Black Oscar: Best Actor in a Leading Role

African American actors nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture, Arts & Sciences as Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

1927-2009

 

First Row:

Sidney Poiter in The Defiant Ones

Sidney Poitier in Lilies of the Field

James Earl Jones in The Great Whipe Hope

Paul Winfield in Sounder

Dexter Gordon in 'Round Midnight

 

Second Row:

Morgan Freeman in Driving Miss Daisy

Denzel Washington in Malcom X

Laurence Fishburne in What's Love Got to Do with It?

Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption

Denzel Washinton in The Hurricane

 

Third Row:

Denzel Washington in Training Day

Will Smith in Ali, Jamie Foxx in Ray

Don Cheadle in Hotel Rwanda

Terrence Howard in Hustle & Flow

 

Fourth Row:

Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland

Will Smith in The Pursuit of Happyness

Morgan Freeman in Invictus

Done