That Gay Thread

[Rev. Rye]

It's been a while since I've seen any of these films except Soul and Get Out, and I don't think any of the main characters or their actors are gay, but they're starring black men, they won Oscars, and they were made in the last 20 years:

• Training Day
  
• Ray
  
• Last King of Scotland
  
• Judas and the Black Messiah
  
• Fences
  
• If Beale Street Could Talk
  
• Black Panther
  
• Soul
  
• BlacKKKlansman
  
• Hustle and Flow
  
• Selma
  
• Get Out
  
• The Blind Side (A bit embarrassing of a pick, I guess, but the protagonist is a straight black man, and it did win an Oscar, even if it was just for Sandra Bullock.)
  

Oh, look, all I needed to do was look up List of Black Academy Award Winners and Nominees and I found THIRTEEN fitting your criteria. And four of them, black actors won for their performances. And I omitted documentaries and shorts from the list.

Not to be a nudge, but you left out ‘Crash’, which starred Don Cheadle AND won best picture.

Boru

I guess that one flew under my radar, since nobody black was even nominated for that one.

Also, Nay_sayer, I deliberately did not include Into the Spider-Verse because the protagonist of that movie is Puerto Rican... except that, looking it up on Wikipedia to confirm it, he's also apparently part-black. I think I need to update the list.