Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame

The Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, Inc. (BFHFI), was founded in 1973, Oakland, California, United States. 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 (1889 - 1979)
*Gordon Parks (1912 - 2006)

1974

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

1975

*Ruby Dee (1924 - )
*Hall Johnson (1888 - 1970)
*Abbey Lincoln (1930 - )
*Hattie McDaniel (1895 - 1952)
*Butterfly McQueen (1911 - 1995)
*Fredi Washington (1903 - 1994)

1976

*Louise Beavers (1902 - 1962)
*Diahann Carroll (1935 - )
*Oscar Micheaux (1893 – 1951)
*Brock Peters (1927 – 2005)
*Melvin Van Peebles (1932 - )

1977

*Maidie Norman (1912 - 1998)
*Cicely Tyson (1933 - )

1978

*Nicholas Brothers
*Nina Mae McKinney (1913 - 1967)
*Sidney Poitier (1927 - )

1979

*Etta Moten Barnett (1901 - 2004)

1980

*Ivan Dixon (1931 - )
*William Greaves (1926 - )

1984

*Billy Dee Williams (1937 - )

1986

*Madame Sul-Te-Wan (1873 - 1959)

1987

*Sammy Davis, Jr. (1925 - 1990)
*Scatman Crothers (1910 - 1986)
*Jeni LeGon (1916 - )
*Ernie Morrison (1912 - 1989)

1990

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

1993

*Madeline Anderson
*Rosalind Cash (1938 - 1995)

2006

Hattie McDaniel (1895-1952)

References

*http://www.blackfilmmakershall.org/ Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, Inc.

ources

*Moon, Spencer. "Reel Black Talk: A Sourcebook of 50 American Filmmakers", Greenwood Press, (1997) - ISBN 0313298300
*Peterson, Bernard L. "Profiles of African American Stage Performers and Theatre People", 1816-1960, Greenwood Press, (2000) - ISBN 0313295344