Sidney Poitier

Bahamian-American actor, filmmaker, diplomat (1927–2022)

For his daughter, the actress, see Sydney Tamiia Poitier.

Sidney Poitier

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Poitier in 1968

Born| (1927-02-20)February 20, 1927

Miami, Florida, U.S.

Died| January 6, 2022(2022-01-06) (aged 94)

Beverly Hills, California, U.S.

Nationality|

* American
* Bahamian

Occupations|

* Actor
* film director
* diplomat

Years active| 1946–2009
Works| Full list
Spouses|

Juanita Hardy

(m. 1950; div. 1965)​

Joanna Shimkus

(m. 1976)​

Partner| Diahann Carroll (1959–1968)
Children| 6, including Sydney Tamiia
Awards| Full list
Ambassador of the Bahamas
1997–2007| Ambassador to Japan
2002–2007| Ambassador to UNESCO

Military career
Service / branch| United States Army
Years of service| 1943–1944
Battles / wars| World War II

Sidney Poitier (/ˈpwɑːtjeɪ/ PWAH-tyay;[1] February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, activist, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor.[2] He received two competitive Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award and a Grammy Award, and was nominated for two Emmy Awards and a Tony Award. In 1999, he was ranked among the "American Film Institute's 100 Stars".[3][4] Poitier was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood.[5][6][7]

Poitier's family lived in the Bahamas, then still a Crown colony, but he was born in Miami, Florida, while they were visiting, which granted him U.S. citizenship. He grew up in the Bahamas, but moved to Miami at age 15, and to New York City when he was 16. He joined the American Negro Theatre, gaining his breakthrough film role as a high school student in the film Blackboard Jungle (1955). Poitier gained fame for his leading roles in films such as The Defiant Ones (1958), for which he became the first African American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. The performance also won him the Silver Bear for Best Actor. In 1964, he won the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Actor[8][note 1] for Lilies of the Field (1963).[9][10]

Poitier broke ground playing strong leading African American male roles in films such as Porgy and Bess (1959), A Raisin in the Sun (1961), and A Patch of Blue (1965). He acted in three films in 1967, films which addressed race and race relations: To Sir, with Love; Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and In the Heat of the Night, the latter of which earned him Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations. In a poll the next year he was voted the US's top box-office star.[11] Poitier made his directorial film debut with Buck and the Preacher (1972), followed by A Warm December (1973), Uptown Saturday Night (1974), and Stir Crazy (1980). He later starred in Shoot to Kill (1988) and Sneakers (1992).

Poitier was granted an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II in 1974.[12][13] His honors include the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1982, the Kennedy Center Honor in 1995, Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1999, and the Honorary Academy Award in 2002.[14] In 2009, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.[15] In 2016, he was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship for outstanding lifetime achievement in film.[13] From 1997 to 2007, he was the Bahamian Ambassador to Japan.[16]

## Early life

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Sidney Poitier was born on February 20, 1927, in Miami, Florida.[17] He was the youngest of seven children[18] born to Evelyn (née Outten) and Reginald James Poitier, Afro-Bahamian farmers who owned a farm on Cat Island.[19] The family would travel to Miami to sell tomatoes and other produce to wholesalers. His father also worked as a cab driver in Nassau.[20] Poitier was born unexpectedly in Miami while his parents were there on business; his birth was two months premature, and he was not expected to survive, but his parents remained in Miami for three months to nurse him to health.[21] Poitier grew up in the Bahamas, then a British Crown colony. His birth in the United States entitled him to US citizenship.[21]

Although there were few Poitiers of French ancestry in the Bahamas,[22] some believe that the Poitier ancestors had migrated from Haiti,[23] and were probably among the runaway slaves who established maroon communities throughout the Bahamas, including Cat Island. There had, however, been one Poitier of French ancestry on Cat Island, planter Charles Leonard Poitier, who had immigrated from Jamaica in the early 1800s, possibly originally from Haiti. In 1834, following the abolition of slavery, 86 slaves from his wife's estate kept the Poitier name.

Poitier lived with his family on Cat Island until he was ten, when they moved to Nassau. There he was exposed to the modern world, where he saw his first automobile and first experienced electricity, plumbing, refrigeration, and motion pictures.[24][25] He was raised Catholic[26] but later became an agnostic[27] with views closer to deism.[28]

At age fifteen, in 1942, he was sent to Miami to live with his brother's large family, but Poitier found it impossible to adjust to the racism in Jim Crow era Florida.[29] At sixteen, he moved to New York City, looking to become an actor, holding a string of jobs as a dishwasher in the meantime.[30] After failing his first audition with the American Negro Theatre due to his inability to fluently read the script, an elderly Jewish waiter sat with him every night for several months, helping him to improve his reading by using the newspaper.[31][32] During World War II, in November 1943, he lied about his age (he was only 16 at the time) and enlisted in the Army. He was assigned to a Veteran's Administration hospital in Northport, New York, and was trained to work with psychiatric patients. Poitier became upset with how the hospital treated its patients and feigned mental illness to obtain a discharge. Poitier confessed to a psychiatrist that he was faking his condition, but the doctor was sympathetic and granted his discharge under Section VIII of Army regulation 615–360 in December 1944.[33]

After leaving the Army, he worked as a dishwasher until a successful audition landed him a role in an American Negro Theatre production, the same company he failed his first audition with.[34][35][32]

## Career

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### 1947–1957: Early work and blacklist

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Poitier joined the American Negro Theater but was rejected by audiences. Contrary to what was expected of negro actors at the time, Poitier's tone deafness made him unable to sing.[36] Determined to refine his acting skills and rid himself of his noticeable Bahamian accent, he spent the next six months dedicating himself to achieving theatrical success. He modeled his legendary speech pattern after radio personality Norman Brokenshire. On his second attempt at the theater, he was noticed and given a leading role in the Broadway production of Lysistrata, through which, though it ran a failing four days, he received an invitation to understudy for Anna Lucasta. Poitier would later befriend Harry Belafonte at the American Negro Theater.[37][38]

In 1947, Poitier was a founding member of the Committee for the Negro in the Arts (CNA),[39] an organization whose participants were committed to a left-wing analysis of class and racial exploitation.[40] Among his other CNA-related activities, in the early 1950s he was a Vice Chair of the organization.[41] In 1952, he was one of several narrators in a pageant written by Alice Childress and Lorraine Hansberry for the Negro History Festival put on by the leftist Harlem monthly newspaper Freedom.[42]

His participation in such events and CNA generally, along with his friendships with other leftist Black performers, including Canada Lee and Paul Robeson, led to his subsequent blacklisting for a few years.[43] Even associating with Poitier added to the basis for blacklisting Alfred Palca, the writer and producer of one of Poitier's earliest films, the 1954 Go Man Go.[44] Poitier never did sign a loyalty oath, despite being asked in connection with his prospective role in Blackboard Jungle (1955).[45]

A scene from the play A Raisin in the Sun in 1959, with (from left) Louis Gossett Jr. as George Murchison, Ruby Dee as Ruth Younger, and Poitier as Walter Younger

By late 1949, Poitier had to choose between leading roles on stage and an offer to work for Darryl F. Zanuck in the film No Way Out (1950).[46] His performance in No Way Out, as a doctor treating a white bigot (played by Richard Widmark, who became a friend), was noticed and led to more roles, each considerably more interesting and more prominent than those most African-American actors of the time were offered.[47] In 1951, he traveled to South Africa with the African-American actor Canada Lee to star in the film version of Cry, the Beloved Country.[48] Poitier's distinction continued in his role as Gregory W. Miller, a member of an incorrigible high-school class in Blackboard Jungle (1955).[49] But it was his performance in Martin Ritt's 1957 film Edge of the City that the industry could not ignore. It was a pitch towards stardom granted him.

Poitier enjoyed working for director William Wellman on Good-bye, My Lady (1956).[50] Wellman was a big name, he had previously directed the famous Roxie Hart (1942) with Ginger Rogers and Magic Town (1947) with James Stewart.[50] What Poitier remembered indelibly was the wonderful humanity in this talented director. Wellman had a sensitivity that Poitier thought was profound, which Wellman felt he needed to hide."[50] Poitier later praised Wellman for inspiring his thoughtful approach to directing when he found himself taking the helm from Joseph Sargent on Buck and the Preacher in 1971.[50][51]

### 1958–1969: Breakthrough and stardom

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In 1958 he starred alongside Tony Curtis in director Stanley Kramer's The Defiant Ones.[52] The film was a critical and commercial success with the performances of both Poitier and Curtis being praised.[53][54] The film landed eight Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Actor nominations for both stars, making Poitier the first African-American actor to be nominated in a lead role.[55] Poitier did win the British Academy Film Award for Best Foreign Actor.[56]

Poitier acted in the first production of A Raisin in the Sun alongside Ruby Dee on the Broadway stage at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in 1959. The play was directed by Lloyd Richards. The play introduced details of Black life to the overwhelmingly White Broadway audiences, while director Richards observed that it was the first play to which large numbers of Black people were drawn.[57] The play was a groundbreaking piece of American theater with Frank Rich, critic from The New York Times writing in 1983, that A Raisin in the Sun "changed American theater forever".[58] For his performance he earned a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination. That same year Poitier would star in the film adaptation of Porgy and Bess (1959) alongside Dorothy Dandridge. For his performance, Poitier received a 1960 Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.[59]

Poitier at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, alongside actors Harry Belafonte and Charlton Heston

> If the fabric of the society were different, I would scream to high heaven to play villains and to deal with different images of Negro life that would be more dimensional . . . But I'll be damned if I do that at this stage of the game. Not when there is only one Negro actor working in films with any degree of consistency . . .

