Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame

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.

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 (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 - 2019)

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)
• Earl "Fatha" Hines (1903 - 1983)
• Herb Jeffries (1913 - 2014)
• Etta Moten Barnett (1901 - 2004)
• Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920 - 1993)
• Floyd Norman (1935 - )
• Diana Sands (1934 - 1973)
• Leo D. Sullivan
• Paul Winfield (1939 - 2004)

1980

• Vinnette 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)

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)

1994

• Jahn F. Overstreet (1965- )

1995

• William D. Alexander (1916 – 1991)

See also

• Black Reel Awards
• Mary Perry Smith

Sources

• Moon, Spencer. Reel Black Talk: A Sourcebook of 50 American Filmmakers, Greenwood Press, (1997) - ISBN 0-313-29830-0
• Peterson, Bernard L. Profiles of African American Stage Performers and Theatre People, 1816–1960, Greenwood Press, (2000) - ISBN 0-313-29534-4

External links

• Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame
• https://web.archive.org/web/20190705160004/http://www.blackfilmmakershalloffamearchives.com/