Definately Denzil on Malcolm X and the late, great Ossie Davis and Samuel L. Jackson on Jungle Fever….riveting ;)…….

I agree with Malcolm X. I have never seen The Spook who sat by the door, but I have it on order. I am too bitter over my ex to watch Love Jones, I’m sure it’s a great film.

Five heartbeats and Malcolm X

Pretty good list but like the others I wonder why Spike Lee’s X did not make this cut. Certainly it was better than Love & Basketball and The Five Heartbeats (imo, of course). . . Also, I would add Miracle At Saint Anna. (^_^)

Sorry, OP, I missed X at #1! lol!

Sam Greenlee’s Spook that sat by the Door should be number one. Cointelpro removed it from theaters a few days after its opening.When they ban you for trying to wake up the blackmind in America? You gotta be on JESUS as a revolutionary status for that to happen.Then they come to get rid of you…get the point.

Love Jones, Love & Basketball, Best Man, Training Day (depending on how you define “black movie”), Bomerang, Coming to America. To me, the most memorable era for black movies is from around 1990 to 2005, and the height of that being 1995-1999. Things have slowed down since, so we gotta turn it around.

oops. my memory escaped me. another great era in black films was between 1962 and 1977 :)

Malcolm X is one of my favorite movies…I don’t remember seeing Westley Snipes in the movie…So I’m taking it as you meant to say Denzel Washington…But FiveHeartbeats, Cooley High, and Malcolm X are good movies.

What about the color purple?

I don’t know about New Jack City … wasn’t that produced by Italian overseas white folks who HAD to put in the movie that the parents do drugs IN FRONT OF THEIR KIDS? come on.

This list is comical at best. Omar Epps “Best Actor?” When has he ever been believable and not looking as if he’s reading off the cue card?

“Whats Love Got to Do With It” should have won. Lawrence Fishburne should have taken home best actor and Angela Bassett, Best Actress, respectfully. Lawrence was so good at playing Ike that he had women across the country mad at HIM for real, lol.

Wesley, DEFINITELY for Nino Brown.

I agree for the Cooley High noms and the Five Heartbeat soundtrack nod. The movie is classic, but the acting in Five Heartbeats was horrible! Lets be real.

Love Jones and Love & Basketball for the acting? LMFAO! Yeah right…

All I can say is “What a list.”

no rasin in the sun, devil in a blue dress, sounder, color purple

so do I , What a list ! what is going on ? If it was up to me I would have ranked Hell up in Harlem in the top ten also Buck and the preacher…It just depends on what sells the most tickets at the box office. with the right marketing team and audience at anytime any one of these can be major.

Only Malcolm X the rest was stupid…

I say cooley high, love jones, love&basketball, and Ali

“The Spook Who Sat By The Door: 2012″ should be the first movie nominated for a Black Oscar equivalent….a “Black Star Award” or something of the sort….

F.u.c.k the Oscars.

Fu.c.k. Holly-weirdo.

The Indians have “Bollywood”, and they’re doing okay.

The Nigerians have “Nollywood”, and their doing okay.

When are Black people going to take their money and develop their “o-w-n” cinema awards ceremony….Oh! I forgot!….We gotta wait until the white people tell us it’s okay, huh??!!….Boy, when we get rid of this slave mentality, we are going to be a force to be reckoned with!!!

This list is bulls**t. What about Sparkle, Mahogany, Lady Sing’s the Blue’s, Antoine Fisher, Sounder, Claudine, Ali, The Wiz, Rosewood, Losing Isaiah, etc: I could go on and on but what good would it do. The HOLLYWOOD ESTABLISHMENT ( YOU FOLKS KNOW WHOM I’M REFERING TO ), will never, ever, ( FOREVER, EVER, FOREVER, EVER ) VOTE FOR AN ALL BLACK CAST IN A MOVIE, TO WIN AN OSCAR. It’s just not going to happen. The only role we will ever win for will be a corrput cop who die’s in the end, or a single mom who’s son get’s killed and her husband die’s on deathrow and she sleeps with the racist white prison guard. After The Color Purple lost to Cocoon for best picture in “86″. Imagine a movie about a bunch of “OLD WHITE PEOPLE ” living in a retirement home, having their lives rejuvinated by some benovelent beings from out of space. ” WHAT A CROCK OF S**T. After that snub I went on my own personal boycott of Hollywood, and still have to this day.

Hollywood is nothing more than white “art” politics…..And you thought those guys in Washington DC were bad!….(lol!)….