Sidney Poitier (1967)[60]

In 1961, Poitier starred in the film adaptation of A Raisin in the Sun for which he received another Golden Globe Award nomination.[61] Also in 1961, Poitier starred in Paris Blues alongside Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Louis Armstrong, and Diahann Carroll.[62] The film dealt with the American racism of the time by contrasting it with Paris's open acceptance of Black people.[62] In 1963 he starred in Lilies of the Field.[63] For this role, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor and became the first African-American to win the award in a leading role.[64] His satisfaction at this honor was undermined by his concerns that this award was more of the industry congratulating itself for having him as a token and it would inhibit him from asking for more substantive considerations afterward.[65] Poitier worked relatively little over the following year; he remained the only major actor of African descent and the roles offered were predominantly typecast as a soft-spoken appeaser.[66]

In 1964, Poitier recorded an album with the composer Fred Katz called Poitier Meets Plato, in which Poitier recites passages from Plato's writings.[67] He also performed in the Cold War drama The Bedford Incident (1965) alongside the film's producer Richard Widmark, the Biblical epic film The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) alongside Charlton Heston and Max von Sydow, and A Patch of Blue (1965) co-starring Elizabeth Hartman and Shelley Winters.[68][69][70]

In 1967, he was the most successful draw at the box office, the commercial peak of his career, with three popular films, To Sir, with Love, and In the Heat of the Night (film), and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.[71] Although these three films seemingly shared little similarity, they all, albeit not overtly, dealt with the black and white divide.[72] In To Sir, with Love, Poitier plays a teacher at a secondary school in the East End of London. The film deals with social and racial issues in the inner city school. The film was met with mixed response; however, Poitier was praised for his performance, with the critic from Time writing, "Even the weak moments are saved by Poitier, who invests his role with a subtle warmth."[73]

In Norman Jewison's mystery drama In the Heat of the Night, Poitier played Virgil Tibbs, a police detective from Philadelphia who investigates a murder in the Deep South in Mississippi alongside a cop with racial prejudices played by Rod Steiger. The film was a critical success with Bosley Crowther of The New York Times calling it "the most powerful film I have seen in a long time."[74] Roger Ebert placed it at number ten on his top ten list of 1967 films.[75][76] Art Murphy of Variety felt that the excellent Poitier and outstanding Steiger performances overcame noteworthy flaws, including an uneven script.[77] Poitier received a Golden Globe Award and British Academy Film Award nomination for his performance.[56]

In Stanley Kramer's social drama Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Poitier played a man in a relationship with a White woman played by Katharine Houghton. The film revolves around her bringing him to meet with her parents played by Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. The film was one of the rare films at the time to depict an interracial romance in a positive light, as interracial marriage historically had been illegal in most states of the United States. It was still illegal in 17 states—mostly Southern states—until June 12, 1967, six months before the film was released. The film was a critical and financial success. In his film review, Roger Ebert described Poitier's character as "a noble, rich, intelligent, handsome, ethical medical expert" and that the film "is a magnificent piece of entertainment. It will make you laugh and may even make you cry."[78] To win his role as Dr. Prentice in the film, Poitier had to audition for Tracy and Hepburn at two separate dinner parties.[79]

Poitier began to be criticized for being typecast as over-idealized African-American characters who were not permitted to have any sexuality or personality faults, such as his character in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Poitier was aware of this pattern himself but was conflicted on the matter. He wanted more varied roles; but he also felt obliged to set an example with his characters, by challenging old stereotypes, as he was the only major actor of African descent being cast in leading roles in the American film industry at the time. For instance, in 1966, he turned down an opportunity to play the lead in an NBC television production of Othello with that spirit in mind.[80] Despite this, many of the films in which Poitier starred during the 1960s would later be cited as social thrillers by both filmmakers and critics.[81][82][83][84]

### 1970–1989: Transition to directing

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In the Heat of the Night featured his most successful character, Virgil Tibbs, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, detective whose subsequent career was the subject of two sequels: They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970) and The Organization (1971).[85]

In 1972, he made his feature film directorial debut, the Western Buck and the Preacher, in which Poitier also starred, alongside Harry Belafonte and Ruby Dee.[86] Poitier replaced the original director, Joseph Sargent.[87] The following year he directed his second feature, the romantic drama A Warm December.[88] Poitier also starred in the film alongside Esther Anderson.

Along with Barbra Streisand and Paul Newman, Poitier formed First Artists Production Company so actors could secure properties and develop movie projects for themselves.[89] Working with First Artists, Poitier directed several financially successful comedy films, including three in which he also starred: Uptown Saturday Night (1974) with Bill Cosby and Harry Belafonte; and Let's Do It Again (1975) and A Piece of the Action (1977), both with Cosby.[90] His most successful comedy was Stir Crazy (1980; not a First Artists production), starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder, which for many years was the highest-grossing film directed by a person of African descent.[91]

Poitier in 2000

In 1985, he directed Fast Forward[92] and, in 1990, he reunited with Cosby directing him in the family comedy Ghost Dad.[93] In 1988, he starred in Shoot to Kill with Tom Berenger.[94]

### 1990–2022: Later work

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In 1992, he starred in Sneakers with Robert Redford and Dan Aykroyd.[95] In 1997, he co-starred in The Jackal with Richard Gere and Bruce Willis.[96]

In the 1990s, he starred in several well received television movies and miniseries such as Separate but Equal (1991), To Sir, with Love II (1996), Mandela and de Klerk (1997), and The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (1999).[96][97] He received Emmy nominations for his work in Separate but Equal and Mandela and de Klerk, as well as a Golden Globe nomination for the former.[98] He won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album in 2001.[99]

In 2002, Poitier received the 2001 Honorary Academy Award for his overall contribution to American cinema.[96] Later in the ceremony, Denzel Washington won the award for Best Actor for his performance in Training Day, becoming the second Black actor to win the award.[100] In his victory speech, Washington saluted Poitier by saying "I'll always be chasing you, Sidney. I'll always be following in your footsteps. There's nothing I would rather do, sir."[101]

With the death of Ernest Borgnine in 2012, Poitier became the oldest living recipient of the Academy Award for Best Actor.[102] On March 2, 2014, Poitier appeared with Angelina Jolie at the 86th Academy Awards to present the Best Director Award.[103] He was given a standing ovation and Jolie thanked him for all his Hollywood contributions, stating: "We are in your debt."[103] Poitier gave a brief speech, telling his peers to "keep up the wonderful work" to warm applause.[104] In 2021, the academy dedicated the lobby of the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles as the "Sidney Poitier Grand Lobby" in his honor.[105] Poitier was a lifelong activist for racial and social justice. He declined film roles he considered based on offensive racial stereotypes.[16]

## Board and diplomatic service

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From 1995 to 2003, Poitier was a member of the board of directors of the Walt Disney Company.[106] In April 1997, Poitier was appointed ambassador from the Bahamas to Japan, a position he held until 2007.[16][107] From 2002 to 2007, he was concurrently the ambassador of the Bahamas to UNESCO.[108]

## Personal life

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Poitier's house in Stuyvesant, New York, 2019

Poitier was first married to Juanita Hardy from April 29, 1950, until 1965. Though Poitier became a resident of Mount Vernon in Westchester County, New York, in 1956,[109] they raised their family in Stuyvesant, New York, in a house on the Hudson River.[110] In 1959, Poitier began a nine-year affair with actress Diahann Carroll.[111] On January 23, 1976, he married Joanna Shimkus, a Canadian actress who starred with Poitier in The Lost Man in 1969, and they remained married until his death. Poitier had four daughters with his first wife: Beverly,[112][113] Pamela,[114] Sherri,[115] and Gina.[116] He had two daughters with his second wife: Anika[117] and Sydney Tamiia.[118] Poitier had eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.[119] When Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas in September 2019, Poitier's family had 23 missing relatives.[120]

## Death

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On January 6, 2022, Poitier died at his home in Beverly Hills, California, at the age of 94.[121][122][123][124][125] His death was confirmed by Fred Mitchell, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Bahamas.[126] According to a copy of his death certificate obtained by TMZ, the cause of death was cardiopulmonary failure, with Alzheimer's disease and prostate cancer listed as underlying causes.[122]

