Poitier was 44 years old at the time. February 20 1927 January 6 2022 was a Bahamian-American actor film director and ambassador.
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In 1964 he was the first African American and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor.
. With the death of Maximilian Schell on February 1 2014 he is the earliest surviving actor to have won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Sidney Poitier has died aged 94. He received his award for playing Homer Smith in Lilies of the Field 1963 at The 36th Annual Academy Awards 1964.
The Life of Sidney Poitier A Great Luminary Figure-Sidney Poitier is a Bahamian-American actor born and brought up in the Bahamas and later came to the US as a teenager. The Hollywood star was known for films including Guess Whos Coming to Dinner In the Heat of the Night and Lilies of the Field for which he became the first Black and Bahamian man to win a Best Actor Oscar. The news was announced by the Bahamian minister of foreign affairs Fred Mitchell prompting tributes from the world of entertainment.
Sidney Poitier whose elegant bearing and principled onscreen characters made him Hollywoods first Black movie star and the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar has died. Sidney Poitier KBE ˈ p w ɑː t j eɪ PWAH-tyay. Sidney Poitier the renowned Hollywood actor director and activist who commanded the screen reshaped the culture and paved the way for countless other Black actors with stirring performances in.
He also received two competitive Golden Globe Awards a competitive British Academy of Film and Television Arts BAFTA and a Grammy. Sidney Poitier Patric Knowles and Yvonne De Carlo in Band of Angels FilmPublicityArchiveUnited Arch As she described it was a difficult time in. He is an actor director film producer and diplomat.