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Sidney Poitier was the first Black actor to win the Academy Award for best actor, for “Lilies of the Field,” and helped open the door for Black actors in the film industry.

Sidney Poitier on the set of the movie ‘Lilies of the Field’ for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, in Tuscon, Arizona, in May 1963. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ...

Poitier became the first Black actor to win an Academy Award for best lead performance and the first to be a top box-office draw. He died this year at 94. Sidney Poitier was not expected to live ...

He was the first Black male Academy Award winner. He was the first Black male movie star. For many white people, children included, he was the first Black male actor they loved.

The Documentary “Sidney,” directed by Academy Award nominee Reginald Hudlin (“Marshall”), focuses on Poitier’s career as an actor, filmmaker, and activist during the Civil Rights Movement.

Honestly, while I’m happy that Poitier won an Academy Award, making him the second black person to ever do so (the first was Hattie McDaniel for Gone With the Wind) I’m not sure if it should ...

Photograph from Michael Ochs Archives / Getty The obituaries for Sidney Poitier, who died last week, at the age of ninety-four, inevitably led off with his 1964 Academy Award for Best Actor.

In 1964, Poitier became the first Black man to win an Academy Award for best actor for his role in “Lilies of the Field.” His other credits include 1967’s groundbreaking film “Guess Who ...