Upon Poitier's death, many people released statements honoring him, including then-President Joe Biden, who wrote in part: "With unflinching grandeur and poise – his singular warmth, depth, and stature on-screen – Sidney helped open the hearts of millions and changed the way America saw itself." Former president Barack Obama paid tribute to Poitier, calling him "a singular talent who epitomized dignity and grace". Michelle Obama, Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton also released statements.[127]

Many people in the entertainment industry also paid tribute to Poitier, including Martin Scorsese who wrote, "For years, the spotlight was on Sidney Poitier. He had a vocal precision and physical power and grace that at moments seemed almost supernatural."[128] Harry Belafonte, Morgan Freeman, Viola Davis, Whoopi Goldberg, Lupita Nyong'o, Halle Berry, Ava DuVernay, Oprah Winfrey, Octavia Spencer, Jeffrey Wright, Giancarlo Esposito, Quincy Jones, Michael Eisner, Ron Howard and others also paid tribute.[129][130][131] Broadway paid tribute when its theaters dimmed their lights on January 19, 2022, at 7:45 pm ET.[132]

The Ebertfest film festival announced it would be dedicating its 2022 event to the memory of Poitier and Gilbert Gottfried.[133]

## Acting credits and accolades

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Main articles: Sidney Poitier filmography and List of awards and nominations received by Sidney Poitier

Poitier being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in August 2009

Poitier became the first Black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor for Lilies of the Field (1963).[134] He also received a Grammy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a British Academy Film Award.[99][135][61] He received numerous honoraries during his lifetime including the Academy Honorary Award for his lifetime achievement in film in 2001.[96] In 1992, Poitier received the AFI Life Achievement Award.[136] In 1994, Poitier received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[137] In 1981, he received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award and in 2016 he received the BAFTA Fellowship.[138][139] In 2022, he was inducted into the National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum.[140]

In 1995, he received the Kennedy Center Honor and in 2009, Poitier was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama.[141][142] He was also named an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1974.[143] In 1986, he gave the Commencement Address to the University of Miami graduating class and was given the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Fine Arts.[144]

## Legacy

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Poitier c. 2013

Poitier was described as an icon in his obituary by USA Today.[145] Laura Jacobs for Vanity Fair hailed Poitier as the "Martin Luther King Jr. of the movies".[146] Several film historians and journalists have called him Hollywood's first African-American film star.[146][147][148] The New York Times noted after his death that Poitier was instrumental for the diversity of Hollywood and "paved the way for Black actors in film".[147] The Hollywood Reporter wrote that "Poitier was the first actor to star in mainstream Hollywood movies that depicted a Black man in a non-stereotypical fashion, and his influence, especially during the 1950s and '60s as role model and image-maker, was immeasurable".[149]

While presenting Poitier the Honorary Academy Award in 2002, Denzel Washington said of Poitier: "Before Sidney, African American actors had to take supporting roles in major studio films that were easy to cut out in certain parts of the country. But you couldn't cut Sidney Poitier out of a Sidney Poitier picture".[145] He was an influential African-American actor and highly viewed as such as he became the first Black male actor to be nominated (1958) for an Academy Award (following the nominations of actresses Hattie McDaniel in 1940 and Dorothy Dandridge in 1954) and the first Black male actor to win the award.[145][131] He was also described as the "sole representative" of African-Americans in mainstream cinema during the 1950s and 1960s, especially during the height of the American Civil Rights movement.[150][147] The New York Times wrote that Poitier was "an ambassador to white America and a benign emblem of Black power".[151]

For his role in diversifying Hollywood and for his role in paving the way for further Black actors, he was described as one of "the most important figures of 20th century Hollywood".[152] The former US president Barack Obama said Poitier had "[advanced] the nation's dialogue on race and respect" and "opened doors for a generation of actors".[153] Sidney, a documentary film about Poitier's life and legacy by Reginald Hudlin, was released on September 23, 2022.[154]

## Works about Poitier

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Autobiographies Poitier wrote three autobiographical books:

* This Life (1980)[155]
* Winner of the Coretta Scott King Award (1981)[156]
* The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography (2000)[157]
* Life Beyond Measure: Letters to My Great-Granddaughter (2008, an Oprah's Book Club selection)[158]

Biographies

* Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon (2004) by historian Aram Goudsouzian.[159]
* Sidney Poitier Black and White: Sidney Poitier's Emergence in the 1960s as a Black Icon (2020) by Philip Powers.[160]

Other works

Poitier wrote the novel Montaro Caine (2013).[161]

Documentaries

* Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light (2000)
* Sidney Poitier, un outsider à Hollywood (2008)[162]
* Sidney (2022)

## In popular culture

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The play and film, Six Degrees of Separation, is about a young Black man named Paul, who cons a white, wealthy Manhattan couple living in a swanky home overlooking Central Park. Paul shows up at their home claiming to be friends with the couple's children at Harvard, but indicates he is in town to meet his father, Sidney Poitier. Paul charms the couple with glowing tales of his celebrity father, whom he indicates is in New York directing a film version of the Broadway musical, Cats. The original play of Six Degrees of Separation premiered in 1990 in New York. It has starred actors including Stockard Channing and Courtney B. Vance. The 1993 film of Six Degrees of Separation starred Stockard Channing, Will Smith and Donald Sutherland. The play and film were inspired by David Hampton, a real life con-man who had claimed to be the son of Sidney Poitier.

## See also

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* David Hampton, an impostor who posed as Poitier's son "David" in 1983, which inspired the 1990 play and 1993 film Six Degrees of Separation
* John Stewart, aka Green Lantern, a DC Comics superhero whose original design was based on Poitier
* List of black Academy Award winners and nominees — Best Actor in a Leading Role

## Notes

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1. ^ James Baskett won an Academy Honorary Award for Song of the South (1946); it was not competitive.

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* Sidney Poitier at the American Film Institute Catalog
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* Media from Commons
* Quotations from Wikiquote
* Data from Wikidata

* Official publisher web page
* Poitier breaks new ground with Oscar win (BBC News, April 13, 1964)
* The Purpose Prize: Sidney Poitier
* To Sir With Honors (Washington Post, December 3, 1995)
* Overview of Sidney Poitier's life
* Artist of the Month: Sidney Poitier at Hyena Productions
* Sidney Poitier films ranked from worst to best
* Image of Sidney Poitier holding his Oscar alongside Gregory Peck, Annabella and Anne Bancroft backstage at the Academy Awards, Los Angeles, 1964. Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (Collection 1429). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

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Films directed by Sidney Poitier

* Buck and the Preacher (1972)
* A Warm December (1973)
* Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
* Let's Do It Again (1975)
* A Piece of the Action (1977)
* Stir Crazy (1980)
* Hanky Panky (1982)
* Fast Forward (1985)
* Ghost Dad (1990)

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Academy Award for Best Actor

1928–1950|

* Emil Jannings (1928)
* Warner Baxter (1929)
* George Arliss (1930)
* Lionel Barrymore (1931)
* Fredric March / Wallace Beery (1932)
* Charles Laughton (1933)
* Clark Gable (1934)
* Victor McLaglen (1935)
* Paul Muni (1936)
* Spencer Tracy (1937)
* Spencer Tracy (1938)
* Robert Donat (1939)
* James Stewart (1940)
* Gary Cooper (1941)
* James Cagney (1942)
* Paul Lukas (1943)
* Bing Crosby (1944)
* Ray Milland (1945)
* Fredric March (1946)
* Ronald Colman (1947)
* Laurence Olivier (1948)
* Broderick Crawford (1949)
* José Ferrer (1950)

1951–1975|

* Humphrey Bogart (1951)
* Gary Cooper (1952)
* William Holden (1953)
* Marlon Brando (1954)
* Ernest Borgnine (1955)
* Yul Brynner (1956)
* Alec Guinness (1957)
* David Niven (1958)
* Charlton Heston (1959)
* Burt Lancaster (1960)
* Maximilian Schell (1961)
* Gregory Peck (1962)
* Sidney Poitier (1963)
* Rex Harrison (1964)
* Lee Marvin (1965)
* Paul Scofield (1966)
* Rod Steiger (1967)
* Cliff Robertson (1968)
* John Wayne (1969)
* George C. Scott1 (1970)
* Gene Hackman (1971)
* Marlon Brando1 (1972)
* Jack Lemmon (1973)
* Art Carney (1974)
* Jack Nicholson (1975)

1976–2000|

* Peter Finch (1976)
* Richard Dreyfuss (1977)
* Jon Voight (1978)
* Dustin Hoffman (1979)
* Robert De Niro (1980)
* Henry Fonda (1981)
* Ben Kingsley (1982)
* Robert Duvall (1983)
* F. Murray Abraham (1984)
* William Hurt (1985)
* Paul Newman (1986)
* Michael Douglas (1987)
* Dustin Hoffman (1988)
* Daniel Day-Lewis (1989)
* Jeremy Irons (1990)
* Anthony Hopkins (1991)
* Al Pacino (1992)
* Tom Hanks (1993)
* Tom Hanks (1994)
* Nicolas Cage (1995)
* Geoffrey Rush (1996)
* Jack Nicholson (1997)
* Roberto Benigni (1998)
* Kevin Spacey (1999)
* Russell Crowe (2000)

