Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier, KBE (born February 20, 1927) is a Bahamian American actor. He was born in Miami, Florida and grew up in poverty on 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. Given an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II in 1974. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2002.

Awards and recognition

; Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album

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• Grammy Awards of 2001
• Rick Harris, John Runnette (producers) & Sidney Poitier for The Measure of a Man

; NAACP Image Award - Hall of Fame Award

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• 2001: Sidney Poitier

; NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special

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• 2000: Sidney Poitier, The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn

; Kennedy Center Honors

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• 1995: Sidney Poitier

; AFI Life Achievement Award

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• 1992: Sidney Poitier

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• 1964: Sidney Poitier, Lilies of the Field

; Academy Award for Best Actor :

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• 1963: Sidney Poitier for Lilies of the Field
• 1958: Sidney Poitier for The Defiant Ones

; BAFTA Award for Best Actor

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• 1958: Foreign: Sidney Poitier for The Defiant Ones

;British Honour System

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• Appointed an Honorary Knight of the Britsh Empire in 1974.