Sidney Poitier was the African American man who won Best Actor for his role in Lilies of the Field(1963).
Sidney Poitier was the first black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as handyman Homer Smith in "Lilies of the Field" (1963).
Sidney Poitier was the first black man to win a competitive Academy Award. He received the 1963 Best Actor Oscar for his performance in "Lilies of the Field."
Sidney Poitier was the first black man to win a competitive Academy Award. He received the 1963 Best Actor Oscar for his performance in "Lilies of the Field."
Five years before winning the Oscar for Lilies of the Field, Sidney Poitier was nominated as Best Actor for The Defiant Ones (1958).
The first black actor to win a competitive Academy Award was Sidney Poitier, who won the 1963 Best Actor Oscar for "Lilies of the Field." The first black man to receive an Oscar was James Baskett, who was presented an honorary award on March 20, 1948 for his performance as Uncle Remus in Walt Disney's "Song of the South.
Hattie McDaniel was the first black performer to win an Oscar for acting, which she won as Best Supporting Actress for "Gone With The Wind" in 1939. It would be 24 years before another black actor won an Oscar, when Sidney Poitier won Best Actor for "Lilies of the Field" in 1963.
"Lilies of the Field," in which Poitier played handyman Homer Smith, who builds a chapel for immigrant German nuns in Arizona.
1963 (Sidney Poitier, for Lilies of the Field)
It was Sidney Poitier, who won for his performance in "Lilies of the Field" (1963).
The first African-American male to win an Academy Award was Sidney Poitier, who won the Best Actor Oscar in 1963 for his role in Lilies in the Field.
Sidney Poitier, who won the 1963 Best Actor award for his performance in "Lilies of the Field."
Sidney Poitier in lilies of the Field as homer smith. who was just a black man looking for work.