2001–present|

* Denzel Washington (2001)
* Adrien Brody (2002)
* Sean Penn (2003)
* Jamie Foxx (2004)
* Philip Seymour Hoffman (2005)
* Forest Whitaker (2006)
* Daniel Day-Lewis (2007)
* Sean Penn (2008)
* Jeff Bridges (2009)
* Colin Firth (2010)
* Jean Dujardin (2011)
* Daniel Day-Lewis (2012)
* Matthew McConaughey (2013)
* Eddie Redmayne (2014)
* Leonardo DiCaprio (2015)
* Casey Affleck (2016)
* Gary Oldman (2017)
* Rami Malek (2018)
* Joaquin Phoenix (2019)
* Anthony Hopkins (2020)
* Will Smith (2021)
* Brendan Fraser (2022)
* Cillian Murphy (2023)
* Adrien Brody (2024)

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Academy Honorary Award

1928–1950|

* Warner Bros. / Charlie Chaplin (1928)
* Walt Disney (1932)
* Shirley Temple (1934)
* D. W. Griffith (1935)
* The March of Time / W. Howard Greene and Harold Rosson (1936)
* Edgar Bergen / W. Howard Greene / Museum of Modern Art Film Library / Mack Sennett (1937)
* J. Arthur Ball / Walt Disney / Deanna Durbin and Mickey Rooney / Gordon Jennings, Jan Domela, Devereaux Jennings, Irmin Roberts, Art Smith, Farciot Edouart, Loyal Griggs, Loren L. Ryder, Harry D. Mills, Louis Mesenkop, Walter Oberst / Oliver T. Marsh and Allen Davey / Harry Warner (1938)
* Douglas Fairbanks / Judy Garland / William Cameron Menzies / Motion Picture Relief Fund (Jean Hersholt, Ralph Morgan, Ralph Block, Conrad Nagel) / Technicolor SA (1939)
* Bob Hope / Nathan Levinson (1940)
* Walt Disney, William Garity, John N. A. Hawkins, and the RCA Manufacturing Company / Leopold Stokowski and his associates / Rey Scott / British Ministry of Information (1941)
* Charles Boyer / Noël Coward / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1942)
* George Pal (1943)
* Bob Hope / Margaret O'Brien (1944)
* Republic Studio, Daniel J. Bloomberg, and the Republic Studio Sound Department / Walter Wanger / The House I Live In / Peggy Ann Garner (1945)
* Harold Russell / Laurence Olivier / Ernst Lubitsch / Claude Jarman Jr. (1946)
* James Baskett / Thomas Armat, William Nicholas Selig, Albert E. Smith, and George Kirke Spoor / Bill and Coo / Shoeshine (1947)
* Walter Wanger / Monsieur Vincent / Sid Grauman / Adolph Zukor (1948)
* Jean Hersholt / Fred Astaire / Cecil B. DeMille / The Bicycle Thief (1949)
* Louis B. Mayer / George Murphy / The Walls of Malapaga (1950)

1951–1975|

* Gene Kelly / Rashomon (1951)
* Merian C. Cooper / Bob Hope / Harold Lloyd / George Mitchell / Joseph M. Schenck / Forbidden Games (1952)
* 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation / Bell & Howell Company / Joseph Breen / Pete Smith (1953)
* Bausch & Lomb Optical Company / Danny Kaye / Kemp Niver / Greta Garbo / Jon Whiteley / Vincent Winter / Gate of Hell (1954)
* Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1955)
* Eddie Cantor (1956)
* Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers / Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson / Charles Brackett / B. B. Kahane (1957)
* Maurice Chevalier (1958)
* Buster Keaton / Lee de Forest (1959)
* Gary Cooper / Stan Laurel / Hayley Mills (1960)
* William L. Hendricks / Fred L. Metzler / Jerome Robbins (1961)
* William J. Tuttle (1964)
* Bob Hope (1965)
* Yakima Canutt / Y. Frank Freeman (1966)
* Arthur Freed (1967)
* John Chambers / Onna White (1968)
* Cary Grant (1969)
* Lillian Gish / Orson Welles (1970)
* Charlie Chaplin (1971)
* Charles S. Boren / Edward G. Robinson (1972)
* Henri Langlois / Groucho Marx (1973)
* Howard Hawks / Jean Renoir (1974)
* Mary Pickford (1975)

1976–2000|

* Margaret Booth (1977)
* Walter Lantz / Laurence Olivier / King Vidor / Museum of Modern Art Department of Film (1978)
* Hal Elias / Alec Guinness (1979)
* Henry Fonda (1980)
* Barbara Stanwyck (1981)
* Mickey Rooney (1982)
* Hal Roach (1983)
* James Stewart / National Endowment for the Arts (1984)
* Paul Newman / Alex North (1985)
* Ralph Bellamy (1986)
* Eastman Kodak Company / National Film Board of Canada (1988)
* Akira Kurosawa (1989)
* Sophia Loren / Myrna Loy (1990)
* Satyajit Ray (1991)
* Federico Fellini (1992)
* Deborah Kerr (1993)
* Michelangelo Antonioni (1994)
* Kirk Douglas / Chuck Jones (1995)
* Michael Kidd (1996)
* Stanley Donen (1997)
* Elia Kazan (1998)
* Andrzej Wajda (1999)
* Jack Cardiff / Ernest Lehman (2000)

2001–present|

* Sidney Poitier / Robert Redford (2001)
* Peter O'Toole (2002)
* Blake Edwards (2003)
* Sidney Lumet (2004)
* Robert Altman (2005)
* Ennio Morricone (2006)
* Robert F. Boyle (2007)
* Lauren Bacall / Roger Corman / Gordon Willis (2009)
* Kevin Brownlow / Jean-Luc Godard / Eli Wallach (2010)
* James Earl Jones / Dick Smith (2011)
* D. A. Pennebaker / Hal Needham / George Stevens Jr. (2012)
* Angela Lansbury / Steve Martin / Piero Tosi (2013)
* Jean-Claude Carrière / Hayao Miyazaki / Maureen O'Hara (2014)
* Spike Lee / Gena Rowlands (2015)
* Jackie Chan / Lynn Stalmaster / Anne V. Coates / Frederick Wiseman (2016)
* Charles Burnett / Owen Roizman / Donald Sutherland / Agnès Varda (2017)
* Marvin Levy / Lalo Schifrin / Cicely Tyson (2018)
* David Lynch / Wes Studi / Lina Wertmüller (2019)
* Samuel L. Jackson / Elaine May / Liv Ullmann (2021)
* Euzhan Palcy / Diane Warren / Peter Weir (2022)
* Angela Bassett / Mel Brooks / Carol Littleton (2023)
* Quincy Jones / Juliet Taylor (2024)

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AFI Life Achievement Award

* John Ford (1973)
* James Cagney (1974)
* Orson Welles (1975)
* William Wyler (1976)
* Bette Davis (1977)
* Henry Fonda (1978)
* Alfred Hitchcock (1979)
* James Stewart (1980)
* Fred Astaire (1981)
* Frank Capra (1982)
* John Huston (1983)
* Lillian Gish (1984)
* Gene Kelly (1985)
* Billy Wilder (1986)
* Barbara Stanwyck (1987)
* Jack Lemmon (1988)
* Gregory Peck (1989)
* David Lean (1990)
* Kirk Douglas (1991)
* Sidney Poitier (1992)
* Elizabeth Taylor (1993)
* Jack Nicholson (1994)
* Steven Spielberg (1995)
* Clint Eastwood (1996)
* Martin Scorsese (1997)
* Robert Wise (1998)
* Dustin Hoffman (1999)
* Harrison Ford (2000)
* Barbra Streisand (2001)
* Tom Hanks (2002)
* Robert De Niro (2003)
* Meryl Streep (2004)
* George Lucas (2005)
* Sean Connery (2006)
* Al Pacino (2007)
* Warren Beatty (2008)
* Michael Douglas (2009)
* Mike Nichols (2010)
* Morgan Freeman (2011)
* Shirley MacLaine (2012)
* Mel Brooks (2013)
* Jane Fonda (2014)
* Steve Martin (2015)
* John Williams (2016)
* Diane Keaton (2017)
* George Clooney (2018)
* Denzel Washington (2019)
* Julie Andrews (2022)
* Nicole Kidman (2024)
* Francis Ford Coppola (2025)

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BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

1952–1967|

| British|

* Ralph Richardson (1952)
* John Gielgud (1953)
* Kenneth More (1954)
* Laurence Olivier (1955)
* Peter Finch (1956)
* Alec Guinness (1957)
* Trevor Howard (1958)
* Peter Sellers (1959)
* Peter Finch (1960)
* Peter Finch (1961)
* Peter O'Toole (1962)
* Dirk Bogarde (1963)
* Richard Attenborough (1964)
* Dirk Bogarde (1965)
* Richard Burton (1966)
* Paul Scofield (1967)

