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Running time. 106 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. Sidney is a 2022 American documentary film directed by Reginald Hudlin. [1] The film is a portrait of the life and legacy of actor Sidney Poitier in his final appearance. [2]
Sidney Poitier KBE ( ⫽ ˈpwɑːtjeɪ ⫽ PWAH-tyay; [1] February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian–American actor, film director, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first Black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. [2] He received two competitive Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Grammy Award as ...
Sidney Poitier (1927–2022) was an actor and director. He was best known for his groundbreaking and trailblazing work in the 1950s and 1960s. His breakthrough performances in film include The Defiant Ones (1958), Porgy and Bess (1959), A Raisin in the Sun (1961), Paris Blues (1961), Lilies of the Field (1963), A Patch of Blue (1965), To Sir ...
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 ...
English. Box office. $11.8 million (rentals) [1] Let's Do It Again is a 1975 American action crime comedy film, starring Sidney Poitier and co-starring Bill Cosby and Jimmie Walker [2] among an all-star black cast. The film, directed by Poitier, [2] is about blue-collar workers who decide to rig a boxing match to raise money for their fraternal ...
t. e. AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars is the American Film Institute 's list ranking the top 25 male and 25 female greatest screen legends of American film history and is the second list of the AFI 100 Years... series . The list was unveiled through a CBS special on June 15, 1999, hosted by Shirley Temple (who is herself honored on the female ...
A Raisin in the Sun, from left, Louis Gossett Jr, Ruby Dee, and Sidney Poitier. A Raisin in the Sun is a 1961 American drama film directed by Daniel Petrie, and starring Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Roy Glenn, and Louis Gossett Jr. (in his film debut), and based on the 1959 play of the same name by Lorraine Hansberry.
Uptown Saturday Night is a 1974 American action comedy and crime comedy film, written by Richard Wesley and directed by and starring Sidney Poitier, with Bill Cosby and Harry Belafonte co-starring. [2] Cosby and Poitier teamed up again for Let's Do It Again (1975) and A Piece of the Action (1977). Although Cosby's and Poitier's characters have ...