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Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE (born February 20, 1927)
is an Bahamas|Bahamian-American actor. He was born
in Miami, Florida and grew up on Cat Island,
Bahamas|Cat Island in the Bahamas.  He won the
Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the
1963 film Lilies of the Field and was the first
actor of African descent to win this award.  He
received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in
2002.

His other films include:
*The Defiant Ones, for which he won the BAFTA
Award for Best Actor|British Academy Award for
Best Actor in 1958.
*Porgy and Bess, based on the famous opera, in the
title role of Porgy along side Dorothy Dandridge
as Bess.  His on-screen singing voice was provided
by opera singer Robert McFerrin, father of Bobby
McFerrin.
*Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, a film about an
inter-racial romance and a white liberal's
reaction to it
*A Patch of Blue, about a blind white girl and a
black man who is moved to help her to a better
life
*To Sir, with Love, a fact-based movie about a
young teacher in an inner-city neighbourhood
*In the Heat of the Night about a murder
investigation in a small Mississippi town.

He acted in the first run of "Raisin in the Sun"
on Broadway theatre|Broadway in 1959, and in its
Hollywood adaptation in 1961.

In addition to authoring This Life (1980) and The
Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
(2000), Poitier has also served as the Bahamian
ambassador to Japan since April of 1997.

He is mentioned extensively in John Guare's play
Six Degrees of Separation.

==Awards and recognition==
; Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album
*Grammy Awards of 2001 
**Rick Harris, John Runnette (producers) & Sidney
Poitier for The Measure of a Man
; NAACP Image Award - Hall of Fame Award
* 2001: Sidney Poitier
; NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a
Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special
* 2000: Sidney Poitier, The Simple Life of Noah
Dearborn
; Kennedy Center Honors
* 1995: Sidney Poitier
; AFI Life Achievement Award
* 1992: Sidney Poitier
; List of Golden Globe Awards: Film, Best Actor,
Drama|Golden Globe Awards: Film, Best Actor, Drama
* 1964: Sidney Poitier, Lilies of the Field 
; Academy Award for Best Actor :
* 1963: Sidney Poitier for Lilies of the Field
* 1958: Sidney Poitier for The Defiant Ones
; BAFTA Award for Best Actor
* 1958: Foreign: Sidney Poitier for The Defiant
Ones


==Filmography==

*From Whence Cometh My Help (1949) (documentary)
*No Way Out (1950 film)|No Way Out (1950)
*Cry, the Beloved Country (1951)
*Red Ball Express (1952)
*Go, Man, Go! (1954)
*Blackboard Jungle (1955)
*Good-bye, My Lady (1956)
*Edge of the City (1957)
*Something of Value (1957)
*Band of Angels (1957)
*Virgin Island (1958)
*The Mark of the Hawk (1958)
*The Defiant Ones (1958)
*Porgy and Bess (1959)
*All the Young Men (1960)
*A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
*Paris Blues (1961)
*Pressure Point (1962)
*The Long Ships (movie)|The Long Ships (1963)
*Lilies of the Field (1963)
*The Bedford Incident (1965)
*The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
*A Patch of Blue (1965)
*The Slender Thread (1965)
*Duel at Diablo (1966)
*To Sir, with Love (1967)
*In the Heat of the Night (1967)
*Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
*For Love of Ivy (1968)
*The Lost Man (1969)
*King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
(1970) (documentary) (narrator)
*They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! (1970)
*Brother John (1971)
*The Organization (film)|The Organization (1971)
*Buck and the Preacher (1972) (also director)
*A Warm December (1973) (also director)
*Uptown Saturday Night (1974) (also director)
*Let's Do It Again (1975) (also director)
*The Wilby Conspiracy (1975)
*A Piece of the Action (1977) (also director)
*Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (1979) (short
subject) (narrator)
*Stir Crazy (movie)|Stir Crazy (1980) (director)
*Hanky Panky (1982) (director)
*Fast Forward (1985) (director)
*Bopha! (1986) (documentary) (narrator)
*Shoot to Kill (1988)
*Little Nikita (1988)
*Ghost Dad (1990) (director)
*Sneakers (movie)|Sneakers (1992)
*A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary)
*Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1996)
(documentary)
*The Jackal (1997)
*Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey (2001)
(documentary) (narrator)
*Tell Them Who You Are (2004) (documentary)


==External links==
*imdb name|id=0001627|name=Sidney Poitier
*
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/a
pril/13/newsid_2524000/2524235.stm Poitier breaks
new ground with Oscar win (BBC, April 13, 1964)