Posted on 01/07/2022 12:28:06 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
Sidney Poitier, First Black Man to Win the Best Actor Academy Award, Dies at 94
An elder stateman has left this plane. His dignity, drive, and determination changed the face of Hollywood and America, and ignited an entire generation of young Black men to be their authentic selves, to pursue the arts, and to be a force of change through creative power on and off the screen.
Sidney Poitier has died at 94 years old.
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won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1964.....damn racist country
Not to seem disrespectful, but here is another celebrity whose death comes as a surprise — since it was assumed he was already dead.
Back in the day when getting the Academy Award for Best Male Actor meant you had done a very good job.
This reeks of the Clinton hit list since Clinton nemesis Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
“This reeks of the Clinton hit list since Clinton nemesis Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom”.
Are you serious?????
The guy has "Q" in his user name. EVERYTHING is a conspiracy.
Couldn’t he just be remembered for being a great actor, instead of a black actor?
Well, it was an achievement for a great actor (who was Black) to have been duly honored back in 1964.
That’s my point....if America has always been such a racist country how in the world did a black man win such an esteemed award in the 60s....if that were true the klan woulda hunted him down and lynched him.
Memory Eternal!!!!
A small thing but I recall he was one of the celebrities featured on Paul McCartney and Wings’ album Band on the Run cover photo (in addition to Paul and Linda, Christopher Lee, James Coburn, and Michael Parkinson).
Decent actor, terrible race baiting angry person
Couldn’t stand him, but he really was a great actor.
I didn't think he was dead already, but when I read that he died at 94, I was more happy rather than sad for him that he'd had such a long life*.
*Unless his final years were spent in terrible health, dementia, etc. I hope they weren't.
Nope. They are Michael Parkinson, Kenny Lynch, James Coburn, Clement Freud, Christopher Lee and John Conteh (according to Wkipedia).
“This reeks of the Clinton hit list since Clinton nemesis Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom”.”
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Are you serious???
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You mean to say you believe it’s normal for people to die naturally in their mid-90s? Next I expect you to claim water is wet!
“Lilies of the Field” was a great movie. He was also good in a movie at the opposite end of the spectrum, “Let’s Do It Again” (with Jimmi “JJ” Walker, John AMos, Bill Cosby).
He was also in the awful “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?” His acting was fine, but he was paired with the talentless, wooden, uncharismatic Katharine Houghton (Katherine Hepburn’s kid sister). Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn were also in it, so a LOT of acting talent was wasted on an wreteched script with a poor actress as a key character.
yes
Yes I saw that one, “Guess who’s coming to dinner”, a very strange awkward movie. If that came out today the left would lose their minds screaming racism. Oh! You know another great movie of his is “A patch of blue” where he helps the blind girl. What I liked him is he made moral movies and became a role model for a lot of black youths unlike today where the gangstas are pushed down their throats which I suspect democrats are behind. The “Bedford incident” is another great one.
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