Academy Award-winning actor Sidney Poitier (born 1927) was once described as “the Martin Luther King of the movies.” In the turbulent 1960s, he “embodied the black image for the dawning Age of ...

The late Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier first met in the 1940s, sparking a deep friendship Harry Belafonte, who died Tuesday at age 96, held a decades-long friendship with his frequent costar and ...

TORONTO (AP) — Oprah Winfrey was discussing her profound affection for trailblazing actor Sidney Poitier — a longtime friend and mentor to her — when she was overcome by emotion during an interview on ...

Movie review : “Sidney,” directed by Reginald Hudlin, featuring Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Quincy Jones, Louis Gosset Jr. Streaming on Apple TV+. In its list of the top 100 movie quotes of all ...

Sidney Poitier’s filmography speaks for itself. Over the course of his decades-long career, the Hollywood icon, who died in 2022 at the age of 94, starred in classics like A Raisin in the Sun, Guess ...

“Sidney” portrays an extraordinary life in a fairly ordinary way. It is an unabashed tribute film, a loving thank you to a man who changed American culture to an almost unfathomable degree. But ...

Stardom rarely works retrospectively. Garbo? James Dean? Steve McQueen? If you weren’t around then, it can be hard to see now what all the fuss was about. With Sidney Poitier, you not only do. You see ...