

Nomination #75-Octavia Spencer.

Nomination #76, Win #18-Mahershala Ali

Nomination #77, Win #19-Regina King

CONCLUSION Have We Seen This Movie Before? A Critical Analysis

APPENDIX A Black Oscar Nominations and Wins Overview, by Decade

APPENDIX B List of All Movies with Black Oscar Nominations

APPENDIX C List of All Black Oscar Acting Nominees and Wins

APPENDIX D List of All Black Nonacting Oscar Winners

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

979-88-8182-028-2

1-5381-2373-8

OCLC:

1140353065