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
Winner
7.7
Anatolian SmileAmerica America
Gene Callahan
Winner
6.9
Cleopatra
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
Winner
All nominees
6.0
Come Blow Your Horn
Roland Anderson, Sam Comer, James W. Payne, Hal Pereira
7.3
Love with the Proper Stranger
Roland Anderson, Sam Comer, Grace Gregory, Hal Pereira
7.8
Hud
Robert R. Benton, Sam Comer, Tambi Larsen, Hal Pereira