Poitier, Sidney Filmography

• The 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2012)
• 43rd NAACP Image Awards (2012)
• AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Morgan Freeman (2011)
• Islands of Life (2011)
• The Loving Story (2011)
• Sing Your Song (2011)
• The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (2010)
• Founding Fathers: Sir Stafford Sands (2009)
• Stand Up to Cancer (2008)
• Artists of the Bahamas (2008)
• 39th NAACP Image Awards (2008)
• Sidney Poitier, un outsider à Hollywood (2008)
• The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008)
• Building a Dream: The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy (2007)
• The Oprah Winfrey Oscar Special (2007)
• Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (2007)
• Cámara negra. Teatro Victoria Eugenia (2007)
• The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (2006)
• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Cheers: America's Most Inspiring Movies (2006)
• Ali Rap (2006)
• The Lew Rudin Way (2006)
• Legends Ball (2006)
• Bicentennial Nigger (2006)
• 2006 BAFTA/LA Cunard Britannia Awards (2006)
• 36th NAACP Image Awards (2005)
• The Black Movie Awards (2005)
• Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005)
• Hollywood Legenden (2004)
• Tell Them Who You Are (2004)
• TV in Black: The First Fifty Years (2004)
• Century of Black Cinema (2003)
• The Making of 'Sneakers' (2003)
• 2002 Trumpet Awards (2002)
• Gala Paramount Pictures Celebrates 90th Anniversary with 90 Stars for 90 Years (2002)
• Muhammad Ali's All-Star 60th Birthday Celebration! (2002)
• Playboy: Inside the Playboy Mansion (2002)
• The 74th Annual Academy Awards (2002)
• The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (2002)
• The Making of 'Changing Lanes' (2002)
• Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey (2001)
• The Last Brickmaker in America (2001)
• 32nd NAACP Image Awards (2001)
• AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand (2001)
• The BBC and the BAFTA Tribute to Michael Caine (2000)
• Playboy: The Party Continues (2000)
• 6th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2000)
• The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (1999)
• ABC 2000: The Millennium (1999)
• The 70th Annual Academy Awards (1998)
• Free of Eden (1998)
• David and Lisa (1998)
• League of Legends (1998)
• The Making of 'The Jackal' (1998)
• Free of Eden (1998)
• Classified X (1998)
• Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood (1998)
• Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist (1998)
• The 49th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1997)
• Mandela and de Klerk (1997)
• The Jackal (1997)
• To Sir, with Love II (1996)
• The 68th Annual Academy Awards (1996)
• Children of the Dust (1995)
• Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1995)
• The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1995)
• A Century of Cinema (1994)
• An American Reunion: The People's Inaugural Celebration (1993)
• The American Film Institute Salute to Elizabeth Taylor (1993)
• Sneakers (1992)
• The American Film Institute Salute to Sidney Poitier (1992)
• Separate But Equal (1991)
• 22nd NAACP Image Awards (1990)
• Sinatra 75: The Best Is Yet to Come (1990)
• Ghost Dad (1990)
• 7th Annual American Cinema Awards (1990)
• The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1989)
• The American Film Institute Salute to Gregory Peck (1989)
• The Princess Grace Foundation Special Gala Tribute to Cary Grant (1988)
• Little Nikita (1988)
• Shoot to Kill (1988)
• The18th Annual Nosotros Golden Eagle Awards (1988)
• The American Film Institute Salute to Jack Lemmon (1988)
• The USA Today's 5th Anniversary Gala (1987)
• The Annual ACLU Honors: A Salute to Michael Douglas (1987)
• The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn (1986)
• Bopha! (1986)
• Fast Forward (1985)
• Night of 100 Stars II (1985)
• Black Hollywood (1984)
• Hanky Panky (1982)
• The Third Annual Black Achievement Awards (1980)
• Stir Crazy (1980)
• The 16th Annual Humanitarian Awards Dinner of National Conference of Christians and Jews (1979)
• Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (1979)
• A Piece of the Action (1977)
• A Piece of the Action (1977)
• The American Film Institute's 10th Anniversary Special (1977)
• America at the Movies (1976)
• The Wilby Conspiracy (1975)
• Let's Do It Again (1975)
• Let's Do It Again (1975)
• Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
• Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
• A Warm December (1973)
• A Warm December (1973)
• Buck and the Preacher (1972)
• Buck and the Preacher (1972)
• Buck and the Preacher (1972)
• Brother John (1971)
• Brother John (1971)
• The Organization (1971)
• They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970)
• King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970)
• The 41st Annual Academy Awards (1969)
• The Lost Man (1969)
• Black History: Lost Stolen, or Strayed (1968)
• Black History: Lost Stolen, or Strayed (1968)
• The 40th Annual Academy Awards (1968)
• For Love of Ivy (1968)
• For Love of Ivy (1968)
• In the Heat of the Night (1967)
• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
• The 39th Annual Academy Awards (1967)
• To Sir, with Love (1967)
• Duel at Diablo (1966)
• The Strolling '20s (1966)
• A Cinderella Named Elizabeth (1965)
• The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
• The Slender Thread (1965)
• The Bedford Incident (1965)
• The 37th Annual Academy Awards (1965)
• A Patch of Blue (1965)
• The Long Ships (1964)
• The 36th Annual Academy Awards (1964)
• Freedom Spectacular (1964)
• Lilies of the Field (1963)
• Pressure Point (1962)
• Paris Blues (1961)
• A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
• The 15th Annual Tony Awards (1961)
• All the Young Men (1960)
• Virgin Island (1959)
• Porgy and Bess (1959)
• The Defiant Ones (1958)
• The Mark of the Hawk (1957)
• Something of Value (1957)
• Band of Angels (1957)
• Edge of the City (1957)
• Good-bye, My Lady (1956)
• Blackboard Jungle (1955)
• Go Man Go (1954)
• Red Ball Express (1952)
• Cry, the Beloved Country (1951)
• No Way Out (1950)
• From Whence Cometh My Help (1949)
• Sepia Cinderella (1947)

Famous quotes by Sidney Poitier:

"My mother is a Bahamian. My father is a Bahamian, as am I, ... And all that I am, I've received from them and a country that has today given me the opportunities, and to my grandchildren, that I have never dreamt of."

"I'll always be chasing you, ... Glory."

"[Smith said he, too, is pleased by the recognition of African-American actors. He noted that Poitier was the last man to win a best actor award] and that was 28 years ago. ... Lilies of the Field."

"Southern Gentleman."

"If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't. The journey has been incredible from its beginning. So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness."

"We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection."

"I don't very often read novels."

"When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard."

"As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents."

"I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month."

"I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values."

"I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being."

"I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable."

"A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another."

"I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life."

"I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden."

"I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it."

"If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't."

"I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste."

"I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions."