Sidney Poitier

Sir Sidney Poitier
Poitier pada tahun 1968
Tahun aktif	1943 - 2022
Suami/istri	Juanita Hardy (1950-1965) Joanna Shimkus (1976-2022)
Penghargaan	Silver Bear for Best Actor 1958 The Defiant Ones 1963 Lilies of the Field AFI Life Achievement Award 1992 Lifetime Achievement
Penghargaan (2016) BAFTA Fellowship (2015) Spingarn Medal (en) (2009) Presidential Medal of Freedom (2008) Paul Robeson Award (en) (2006) Marian Anderson Award (en) (2002) Penghargaan Kehormatan Akademi (2001) NAACP Image Award – Hall of Fame Award (en) (2001) Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording (en) (2000) NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special (en) (2000) Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award (1995) Kennedy Center Honors (1994) star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (en) (1992) AFI Life Achievement Award (en) (9 Mei 1986) honorary doctor of the University of Miami (en) (1981) Coretta Scott King Award (en) (1981) Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (1978) Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame (en) (1974) Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (en) (1968) Silver Shell for Best Actor (en) (1968) Henrietta Award (en) (1963) Aktor Terbaik - Drama (1963) Aktor Terbaik (1963) Silver Bear (en) (1958) Silver Bear (en) Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎ (en) Audie Award for Narration by the Author (en) Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (en)

Sir Sidney Poitier (20 Februari 1927 – 6 Januari 2022) merupakan seorang aktor dan sutradara berkebangsaan Amerika Serikat yang memenangkan Academy Award. Dia dilahirkan di Miami, Florida. Dia berkarier di dunia film sejak tahun 1949.

Filmografi

Aktor

• From Whence Cometh My Help (1949)
• 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 (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)
• They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! (1970)
• Brother John (1971)
• Not Me Boss!! (1971)
• The Organization (1971)
• Buck and the Preacher (1972)
• A Warm December (1973)
• Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
• The Wilby Conspiracy (1975)
• Let's Do it Again (1975)
• A Piece of the Action (1977)
• Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (1979) (short subject)
• Shoot to Kill (1988)
• Little Nikita (1988)
• Sneakers (1992)
• A Century of Cinema (1994)
• Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1996)
• The Jackal (1997)
• The simple life of Noah Dearborn (1999)
• Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey (2001)
• The Last Brickmaker In America (2001)
• Tell Them Who You Are (2004)

Sutradara

• Buck and the Preacher (1972)
• A Warm December (1973)
• Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
• Let's Do it Again (1975)
• A Piece of the Action (1977)
• Stir Crazy (1980)
• Fast Forward (1985)
• Ghost Dad (1990)

Televisi

• Separate but Equal (1991)
• Children of the Dust (1995)
• To Sir, with Love II (1996)
• Mandela and De Klerk (1997)
• David and Lisa (1998)
• The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (1999)
• The Last Bricklayer in America (2001)

Penghargaan

Penghargaan dan prestasi
Didahului oleh: Gregory Peck untuk film To Kill a Mockingbird	Aktor Terbaik (Oscar) 1963 untuk film Lilies of the Field	Diteruskan oleh: Rex Harrison untuk film My Fair Lady

Pranala luar

• Sidney Poitier biography and video interview excerpts by The National Visionary Leadership Project Diarsipkan 2007-09-28 di Wayback Machine.
• Official publisher web page Diarsipkan 2007-09-29 di Wayback Machine.
• Sidney Poitier di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)
• Poitier breaks new ground with Oscar win (BBC, April 13, 1964)
• African-Americans: Sidney Poitier Diarsipkan 2008-04-02 di Wayback Machine.
• Sidney Poitier to get Marian Anderson Award (July 26, 2006)
• The Purpose Prize: Sidney Poitier Diarsipkan 2008-11-19 di Wayback Machine.
• The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography - Review