Sidney Poitier

Acting

Born 1927-02-20 Died 2022-01-06 Miami, Florida, USA 108 credits Academy Awards 1 Golden Globe Awards 2 BAFTA Awards 1 Grammy Awards 1 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special 1 Henrietta Award 1 Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres 1

Awards

Won 1 Academy Award

Academy Awards 1 won · 1 nominated

1964 Best Actor Won Lilies of the Field
1959 Best Actor Nominated The Defiant Ones

Primetime Emmy Awards 2 nominated

1997 Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Nominated Mandela and de Klerk
1991 Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Nominated Separate But Equal

Golden Globe Awards 2 won · 5 nominated

1981 Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award Won
1967 Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Nominated In the Heat of the Night
1965 Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Nominated A Patch of Blue
1963 Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Won Lilies of the Field
1961 Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Nominated A Raisin in the Sun
1959 Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated Porgy and Bess
1958 Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Nominated The Defiant Ones

BAFTA Awards 1 won

2016 BAFTA Fellowship Won

Screen Actors Guild Awards 1 nominated

1998 Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Nominated Mandela and de Klerk

Grammy Awards 1 won · 2 nominated

2008 Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording Nominated
2001 Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording Won The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
2000 Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording Nominated

Tony Awards 1 nominated

1960 Best Actor in a Play Nominated

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special 1 won · 2 nominated

2000 Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special Won The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
1998 Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special Nominated Mandela and de Klerk
1996 Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special Nominated Children of the Dust

Henrietta Award 1 won · 2 nominated

1970 Henrietta Award Nominated
1969 Henrietta Award Nominated
1968 Henrietta Award Won

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture 2 nominated

1994 Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture Nominated Sneakers
1988 Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture Nominated Shoot to Kill

Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres 1 won

— Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres Won

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Sidney Poitier KBE (February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian and American actor, film director, and diplomat. In 1964, he became the first black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, for Lilies of the Field. Other accolades include two competitive Golden Globe Awards, a competitive British Academy of Film and Television Arts award (BAFTA), and a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album. Major films featuring Poitier in a starring role include Blackboard Jungle (1955), The Defiant Ones (1958), To Sir, with Love (1967), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), In the Heat of the Night (1967), Sneakers (1992), and The Jackal (1997). Later in his career, he turned to directing with features such as Buck and the Preacher (1972), Uptown Saturday Night (1974), Stir Crazy (1980), and Ghost Dad (1990). At the time of his death, Poitier was one of the last major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.