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Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame

The Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, Inc. (BFHFI), was founded in 1974, in Oakland, California. It supported and promoted black filmmaking, and preserved the contributions by African-American artists both before and behind the camera. It also sponsored advance screenings of films by and about people of African descent and hosted the Oscar Micheaux Awards Ceremony, held each February, from 1974 to 1993, in Oakland.

Inductees
1974Alvin Childress (1907–1986) • Lillian Cumber (1920–2002) • Ossie Davis (1917–2005) • Sammy Davis Jr. (1925–1990) • Katherine Dunham (1909–2006) • Theresa Harris (1906–1985) • Eugene Jackson (1916–2001) • William Marshall (1924–2003) • Juanita Moore (1914–2014) • Clarence Muse (1889–1979) • Gordon Parks Sr. (1912–2006) • Lincoln Theodore Perry (stage name Stepin Fetchit) (1902–1985) • Beah Richards (1920–2000) • Paul Robeson (1898–1976) • Vincent Tubbs (1915–1989) • Lorenzo Tucker (1907–1986) • Leigh Whipper (1876–1975) 1975William D. Alexander (1916–1991) • Eddie "Rochester" Anderson (1905-1977) • Ruby Dee (1922–2014) • Duke Ellington† (1899-1974) • Joel Fluellen (1907-1990) • Lorraine Hansberry† (1930-1965) • Lena Horne (1917-2010) • Allen Hoskins (1920–1980) • Rex Ingram† (1895-1969) • Hall Johnson† (1888–1970) • Quincy Jones (1933-2024) • Robert Earl Jones (1910-2006) • Eartha Kitt (1927-2008) • Abbey Lincoln (Aminata Moseka) (1930–2010) • Hattie McDaniel† (1895–1952) • Butterfly McQueen (1911–1995) • Frederick O'Neal (1905-1992) • Louis S. Peterson (1922–1998) • Sidney Poitier (1927-2022) • Fredi Washington (1903–1994) • Joseph M. Wilcots 1976Josephine Baker† (1906-1975) • Louise Beavers† (1902–1962) • Harry Belafonte (1927-2023) • Eubie Blake (1887–1983) • Diahann Carroll (1935–2019) • Alfred (Slick) Chester • Bernie Hamilton (1928-2008) • John O. Killens (1916-1987) • Canada Lee† (1907-1952) • Lucia Lynn Moses • Fayard Nicholas (1914-2006) and Harold Nicholas (1921-2000) (Nicholas Brothers) • Brock Peters (1927–2005) • Melvin Van Peebles (1932–2021) • Ethel Waters (1896-1977) 1977Roscoe Lee Browne (1922-2007) • Dorothy Dandridge† (1922-1965) • Bee Freeman • Bernard Johnson • James Earl Jones (1931-2024) • Maidie Norman (1912–1998) • Cicely Tyson (1924–2021) 1978Count Basie (1904-1984) • Benny Carter (1907–2003) • Nat King Cole† (1919-1965) • Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) • Nina Mae McKinney† (1912–1967) • Bill "Bojangles" Robinson† (1878-1949) • Hazel Scott (1920-1981) 1979Lonne Elder III (1927–1996) • Earl "Fatha" Hines (1903–1983) • Herb Jeffries (1913–2014) • Etta Moten Barnett (1901–2004) • Floyd Norman (born 1935) and *Leo D. Sullivan (1940–2023) • Diana Sands† (1934–1973) • Paul Winfield (1939–2004) 1980Vinnette Carroll (1922–2002) • Ivan Dixon (1931–2008) • James Edwards† (1918–1970) • William Greaves (1926–2014) • Lillian Randolph (1898–1980) • Frank Silvera† (1914–1970) • Woody Strode (1914–1994) 1981Maya Angelou (1928-2014) • Louis Gossett Jr. (1936-2024) • Geoffrey Holder (1930-2014) • Phil Moore (1918-1987) • Raymond St. Jacques (1930-1990) 1982Cab Calloway (1907–1994) • Jester Hairston (1901-2000) • Yaphet Kotto (1939-2021) • Hugh Robertson (1932-1988) 1984Carmen de Lavallade (born 1931) • Mantan Moreland† (1902-1973) • Richard Pryor (1940-2005) • Billy Dee Williams (born 1937) 1985Jim Brown (1936-2023) • Gloria Foster (1933-2001) • Robert Hooks (born 1937) 1986Moses Gunn (1929-1993) • Madame Sul-Te-Wan† (1873–1959) 1987Scatman Crothers† (1910–1986) • Jeni Le Gon (1916–2012) • Ernie Morrison (Sunshine Sammy) (1912–1989) 1988Louis Armstrong† (1901-1971) • Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993) 1989Lola Falana (born 1942) • Elisabeth Welch (1904-2003) 1990Suzanne de Passe (born 1948) • Danny Glover (born 1946) 1991Esther Rolle (1920-1998) • Michael Schultz (born 1938) 1992Madeline Anderson (born 1923/4) • Rosalind Cash (1938–1995) • Helen Martin (1909-2000) • Denise Nicholas (born 1944) • Madge Sinclair (1938-1995) 1993John Singleton (1968-2019) • Katherine Dunham (1909-2006) • Clarence Muse † (1889-1979) • Gordon Parks (1912-2006) † Awarded posthumously ==See also==
Additional resources
Indiana University maintains the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame Archives. ==References==
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