Lilies of the Field Sidney Poitier became the first African American to win the Best Actor Oscar and the only one until Denzel Washington for Training Day (2001), 38 years later. By a strange coincidence, Washington won the Best Actor award on the same night when Poitier received an Honorary Oscar.
Jack Martin Smith, Herman A. Blumenthal, Hilyard M. Brown, John DeCuir, Paul S. Fox, Boris Juraga, Ray Moyer, Maurice Pelling, Walter M. Scott, Elven Webb