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Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier was a Bahamian-American actor, filmmaker, activist, and diplomat known for breaking racial barriers in film.

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Sidney Poitier is best known for First Black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor and a pioneering figure in Hollywood. On Dead or Alive, Sidney Poitier is listed in the Screen Icons and Oscar Best Actors categories, where you can test yourself on similar names. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Sidney Poitier is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

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Known for: First Black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor and a pioneering figure in Hollywood.
Listed under: Screen Icons and Oscar Best Actors

About Sidney Poitier

In 1964, he was the first black male actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. In 1999, he was ranked number 22 among the "American Film Institute's 100 Stars". Poitier was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood. He grew up in the Bahamas, but moved back to Miami at age 15, and to New York City when he was 16. He joined the American Negro Theatre, gaining his breakthrough film role as a high school student in the film Blackboard Jungle (1955). Poitier gained fame for his leading roles in films such as The Defiant Ones (1958), for which he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor and became the first African American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. In 1964, he won the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Actor for Lilies of the Field (1963). Poitier broke ground playing strong leading African American male roles in films such as Porgy and Bess (1959), A Raisin in the Sun (1961), and A Patch of Blue (1965).

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