Akron native Paul Tazewell, 60, won the Oscar for costume design and made Academy Awards history in the process.

In a historic moment at the 97th Academy Awards, Paul Tazewell became the first Black man to win the Oscar for Best Costume ...

When Paul Tazewell took home the “Best Costume Design” Oscar at the 97th Academy Awards for his work on the blockbuster ...

Paul Tazewell, an Akron, Ohio, native and former faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, made history Sunday night at ...

Akron native Paul Tazewell, nominated for an Academy Award for his costume design work for the blockbuster film "Wicked," won ...

"We kind of knew he had talent, but we didn't have an idea of the level of genius," says Linda Brown, Tazewell's aunt.