Sidney poitier (1927รขโ‚ฌ2022) was an actor and director. He was best known for his groundbreaking and trailblazing work in the 1950s and 1960s. Sidney poitier, the first male black actor to win the academy award for best actor, was a great actor whose groundbreaking achievements influenced the way society viewed people of color

Born on february 20, 1924, in miami, florida, but รขโ‚ฌยฆ One of these films, the defiant ones (1958), earned poitier his first academy award nomination as best actor. Five years later, he won the oscar for lilies of the field (1963), the first african american to รขโ‚ฌยฆ