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Award Wins Nominations
Academy Awards
1 2
BAFTA Awards
1 6
Golden Globe Awards
2 10
Screen Actors Guild Awards
1 2
Primetime Emmy Awards
0 2
Screen Actors Guild Awards
0 1
Tony Awards
0 1

Sidney Poitier was a Bahamian-American actor known for his appearances on the stage and screen.

He became the first Black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor for Lilies of the Field (1963). He also received a Grammy Award, two Golden Globe Awards and a British Academy Film Award. Poitier received numerous honoraries during his lifetime including the Academy Honorary Award for his lifetime achievement in film in 2001. In 1992, he received the AFI Life Achievement Award. In 1994, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1981, he received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award and in 2016 he received the BAFTA Fellowship.

In 1995, Poitier received the Kennedy Center Honor and in 2009, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama. He was also awarded as Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1974.

Awards

Academy Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1958 Best Actor The Defiant Ones Nominated
1963 Lilies of the Field Won
2001 Honorary Academy Award Received

Berlin International Film Festival

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1958 Silver Bear for Best Actor The Defiant Ones Won
1963 Lilies of the Field Won

British Academy Film Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1958 Best Foreign Actor Edge of the City Nominated
1959 The Defiant Ones Won
1962 A Raisin in the Sun Nominated
1965 Lilies of the Field Nominated
1967 A Patch of Blue Nominated
1968 In the Heat of the Night Nominated
2016 BAFTA Fellowship Received

Golden Globe Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1958 Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama The Defiant Ones Nominated
1959 Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Porgy and Bess Nominated
1961 Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama A Raisin in the Sun Nominated
1963 Lilies of the Field Won
1965 A Patch of Blue Nominated
1967 In the Heat of the Night Nominated
1968 Henrietta Award World Film Favorite Won
1969 Nominated
1970 Nominated
1981 Cecil B. DeMille Award Received
1991 Best Actor - Miniseries or Television Film Separate but Equal Nominated

Grammy Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2001 Best Spoken Word Album The Measure of a Man Won
2009 Life Beyond Measure Nominated

Primetime Emmy Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1991 Outstanding Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Separate but Equal Nominated
1997 Mandela and de Klerk Nominated

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1998 Outstanding Actor in a Miniseries of Television Movie Mandela and de Klerk Nominated
2000 Life Achievement Award Received

Tony Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1960 Best Actor in a Play A Raisin in the Sun Nominated

Honorary Awards

AFI Life Achievement Award

  • In 1992, Poitier received the AFI Life Achievement Award.

Kennedy Center Honors

  • In 1995, Poitier received the Kennedy Center Honor

Presidential Medal of Freedom

Walk of Fame

  • In 1994, Poitier received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7065 Hollywood Blvd.

Honorary Knighthood

Other tributes

  • 1958: Silver Bear for Best Actor (Berlin Film Festival) for The Defiant Ones
  • 1963: Silver Bear for Best Actor (Berlin Film Festival) for Lilies of the Field
  • 1997: Appointed non-resident Bahamian Ambassador to Japan
  • 2011: Film Society of Lincoln Center Gala Tribute honoring his life and careers
  • 2014: Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement, presented by Awards Council member Oprah Winfrey
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