Although character names have been changed, the protagonist is named Oscar Devereaux.

** 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

* Oscar Micheaux, author, film director

* 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 )

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

In January 1966, Loot was revived, with Oscar Lewenstein taking up an option.

* January 21 – King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway ( d. 1907 )

On January 24, 2012, Close received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance, her first nomination since 1989, and her sixth Oscar nomination overall.

In January 1933, the critically acclaimed film adaptation premiered in the United States, and the London premiere followed in March. It won the Oscar for best picture.

In the early morning hours of January 1, 2009, unarmed civilian Oscar Grant was shot and killed by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle on a crowded platform at the Fruitvale BART Station in East Oakland.

Oscar first appeared on the January 11, 2008 episode of the television game show 1 vs. 100 as a member of the mob.

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.

* January 4 – At Cortina d ' Ampezzo in Italy, Dalida receives a Juke Box Global Oscar for the year's most-played artist on juke boxes.

* January 6 – A somewhat revised and streamlined revival of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat opens on Broadway at the Ziegfeld Theatre, the same theatre at which the original production played back in 1927.

On 22 January 2008, Christie received her fourth Oscar nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role at the 80th Academy Awards.

* January 31 — John Sholto Douglas, Scottish nobleman and nemesis of Oscar Wilde ( born 1844 )

Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling, KCMG, OM, PC, JP ( 22 March 193026 August 2000 ), is regarded as the " Father of the Nation " of the Bahamas, having led it to Majority Rule on 10 January 1967 and to independence on 10 July 1973.

Lady Wilde contracted bronchitis in January 1896 and, dying, asked for permission to see Oscar, who was in prison.

* January 18 – Oscar De La Hoya maintained his World Boxing Council super lightweight title in with a 12 – round unanimous decision over Miguel Ángel González in Las Vegas, Nevada.

On the show which aired Friday, January 8, 1954, Carroll took the $ 1, 000 top prize on the strength of her rendition of the Jerome Kern / Oscar Hammerstein song, " Why Was I Born?

In January 1875, Lord Randolph made a series of visits to his doctor, Oscar Clayton, for " an undisclosed ailment ".

Oscar Sherman Gifford ( October 20, 1842 – January 16, 1913 ) was an American lawyer of Canton, South Dakota.

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 ).

* Prince Christian Oscar ( 1 September 1919 – 10 December 1981 ); married 1963 ( divorced 1976 ) Mireille Dutry ( b. 10 January 1946 ), and had issue.

* A ballet by Friedrich Voss, a German composer and pianist ( b. Halberstadt, 1930 ) Die Nachtigall und die Rose ( G. Furtwängler, after Oscar Wilde ), 1961 ; Oberhausen, 5 January 1962 ; see the Breitkopf ’ s page

Mitscher was born in Hillsboro, Wisconsin on January 26, 1887, the son of Oscar and Myrta ( Shear ) Mitscher.

Oscar Buneman ( September 28, 1913 – January 24, 1993 ) made advances in science, engineering, and mathematics.

Edmund Leonard " Ed " Thigpen ( December 28, 1930 – January 13, 2010 ) was an American jazz drummer, best known for his work with the Oscar Peterson trio from 1959 to 1965.

* Early January – Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa (" Peregrine Falcon "), Allied reporting name " Oscar ")