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Foreign|

* Marlon Brando (1952)
* Marlon Brando (1953)
* Marlon Brando (1954)
* Ernest Borgnine (1955)
* François Périer (1956)
* Henry Fonda (1957)
* Sidney Poitier (1958)
* Jack Lemmon (1959)
* Jack Lemmon (1960)
* Paul Newman (1961)
* Burt Lancaster (1962)
* Marcello Mastroianni (1963)
* Marcello Mastroianni (1964)
* Lee Marvin (1965)
* Rod Steiger (1966)
* Rod Steiger (1967)

1968–present|

* Spencer Tracy (1968)
* Dustin Hoffman (1969)
* Robert Redford (1970)
* Peter Finch (1971)
* Gene Hackman (1972)
* Walter Matthau (1973)
* Jack Nicholson (1974)
* Al Pacino (1975)
* Jack Nicholson (1976)
* Peter Finch (1977)
* Richard Dreyfuss (1978)
* Jack Lemmon (1979)
* John Hurt (1980)
* Burt Lancaster (1981)
* Ben Kingsley (1982)
* Michael Caine / Dustin Hoffman (1983)
* Haing S. Ngor (1984)
* William Hurt (1985)
* Bob Hoskins (1986)
* Sean Connery (1987)
* John Cleese (1988)
* Daniel Day-Lewis (1989)
* Philippe Noiret (1990)
* Anthony Hopkins (1991)
* Robert Downey Jr. (1992)
* Anthony Hopkins (1993)
* Hugh Grant (1994)
* Nigel Hawthorne (1995)
* Geoffrey Rush (1996)
* Robert Carlyle (1997)
* Roberto Benigni (1998)
* Kevin Spacey (1999)
* Jamie Bell (2000)
* Russell Crowe (2001)
* Daniel Day-Lewis (2002)
* Bill Murray (2003)
* Jamie Foxx (2004)
* Philip Seymour Hoffman (2005)
* Forest Whitaker (2006)
* Daniel Day-Lewis (2007)
* Mickey Rourke (2008)
* Colin Firth (2009)
* Colin Firth (2010)
* Jean Dujardin (2011)
* Daniel Day-Lewis (2012)
* Chiwetel Ejiofor (2013)
* Eddie Redmayne (2014)
* Leonardo DiCaprio (2015)
* Casey Affleck (2016)
* Gary Oldman (2017)
* Rami Malek (2018)
* Joaquin Phoenix (2019)
* Anthony Hopkins (2020)
* Will Smith (2021)
* Austin Butler (2022)
* Cillian Murphy (2023)
* Adrien Brody (2024)

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BAFTA Fellowship

1971–2000|

* Alfred Hitchcock (1971)
* Freddie Young (1972)
* Grace Wyndham Goldie (1973)
* David Lean (1974)
* Jacques Cousteau (1975)
* Charlie Chaplin (1976)
* Laurence Olivier (1976)
* Denis Forman (1977)
* Fred Zinnemann (1978)
* Lew Grade (1979)
* Huw Wheldon (1979)
* David Attenborough (1980)
* John Huston (1980)
* Abel Gance (1981)
* Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (1981)
* Andrzej Wajda (1982)
* Richard Attenborough (1983)
* Hugh Greene (1984)
* Sam Spiegel (1984)
* Jeremy Isaacs (1985)
* Steven Spielberg (1986)
* Federico Fellini (1987)
* Ingmar Bergman (1988)
* Alec Guinness (1989)
* Paul Fox (1990)
* Louis Malle (1991)
* John Gielgud (1992)
* David Plowright (1992)
* Sydney Samuelson (1993)
* Colin Young (1993)
* Michael Grade (1994)
* Billy Wilder (1995)
* Jeanne Moreau (1996)
* Ronald Neame (1996)
* John Schlesinger (1996)
* Maggie Smith (1996)
* Woody Allen (1997)
* Steven Bochco (1997)
* Julie Christie (1997)
* Oswald Morris (1997)
* Harold Pinter (1997)
* David Rose (1997)
* Sean Connery (1998)
* Bill Cotton (1998)
* Eric Morecambe & Ernie Wise (1999)
* Elizabeth Taylor (1999)
* Michael Caine (2000)
* Stanley Kubrick (2000)
* Peter Bazalgette (2000)

2001–present|

* Albert Finney (2001)
* John Thaw (2001)
* Judi Dench (2001)
* Warren Beatty (2002)
* Merchant Ivory Productions (2002)
* Andrew Davies (2002)
* John Mills (2002)
* Saul Zaentz (2003)
* David Jason (2003)
* John Boorman (2004)
* Roger Graef (2004)
* John Barry (2005)
* David Frost (2005)
* David Puttnam (2006)
* Ken Loach (2006)
* Anne V. Coates (2007)
* Richard Curtis (2007)
* Will Wright (2007)
* Anthony Hopkins (2008)
* Bruce Forsyth (2008)
* Dawn French & Jennifer Saunders (2009)
* Terry Gilliam (2009)
* Nolan Bushnell (2009)
* Vanessa Redgrave (2010)
* Shigeru Miyamoto (2010)
* Melvyn Bragg (2010)
* Christopher Lee (2011)
* Peter Molyneux (2011)
* Trevor McDonald (2011)
* Martin Scorsese (2012)
* ~~Rolf Harris~~ (2012)
* Alan Parker (2013)
* Gabe Newell (2013)
* Michael Palin (2013)
* Helen Mirren (2014)
* Rockstar Games (2014)
* Julie Walters (2014)
* Mike Leigh (2015)
* David Braben (2015)
* Jon Snow (2015)
* Sidney Poitier (2016)
* John Carmack (2016)
* Ray Galton & Alan Simpson (2016)
* Mel Brooks (2017)
* Joanna Lumley (2017)
* Ridley Scott (2018)
* Tim Schafer (2018)
* Kate Adie (2018)
* Thelma Schoonmaker (2019)
* Joan Bakewell (2019)
* Kathleen Kennedy (2020)
* Hideo Kojima (2020)
* Ang Lee (2021)
* Siobhan Reddy (2021)
* Billy Connolly (2022)
* Sandy Powell (2023)
* Shuhei Yoshida (2023)
* Meera Syal (2023)
* Samantha Morton (2024)
* Floella Benjamin (2024)
* Warwick Davis (2025)
* Yoko Shimomura (2025)

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Britannia Awards

Excellence in Film|

* Albert R. Broccoli (1989)
* Michael Caine (1990)
* Peter Ustinov (1992)
* Martin Scorsese (1993)
* Anthony Hopkins (1995)
* Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein (1996)
* Dustin Hoffman (1997)
* John Travolta (1998)
* Stanley Kubrick (1999)
* Steven Spielberg (2000)
* George Lucas (2002)
* Hugh Grant (2003)
* Tom Hanks (2004)
* Tom Cruise (2005)
* Clint Eastwood (2006)
* Denzel Washington (2007)
* Sean Penn (2008)
* Robert De Niro (2009)
* Jeff Bridges (2010)
* Warren Beatty (2011)
* Daniel Day-Lewis (2012)
* George Clooney (2013)
* Robert Downey Jr. (2014)
* Meryl Streep (2015)
* Jodie Foster (2016)
* Matt Damon (2017)
* Cate Blanchett (2018)
* Jane Fonda (2019)

Excellence in Directing|

* Peter Weir (2003)
* Jim Sheridan (2004)
* Mike Newell (2005)
* Anthony Minghella (2006)
* Martin Campbell (2007)
* Stephen Frears (2008)
* Danny Boyle (2009)
* Christopher Nolan (2010)
* David Yates (2011)
* Quentin Tarantino (2012)
* Kathryn Bigelow (2013)
* Mike Leigh (2014)
* Sam Mendes (2015)
* Ang Lee (2016)
* Ava DuVernay (2017)
* Steve McQueen (2018)
* Jordan Peele (2019)

Worldwide Contribution to
Entertainment|

* Howard Stringer (2003)
* Kirk Douglas (2009)
* Ridley Scott & Tony Scott (2010)
* John Lasseter (2011)
* Will Wright (2012)
* Ben Kingsley (2013)
* Judi Dench (2014)
* Harrison Ford (2015)
* Samuel L. Jackson (2016)
* Kenneth Branagh (2017)
* Kevin Feige (2018)
* Jackie Chan (2019)

British Artist of the Year|

* Rachel Weisz (2006)
* Kate Winslet (2007)
* Tilda Swinton (2008)
* Emily Blunt (2009)
* Michael Sheen (2010)
* Helena Bonham Carter (2011)
* Daniel Craig (2012)
* Benedict Cumberbatch (2013)
* Emma Watson (2014)
* James Corden (2015)
* Felicity Jones (2016)
* Claire Foy (2017)
* Emilia Clarke (2018)
* Phoebe Waller-Bridge (2019)

Excellence in Comedy|

* Betty White (2010)
* Ben Stiller (2011)
* Trey Parker and Matt Stone (2012)
* Sacha Baron Cohen (2013)
* Julia Louis-Dreyfus (2014)
* Amy Schumer (2015)
* Ricky Gervais (2016)
* Aziz Ansari (2017)
* Jim Carrey (2018)
* Steve Coogan (2019)

