For his performance he earned the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series as well as a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. portrayed Larry Paul in the Fox legal drama Ally McBeal from 2000 to 2002. For his comedic role in Ben Stiller's satirical war comedy Tropic Thunder (2008) he received his second Academy Award nomination, this time for the Best Supporting Actor as well as nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor.ĭowney Jr. He has also received nominations for two Academy Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award.įor his role as Charlie Chaplin in the Richard Attenborough directed biographical epic Chaplin (1991) he received the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role as well as nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama. is an American actor and producer who has received numerous accolades throughout his career including an BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He was 94.The following is a list of awards and nominations received by Robert Downey Jr.ĭowney Jr. Poitier died on January 6, 2022, in Los Angeles. Poitier took part in a more momentous kiss three years later, when he and Katharine Houghton shared the first interracial on-screen kiss in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? (1967). When presenting Poitier with his Oscar statuette, the actress Ann Bancroft congratulated him with a kiss on the cheek, a gesture that caused a mild scandal among the show’s most conservative audiences. Critics of the film, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP), later pointed to the role as an example of the typical Black stereotypes that Hollywood was keeping alive. McDaniel played Mammy, the tough but indulgent enslaved governess to the spoiled Southern belle Scarlett O’Hara. The first was Hattie McDaniel, who won in the Best Supporting Actress category in 1939 for Gone with the Wind.
With his historic Oscar win for Lilies of the Field, Poitier became only the second African American to win an Academy Award. By the time he earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination for The Defiant Ones (1958), his work in such films as The Blackboard Jungle (1955) had made him America’s first prominent Black film star. He debuted on Broadway in 1946 in an all-Black production of Lysistrata, and by 1950 he was appearing in Hollywood films, beginning with No Way Out.īy consistently refusing to play the stereotypical roles that were offered to him as a Black actor, Poitier blazed a trail for himself and the performers who followed him. Rejected initially because of his strong island accent, Poitier trained himself in American enunciation and reapplied, this time successfully. After his military stint, he became interested in theater and applied to the American Negro Theatre in New York City. As a teenager, Poitier dropped out of school and returned to America to enlist in the U.S. Poitier was born in 1927, while his parents were visiting the United States from the Bahamas, where his father was a tomato farmer.
On April 13, 1964, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African American to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his role as a construction worker who helps build a chapel in Lilies of the Field (1963).
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