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Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame

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The Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, Inc. (BFHFI), was founded in 1974, in Oakland, California. It supports and promotes black filmmaking, and preserves the contributions by African-American artists both before and behind the camera. It also sponsors advance screenings of films by and about people of African descent and hosts the Oscar Micheaux Award, held each February in Oakland.

Contents

This is a partial list of inductees:

1973

  • Clarence Muse (1889 - 1979)
  • Gordon Parks (1912 - 2006)

    • 1974

  • Katherine Dunham (1909 - 2006)
  • Stepin Fetchit (Lincoln Perry) (1902 - 1985)
  • Paul Robeson (1898 – 1976)

    • 1975

  • Ruby Dee (1922 - 2014)
  • Allen Hoskins (1920 - 1980)
  • Hall Johnson (1888 - 1970)
  • Abbey Lincoln (1930 - 2010)
  • Hattie McDaniel (1895 - 1952)
  • Butterfly McQueen (1911 - 1995)
  • Louis S. Peterson (1922 - 1998)
  • Fredi Washington (1903 - 1994)

    • 1976

  • Eubie Blake (1887 – 1983)
  • Louise Beavers (1902 - 1962)
  • Oscar Micheaux (1884 – 1951)
  • Brock Peters (1927 – 2005)
  • Melvin Van Peebles (1932 - )
  • Diahann Carroll (1935 - )

    • 1977

  • Maidie Norman (1912 - 1998)
  • Cicely Tyson (1924 - )

    • 1978

  • Benny Carter (1907 – 2003)
  • Nicholas Brothers - Fayard (1914-2006), Harold (1921-2000)
  • Nina Mae McKinney (1912 - 1967)
  • Sidney Poitier (1927 - )

    • 1979

  • Lonne Elder III (1927 - 1996)
  • Etta Moten Barnett (1901 - 2004)
  • Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920 - 1993)

    • 1980

  • Ivan Dixon (1931 - 2008)
  • William Greaves (1926 -2014)

    • 1982

  • Cab Calloway (1907 - 1994)

    • 1984

  • Billy Dee Williams (1937 - )

    • 1986

  • Madame Sul-Te-Wan (1873 - 1959)

    • 1987

  • Sammy Davis, Jr. (1925 - 1990)
  • Scatman Crothers (1910 - 1986)
  • Jeni Le Gon (1916 - 2012)
  • Ernie Morrison (1912 - 1989)

    • 1990

  • Suzanne de Passe (1948 - )
  • Danny Glover (1946 - )

    • 1991

  • Michael Schultz (1938 – )
  • August Wilson (1945 - 2005)

    • 1993

  • Madeline Anderson
  • Rosalind Cash (1938 - 1995)

    • 1995

  • William D. Alexander (1916 – 1991)

    • References

    Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame Wikipedia
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