She joins Hattie McDaniel, Whoopi Goldberg, Halle Berry, and Jennifer Hudson as the only black women to win Oscars for acting.
Irene Cara is the first black woman to win a non-acting Oscar in 1983 in the Best Original Song category. Cara is credited as the lyricist.
In a 2004 interview in the July issue of Interview Magazine Carly Simon revealed her full ancestry as being Jewish, Black, Cuban and French, noting that her Spanish mother was of German, Cuban and Black ancestry. Carly Simon also won an Oscar in the Best Original Song category in 1989.
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