Excellence in Television|

* Aaron Spelling (1999)
* HBO Original Programming (2002)
* Dick Van Dyke (2017)
* Damian Lewis (2018)
* Norman Lear (2019)

Humanitarian Award|

* Richard Curtis (2007)
* Don Cheadle (2008)
* Colin Firth (2009)
* Idris Elba (2013)
* Mark Ruffalo (2014)
* Orlando Bloom (2015)
* Ewan McGregor (2016)

Retired Awards|

* BBC (1999)
* Tarsem Singh (1999)
* Angela Lansbury (2003)
* Helen Mirren (2004)
* Elizabeth Taylor (2005)
* Ronald Neame (2005)
* Sidney Poitier (2006)
* Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne (2007)

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Cecil B. DeMille Award

* Cecil B. DeMille (1951)
* Walt Disney (1952)
* Darryl F. Zanuck (1953)
* Jean Hersholt (1954)
* Jack L. Warner (1955)
* Mervyn LeRoy (1956)
* Buddy Adler (1957)
* Maurice Chevalier (1958)
* Bing Crosby (1959)
* Fred Astaire (1960)
* Judy Garland (1961)
* Bob Hope (1962)
* Joseph E. Levine (1963)
* James Stewart (1964)
* John Wayne (1965)
* Charlton Heston (1966)
* Kirk Douglas (1967)
* Gregory Peck (1968)
* Joan Crawford (1969)
* Frank Sinatra (1970)
* Alfred Hitchcock (1971)
* Samuel Goldwyn (1972)
* Bette Davis (1973)
* Hal B. Wallis (1974)
* No Award (1975)
* Walter Mirisch (1976)
* Red Skelton (1977)
* Lucille Ball (1978)
* Henry Fonda (1979)
* Gene Kelly (1980)
* Sidney Poitier (1981)
* Laurence Olivier (1982)
* Paul Newman (1983)
* Elizabeth Taylor (1984)
* Barbara Stanwyck (1985)
* Anthony Quinn (1986)
* Clint Eastwood (1987)
* Doris Day (1988)
* Audrey Hepburn (1989)
* Jack Lemmon (1990)
* Robert Mitchum (1991)
* Lauren Bacall (1992)
* Robert Redford (1993)
* Sophia Loren (1994)
* Sean Connery (1995)
* Dustin Hoffman (1996)
* Shirley MacLaine (1997)
* Jack Nicholson (1998)
* Barbra Streisand (1999)
* Al Pacino (2000)
* Harrison Ford (2001)
* Gene Hackman (2002)
* Michael Douglas (2003)
* Robin Williams (2004)
* Anthony Hopkins (2005)
* Warren Beatty (2006)
* No Award (2007)
* Steven Spielberg (2008)
* Martin Scorsese (2009)
* Robert De Niro (2010)
* Morgan Freeman (2011)
* Jodie Foster (2012)
* Woody Allen (2013)
* George Clooney (2014)
* Denzel Washington (2015)
* Meryl Streep (2016)
* Oprah Winfrey (2017)
* Jeff Bridges (2018)
* Tom Hanks (2019)
* Jane Fonda (2020)
* No Award (2021)
* Eddie Murphy (2022)
* No Award (2023)
* Viola Davis (2024)

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Film Society of Lincoln Center Gala Tribute Honorees

* Charlie Chaplin (1972)
* Fred Astaire (1973)
* Alfred Hitchcock (1974)
* Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman (1975)
* George Cukor (1978)
* Bob Hope (1979)
* John Huston (1980)
* Barbara Stanwyck (1981)
* Billy Wilder (1982)
* Laurence Olivier (1983)
* Claudette Colbert (1984)
* Federico Fellini (1985)
* Elizabeth Taylor (1986)
* Alec Guinness (1987)
* Yves Montand (1988)
* Bette Davis (1989)
* James Stewart (1990)
* Audrey Hepburn (1991)
* Gregory Peck (1992)
* Jack Lemmon (1993)
* Robert Altman (1994)
* Shirley MacLaine (1995)
* Clint Eastwood (1996)
* Sean Connery (1997)
* Martin Scorsese (1998)
* Mike Nichols (1999)
* Al Pacino (2000)
* Jane Fonda (2001)
* Francis Ford Coppola (2002)
* Susan Sarandon (2003)
* Michael Caine (2004)
* Dustin Hoffman (2005)
* Jessica Lange (2006)
* Diane Keaton (2007)
* Meryl Streep (2008)
* Tom Hanks (2009)
* Michael Douglas (2010)
* Sidney Poitier (2011)
* Catherine Deneuve (2012)
* Barbra Streisand (2013)
* Rob Reiner (2014)
* Robert Redford (2015)
* Morgan Freeman (2016)
* Robert De Niro (2017)
* Helen Mirren (2018)
* Spike Lee (2020)
* Cate Blanchett (2022)
* Viola Davis (2023)
* Jeff Bridges (2024)
* Pedro Almodóvar (2025)

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Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

1943–1975|

* Paul Lukas (1943)
* Alexander Knox (1944)
* Ray Milland (1945)
* Gregory Peck (1946)
* Ronald Colman (1947)
* Laurence Olivier (1948)
* Broderick Crawford (1949)
* José Ferrer (1950)
* Fredric March (1951)
* Gary Cooper (1952)
* Spencer Tracy (1953)
* Marlon Brando (1954)
* Ernest Borgnine (1955)
* Kirk Douglas (1956)
* Alec Guinness (1957)
* David Niven (1958)
* Anthony Franciosa (1959)
* Burt Lancaster (1960)
* Maximilian Schell (1961)
* Gregory Peck (1962)
* Sidney Poitier (1963)
* Peter O'Toole (1964)
* Omar Sharif (1965)
* Paul Scofield (1966)
* Rod Steiger (1967)
* Peter O'Toole (1968)
* John Wayne (1969)
* George C. Scott (1970)
* Gene Hackman (1971)
* Marlon Brando (1972)
* Al Pacino (1973)
* Jack Nicholson (1974)
* Jack Nicholson (1975)

1976–2000|

* Peter Finch (1976)
* Richard Burton (1977)
* Jon Voight (1978)
* Dustin Hoffman (1979)
* Robert De Niro (1980)
* Henry Fonda (1981)
* Ben Kingsley (1982)
* Robert Duvall / Tom Courtenay (1983)
* F. Murray Abraham (1984)
* Jon Voight (1985)
* Bob Hoskins (1986)
* Michael Douglas (1987)
* Dustin Hoffman (1988)
* Tom Cruise (1989)
* Jeremy Irons (1990)
* Nick Nolte (1991)
* Al Pacino (1992)
* Tom Hanks (1993)
* Tom Hanks (1994)
* Nicolas Cage (1995)
* Geoffrey Rush (1996)
* Peter Fonda (1997)
* Jim Carrey (1998)
* Denzel Washington (1999)
* Tom Hanks (2000)

2001–present|

* Russell Crowe (2001)
* Jack Nicholson (2002)
* Sean Penn (2003)
* Leonardo DiCaprio (2004)
* Philip Seymour Hoffman (2005)
* Forest Whitaker (2006)
* Daniel Day-Lewis (2007)
* Mickey Rourke (2008)
* Jeff Bridges (2009)
* Colin Firth (2010)
* George Clooney (2011)
* Daniel Day-Lewis (2012)
* Matthew McConaughey (2013)
* Eddie Redmayne (2014)
* Leonardo DiCaprio (2015)
* Casey Affleck (2016)
* Gary Oldman (2017)
* Rami Malek (2018)
* Joaquin Phoenix (2019)
* Chadwick Boseman (2020)
* Will Smith (2021)
* Austin Butler (2022)
* Cillian Murphy (2023)
* Adrien Brody (2024)

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Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording

1950s|

* The Best of the Stan Freberg Shows – Stan Freberg (1958)
* Lincoln Portrait – Carl Sandburg (1959)

1960s|

* FDR Speaks – Robert Bialek (producer) (1960)
* Humor in Music – Leonard Bernstein (1961)
* The Story-Teller: A Session with Charles Laughton – Charles Laughton (1962)
* Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Edward Albee (playwright) (1963)
* BBC Tribute to John F. Kennedy – That Was the Week That Was (1964)
* John F. Kennedy: As We Remember Him – Goddard Lieberson (producer) (1965)
* Edward R. Murrow - A Reporter Remembers, Vol. I: The War Years – Edward R. Murrow (1966)
* Gallant Men – Everett Dirksen (1967)
* Lonesome Cities – Rod McKuen (1968)
* We Love You Call Collect – Art Linkletter & Diane Linkletter (1969)

