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4 days ago · Poitier gained stardom for his leading roles in films such as The Defiant Ones (1958) for which he made history becoming the first African American to receive an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination. Additionally Poitier won the Silver Bear for Best Actor for his performance.
4 days ago · Sidney Poitier has won the hearts of over 700 movie fans who have come together to rank his impressive filmography from best to worst. As an iconic and trailblazing actor, he's broken down barriers for Black actors in Hollywood and paved the way for future generations.
5 days ago · Lilies of the Field, starring Sidney Poitier in his Oscar-winning role as Homer Smith, is an offbeat but quaint film released in 1963. Homer is on a road trip across Arizona where he encounters a group of women religious — nuns from Germany, Austria and Hungary.
3 days ago · Written by Ernest Kinoy and Drake Walker. Directed by Sidney Poitier. 1972. Sidney Poitier kind of paved the way for the Blaxploitation genre. Before it really kicked off, he was the Black movie star, although he tended to stick to highbrow fare rather than the down-and-dirty, morally grey stories the genre would become known for.
4 days ago · That moment came when Sidney Poitier was named ‘Best Actor’ for Lilies of the Field in 1963, which marked his second nomination. When he was shortlisted for the first time, Dorothy Dandridge was the only other Black star to have ever been recognised in a leading category, but the iconic star had already made history on the other side of the pond.
2 days ago · Sidney Poitier told me the first three or four films you make will determine how you’re perceived in this business. Later on, I was offered another comedy, but it wasn’t funny to me — I thought it was quite racist. I didn’t take it, and I waited about six months and I got Cry Freedom. That movie changed everything.
2 days ago · Sidney Poitier opened up about his time in the military in his 1980 memoir, "This Life." In the memoir, he recalled leaving the Bahamas when he was 15 to live in Miami, later finding his way to ...
