Lupita Nyong'o Updates

Every Best Supporting Actress Winner (83 person items)

"2013-Patsey in 12 Years a Slave"

Black American Firsts in Film and Theatre (70 person items)

"Nyong'o won one of 12 Years a Slave's three Oscars in 2014, taking home the best supporting actress prize for her role as Patsey. Nyong'o beat Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine), Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle), Julia Roberts (August: Osage County) and June Squibb (Nebraska). She began by thanking her character and the real Solomon Northup. "It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's," she said. "And so I want to salute the spi"

Notable African Americans who helped pave the way (64 person items)

"Lupita Nyong'o makes this list because in 2014, she became the first Black woman to be named as a brand ambassador for Lancôme."