It’s one of many recent succes stories, including the Oscar win for Moonlight, or the legendary Spike Lee finally winning a non-honorary Oscar. It didn’t win, but Daniel Kaluuya took home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Judas and the Black Messiah, which tells the tale of the man who helped set up the murder of Chairman Fred Hampton, made history as the first film with an all-Black production team to be nominated for an Oscar. The last three decades specifically has seen amazing growth in the medium. It has been amazing to see the progression of Black creatives in cinema since. Later, Hattie McDaniel would become the first African American person to win an Academy Award, and 24 years after that, Sidney Poitier would win his, becoming the first African American man to win. Although the Lumière Brothers released the first motion picture in 1895, it took at least 30 years for the first Black person, Stepin Fetchit, to earn screen credit.
