Sidney Poitier Movies
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- DirectorRalph NelsonStarsSidney PoitierLilia SkalaLisa MannA travelling handyman becomes the answer to the prayers of nuns who wish to build a chapel in the desert.Excellent - A+
Won Best Actor in Leading Role Oscar
Won Best Actor - Drama Golden Globe
Nominated Best Foreign Actor BAFTA
Won Silver Berlin Bear award at Berlin International Film Festival
Won 3rd place Top Male Dramatic Performance Laurel Award
Won 2nd place Best Actor New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Included in Rod Steiger-Sidney Poitier Collection (UK IMPORT) DVD 4 movie set
Included in The Sidney Poitier DVD Collection 5 movie collection - DirectorStanley KramerStarsTony CurtisSidney PoitierCara WilliamsTwo chained-together escaped convicts, White and Black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.Nominated Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar
Nominated Best Actor - Drama Golden Globes
Won Best Foreign Actor BAFTA
Won Silver Berlin Bear for Best Actor at Berlin International Film Festival
Won 3rd place Top Mail Dramatic Performance Laurel Award - StarsSidney PoitierBurt LancasterRichard KileyA dramatization of the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.Nominated Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television Golden Globes
Nominated Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special Primetime Emmy - DirectorNorman JewisonStarsSidney PoitierRod SteigerWarren OatesA black Philadelphia police detective is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town, and after being cleared is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case.Nominated Best Actor - Drama Golden Globes
Nominated Best Foreign Actor BAFTA
Won 2nd place Male Dramatic Performance Laurel Award
Included in Rod Steiger-Sidney Poitier Collection (UK IMPORT) DVD 4 movie set
Included in The Sidney Poitier DVD Collection 5 movie collection - DirectorGuy GreenStarsSidney PoitierShelley WintersElizabeth HartmanA blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life by introducing her to the outside world.Nominated Best Actor - Drama Golden Globes
Nominated Best Foreign Actor BAFTA
Nominated Dramatic Performance, Male Laurel Award
Included in The Sidney Poitier Collection 4 movie set
Included in TCM Greatest Classic Legends - Sidney Poitier 4 movie set - DirectorDaniel PetrieStarsSidney PoitierClaudia McNeilRuby DeeA substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.Nominated Best Actor - Drama Golden Globes
Nominated Best Foreign Actor BAFTA - DirectorOtto PremingerRouben MamoulianStarsSidney PoitierDorothy DandridgeSammy Davis Jr.A woman whose past is scorned by nearly everyone around her meets a man who'd love her regardlessly- if only everyone else would allow them to.Nominated Best Actor - Comedy or Musical Golden Globes
- DirectorJoseph SargentStarsSidney PoitierMichael CaineTina LiffordOn June 12, 1964, Nelson Mandela, along with numerous political detainees, was sentenced to life imprisonment in what remains the most sensational treason trial in the history of South Africa. The incarceration of Mandela and other political prisoners on Robben Island would become a symbol of the struggle to end apartheid and win freedom for the black majority in South Africa. On February 2, 1990, President F.W. De Klerk stood before Parliament and announced the legalization of the African National Congress and a host of other banned political organizations. At the same time, he announced that Nelson Mandela, having served twenty-seven years in prison, would be released within seven days. Yet the world, and indeed most South Africans, knew little about how this momentous occasion came to pass. Until now. This movie was filmed in South Africa. Most of the locations are those where the actual events took place, and the dramatized sequences are augmented with newsreel footage to ensure the most accurate portrayal possible of recent historical events.Nominated Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special Primetime Emmy
Nominated Actor in a Movie or Miniseries CableACE Award
Nominated Outstanding Lead ctor in a Television Movie or Miniseries Image Award
Nominated Best Actor in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television Satellite Award
Nominated Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries Screen Actors Guild Award - DirectorMartin RittStarsJohn CassavetesSidney PoitierJack WardenThe growing friendship of two NYC longshoremen is threatened by a notably repellent punk.Nominated Best Foreign Actor BAFTA
Included in The Sidney Poitier Collection 4 movie set
