Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame
The Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, Inc., 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.
This is a partial list of inductees:Inductees
1973
- Clarence Muse
- Gordon Parks
1974
- Katherine Dunham
- Stepin Fetchit
- Paul Robeson
1975
- Ruby Dee
- Allen Hoskins
- Hall Johnson
- Abbey Lincoln
- Hattie McDaniel
- Butterfly McQueen
- Louis S. Peterson
- Fredi Washington
1976
- Eubie Blake
- Louise Beavers
- Oscar Micheaux
- Brock Peters
- Melvin Van Peebles
- Diahann Carroll
1977
- Maidie Norman
- Cicely Tyson
1978
- Benny Carter
- Nicholas Brothers - Fayard, Harold
- Nina Mae McKinney
- Sidney Poitier
1979
- Lonne Elder III
- Earl "Fatha" Hines
- Herb Jeffries
- Etta Moten Barnett
- Oodgeroo Noonuccal
- Floyd Norman
- Diana Sands
- Leo D. Sullivan
- Paul Winfield
1980
- Vinnette Carroll
- Ivan Dixon
- James Edwards
- William Greaves
- Lillian Randolph
- Frank Silvera
- Woody Strode
1982
- Cab Calloway
1984
- Billy Dee Williams
1986
- Madame Sul-Te-Wan
1987
- Sammy Davis, Jr.
- Scatman Crothers
- Jeni Le Gon
- Ernie Morrison
1990
- Suzanne de Passe
- Danny Glover
1991
- Michael Schultz
- August Wilson
1993
- Madeline Anderson
- Rosalind Cash
1994
- Jahn F. Overstreet
1995
- William D. Alexander