The only time a “Black” movie will be nominated for an Oscar is when it contains the most vile, base, negative, homosexualized and degenerating images of an all Black cast.

How Did The Color Purple, Glory, and Four Little Girls not make even THIS list?

Dont forget Set It Off!!!

Easy_one65 !!!! You hit it right on target. All you have to do is look at the crop of movies they’re giving us. Instead of producing good quality african-american based films they would rather rehash old films from the the past. They’ve redone True Grit, Death at a Funeral, and now they’re casting for the 70′s tele-drama “Dallas”. Dallas!! I said , what the F.U.C.K!!!! I KNEW IT WAS BAD WHEN THEY LET THE WAYAN’S BRO’s DO THE MOVIE “LITTLE MAN” if you’re smart you’ll remember this was based on an old Bug’s Bunny cartoon, LOL HOW SAD!!

malcom x…was denzel washington

Most of these movie with exception to Love Jones & Malcolm X are Oscar contenders, Ray isn’t on the list but that is a contender too.

@ angelo137 …….The Color Purple SHOULD have won. Probably a tie with Malcolm X with the snub @#1. But it went head to head with Out of Africa in ’85. Out of Africa just about took everything that year. I too began my Oscar boycott that year. Still haven’t seen Out of Africa to this day. No one talks about that movie any more but it is hard to go a couple weeks without experiencing a Ms Celie or Happo moment.

-DB

Adolph Cesar got robbed for sure with A Soldiers Story

why was jungle fever on this…..yall are right A Soilders Story, Color Purple……

old_goldO6!!! You’re right about the year, my memory of time and dates are getting pathetic. LOL. I’m blaming it on old age. There have a few more mentioned on here, Ray and one of my all time favorites, A Soldier’s Story!!

I see the Color Purple is STILL getting dogged… this time by BLACK Planet. What? It was not BLACK enough because of Spilberg? Which Malcolm X movie was Denzel Washington in? Maybe I need to rent “The Harder They Come”.

“Sugar Hill” should be on that list because it is replete with powerful messages on how not to follow a life of crime. The message at the end of the film is especially important for men with children.
How Clarence Williams III didn’t even get nominated for that film is a crime; his performance was outstanding. Also this is Wesley Snipes best performance in a film for me.

Only when black actors are shown to debase themselves or show negativity, will Hollyweird laud the actor/film as outstanding or give an Oscar. These Zionists know what they are doing to the minds of black folk (especially the young).
That’s why I love that track by Public Enemy called…”Burn Hollywood Burn”.

Angela Bassett should definitely be holding an Oscar by now.

Other films that should be on that list are:

Bamboozled; Hoop Dreams; Jason’s Lyric; Antoine Fisher; Lakeview Terrace; Four Little Girls; Redemption (Jamie Fox) and Rosewood.

Also Casey Gane, your mistake has been noted with having Wesley Snipes as best actor in Malcolm X; it should be Denzel.

WHOA WHOA WHOA. How is Soldier Story not included?! Or What’s Love Got To Do With It? Take off Love Jones and Love And Basketball and put the movies I mentioned. Soldier and What’s Love were nominated but got robbed as all great black films do. Malcolm X, Jungle Fever and The Five Heartbeats definitely should of won something.

Where is the Color Purple??

Color Purple & Malcolm X for sure…

for those who forgot denzel washington was in malcolm X not wesley …please people remember your film history on who was in what

SOLDIER STORY just watched it Awesome flick. Malcolm is one of the best films ever made!

Classics,Across 110th st.,Three the hard way,Gordons war,Come back charleston blue,JD’s Revenge,The Mack,Jim kelly,Ron Van cleff in The Black Dragon,The Panthers,Dead Presidents,and of course Soldiers Story,these movies were classic SOUL,COOL AND RIGHT ON!

I came across an o’nli’ne co’mmunity for ind’ividual s’ee’king int’erra’cial lo’ve.
It is~~ Bla ckwh ite Cu p id * C0 m ~~ All si’ng’les there are se’eking inter’racial rel’ations’hips. Inter’raci’al is not a proble’m there, but a great merit to cherish! ;) there you will always be

The color purple and John Q was 2 movies that definitely deserved an Oscar award. When is Hollywood going to acknowledge black films and black actors? well its time for a reality check because black films are grossing big bucks in the box office. As Seal has song a change is going to come.

