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List of Sidney Poitier awards
Award Wins Nominations
Academy Awards
 1 2
BAFTA Awards
 1 6
Golden Globe Awards
 2 10
Screen Actors Guild Awards
 1 2
Primetime Emmy Awards
 0 2
Screen Actors Guild Awards
 0 1
Tony Awards
 0 1

Sidney Poitier was a Bahamian-American actor known for his appearances on the stage and screen.

He became the first Black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor for Lilies of the Field (1963). He also received a Grammy Award, two Golden Globe Awards and a British Academy Film Award. Poitier received numerous honoraries during his lifetime including the Academy Honorary Award for his lifetime achievement in film in 2001. In 1992, he received the AFI Life Achievement Award. In 1994, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1981, he received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award and in 2016 he received the BAFTA Fellowship.

In 1995, Poitier received the Kennedy Center Honor and in 2009, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama.[1][2] He was also awarded as Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1974.[3]

Awards

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Academy Awards

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Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1958 Best Actor The Defiant Ones Nominated [4]
1963 Lilies of the Field Won
2001 Honorary Academy Award Received

Berlin International Film Festival

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Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1958 Silver Bear for Best Actor The Defiant Ones Won [5]
1963 Lilies of the Field Won [6]

British Academy Film Awards

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Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1958 Best Foreign Actor Edge of the City Nominated [7]
1959 The Defiant Ones Won
1962 A Raisin in the Sun Nominated
1965 Lilies of the Field Nominated
1967 A Patch of Blue Nominated
1968 In the Heat of the Night Nominated
2016 BAFTA Fellowship Received

Golden Globe Awards

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Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1958 Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama The Defiant Ones Nominated [8]
1959 Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Porgy and Bess Nominated
1961 Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama A Raisin in the Sun Nominated
1963 Lilies of the Field Won
1965 A Patch of Blue Nominated
1967 In the Heat of the Night Nominated
1968 Henrietta Award World Film Favorite Won
1969 Nominated
1970 Nominated
1981 Cecil B. DeMille Award Received
1991 Best Actor - Miniseries or Television Film Separate but Equal Nominated

Grammy Awards

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Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2001 Best Spoken Word Album The Measure of a Man Won [9]
2009 Life Beyond Measure Nominated

Primetime Emmy Awards

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Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1991 Outstanding Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Separate but Equal Nominated [10]
1997 Mandela and de Klerk Nominated

Screen Actors Guild Awards

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Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1998 Outstanding Actor in a Miniseries of Television Movie Mandela and de Klerk Nominated [11]
2000 Life Achievement Award Received [12]

Tony Awards

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Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1960 Best Actor in a Play A Raisin in the Sun Nominated

Honorary Awards

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Sidney Poitier receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama in 2009

AFI Life Achievement Award

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  • In 1992, Poitier received the AFI Life Achievement Award.

Kennedy Center Honors

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  • In 1995, Poitier received the Kennedy Center Honor

Presidential Medal of Freedom

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Walk of Fame

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  • In 1994, Poitier received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7065 Hollywood Blvd.

Honorary Knighthood

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Other tributes

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References

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  1. ^ "Kennedy Center Honors Neil Simon, B.B. King, Sidney Poitier". Associated Press. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
  2. ^ "Presidential Medal of Freedom". CBS. August 12, 2009. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
  3. ^ "Sir Sidney Poitier". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
  4. ^ "Sidney Poitier". Oscars.org. September 27, 2014. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
  5. ^ "PRIZES & HONOURS 1958". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on October 15, 2013. Retrieved June 7, 2014.
  6. ^ "PRIZES & HONOURS 1963". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on May 2, 2014. Retrieved June 7, 2014.
  7. ^ "BAFTA: Sidney Poitier". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
  8. ^ "Sidney Poitier". goldenglobes.com. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
  9. ^ "Sidney Poitier - Artist". grammys.com. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
  10. ^ "Sidney Poitier". emmys.com. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
  11. ^ "4th Screen Actors Guild Awards". sagawards.org. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
  12. ^ "THE 6TH ANNUAL SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS". sagawards.org. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
  13. ^ "President Obama Names Medal of Freedom Recipients", White House Office of the Press Secretary, July 30, 2009.
  14. ^ "Award of Honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) to Sidney Poitier, actor... | The National Archives". Discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved February 5, 2020.
  15. ^ "CNN.com - U.S. general knighthood sparks row - May 25, 2004". www.cnn.com.
  16. ^ "Reagan Now a Knight but Not a Sir : Queen Bestows Title--No Dubbing, No Kneeling Required". Los Angeles Times. June 14, 1989.
  17. ^ "Berlinale 1963: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved February 14, 2010.
  18. ^ "Film Society of Lincoln Center honors the life and career of Sidney Poitier" Archived September 11, 2012, at archive.today, Lincoln Center of the Performing Arts, May 2, 2011.
  19. ^ "Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement". www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement.
  20. ^ "Photos: 2014: Oprah Winfrey introducing legend of American cinema, Sidney Poitier, at an American Academy of Achievement ceremony in Los Angeles, California; Oprah Winfrey presents Sidney Poitier with the Academy of Achievement's Gold Medal". American Academy of Achievement.
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