Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier (born in Miami on February 20, 1927, from Bahamian parents, died January 7, 2022) played a high school student in Blackboard Jungle (1955) by Richard Brooks with Glenn Ford, co-starred with Tony Curtis in The Defiant Ones (1958) by Stanley Kramer. He starred in Porgy and Bess (1959) directed by Otto Preminger from the musical by George Gershwin, in the film version of the play A Raisin in the Sun (1961), in Paris Blues (1961) by Martin Ritt with Paul Newman, Lilies in the Field (1963) and A Patch of Blue (1964). He co-starred with Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) by Stanley Kramer, with Rod Steiger in In The Heat of the Night (1967) by Norman Jewison. Poitier directed movies like Stir Crazy (1980) with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor and Ghost Dad (1990) with Bill Cosby.

Read Ready for My deMille: Profiles in Excellence -Sidney Poitier, 1982 by Philip Berk

Golden Globe Awards

1992 Nominee

Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a Motion Picture Made for Television
- Separate But Equal
- Sidney Poitier
1971 Winner

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- Sidney Poitier
1970 Winner

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- Sidney Poitier
1969 Winner

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- Sidney Poitier
1968 Nominee

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
- In the Heat of the Night
- Sidney Poitier
1966 Nominee

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Patch of Blue, A
- Sidney Poitier
1964 Winner

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Lilies of the Field
- Sidney Poitier
1962 Nominee

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Raisin in the Sun, A
- Sidney Poitier
1960 Nominee

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
- Porgy and Bess
- Sidney Poitier
1959 Nominee

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Defiant Ones, The
- Sidney Poitier