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...They are underdogs from the start. But Berry unexpectedly takes home the award--and becomes the first African-American woman in history to win a Best Actress Oscar. Then Washington wins in his category--and becomes the first African-American man to win a leading-actor Oscar since Sidney Poitier for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field. Cue the John Williams music. Roll credits...
...74th annual Academy Awards, Denzel Washington and Halle Berry stepped into history. Berry became the first black woman ever to win a Best Actress Oscar and Washington became the first black man to win a Best Actor Oscar since Sidney Poitier in the 1963 movie "Lillies of the Field." It was an historic and welcome event, but the actors themselves, not the Hollywood establishment, deserve the credit for making it happen. Berry and Washington weren't handed anything by the Hollywood establishment, and were forced to fight for everything they've gotten in their careers...
DIED. BEAH RICHARDS, 74, Oscar-nominated actress who this month won an Emmy for a guest appearance on The Practice; of emphysema; in Vicksburg, Miss. Richards received her Oscar nomination for playing Sidney Poitier's mother in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. A poet, playwright and minister's daughter, she once said, "I always relate the theater to the church... Like the church, the theater must always be an exploration for truth...
...Then, at breakfast on the Thursday before the gala, Jay told Mavis, "Guess who's going to be on the show tonight? You are." Her first ("and last," she adds) appearance gave the event the final push it needed. Lionel Richie opened. Lily Tomlin joked. Marlo Thomas introduced. Sidney Poitier spoke. All the Judds came. Jay's stand-up was funny but surprisingly emotional when he came to Mavis. In a roomful of women, he said, it was embarrassing that "the only one crying...
...first script reading with an early, teasing hint of her character's mannerisms; her regal beauty explains how Beloved can cast a spell over Sethe and her brood. In the role of Baby Suggs, Beah Richards, who 30 years ago won an Oscar nomination for playing Sidney Poitier's mother in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, serves as both Greek chorus and black preacher; her sermons give the film heft and life...