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Oscars 2021: Everyone Black Who's Winning

Winners include Daniel Kaluuya in 'Judas and the Black Messiah' for Best Supporting Actor
Oscars 2021: Everyone Black Who’s Winning
By D'Shonda Brown · Updated April 25, 2021

With the Academy Awards having a reputation bogged by the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite, this year’s 93rd annual ceremony has us sitting at the edge of our seats as we await the winners throughout our community from actors and actresses to screenwriters and directors. The pre-show hsoted by Lil Rel Howry and Ariana DeBose got the inside scoop from tonight’s nominees with performances by Celeste, H.E.R. and Leslie Odom, Jr., who’s song is up for an Academy Award nomination tonight.

Nominations this year included Andra Day for Best Actress in The United States vs. Billie Holiday, “Fight For You” by H.E.R., Tiara Thomas and D’Mile, and Shaka King and Ryan Coogler’s Judas and the Black Messiah for Best Motion Picture.

The late actor Chadwick Boseman received a posthumous nod for Best Actor in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, as well as Viola Davis for Best Actress in the same film. Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson, the first African Americans nominated in the Best Makeup and Hairstyling category in Oscars history, won their category in tonight’s award ceremony.

‘I share this with the gift that is Lakeith Stanfield. The light that is Dominique Fishback,” Daniel Kaluuya praised of his cast and crew in Judas and the Black Messiah after his win for Judas and the Black Messiah as Best Supporting Actor. “It’s so hard to make a film and make a film like this and they made it possible. They made it happen.”

See below for a full list of every Black king and queen who reigned victorious in this year’s Oscar awards:

01
Daniel Kaluuya
Daniel Kaluuya nabs the award for Best Supporting Actor in Judas in the Black Messiah.
Oscars 2021: Everyone Black Who’s Winning
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02
Travon Free
‘Two Distant Strangers’ written by Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe was awarded with Best Live Action Short Film.
Oscars 2021: Everyone Black Who’s Winning
Photo by Chris Pizzello-Pool/Getty Images
03
Soul
Soul earned the Oscar for Best Animated Feature and for good reason.
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04
Jon Batiste
Jon Batiste won best original score for his work on Soul.
Oscars 2021: Everyone Black Who’s Winning
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05
H.E.R.
H.E.R., along with Tiara Thomas and DMile, won Best Original Song for “Fight For You” in ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’.
Oscars 2021: Everyone Black Who’s Winning
Photo by Chris Pizzello-Pool/Getty Images
06
Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson
Viola Davis’ hair department head Mia Neal and Davis’s personal hairstylist, Jamika Wilson, the latter pairing making Oscar history as the first African Americans nominated in the Best Makeup and Hairstyling category, were awarded Best Hair & Makeup for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.
Oscars 2021: Everyone Black Who’s Winning
TOPICS:  2021 Oscars Academy Awards
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