Sidney Poitier Wins Best Actor | 36th Oscars (1964) 🔥 Must Try
Lilies of the Field (1963), in which he played Homer Smith, a handyman who helps a group of nuns build a chapel.
This win made him only the second Black actor to win a competitive Oscar, following Hattie McDaniel's Supporting Actress win in 1939. The Best Actor category would not see another Black winner until Denzel Washington for Training Day (2001). Sidney Poitier Academy Awards Acceptance Speech Sidney Poitier Wins Best Actor | 36th Oscars (1964)
Poitier’s acceptance speech at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium was famously brief and dignified: Lilies of the Field (1963), in which he
Anne Bancroft , who congratulated him with a kiss on the cheek—a gesture considered groundbreaking at the time. Lilies of the Field (1963)
Sidney Poitier Wins Best Actor | 36th Oscars (1964) 🔥 Must Try
Lilies of the Field (1963), in which he played Homer Smith, a handyman who helps a group of nuns build a chapel.
This win made him only the second Black actor to win a competitive Oscar, following Hattie McDaniel's Supporting Actress win in 1939. The Best Actor category would not see another Black winner until Denzel Washington for Training Day (2001). Sidney Poitier Academy Awards Acceptance Speech Sidney Poitier Wins Best Actor | 36th Oscars (1964)
Poitier’s acceptance speech at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium was famously brief and dignified: Lilies of the Field (1963), in which he
Anne Bancroft , who congratulated him with a kiss on the cheek—a gesture considered groundbreaking at the time. Lilies of the Field (1963)