Lilies of the Field is a kind hearted film that led to Sidney Poitier becoming the first black actor to win an Academy Award for Best Lead Actor. The film stars Poitier as Homer Smith, a jack-of ...

Actors Angelina Jolie and Sidney Poitier take the stage to present the Oscar for achievement in directing at the 86th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California March 2, 2014. [Reuters] In 1992 ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. When film star Sidney Poitier died last week aged 94, there was an outpouring of praise and grief. Poitier was after ...