Oscars Black Best Actors

Name the black male actors who were nominated/won the Oscars in the Best Actor categories.

Year = year of the ceremony honoring the previous year's films

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Best Leading Actor
Year	Movie	Actor
2024	Rustin	Colman Domingo
2024	American Fiction	Jeffrey Wright
2022	King Richard	Will Smith
2022	The Tragedy of Macbeth	Denzel Washington
2021	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Chadwick Boseman
2018	Get Out	Daniel Kaluuya
2018	Roman J. Israel, Esq.	Denzel Washington
2017	Fences	Denzel Washington
2014	12 Years a Slave	Chiwetel Ejiofor
2013	Flight	Denzel Washington
2010	Invictus	Morgan Freeman
2007	The Last King of Scotland	Forest Whitaker
2007	The Pursuit of Happyness	Will Smith
2006	Hustle & Flow	Terrence Howard
2005	Ray	Jamie Foxx
2005	Hotel Rwanda	Don Cheadle
2002	Training Day	Denzel Washington
2002	Ali	Will Smith
2000	The Hurricane	Denzel Washington
1995	The Shawshank Redemption	Morgan Freeman
1994	What's Love Got to Do with It	Laurence Fishburne
1993	Malcolm X	Denzel Washington
1990	Driving Miss Daisy	Morgan Freeman
1987	Round Midnight	Dexter Gordon
1973	Sounder	Paul Winfield
1971	The Great White Hope	James Earl Jones
1964	Lilies of the Field	Sidney Poitier
1959	The Defiant Ones	Sidney Poitier

Best Supporting Actor
Year	Movie	Actor
2024	American Fiction	Sterling K. Brown
2023	Causeway	Brian Tyree Henry
2021	Judas and the Black Messiah	Daniel Kaluuya
	Judas and the Black Messiah	Lakeith Stanfield
	One Night in Miami	Leslie Odom, Jr.
2019	Green Book	Mahershala Ali
2017	Moonlight	Mahershala Ali
2014	Captain Phillips	Barkhad Abdi
2007	Dreamgirls	Eddie Murphy
2007	Blood Diamond	Djimon Hounsou
2005	Million Dollar Baby	Morgan Freeman
2005	Collateral	Jamie Foxx
2004	In America	Djimon Hounsou
2000	The Green Mile	Michael Clarke Duncan
1997	Jerry Maguire	Cuba Gooding, Jr.
1995	Pulp Fiction	Samuel L. Jackson
1993	The Crying Game	Jaye Davidson
1990	Glory	Denzel Washington
1988	Cry Freedom	Denzel Washington
1988	Street Smart	Morgan Freeman
1985	A Soldier's Story	Adolph Caesar
1983	An Officer and a Gentleman	Louis Gossett, Jr.
1982	Ragtime	Howard Rollins
1970	The Reivers	Rupert Crosse

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