FrameThrower · Actors · Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier
2 films · 291 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1961–1967
Born 20 February 1927 · Miami, Florida, USA · died 6 January 2022
Sidney Poitier KBE was a Bahamian and American actor, film director, and diplomat. In 1964, he became the first black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, for Lilies of the Field. Other accolades include two competitive Golden Globe Awards, a competitive British Academy of Film and Television Arts award (BAFTA), and a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album. Major films featuring Poitier in a starring role include Blackboard Jungle (1955), The Defiant Ones (1958), To Sir, with Love (1967), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), In the Heat of the Night (1967), Sneakers (1992), and The Jackal (1997).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 291 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1961–1967
- Academy Award for Best Actor1964
- Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award1981
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama1963
- BAFTA Fellowship2016
- Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award2000
- Silver Bear1963
- Silver Bear for Best Actor1958
- Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire1974
- Spingarn Medal2015
- Presidential Medal of Freedom2009
- Paul Robeson Award2008
- Marian Anderson Award2006
How their films are shot
Measured across 291 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Sidney takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 52% of their frames are night, 43% natural — the look of the work Sidney takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
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