February 20
February 20
Sidney Poitier was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, and diplomat who was born on February 20, 1927. He was the first Black actor and the first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1963. He was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards, a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), and a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album. Poitier was one of the last prominent stars of Hollywood's Golden Age. He joined the American Negro Theatre and landed his first film part as a high school student in Blackboard Jungle (1955). Poitier and Tony Curtis co-starred as chained-together escaped criminals in The Defiant Ones, which garnered nine Academy Award nominations; both performers were nominated for Best A
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