Sidney Poitier: Difference between revisions

{{quote|"''I'll always be chasing you, Sidney, I'll always be following in your footsteps. There's nothing I would rather do, sir, nothing I would rather do.''"|'''[[Denzel Washington]]''', while accepting his Best Actor [[Oscar]].}}

 

 

 

First hitting the big time in 1955 as a bright-but-troubled high school delinquent in the early [[Save Our Students]] drama ''[[Blackboard Jungle]]'', Poitier soon became a special presence in classic films like ''[[The Defiant Ones]]'' and was the first Black man to win an [[Academy Award|Oscar]] for Best Actor for ''[[Lilies of the Field]]'' in 1963. Unfortunately, Poitier was all too aware this was effectively an award for being the [[Token Minority]] in Hollywood, and he felt he had to set an example for playing characters that show African Americans in a good light to bury the Stepin Fetchit stereotypes.

 

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