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The Best 32 films of Sidney Poitier. by jacobyjhn-18-315763 • Created 12 years ago • Modified 9 years ago. The wonderful Sidney Poitier made his fim debut auspiciously. in the 1950 Joe Mankiewicz drama, No Way Out.
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One of these films, The Defiant Ones (1958), earned Poitier his first Academy Award nomination as Best Actor. Five years later, he won the Oscar for Lilies of the Field (1963), the first African American to win for a leading role. He remained active on stage and screen as well as in the burgeoning Civil Rights movement.
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Cry, the Beloved Country. 1951 1h 43m. 6.9 (994) Rate. In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo (Canada Lee) journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a criminal.
Poitier made his directorial film debut with Buck and the Preacher (1972) followed by A Warm December (1973), Uptown Saturday Night (1974), and Stir Crazy (1980). He later starred in Shoot to Kill (1988) and Sneakers (1992). Poitier was granted an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II in 1974.
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