At the height of the civil rights movement in 1964, Sidney Poitier became the first Black man to win an Oscar for best actor. The Hollywood moment did not just make history but intrinsically tied ...

Sidney Poitier, whose elegant bearing and principled onscreen characters made him Hollywood’s first Black movie star and the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar, has died. He was 94.

Sidney Poitier, the actor whose groundbreaking movie ... Black character actors and Black leading men, and several Black Oscar winners who were not yet born when Poitier won the trophy.

Sidney Poitier, the beloved Oscar-winning actor, has died. He was 94. The star's death was confirmed to Fox News on Friday by the Bahamian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office. Prime Minister of the ...

Sidney Poitier became the first Black man to win a Best Actor Oscar, for his role in 1963's Lilies of the Field Sidney Poitier, the first Black man to win a Best Actor Oscar, has died. He was 94.

Sidney Poitier, whose dignity and self-assertion ... Poitier was the oldest living winner of the best actor Oscar — just one distinction in a career full of distinctions.

Sidney Poitier made history as the first ever Black man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1964. Decades later, the late star went on to earn another Oscar for his groundbreaking legacy.

Poitier is survived by a legacy of films, including "Lilies of the Field," which made him the first Black man to win a Best Actor Oscar, and "In the Heat of the Night." Sidney Poitier, Oscar ...

Sidney Poitier, the trailblazing actor and ... In 2002, while receiving his honorary Oscar, Poitier reflected on his remarkable, odds-defying career, saying, “I arrived in Hollywood at the ...

Sidney Poitier changed the Oscars in 1964. The academy is still grappling with the promise of that moment. At a time when much of the country remained segregated, he struggled to find roles as ...

(CNN) — Sidney Poitier, whose elegant bearing and principled onscreen characters made him Hollywood’s first Black movie star and the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar, has died.