In theory there’s only so much to be done with a celebrity biography, but when the subject is Sidney Poitier, that’s an unusually target-rich environment. “Sidney,” a documentary from director ...

Other Facts: Nominated for two Academy Awards. Winner of one competitive and one honorary award. Nominated for and winner of one Grammy Award. Nominated for two Emmy Awards. Grew up on Cat Island in ...

HOLLYWOOD, C.A. (NBC) – Sidney Poitier, the renowned Hollywood actor, director and activist who commanded the screen, reshaped the culture and paved the way for countless other Black actors with ...

This is the cinematic tribute fans have been looking for. No one is better at telling Sidney Poitier‘s story than Sidney Poitier himself. The brilliance of Reginald Hudlin‘s documentary for Apple TV+ ...

Sidney Poitier, who died in January at age 94, shouldn’t have been the only Black leading man of his talent, magnetism and stature in his Hollywood heyday, when all the firsts were his. But with the ...

Legendary actor Sidney Poitier’s spiritual autobiography, "The Measure of a Man," has been chosen by celebrity talk-show host Oprah Winfrey as her latest book club read. CHICAGO Oprah Winfrey turned ...

Sidney Poitier, whose dignity and self-assertion ushered in a new era in the depiction of African-Americans in Hollywood films as the civil rights movement was remaking America, has died, a ...

"Early on, Sidney said — I don’t know if it was an insult or a compliment, or something," he begins. "It was like… They were talking about doing Malcolm X. Norman Jewison was putting it together, and ...