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Sidney Poitier was a Bahamian-American actor known for his performances on the stage and screen.
He became the first Black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor for Lilies of the Field (1963). He also received a Grammy Award, two Golden Globe Awards and a British Academy Film Award. Poitier received numerous honoraries during his lifetime including the Academy Honorary Award for his lifetime achievement in film in 2001. In 1992, he received the AFI Life Achievement Award. In 1994, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1981, he received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award and in 2016 he received the BAFTA Fellowship.
In 1995, Poitier received the Kennedy Center Honor and in 2009, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama. He was also awarded as Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1974.
Awards Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1958 Best Actor The Defiant Ones 1963 Lilies of the Field 2001 Honorary Academy Award
Berlin International Film Festival Year Category Nominated work Result 1958Silver Bear for Best Actor The Defiant Ones 1963 Lilies of the Field
British Academy Film Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1958 Best Foreign Actor Edge of the City 1959 The Defiant Ones 1962 A Raisin in the Sun 1965 Lilies of the Field 1967 A Patch of Blue 1968 In the Heat of the Night 2016BAFTA Fellowship
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1958 Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama The Defiant Ones 1959 Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Porgy and Bess 1961 Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama A Raisin in the Sun 1963 Lilies of the Field 1965 A Patch of Blue 1967 In the Heat of the Night 1968 Henrietta Award World Film Favorite 1969 1970 1981 Cecil B. DeMille Award 1991 Best Actor - Miniseries or Television Film Separate but Equal
Grammy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2001 Best Spoken Word Album The Measure of a Man 2009 Life Beyond Measure
Primetime Emmy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1991 Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Special Separate but Equal 1997 Mandela and de Klerk
Screen Actors Guild Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1998 Outstanding Actor in a Miniseries of Television Movie Mandela and de Klerk 2000 Life Achievement Award
Tony Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1960 Best Leading Actor in a Play A Raisin in the Sun
Honorary Awards
AFI Life Achievement Award In 1992, Poitier received the AFI Life Achievement Award.
Kennedy Center Honors In 1995, Poitier received the Kennedy Center Honor
Presidential Medal of Freedom In 2009, Poitier was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama."President Obama Names Medal of Freedom Recipients", White House Office of the Press Secretary, July 30, 2009.
Walk of Fame In 1994, Poitier received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7065 Hollywood Blvd.
Honorary Knighthood 1974: Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)
Other tributes 1958: Silver Bear for Best Actor (Berlin Film Festival) for The Defiant Ones 1963: Silver Bear for Best Actor (Berlin Film Festival) for Lilies of the Field 1997: Appointed non-resident Bahamian Ambassador to Japan 2011: Film Society of Lincoln Center Gala Tribute"Film Society of Lincoln Center honors the life and career of Sidney Poitier" , Lincoln Center of the Performing Arts, May 2, 2011. honoring his life and careers 2014: Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement, presented by Awards Council member Oprah Winfrey
See also List of African-American actors African-American Tony nominees and winners — Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play List of black Academy Award winners and nominees — Best Actor in a Leading Role List of actors with Academy Award nominations List of actors with more than one Academy Award nomination in the acting categories List of black Golden Globe Award winners and nominees List of Golden Globe winners David Hampton, an impostor who posed as Poitier's son "David" in 1983, which inspired the 1990 play and 1993 film Six Degrees of Separation John Stewart, aka Green Lantern, a DC Comics superhero whose original design was based on Poitier References