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Apr 2, 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 Award for best actor (for Lilies of the Field [1963]) and ...
Jan 7, 2022 · Sidney Poitier, Who Paved the Way for Black Actors in Film, Dies at 94 - The New York Times. The first Black performer to win the Academy Award for best actor, for “Lilies of the Field,” he...
Jan 7, 2022 · CNN — Sidney Poitier, whose elegant bearing and principled onscreen characters made him Hollywood’s first Black movie star and the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar, has died. He was...
Jan 7, 2022 · Reuters. Sidney Poitier was a trailblazing actor who broke through Hollywood's racial barriers. Sidney Poitier, the first black man to win a best actor Oscar, has died at 94. The Hollywood...
Jan 7, 2022 · Brian Baxter. Fri 7 Jan 2022 13.49 EST. Sidney Poitier, who has died aged 94, was the first black actor to win an Oscar in a leading role, in 1964, for his performance in Lilies of the Field....
Sidney Poitier, the first black man to win a best actor Oscar, has died at 94. The Hollywood star's death was confirmed to the BBC by the office of Fred Mitchell, the Bahamas' minister of foreign...
Jan 7, 2022 · Sidney Poitier, whose dignity and self-assertion ushered in a new era in the depiction of African-Americans in Hollywood films as the civil rights movement was remaking America, has died, a...
