26 „Afro-Amerikaner“ waren in der 74-jährigen Geschichte des Oscar für die Trophäe nominiert: sechs davon wurden prämiert. Die kursiv geschriebenen Schauspieler wurden tatsächlich ausgezeichnet.
Beste weibliche Nebenrolle: Hattie McDaniel, 1940 (Gone With the Wind); Ethel Waters, 1950 (Pinky); Juanita Moore, 1960 (Imitation of Life); Alfre Woodard, 1984 (Cross Creek); Oprah Winfrey, 1986 (The Color Purple); Margaret Avery, 1986 (The Color Purple'); Whoopi Goldberg, 1991 (Ghost)
Beste Schauspielerin: Dorothy Dandridge, 1955 (Carmen Jones'); Diana Ross, 1973 (Lady Sings the Blues); Cicely Tyson, 1973 (Sounder); Diahann Carroll, 1975 (Claudine); Whoopi Goldberg, 1986 (The Color Purple'') Angela Bassett, 1994 (What's Love Got to Do With It); Halle Berry, 2002 (Monster's Ball)
Beste männliche Nebenrolle: Howard E. Rollins Jr., 1982 ( Ragtime); Louis Gossett Jr., 1983 (An Officer and a Gentleman); ' Adolph Caesar, 1985 (A Soldier's Story); Morgan Freeman, 1988 (Street Smart); Denzel Washington, 1988 (Cry Freedom); Denzel Washington, 1990 (Glory); Samuel L. Jackson, 1995 (Pulp Fiction) Cuba Gooding Jr., 1997 (Jerry Maguire); Michael Clarke Duncan, 2000 (The Green Mile)
Bester Schauspieler: Sidney Poitier, 1959 (The Defiant Ones); Sidney Poitier, 1964 (Lilies of the Field); James Earl Jones, 1971, (The Great White Hope); Paul Winfield, 1973 (Sounder); Morgan Freeman, 1990 (Driving Miss Daisy); Denzel Washington, 1993, (Malcolm X); Laurence Fishburne, 1994 (What's Love Got to Do with It); Morgan Freeman, 1995 (The Shawshank Redemption); Denzel Washington 2000 (The Hurricane); Will Smith, 2002 (Ali); Denzel Washington, 2002 (Training Day)
Sonder-Oscar: James Baskett, 1948 (bekam den Ehren-Oscar für die Darstellung von Onkel Remus in Disney's Song of the South)
