** Oscar Micheaux, African-American filmmaker ( b. 1884 )

* Oscar Micheaux

Within Our Gates ( 1920 ) is a silent film by the director Oscar Micheaux that portrays the contemporary racial situation in the United States during the early twentieth century, the years of Jim Crow, the revival of the Ku Klux Klan, the Great Migration of blacks to cities of the North and Midwest, and the emergence of the " New Negro ".

Produced, written and directed by Oscar Micheaux, it is the oldest known surviving film made by an African-American director.

Still from the 1919 Oscar Micheaux film Within Our Gates featuring actress Evelyn Preer

Category: Films directed by Oscar Micheaux

* Oscar Micheaux, pioneering African-American filmmaker and author

* Body and Soul ( 1925 film ), the best-known silent film of pioneer African-American filmmaker Oscar B. Micheaux

* Alice B. Russell ( 1892 – 1984 ) – singer and actress married to Oscar Micheaux.

In 1939, Julian was the producer for the motion picture Lying Lips, directed by Oscar Micheaux.

( film ), a 1938 American film directed by Oscar Micheaux

* Oscar Micheaux releases The Homesteader, starring pioneering African-American actress Evelyn Preer, becoming the first African-American to produce and direct a motion picture.

* Oscar Micheaux — Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer

* Oscar Micheaux — The Homesteader

* Oscar Micheaux – The Case of Mrs. Wingate

Two of his books were adapted as silent films in 1926 and 1927 by the director and producer Oscar Micheaux.

* 1926, The Conjure Woman ( film version by Oscar Micheaux was entitled The Spider's Web )

* 1927, The House Behind the Cedars ( film version by Oscar Micheaux was entitled The Millionaire )

* The Conjure Woman ( film version by Oscar Micheaux )

* The House Behind the Cedars ( film version by Oscar Micheaux )

Oscar Devereaux Micheaux ( January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951 ) was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films.

Grave of Oscar Micheaux in Great Bend, Kansas | Great Bend being decorated during the 2005 Oscar Micheaux festival.

* Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900 ), author and playwright ( educated in Portora Royal School )

* December 27 – Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor ( d. 1972 )

The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.

Oscar Cox, a prime author of the Lend-Lease Act, general counsel of the Foreign Economic Administration joined as well.

John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry GCVO ( 20 July 184431 January 1900 ) was a Scottish nobleman, remembered for lending his name and patronage to the " Marquess of Queensberry rules " that formed the basis of modern boxing, for his outspoken atheism, and for his role in the downfall of author and playwright Oscar Wilde.

Lord Alfred " Bosie " Douglas, the third son, was the close friend and lover of the famous author and poet Oscar Wilde.

In March 1895, angered by the apparent ongoing homosexual relationship between author Oscar Wilde and his son Alfred, Queensberry publicly called Wilde a " posing somdomite " ( sic ).

Oscar Wilde's novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, mentions " What to imperial Neronian Rome the author of the Satyricon once had been.

* Oscar Trejo Jr, born September 25, 1985, is a current writer, Poet and author!

* December 31 — Oscar Alin, Swedish historian, politician and author ( born 1846 )

Dominican-American author Junot Díaz, received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his 2007 novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which tells the story of an overweight Dominican boy growing up as a social outcast in Paterson, New Jersey.

Cuban American author Oscar Hijuelos won a Pulitzer for The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, and Cristina García received acclaim for Dreaming in Cuban.

Oscar and Lucinda is a novel by Australian author Peter Carey which won the 1988 Booker Prize, the 1989 Miles Franklin Award, and was shortlisted for The Best of the Booker.

Oscar Levant ( December 27, 1906August 14, 1972 ) was an American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor.

The Oscar win came as a surprise to the author, who, watching the award telecast from home, had no idea the film had been made and released.

* A novel where the narrator intentionally exposes him or herself as the author of the story ( e. g. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The Razor's Edge, Mister B.

He won an Oscar as well as the Palme d ' or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival for The Tin Drum ( 1979 ), the film version of the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass.

Oscar Zeta Acosta ( April 8, 1935 – disappeared 1974 ) was an American attorney, politician, minor novelist and Chicano Movement activist, perhaps best known for his friendship with the American author Hunter S. Thompson, who characterized him as his Samoan Attorney, Dr. Gonzo, in his acclaimed novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Predictions of an Oscar nomination circulated, but such recognition only came in January 2010 when Plummer received his first Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of author Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station ( 2009 ).

The Wizard of Oz, known during his reign as The Great and Powerful Oz, is the epithet of Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkel Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs, a fictional character in the Land of Oz, created by American author L. Frank Baum.

* Oscar Gonzáles ( writer ), Honduran author and poet