Included in TCM Greatest Classic Legends - Sidney Poitier 4 movie set - DirectorGregg ChampionStarsSidney PoitierDianne WiestMary-Louise ParkerA 91-year-old carpenter has to fight developers who are trying to force him to sell his land.Nominated Network/Cable - Best Actor Black Reel Award
- DirectorMichael Caton-JonesStarsBruce WillisRichard GereSidney PoitierAn imprisoned I.R.A. fighter is freed to help stop a brutal, seemingly "faceless" assassin from completing his next job.Nominated Favorite Supporting Actor - Suspense Blockbuster Entertainment Award
- DirectorStanley KramerStarsSpencer TracySidney PoitierKatharine HepburnA couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African-American fiancé.Excellent - A
Won Best Foreign Performer Fotogramas de Plata - StarsSidney PoitierMichael MoriartyJoanna GoingGypsy Smith, is a gunfighter and a bounty hunter. When he leads the U.S. Army into a Cheyenne camp to capture a suspected Indian renegade, a long train of events begins that finally lead to that "good day to die". White Wolf, only a child, is one of the few survivors of the massacre of his tribe that day, and Gypsy brings him to live with the Maxwell family, where he grows up not fully Indian, and not really white, but a bit too close to Rachel, the Maxwell daughter. Gypsy now reappears, leading a group of Black settlers from the post-Civil War South to start a new life in a town of their own - Freedom in the Oklahoma Territory, its first black settlement. White Wolf (or Corby as a "white" name) is now with his people, but all of these parts come back together in conflict, violence, loss, and Pyrric triumph.Nominated Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Miniseries Image Award
- DirectorPhil Alden RobinsonStarsRobert RedfordDan AykroydSidney PoitierA security pro finds his past returning to haunt him when he and his unique team are tasked with retrieving a particularly important item.Nominated Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture Image Award
- DirectorRoger SpottiswoodeStarsSidney PoitierTom BerengerKirstie AlleyAn F.B.I. Agent teams up with a tracker to pursue a murderer after he vanishes into the mountains and infiltrates a hiking group.Nominated Best Actor - Motion Picture Image Award
- DirectorSidney PoitierStarsSidney PoitierEster AndersonYvette CurtisAn African-American doctor falls in love with the niece of an African ambassador during his vacation in London, but it turns out that she is suffering from a rare terminal illness.Nominated Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture Image Award
Included in The Sidney Poitier Collection 4 movie set - DirectorDon MedfordStarsSidney PoitierBarbara McNairGerald S. O'LoughlinIn San Francisco, Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs helps a group of idealistic vigilantes expose a drug ring controlled by powerful businessmen.Nominated Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture Image Award
Included in Rod Steiger-Sidney Poitier Collection (UK IMPORT) DVD 4 movie set
Included in The Sidney Poitier DVD Collection 5 movie collection - DirectorRalph NelsonStarsJames GarnerSidney PoitierBibi AnderssonIn Apache territory, a supply Army column heads for the next fort, an ex-scout searches for the killer of his Indian wife, and a housewife abandons her husband in order to rejoin her Apache lover's tribe.Nominated Action Performance Laurel Award
- DirectorDaniel MannStarsSidney PoitierAbbey LincolnBeau BridgesUpon learning their maid will be leaving to earn an education, the son of the family decides to set her up with a man.Won Best Actor Prize San Sebastian International Film Festival
Included in The Sidney Poitier DVD Collection 5 movie collection - DirectorGordon DouglasStarsSidney PoitierMartin LandauBarbara McNairIn San Francisco, a high-priced call girl is murdered and the case is assigned to Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs.Included in Rod Steiger-Sidney Poitier Collection (UK IMPORT) DVD 4 movie set
Included in The Sidney Poitier DVD Collection 5 movie collection - DirectorRichard BrooksStarsRock HudsonDana WynterWendy HillerIn British Colonial Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising, Peter and Kimani, who grew up together, find themselves on the opposite sides.Included in The Sidney Poitier Collection 4 movie set
Included in TCM Greatest Classic Legends - Sidney Poitier 4 movie set - DirectorRichard BrooksStarsGlenn FordAnne FrancisLouis CalhernA new English teacher at a violent, unruly inner-city school is determined to do his job, despite resistance from both students and faculty.Included in TCM Greatest Classic Legends - Sidney Poitier 4 movie set
- DirectorJames ClavellStarsSidney PoitierJudy GeesonChristian RobertsIdealistic engineer-trainee and his experiences in teaching a group of rambunctious white high school students from the slums of London's East End.Excellent - A+