Sidney Poitier was the first black man to win a competitive Academy Award. He received the 1963 Best Actor Oscar for his performance in "Lilies of the Field."
Sidney Poitier was the first African-American to win a Best Actor award for his performance in "Lilies of the Field" (1963).
AnswerHattie McDaniel won Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Mammy in 'Gone With the Wind' (1939) Sidney Poitier was first to win a Best Actor Oscar for the movie 'Lilies of the Field' (1963)
Jeremy Irons was the last Englishman to win the Best Actor Oscar (Actor In A Leading Role). He won it in 1990 for his role as Claus Von Bulow in "Reversal of Fortune".Update: Daniel Day-Lewis won Best Actor for There Will Be Blood (2007).In between the 2 above dates in 1991 Sir Anthony Hopkins won an Oscar for best actor in The Silence of the Lambs in the lead role of Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
Network television show host: Nat King Cole, 1956, "The Nat King Cole Show". First to star in a series was Bill Cosby who appeared in a co-starring role on "I Spy" in 1965.
Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier won the Oscar for Best Actor for Lilies of the Field (1963)
Sidney Poitier won the 1963 Academy Award as Best Actor for his performance in "Lilies of the Field."
Sidney Poitier for Lilies of the Field (1963)
The amazing and tallented Sidney Poitier is an oscar,golden globe, BAFTA, and Grammy award-winning Bahamian-American actor,film director,author, and diplomat in which is still alive today!
Sidney Poitier, who also is an American citizen -- born on February 20, 1927 in Miami, Florida.
Sidney Poitier was the first black man to win a competitive Academy Award. He received the 1963 Best Actor Oscar for his performance in "Lilies of the Field."
He was nominated of the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Defiant Ones (1958). He won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role for: Lilies of the Field (1963). In 2002, he was presented with an honorary award for his extraordinary performances and unique presence on the screen and for representing the industry with dignity, style and intelligence.
what inspired Sidney Poitier to be an actor
No, Sidney Poitier was not a slave. He was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, and author who became the first Black actor to win an Academy Award for Best Actor.
Sidney Poitier was the African American man who won Best Actor for his role in Lilies of the Field(1963).
Sidney Poitier