1970s|

* Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam – Martin Luther King Jr. (1970)
* Desiderata – Les Crane (1971)
* Lenny – Bruce Botnick (producer) & the Original Broadway Cast (1972)
* Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Richard Harris (1973)
* Good Evening – Peter Cook and Dudley Moore (1974)
* Give 'em Hell, Harry! – James Whitmore (1975)
* Great American Documents – Henry Fonda, Helen Hayes, James Earl Jones, and Orson Welles (1976)
* The Belle of Amherst – Julie Harris (1977)
* Citizen Kane (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – Orson Welles (1978)
* Ages of Man: Readings from Shakespeare – John Gielgud (1979)

1980s|

* Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein – Pat Carroll (1980)
* Donovan's Brain – Orson Welles (1981)
* Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Movie on Record – Tom Voegeli (producer) and Various Artists (1982)
* Lincoln Portrait – William Warfield (1983)
* The Words of Gandhi – Ben Kingsley (1984)
* Ma Rainey's Black Bottom – Mike Berniker (producer) & the Original Broadway Cast (1985)
* Interviews from the Class of '55 Recording Sessions – Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chips Moman, Ricky Nelson, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, and Sam Phillips (1986)
* Lake Wobegon Days – Garrison Keillor (1987)
* Speech by Rev. Jesse Jackson – Jesse Jackson (1988)
* It's Always Something – Gilda Radner (1989)

1990s|

* Gracie: A Love Story – George Burns (1990)
* The Civil War – Ken Burns (1991)
* What You Can Do to Avoid AIDS – Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Robert O'Keefe (1992)
* On the Pulse of Morning – Maya Angelou (1993)
* Get in the Van – Henry Rollins (1994)
* Phenomenal Woman – Maya Angelou (1995)
* It Takes a Village – Hillary Clinton (1996)
* Charles Kuralt's Spring – Charles Kuralt (1997)
* Still Me – Christopher Reeve (1998)
* The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. – LeVar Burton (1999)

2000s|

* The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography – Sidney Poitier, Rick Harris, and John Runnette (producers) (2000)
* Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones – Quincy Jones, Jeffrey S. Thomas, Steven Strassman (engineers), and Elisa Shokoff (producer) (2001)
* A Song Flung Up to Heaven – Maya Angelou and Charles B. Potter (producer) (2002)
* Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them – Al Franken and Paul Ruben (producer) (2003)
* My Life – Bill Clinton (2004)
* Dreams from My Father – Barack Obama (2005)
* Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis – Jimmy Carter / With Ossie and Ruby – Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee (2006)
* The Audacity of Hope – Barack Obama and Jacob Bronstein (producer) (2007)
* An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore – Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon, and Blair Underwood (2008)
* Always Looking Up – Michael J. Fox (2009)

2010s|

* The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Audiobook) – Jon Stewart (2010)
* If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won't) – Betty White (2011)
* Society's Child – Janis Ian (2012)
* America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't – Stephen Colbert (2013)
* Diary of a Mad Diva – Joan Rivers (2014)
* A Full Life: Reflections at 90 – Jimmy Carter (2015)
* In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox – Carol Burnett (2016)
* The Princess Diarist – Carrie Fisher (2017)
* Faith: A Journey for All – Jimmy Carter (2018)
* Becoming – Michelle Obama (2019)

2020s|

* Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth – Rachel Maddow (2020)
* Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation from John Lewis − Don Cheadle (2021)
* Finding Me – Viola Davis (2022)
* The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times – Michelle Obama (2023)
* Last Sunday in Plains: A Centennial Celebration – Jimmy Carter (2024)

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Kennedy Center Honorees (1990s)

1990|

* Dizzy Gillespie
* Katharine Hepburn
* Risë Stevens
* Jule Styne
* Billy Wilder

1991|

* Roy Acuff
* Betty Comden and Adolph Green
* Fayard and Harold Nicholas
* Gregory Peck
* Robert Shaw

1992|

* Lionel Hampton
* Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
* Ginger Rogers
* Mstislav Rostropovich
* Paul Taylor

1993|

* Johnny Carson
* Arthur Mitchell
* Sir Georg Solti
* Stephen Sondheim
* Marion Williams

1994|

* Kirk Douglas
* Aretha Franklin
* Morton Gould
* Harold Prince
* Pete Seeger

1995|

* Jacques d'Amboise
* Marilyn Horne
* B.B. King
* Sidney Poitier
* Neil Simon

1996|

* Edward Albee
* Benny Carter
* Johnny Cash
* Jack Lemmon
* Maria Tallchief

1997|

* Lauren Bacall
* Bob Dylan
* Charlton Heston
* Jessye Norman
* Edward Villella

1998|

* ~~Bill Cosby~~
* Fred Ebb and John Kander
* Willie Nelson
* André Previn
* Shirley Temple Black

1999|

* Victor Borge
* Sean Connery
* Judith Jamison
* Jason Robards
* Stevie Wonder

* Complete list
* 1970s
* 1980s
* 1990s
* 2000s
* 2010s
* 2020s

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NAACP Image Award – Hall of Fame Award

* Lena Horne / Ray Charles (1983)
* Ella Fitzgerald / Marian Anderson / Gordon Parks / Alberta Hunter / Paul Robeson (1984)
* Esther Rolle / Linda Hopkins (1987)
* Marvin Gaye (1988)
* Sammy Davis Jr. / Oprah Winfrey / Ossie Davis / Ruby Dee (1989)
* Etta James (1990)
* Four Tops / The O'Jays / The Temptations / The Dells (1992)
* Carmen McRae and Jerry Butler (1993)
* Earth, Wind & Fire (1994)
* Richard Pryor (1996)
* Aretha Franklin / George Clinton (1997)
* Nancy Wilson / The Isley Brothers (1998)
* Kathleen Battle (1999)
* Sidney Poitier (2001)
* Little Richard (2002)
* Spike Lee (2003)
* Ray Charles (2004)
* Oprah Winfrey (2005)
* Carlos Santana (2006)
* Bill Cosby (2007)
* Stevie Wonder (2008)
* Clarence Avant (2009)
* Eddie Murphy (2021)
* Wayans family (2024)

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NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special

1980s|

* Paul Winfield (1982)
* Danny Glover (1989)

1990s|

* No Award (1990)
* Blair Underwood (1991)
* James Earl Jones (1992)
* Dorian Harewood (1993)
* Danny Glover (1994)
* Laurence Fishburne (1995)
* Wesley Snipes (1996)
* Laurence Fishburne (1997)
* Blair Underwood (1998)
* Sidney Poitier (1999)

2000s|

* Danny Glover (2000)
* Gregory Hines (2001)
* Charles S. Dutton (2002)
* Charles S. Dutton (2003)
* Jamie Foxx (2004)
* Terrence Howard (2005)
* Kadeem Hardison (2006)
* Wendell Pierce (2007)
* Sean Combs (2008)
* Cuba Gooding Jr. (2009)

2010s|

* Idris Elba (2010)
* Laurence Fishburne (2011)
* Cuba Gooding Jr. (2012)
* Idris Elba (2013)
* Blair Underwood (2014)
* David Alan Grier (2015)
* Courtney B. Vance (2016)
* Idris Elba (2017)
* Michael B. Jordan (2018)
* Jharrel Jerome (2019)

2020s|

* Blair Underwood (2020)
* Kevin Hart (2021)
* Morris Chestnut (2022)
* Keith Powers (2023)
* Aaron Pierre (2024)

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Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award

* Eddie Cantor (1962)
* Stan Laurel (1963)
* No Award (1964)
* Bob Hope (1965)
* Barbara Stanwyck (1966)
* William Gargan (1967)
* James Stewart (1968)
* Edward G. Robinson (1969)
* Gregory Peck (1970)
* Charlton Heston (1971)
* Frank Sinatra (1972)
* Martha Raye (1973)
* Walter Pidgeon (1974)
* Rosalind Russell (1975)
* Pearl Bailey (1976)
* James Cagney (1977)
* Edgar Bergen (1978)
* Katharine Hepburn (1979)
* Leon Ames (1980)
* No Award (1981)
* Danny Kaye (1982)
* Ralph Bellamy (1983)
* Iggie Wolfington (1984)
* Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward (1985)
* Nanette Fabray (1986)
* Red Skelton (1987)
* Gene Kelly (1988)
* Jack Lemmon (1989)
* Brock Peters (1990)
* Burt Lancaster (1991)
* Audrey Hepburn (1992)
* Ricardo Montalban (1993)
* George Burns (1994)
* Robert Redford (1995)
* Angela Lansbury (1996)
* Elizabeth Taylor (1997)
* Kirk Douglas (1998)
* Sidney Poitier (1999)
* Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee (2000)
* Ed Asner (2001)
* Clint Eastwood (2002)
* Karl Malden (2003)
* James Garner (2004)
* Shirley Temple (2005)
* Julie Andrews (2006)
* Charles Durning (2007)
* James Earl Jones (2008)
* Betty White (2009)
* Ernest Borgnine (2010)
* Mary Tyler Moore (2011)
* Dick Van Dyke (2012)
* Rita Moreno (2013)
* Debbie Reynolds (2014)
* Carol Burnett (2015)
* Lily Tomlin (2016)
* Morgan Freeman (2017)
* Alan Alda (2018)
* Robert De Niro (2019)
* No Award (2020)
* Helen Mirren (2021)
* Sally Field (2022)
* Barbra Streisand (2023)
* Jane Fonda (2024)

