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1. In the Heat of the Night. 1967 1h 50m Approved. 7.9 (84K) Rate. 76 Metascore. Director Stars Sidney Poitier Rod Steiger Warren Oates. 2. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. 1967 1h 48m Approved. 7.8 (49K) Rate. 63 Metascore. Director Stars Spencer Tracy Sidney Poitier Katharine Hepburn. 3. Lilies of the Field. 1963 1h 34m Approved. 7.5 (14K) Rate.
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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An African-American doctor falls in love with the niece of an African ambassador during his vacation in London, but it turns out that she is suffering from a rare terminal illness. Director: Sidney Poitier | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Ester Anderson, Yvette Curtis, George Baker. Votes: 808 | Gross: $0.37M. 36.
He acted in three films in 1967 films which dealt with issues of race and race relations: To Sir, with Love; Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and In the Heat of the Night, the latter of which earned him Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations. In a poll the next year he was voted the US's top box-office star. [11] .
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