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Academy Awards, USA. Sidney Poitier became the first African American to win the Best Actor Oscar and the only one until Denzel Washington for Training Day (2001), 38 years later. By a strange coincidence, Washington won the Best Actor award on the same night when Poitier received an Honorary Oscar.
Poitier won the Academy Award for Best Actor, becoming the first Black actor to win an Academy Award for a leading role and the second Black actor to win after Hattie McDaniel won for Best Supporting Actress for Gone with the Wind.
Lilies of the Field, American film drama, released in 1963, that explores issues of faith and is especially noted for Sidney Poitier’s historic Academy Award win: he became the first African American to win an Oscar for best actor.
- Lee Pfeiffer
Nov 13, 2009 · On April 13, 1964, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African American to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his role as a construction worker who helps build a chapel in Lilies of the...
- Missy Sullivan
Oct 1, 2018 · On Oct. 1, 1963, United Artists hosted the New York premiere of Lilies of the Field, starring Sidney Poitier and Lilia Skala. The film was nominated for five Oscars at the 36th Academy Awards,...
- James Powers
Lilies of the Field: Directed by Ralph Nelson. With Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Lisa Mann, Isa Crino. A travelling handyman becomes the answer to the prayers of nuns who wish to build a chapel in the desert.
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Lilies of the Field ★★★ 1963. Five former East German nuns, living on a small farm in the Southwest U.S., enlist the aid of a freespirited Army veteran Homer Smith (Poitier) to build a chapel for them and teach them English.
