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  1. www.britannica.com › biography › Sidney-PoitierSidney Poitier | Biography, Movies, & Facts | Britannica

    Apr 2, 2024 · Bahamas Film Culture Project - Sidney Poitier (May 09, 2024) Sidney Poitier (born February 20, 1927, Miami, Florida, U.S.—died January 6, 2022, Los Angeles, California) was a Bahamian American actor, director, and producer who broke the colour barrier in the U.S. motion-picture industry by becoming the first African American to win an Academy ...

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  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Sidney_PoitierSidney Poitier - Wikipedia

    Sidney Poitier KBE ( / ˈpwɑːtjeɪ / PWAH-tyay; [1] February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian and American actor, film director, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first Black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. [2] He received two competitive Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Grammy Award as ...

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  4. www.npr.org › 2022/01/07 › 1068622387Sidney Poitier wasn't just a groundbreaking actor—he was a ...

    Jan 7, 2022 · Poitier, who died at 94 on Friday, spent the majority of his life being a symbol to millions of people: a symbol of "progress," "advancement," "hope," "dignity," and lots of other buzzwords often ...

  5. www.independent.co.uk › arts-entertainment › filmsThe extraordinary story of how Sidney Poitier learnt to read

    Jan 7, 2022 · He writes of how, in the spring of 1945, an 18-year-old Poitier knocked on the door of the American Negro Theatre in Harlem, New York.The theatre’s co-founder, Frederick O’Neal, answered the door.

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  7. www.nytimes.com › 2022/01/07 › moviesSidney Poitier Was the Star We Desperately Needed Him to Be

    Jan 7, 2022 · Hu man. Let’s say Mr. Poitier had a good 20-year run as a star, from 1958, when “The Defiant Ones” came out, to 1978, when the last of his hit trilogy with Bill Cosby left movie theaters. He...

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  8. www.rogerebert.com › features › sidney-poitier-andSidney Poitier and the Slap That Shook the World - Roger Ebert

    Jan 18, 2022 · The first Sidney Poitier film I ever saw was the Oscar-winning 1967 thriller “In The Heat of The Night,” about a Black detective from Philadelphia who gets waylaid in a Mississippi town and teams up with a reactionary white police chief (Rod Steiger) to solve a murder. I was 14 years old at the time.

  9. www.newyorker.com › culture › cultural-commentThe Meaning of Sidney Poitier’s Historic 1964 Oscar

    Jan 12, 2022 · Sidney Poitier’s Oscar legacy is about more than “progress.”. It’s also about solitude and the limits of symbolic victories. Photograph from Michael Ochs Archives / Getty. The obituaries ...