Best Actor(Wesley Snipes), i think you mean (Denzel Washington) in Malcolm X

Nah, the Oscars pretty much got it right. I love “Malcolm X”, “Cooley High”, but none of the movies deserved trophies. This top ten list is almost too silly to even respond to. Most of the mentioned movies are poorly written, poorly acted and just poorly done. “Love Jones” and “Love and Basketball” are overrated chick-flicks that I hate. I’m not a fan of Spike Lee’s earlier work, so that cancels out “Mo’ Betta Blues” and “Jungle Fever.” “New Jack City” was poorly written and full of bad acting. No dice. Same goes for “The Five Heartbeats.” It’s a better comedy than a drama. The rest I never even heard of, so how could they win any awards. Shame too, because I’m a Herbie Hanc**k fan, yet I never heard of that movie until recently. I’m sure the soundtrack rocks, but I bet the movie sucks. Even the title screams “BOMB!” (LOL)

Maybe if we black make a well-written story, we might win something. It’s too easy to write a silly-ass comedy that bashes men and uses sex and violence to put black butts in theater seats. Until Tyler Perry and other directors decide to do something that’s good instead of what’s more successful, you’ll be sitting on the sidelines every February at the Academy Awards…

A Soldiers Story is a hell of a good movie.

Damn what about SHAFT.

Across 110th Street,now that was another damn good movie.

i agree 100% with LastManStandingTall! this top 10 list is a joke, and sad that those are the best black movies we could think of.

Probably gotta define what constitutes a “black movie.” Is it black if produced by a black producer but directed by a non-black director? is the only qualification that the lead actor or actress is black, or should the cast be at least 51% black?

The Color Purple clearly should top the list…

I didn’t like Jungle Fever but agree that Samuel Jackson’s performance in it was phenomenal and should have merited Oscar recognition. Similarly Mo Betta Blues wasn’t an Oscar worthy film but the Score and Soundtrack were phenomenal and should have merited Oscar recognition. Cooley High has proven to be a timeless film that has been often duplicated…I could agree with that.

The rest of the list? I disagree….I mean Jesus, New Jack City has some of the worst acting ever, and Love and Basketball was good, but epic? No way. Most of the list are decent to good movies that don’t rise to Oscar level.

I’d have to give my vote to “X” and then to “New Jack City”. “X” I thought was excellent; to have my then 8 year old sit through the entire movie and not complain speaks volumes as to how good it was. “New Jack City” because it’s reflective of what still goes on with the drug trade in the inner city; as long as the drug dealers pump some of that money back into the community (or hand it out from time to time) a lot of people are willing to turn a blind eye to the evil being committed and the people who lose their minds and lose their potential in the quest to get the “candy”. Even the preachers are willing to condone it as long as the money goes in the collection plate every Sunday.

Lady sings the blues with Diana Ross and Richard Pryor and Malcolm X. Superb acting.

I forgot A soldiers story.All of the acting was superb.

THE ONE BLACK MOVIE THAT I THOUGH DESERVE SOME KIND OF AWARD WAS “THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR” TO ME THAT WAS THE ONLY MOVIE AT THAT TIME THAT WAS MADE THAT DID’NT SEE BLACKS DOING THE USUAL BULLS**T BUT DOING WHAT WAS AND STILL IS NEEDED AT THIS DAY AND TIME,,,IT WAS NICE NOT TO SEE NEGROE ACTIING AND FOOL GRINNING CLOWNS…THE SISTER WHO PLAYED IN IT WAS GIVEN A HONEST ROLL ,,,I THINK IT’S TIME WE RE-MAKE THIS MOVIE AND OTHERS LIKE IT…

What about the Color Purple? Whoopie was great and Oprah also.

‘The Color Purple’ and ‘soldier’s story’ should have made the list

What about “Glory” ?

Yeah, “Glory” and “a soldier’s story” should have made the list. “Cooley high” was

a good career starting film but a movies about some negros drinkin, smoking dope,

stealing cars, and gang activity in the hood…..was hardly original

A Soldier’s Story and Glory should be at the top of the list

Gerard and penny you are absolutely right!! Glory with Morgan Freedman and Denzel Washington. Ragtime with Howard Rollins. A soldier Story, Howard Rollins, Jr., Adolph Caesar, Denzel Washington. We will never be known for great actoring roles if we allowed them to continue to give us awards for Training day and Monsters ball. Ask for our great actors roles only. Howard Rollins kick the door open with his protralyal of Coalhouse Walker who fought against racial prejudice by any mean possible. He set a genre for Spike Lee and other black actor, directors and film-makers to explosed in the industry. Without rollins we would still be playing chicken George. Coalhouse Walker said ” I’m a Man”!! Ragtime, Glory and A soldier Story is the black man Color Purple.
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