Biography
Awards and recognition
Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album
Grammy Awards of 2001
Rick Harris, John Runnette (producers) & Sidney Poitier for The Measure of a Man
NAACP Image Award - Hall of Fame Award
2001: Sidney Poitier
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special
2000: Sidney Poitier, The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
Kennedy Center Honors
1995: Sidney Poitier
AFI Life Achievement Award
1992: Sidney Poitier
Golden Globe Awards: Film, Best Actor, Drama
1964: Sidney Poitier, Lilies of the Field
Academy Award for Best Actor
1963: Sidney Poitier for Lilies of the Field
BAFTA Award for Best Actor
1958: Foreign: Sidney Poitier for The Defiant Ones
British Honours System
Appointed a Knight of the British Empire in 1974.
Filmography
As Actor:
From Whence Cometh My Help (1949) (documentary)
No Way Out (1950)
Cry, The Beloved Country (1951)
Red Ball Express (1952)
Go, Man, Go! (1954)
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Good-bye, My Lady (1956)
Edge of the City (1957)
Something of Value (1957)
Band of Angels (1957)
Virgin Island (1958)
The Mark of the Hawk (1958)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
Porgy and Bess (1959)
All the Young Men (1960)
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
Paris Blues (1961)
Pressure Point (1962)
The Long Ships (1963)
Lilies of the Field (1963)
The Bedford Incident (1965)
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
A Patch of Blue (1965)
The Slender Thread (1965)
Duel at Diablo (1966)
To Sir, with Love (1967)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
For Love of Ivy (1968)
The Lost Man (1969)
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970) (documentary) (narrator)
They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! (1970)
Brother John (1971)
The Organization (1971)
Buck and the Preacher (1972)
A Warm December (1973)
Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
The Wilby Conspiracy (1975)
Let's Do it Again (1975)
A Piece of the Action (1977)
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (1979) (short subject) (narrator)
Shoot to Kill (1988)
Little Nikita (1988)
Sneakers (1992)
A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary)
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1996) (documentary)
The Jackal (1997)
Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey (2001) (documentary) (narrator)
Tell Them Who You Are (2004) (documentary)
As Director:
Buck and the Preacher (1972)
A Warm December (1973)
Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
Let's Do it Again (1975)
A Piece of the Action (1977)
Stir Crazy (1980)
Hanky Panky (1982)
Fast Forward (1985)
Ghost Dad (1990)
Television Work
Separate But Equal (1991)
Children of the Dust (1995)
To Sir, with Love II (1996)
Mandela and De Klerk (1997)
David and Lisa (1998)
Free of Eden (1999)
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (1999)
The Last Bricklayer in America (2001)
See also
Bahamian American
