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Sidney Poitier was a Bahamian-American actor known for his appearances 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.[1][2] He was also awarded as Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1974.[3]
- ^ "Kennedy Center Honors Neil Simon, B.B. King, Sidney Poitier". Associated Press. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
- ^ "Presidential Medal of Freedom". CBS. August 12, 2009. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
- ^ "Sir Sidney Poitier". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved February 20, 2021.