| A | B |
|---|
| Best Supporting Actress Gone With the Wind, 1939 | Hattie McDaniel |
| First Nominee for Best Actress Carmen Jones, 1954 | Dorthy Dandrige |
| First Black Actor to be nominated for Best Actor The Defiant Ones | Noah Cullen |
| First Black Actor to Win Best Actor Lillies of the Field, 1963 | Sidney Poitier |
| 2nd Black actor to win best actor, Training Day, 2001 | Denzel Washington |
| Third Black Actor to win best actor, Ray, 2004 | Jamie Foxx |
| He won Best Actor for the Last King of Scotland in 2006 | Forest Whitaker |
| He won best actor for King Richard in 2020 | Will Smith |
| The most recent winner for Best Actor for Sinners, 2025 | Michael B. Jordan |
| First Black Actress to win for Best Actress for Monsters Ball, 2001 | Halle Berry |
| She won for Best Supporting actress in 1990 for Ghost | Whoopi Goldberg |
| He won Best Supporting Actor in 1992 for an Officer and a Gentleman | Louis Gossett Jr. |
| She won for Best Costume Design in 2018 for Black Panther | Ruth Carter |
| First nomination for Best Director in 1991 for Boyz n the Hood | John Singleton |
| Won for Best Writing Original Screenplay in 2017 for Get Out | Jordan Peele |