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Silver Bear for Best Actor

* Burt Lancaster (1956)
* Pedro Infante (1957)
* Sidney Poitier (1958)
* Jean Gabin (1959)
* Fredric March (1960)
* Peter Finch (1961)
* James Stewart (1962)
* Sidney Poitier (1963)
* Rod Steiger (1964)
* Lee Marvin (1965)
* Jean-Pierre Léaud (1966)
* Michel Simon (1967)
* Jean-Louis Trintignant (1968)
* Jean Gabin (1971)
* Alberto Sordi (1972)
* Vlastimil Brodský (1975)
* Gerhard Olschewski (1976)
* Fernando Fernán Gómez (1977)
* Craig Russell (1978)
* Michele Placido (1979)
* Andrzej Seweryn (1980)
* Jack Lemmon / Anatoly Solonitsyn (1981)
* Michel Piccoli / Stellan Skarsgård (1982)
* Bruce Dern (1983)
* Albert Finney (1984)
* Fernando Fernán Gómez (1985)
* Tuncel Kurtiz (1986)
* Gian Maria Volonté (1987)
* Manfred Möck / Jörg Pose (1988)
* Gene Hackman (1989)
* Iain Glen (1990)
* Maynard Eziashi (1991)
* Armin Mueller-Stahl (1992)
* Denzel Washington (1993)
* Tom Hanks (1994)
* Paul Newman (1995)
* Sean Penn (1996)
* Leonardo DiCaprio (1997)
* Samuel L. Jackson (1998)
* Michael Gwisdek (1999)
* Denzel Washington (2000)
* Benicio del Toro (2001)
* Jacques Gamblin (2002)
* Sam Rockwell (2003)
* Daniel Hendler (2004)
* Lou Taylor Pucci (2005)
* Moritz Bleibtreu (2006)
* Julio Chávez (2007)
* Reza Naji (2008)
* Sotigui Kouyaté (2009)
* Grigoriy Dobrygin / Sergei Puskepalis (2010)
* Shahab Hosseini / Babak Karimi / Payman Maadi / Ali-Asghar Shahbazi (2011)
* Mikkel Følsgaard (2012)
* Nazif Mujić (2013)
* Liao Fan (2014)
* Tom Courtenay (2015)
* Majd Mastoura (2016)
* Georg Friedrich (2017)
* Anthony Bajon (2018)
* Wang Jingchun (2019)
* Elio Germano (2020)

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Silver Shell for Best Actor

* Francisco Rabal (1953)
* Enrique Diosdado (1954)
* No Award (1955)
* Otto Eduard Hasse / Alberto Closas (1956)
* Charles Vanel (1957)
* Kirk Douglas / James Stewart (1958)
* Adolfo Marsillach (1959)
* Richard Attenborough / Bryan Forbes / Jack Hawkins / Roger Livesey / Nigel Patrick (1960)
* Gert Fröbe (1961)
* Peter Sellers (1962)
* Jack Lemmon (1963)
* Richard Attenborough / Maurice Biraud (1964)
* Marcello Mastroianni (1965)
* Frank Finlay (1966)
* John Mills / Maurice Ronet (1967)
* Sidney Poitier / Claude Rich (1968)
* Nicol Williamson (1969)
* Zoltán Latinovits / Innokenti Smoktounovsky (1970)
* Vittorio Gassman (1971)
* Fernando Rey / Topol (1972)
* Giancarlo Giannini / Lino Ventura (1973)
* Martin Sheen (1974)
* Al Pacino (1975)
* Zdzislaw Kozien (1976)
* Héctor Alterio (1977)
* José Sacristán (1978)
* Nelson Villagra (1979)
* No Award (1980–1984)
* Piotr Siwkiewicz (1985)
* Imanol Arias (1986)
* Francisco Regueiro / Fernando Rey (1987)
* Andy Bausch / Felipe Vega (1988)
* Ari Bery (1989)
* Mulie Jarju (1990)
* Silu Seppälä (1991)
* Roberto Sosa (1992)
* Juan Echanove (1993)
* Javier Bardem / Imanol Uribe (1994)
* Nicolas Cage (1995)
* Michael Caine (1996)
* Federico Luppi (1997)
* Ian McKellen (1998)
* Jacques Dufilho (1999)
* Gianfranco Brero (2000)
* Düzgün Ayhan (2001)
* Liu Peiqi (2002)
* Luis Tosar (2003)
* Ulrich Thomsen (2004)
* Juan José Ballesta (2005)
* Juan Diego (2006)
* Henry O. (2007)
* Oscar Martínez (2008)
* Pablo Pineda (2009)
* Connor McCarron (2010)
* Antonis Kafetzopoulos (2011)
* José Sacristán (2012)
* Jim Broadbent (2013)
* Javier Gutiérrez (2014)
* Javier Cámara / Ricardo Darín (2015)
* Eduard Fernández (2016)
* Bogdan Dumitrache (2017)
* Darío Grandinetti (2018)
* Bukassa Kabengele (2019)
* Thomas Bo Larsen / Magnus Millang / Mads Mikkelsen / Lars Ranthe (2020)

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Spingarn Medal winners

* 1915: Ernest Everett Just
* 1916: Charles Young
* 1917: Harry Burleigh
* 1918: William Stanley Braithwaite
* 1919: Archibald Grimké
* 1920: W. E. B. Du Bois
* 1921: Charles Sidney Gilpin
* 1922: Mary Burnett Talbert
* 1923: George Washington Carver
* 1924: Roland Hayes
* 1925: James Weldon Johnson
* 1926: Carter G. Woodson
* 1927: Anthony Overton
* 1928: Charles W. Chesnutt
* 1929: Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
* 1930: Henry A. Hunt
* 1931: Richard Berry Harrison
* 1932: Robert Russa Moton
* 1933: Max Yergan
* 1934: William T. B. Williams
* 1935: Mary McLeod Bethune
* 1936: John Hope
* 1937: Walter Francis White
* 1938: no award
* 1939: Marian Anderson
* 1940: Louis T. Wright
* 1941: Richard Wright
* 1942: A. Philip Randolph
* 1943: William H. Hastie
* 1944: Charles R. Drew
* 1945: Paul Robeson
* 1946: Thurgood Marshall
* 1947: Percy Lavon Julian
* 1948: Channing Heggie Tobias
* 1949: Ralph Bunche
* 1950: Charles Hamilton Houston
* 1951: Mabel Keaton Staupers
* 1952: Harry T. Moore
* 1953: Paul R. Williams
* 1954: Theodore K. Lawless
* 1955: Carl J. Murphy
* 1956: Jackie Robinson
* 1957: Martin Luther King Jr.
* 1958: Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine
* 1959: Duke Ellington
* 1960: Langston Hughes
* 1961: Kenneth B. Clark
* 1962: Robert C. Weaver
* 1963: Medgar Evers
* 1964: Roy Wilkins
* 1965: Leontyne Price
* 1966: John H. Johnson
* 1967: Edward Brooke
* 1968: Sammy Davis Jr.
* 1969: Clarence Mitchell Jr.
* 1970: Jacob Lawrence
* 1971: Leon Sullivan
* 1972: Gordon Parks
* 1973: Wilson Riles
* 1974: Damon Keith
* 1975: no award
* 1976: Hank Aaron
* 1977: Alvin Ailey and Alex Haley
* 1978: no award
* 1979: Andrew Young and Rosa Parks
* 1980: Rayford Logan
* 1981: Coleman Young
* 1982: Benjamin Elijah Mays
* 1983: Lena Horne
* 1984: no award
* 1985: Tom Bradley and Bill Cosby
* 1986: Benjamin Hooks
* 1987: Percy Sutton
* 1988: Frederick D. Patterson
* 1989: Jesse Jackson
* 1990: Douglas Wilder
* 1991: Colin Powell
* 1992: Barbara Jordan
* 1993: Dorothy Height
* 1994: Maya Angelou
* 1995: John Hope Franklin
* 1996: A. Leon Higginbotham Jr.
* 1997: Carl Rowan
* 1998: Myrlie Evers-Williams
* 1999: Earl G. Graves Sr.
* 2000: Oprah Winfrey
* 2001: Vernon Jordan
* 2002: John Lewis
* 2003: Constance Baker Motley
* 2004: Robert L. Carter
* 2005: Oliver Hill
* 2006: Ben Carson
* 2007: John Conyers
* 2008: Ruby Dee
* 2009: Julian Bond
* 2010: Cicely Tyson
* 2011: Frankie Muse Freeman
* 2012: Harry Belafonte
* 2013: Jessye Norman
* 2014: Quincy Jones
* 2015: Sidney Poitier
* 2016: Nathaniel R. Jones
* 2017: no award
* 2018: Willie Brown
* 2019: Patrick Gaspard
* 2020: no award
* 2021: Cato T. Laurencin
* 2022: Jim Clyburn

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