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 ...

are the only African Americans to have won more than one Academy Award, not counting Special awards. 14 African Americans have won Special awards, including Sidney Poitier and Spike Lee ...

When film star Sidney Poitier died last week aged 94, there was an outpouring of praise and grief. Poitier was after all the first black man to win an Oscar. He won the Academy award for Best ...

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 ...