Tyson is the first Black actress to receive an honorary Oscar from the Academy. Still, she had indeed already gone into the history books for being nominated for an Academy Award in 1973 for her ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper’s wife in “Sounder,” won a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched ...

Cicely Tyson: 'I Used My Career as My Platform' to Address Issues of Race and Gender The 90-year-old actress was honored with the Eugene M. Lang Lifetime Achievement Award on Tuesday ...

Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actress who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper’s wife in “Sounder,” a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewers ...

Tyson would receive an honorary Oscar award in 2018 The Last Angry MAn, A Man Called Adam, Sounder, Odds Against Tomorrow, Hoodlum, Fried Green Tomatoes and made her debut in 1957’s Twelve Angry ...

Cicely Tyson is the recipient of tonight's Honorary Academy Award, and our only question is how it's taken her this long to get an Oscar. The 94-year-old (yes, you read that correctly) actress is ...

Tyson has been nominated for 13 Emmys in total, winning two for 1974's The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, the start of a run that included Roots (1977), King (1978), The Women of Brewster ...