Sentence examples for black winner from inspiring English sources

If McQueen takes home the award, he would be the first black winner of the prize.

The fact that he was the first black winner of the US Masters was not even half of it.

Derbyshire implies that the absence of a black winner means that black people are incapable of genius.

Steve McQueen is on course to become the first black winner of the best director Oscar after the nominations for the 86th Academy awards were announced yesterday.

There has been one black winner of a screenplay Oscar (Geoffrey Fletcher for Precious), though 12 Years a Slave's John Ridley is a good bet to join him.

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, a cellist from Nottingham, became the first black winner of the prize in May and has since landed a record deal with Decca Records.

One of Derbyshire's claims, however, is true: that there are no black winners of the Fields medal, the "Nobel prize of mathematics".

There have only been 33 black winners in history – out of a total of 2,947 Oscars given out since the inception of the awards.

Instead, the tone was set by a slate of black winners, who took the stage one by one in front of a mostly white audience of publishers, agents, judges, National Book Foundation board members, and fellow awards finalists.

One could argue that every year at the Oscars is a whitewash – only one woman of colour has ever won best actress (Halle Berry), and only 7% of best actor winners are men of colour (with nearly 40 years between two of the black winners, Sidney Poitier and Denzel Washington).

Of more than 2,900 Oscars awarded, only 31 have reportedly gone to black winners.