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

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