Sidney Poitier
Audiences rate Sidney Poitier’s films higher than 83% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking
Free to watch now (26 Oct): Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Tubi) · A Raisin in the Sun (Tubi) · The Defiant Ones (Tubi, Fawesome) · Lilies of the Field (Tubi, Kanopy) · In the Heat of the Night (YouTube, Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla) · A Patch of Blue (Kanopy) and 4 more.
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The ThumbScore for Sidney Poitier (76.5%) is the average audience approval rating across 18 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Sidney's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
Sidney Poitier KBE (February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian and American actor, film director, and diplomat. In 1964, he became the first black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, for Lilies of the Field. Other accolades include two competitive Golden Globe Awards, a competitive British Academy of Film and Television Arts award (BAFTA), and a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album. Major films featuring Poitier in a starring role include Blackboard Jungle (1955), The Defiant Ones (1958), To Sir, with Love (1967), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), In the Heat of the Night (1967), Sneakers (1992), and The Jackal (1997). Later in his career, he turned to directing with features such as Buck and the Preacher (1972), Uptown Saturday Night (1974), Stir Crazy (1980), and Ghost Dad (1990). At the time of his death, Poitier was one of the last major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.
Born 1927-02-20 in Miami, Florida, USA. Died 2022-01-06.
On ThumbScore, Sidney Poitier appears in 18 films with an average audience score of 76.5%, most frequently in the Crime genre.
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