Halle BerryBest Actress 2002 Jamie FoxxBest Actor 2005

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Halle BerryBest Actress 2002 Jamie FoxxBest
Actor 2005 Denzel WashingtonBest Actor
2002 Forest WhitakerBest Actor 2007
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MAN,ACTOR,ICON
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Sir Sidney Poitier

• Born February 20, 1927
• Academy Award-winning Haitian-Bahamian American
  actor, director, and activist
• Starred in over 50 films
• Broke through by consciously defying racial
  stereotyping, giving credibility for black actors
  to mainstream film audiences.

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Making History

• Poitier was the first black actor to be
• nominated for an Academy Award
• (for The Defiant Ones--1958)
• Poitier is the first black actor to win
• an Oscar for Best Actor
• (Lilies of the Field--1963)
• Won an honorary Academy Award
• in 2002 for lifetime achievement

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1967 A Darn Good Year

• Guess Whos Coming to Dinner?
• To Sir, With Love
• In the Heat of the Night

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Thats Quotable!

• They call me Mr. Tibbs! from In the Heat of the
  Night
• Significant to Civil Rights Movement
• Rated 16 best movie line on AFIs Best Movie
  Quotes

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Personal Life

• Born at sea as his family traveled from the
  Bahamas to Miami to sell tomatoes
• First married to Juanita Hardy from
  1950-1965--they had 4 girls
• Currently married to Joanna Shimkus (since
  1976)--they have 2 girls

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Somewhat interesting

• Directed 8 movies, including the comedy Stir
  Crazy
• Knight Commander of the Order of the British
  Empire (KBE) in 1974.
• In 1983, unbeknownst to Poitier, impostor David
  Hampton spent several months in New York City
  posing as "David Poitier," Sidney Poitier's
  nonexistent son. By the time of Hampton's
  exposure and arrest, he had used this ruse to
  gain access to private clubs, as well as
  hospitality and money from the rich, privileged,
  and famous of New York City. Poitier is therefore
  mentioned extensively in John Guares play Six
  Degrees of Separation (later filmed) which
  dramatized this incident.

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High Praise

• Superstar Denzel Washington called the veteran
  actor and director "a source of pride for many
  African Americans.
• A luminary James Earl Jones ventured that his
  colleague had played a great role in the life of
  our country.
• At the AFI banquet, Jones praised his friend's
  work on behalf of the civil right struggle,
  declaring, "He marched on Montgomery Alabama
  and Memphis Tennessee with Dr. Martin Luther
  King, Jr., who said of Sidney 'He's a man who
  never lost his concern for the least of God's
  children."'
• Rosa Parks lauded Poitier as "a great actor and
  role model."