Auteur

Sidney Poitier

1927–2022 · Bahamian and American actor and diplomat

Sidney Poitier was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, activist, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first black male actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. Among his other accolades are two competitive Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award and a Grammy Award, in addition to nominations for two Emmy Awards and a Tony Award. In 1999, he was ranked number 22 among the "American Film Institute's 100 Stars". Poitier was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Sidney Poitier, in order

  1. 1950 No Way Out: acted · directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  2. 1951 Cry, the Beloved Country: acted · directed by Zoltan Korda
  3. 1952 Red Ball Express: acted · directed by Budd Boetticher
  4. 1955 Blackboard Jungle: acted · directed by Richard Brooks · critics 72%, audiences 77%
  5. 1956 Good-bye, My Lady: acted · directed by William A. Wellman
  6. 1957 Band of Angels: acted · directed by Raoul Walsh · critics 60%, audiences 65%
  7. 1957 Edge of the City: acted · directed by Martin Ritt · audiences 75% · streaming on Philo
  8. 1957 Something of Value: acted · directed by Richard Brooks
  9. 1957 The Mark of the Hawk: acted · directed by Michael Audley
  10. 1958 The Defiant Ones: acted · directed by Paul Helmick and Stanley Kramer
  11. 1959 Our Virgin Island: acted · directed by Pat Jackson
  12. 1959 Porgy and Bess: acted · directed by Otto Preminger and Paul Helmick
  13. 1960 All the Young Men: acted · directed by Hall Bartlett
  14. 1961 A Raisin in the Sun: acted · directed by Daniel Petrie
  15. 1961 Paris Blues: acted · directed by Martin Ritt · critics 75%, audiences 67% · streaming on Prime Video, Hoopla, YouTube (free)
  16. 1962 Pressure Point: acted · directed by Hubert Cornfield
  17. 1963 Lilies of the Field: acted · directed by Ralph Nelson
  18. 1964 The Long Ships: acted · directed by Jack Cardiff
  19. 1965 A Patch of Blue: acted · directed by Guy Green
  20. 1965 The Bedford Incident: acted · directed by James B. Harris
  21. 1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told: acted · directed by David Lean and George Stevens · critics 48%, audiences 64% · streaming on Philo, Roku Channel, Hoopla
  22. 1965 The Slender Thread: acted · directed by Sydney Pollack
  23. 1966 Duel at Diablo: acted · directed by Ralph Nelson
  24. 1967 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: acted · directed by Stanley Kramer
  25. 1967 In the Heat of the Night: acted · directed by Norman Jewison
  26. 1967 To Sir, with Love: acted · directed by James Clavell
  27. 1968 For Love of Ivy: acted · directed by Daniel Mann
  28. 1969 The Lost Man: acted · directed by Robert Alan Aurthur
  29. 1970 King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis: acted · directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Sidney Lumet · streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla
  30. 1970 They Call Me Mister Tibbs!: acted · directed by Gordon Douglas · critics 50%, audiences 35% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Fawesome
  31. 1971 Brother John: acted · directed by James Goldstone
  32. 1971 The Organization: acted · directed by Don Medford
  33. 1972 Buck and the Preacher: directed, acted
  34. 1973 A Warm December: directed, acted
  35. 1974 Uptown Saturday Night: directed, acted
  36. 1975 Let's Do It Again: directed, acted
  37. 1975 The Wilby Conspiracy: acted · directed by Ralph Nelson
  38. 1977 A Piece of the Action: directed, acted
  39. 1980 Stir Crazy: directed
  40. 1982 Hanky Panky: directed
  41. 1985 Fast Forward: directed
  42. 1988 Little Nikita: acted · directed by Richard Benjamin
  43. 1988 Shoot to Kill: acted · directed by Roger Spottiswoode · critics 100%, audiences 65%
  44. 1990 Ghost Dad: directed
  45. 1992 Sneakers: acted · directed by Phil Alden Robinson
  46. 1994 A Century of Cinema: acted · directed by Caroline Thomas
  47. 1995 Children of the Dust (TV series): acted · directed by David Greene
  48. 1996 To Sir, with Love II (TV movie): acted · directed by Peter Bogdanovich
  49. 1997 Mandela and de Klerk: acted · directed by Joseph Sargent
  50. 1997 The Jackal: acted · directed by Michael Caton-Jones · critics 27%, audiences 51%
  51. 1998 David and Lisa (TV movie): acted · directed by Lloyd Kramer
  52. 1999 The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (TV movie): acted · directed by Gregg Champion
  53. 2013 B.B. King: The Life of Riley: acted · directed by Jon Brewer
  54. 2016 I Am Not Your Negro: acted · directed by Raoul Peck · critics 99%, audiences 83% · streaming on Philo, Roku Channel, Kanopy