Oscar Micheaux - Legacy and Honors

Legacy and Honors

• The Oscar Micheaux Award for excellence was established.
• The Oscar Micheaux Sociey at Duke University continues to honor his work and educate about his legacy.
• 1987, Micheaux was recognized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• 1989 the Directors Guild of America honored Micheaux with a Golden Jubilee Special Award.
• The Producers Guild of America created an annual award in his name.
• 1989, the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame gave him a posthumous award.
• Gregory, South Dakota holds an annual Oscar Micheaux Film Festival.
• 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante included Oscar Micheaux on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.
• On June 22, 2010 the US Postal Service issued a 44-cent, Oscar Micheaux commemorative stamp.
• 2011, the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, Virginia created a category for donors, the Micheaux Society, in honor of Micheaux.

• Midnight Ramble: Oscar Micheaux and the Story of Race Movies (1994) is a documentary whose title refers to the early 20th-century practice of some segregated cinemas of screening films for African-American audiences only at matinees and midnight. The documentary was produced by Pamela Thomas, directed by Pearl Bowser and Bestor Cram, and written by Clyde Taylor. It was first aired on the PBS show The American Experience in 1994, and released in 2004.