Sidney Poitier, who passed away earlier this month, became the first Black actor ever to win a Best Actor Oscar for his role as a handyman helping out a bunch of nuns in the desert.
Category Archives: Sidney Poitier
GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER (1967)
A lightish drama about interracial marriage that came out the same year it became legal nationwide. But is it a good movie?
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967)
Sidney Poitier has to solve a murder in a small southern town that hates him. A great social movie but kind of a blah procedural.