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∙ 2011-03-03 09:51:22Amrita pritam is the first woman.
The first woman to receive the Academy Award for Best Director was Kathryn Bigelow, who won the 2009 Oscar for helming that year's Best Picture winner, "The Hurt Locker."
Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation (2003).
The only woman to ever win an Academy Award for best director was was Kathryn.----------Kathryn Bigelow became the first and only woman to date (2012) to win the Best Director Oscar for The Hurt Locker(2008).
Hattie McDaniel was the first African-American win an Oscar. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, and she won for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939).Other firsts for African Americans at the Academy AwardsJames Baskett was the first African-American man to receive an academy award. He was given an Honorary Academy Award for his portrayal of Uncle Remus in Song of the South(1946)Dorothy Dandridgewas the first African-American woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Carmen Jones (1954)Sidney Poitier was the first African American man to win an academy award. He was nominated for the Best Actor award, and he won for his role in Lilies of the Field (1963).Louis Gossett, Jr. was the first African-American to win the Best Supporting Actor award. He won for his role in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982).John Singleton was the first African American nominated for a Best Director Academy Award for his work on Boyz N The Hood (1991)Halle Berry was the first African-American to win the Best Actress award. She won for her role in Monster's Ball(2001).
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Hattie McDaniel
The first woman to receive the Academy Award for Best Director was Kathryn Bigelow, who won the 2009 Oscar for helming that year's Best Picture winner, "The Hurt Locker."
Although she was born in Hawaii, Nicole Kidman is the first Australian-raised or born woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress in the 2002 biopic, The Hours.
Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation (2003).
The only woman to ever win an Academy Award for best director was was Kathryn.----------Kathryn Bigelow became the first and only woman to date (2012) to win the Best Director Oscar for The Hurt Locker(2008).
The first African woman to win an Academy Award for acting was Charlize Theron, who was born and reared in South Africa. On February 29, 2004, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress of 2003 for her performance as real-life serial killer Aileen Wuornos in "Monster." Theron, who became a naturalized American in 2007, now has dual citizenship.
Halle Berry was the first one to win for actress in a leading role.