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
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
7.1
How the West Was Won
George W. Davis, William Ferrari, Henry Grace, Don Greenwood Jr., Addison Hehr, Jack Mills
7.8
Hud
Robert R. Benton, Sam Comer, Tambi Larsen, Hal Pereira
6.0
Come Blow Your Horn
Roland Anderson, Sam Comer, James W. Payne, Hal Pereira
6.0
Come Blow Your Horn
Roland Anderson, Sam Comer, James W. Payne, Hal Pereira
6.8
The Cardinal
Gene Callahan, Lyle R. Wheeler
7.3
Love with the Proper Stranger
Roland Anderson, Sam Comer, Grace Gregory, Hal Pereira
7.3
Love with the Proper Stranger
Roland Anderson, Sam Comer, Grace Gregory, Hal Pereira
Twilight of HonorTwilight of Honor
George W. Davis, Henry Grace, Paul Groesse, Hugh Hunt
6.8
The Cardinal
Gene Callahan, Lyle R. Wheeler
7.8
Hud
Robert R. Benton, Sam Comer, Tambi Larsen, Hal Pereira
Twilight of HonorTwilight of Honor
George W. Davis, Henry Grace, Paul Groesse, Hugh Hunt
7.1
How the West Was Won
George W. Davis, William Ferrari, Henry Grace, Don Greenwood Jr., Addison Hehr, Jack Mills
6.5
Tom Jones
Ralph W. Brinton, Jocelyn Herbert, Josie MacAvin, Edward Marshall