Sydney Poitier, the charismatic actor with the smooth-toned voice and intense gaze, rose to stardom in the 1960s. Honored by the Screen Actors Guild, winner of an Academy Award and recipient of the ...

During an interview for Apple TV+’s “Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Men in Hollywood,” Murphy revealed he bumped into Poitier and brought up that he had been approached to play Alex Haley ...

The Black Movie Hall of Fame will hold its first Induction Gala in 2026, at Kansas City’s Boone Theater, celebrating ...

It started with Norman Brokenshire. As a young man from the Bahamas, aspiring actor Sidney Poitier had a thick accent, which prevented him from landing regular roles. And so he spent his nights ...

Joanna Poitier hopes the new tome will introduce young people to her late husband's trailblazing legacy Sidney Poitier’s filmography speaks for itself. Over the course of his decades-long career, the ...

Sidney Poitier is memorialized in this thorough, and thoroughly conventional, documentary. By Jeannette Catsoulis Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience ...

Eddie Murphy is reflecting on puzzling career advice he received from Sidney Poitier. The Beverly Hills Cop star recalled an interaction that he had with the legendary In the Heat of the Night actor ...

"Early on, Sidney said — I don’t know if it was an insult or a compliment, or something," he begins. "It was like… They were talking about doing Malcolm X. Norman Jewison was putting it together, and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — In 1963, Sidney Poitier made ...

1949 was Hollywood’s year of the racial message movie. In May, Intruder In The Dust told the story of a Black man falsely accused of murdering a white man. July and September saw the release of Lost ...

Sidney Poitier’s filmography speaks for itself. Over the course of his decades-long career, the Hollywood icon, who died in 2022 at the age of 94, starred in classics like A Raisin in the Sun, Guess ...