Sidney Poitier is the first actor of African descent to win an Academy Award, and he knows that he is the first black man to become a pioneer in Hollywood, as his presence in films during the fifties and sixties opened the door for other actors of African descent to enter the world of cinema. He was born on February 20, 1927 in Miami, Florida.

But he grew up in the Bahamas and is the son of Reginald and Evelyn Poitier. His father was a tomato planter, and the family was very poor. Poitiers lived with his family on Cat Island and received a limited formal education. When he was fifteen, his father sent him to live with his older brother Cyril. The Americans later considered him one of the prominent and famous human icons in the world .

He ranked second in his resistance to racism after Martin Luther King, has his own methodology in his art and genius, and was able to captivate the hearts of Americans and the world at large, and in 1999 he was also ranked 22 for the best American cinema actors ever over 100 years, as part of activities that by the American Film Institute.

Poitier's life and artistic experience is worthy of an attractive documentary, as he bears the title of Sir from Britain, which was a colony of America for a long period of time, including the Hawaiian Islands, where this handsome, talented and humble star was born, and which he left for Miami, and then to New York, which, among the good fortunes of coincidence, resides in it. The most important stage in the world: Broadway.

The first African-American who won the Academy Award in 1964, and his obtaining it caused an artistic revolution in cinematic circles, but he faced racism and threats from the racist Ku Klux Klan, which prompted him to flee in the dead of night from Miami to New York, and he only carried with him at the time 3 dollars .

In 1951, Sydney played the role of a priest in the movie “Cry, the Beloved Country,” which is adapted from Alan Patton’s novel about a murder that took place in South Africa under the apartheid regime, and in 1957 he presented a role in the movie “The Band of Angels.” Band of Angels with actor Clark Gable.

In 1963, Sydney presented his film Lilies of the Field, a film produced and directed by Ralph Nelson. Although his roles paved the way for commercial black cinema in the following decade, by the early 1970s Sydney was under criticism from black community leaders. who felt that his portrayal of mainstream black America had little to do with reality.

Poitier joined the North American Negro theater, but was rejected by audiences, and contrary to what was expected of black actors at the time, his uncle's music illness prevented him from singing, Sidney spent the next six months dedicated to theatrical success and bent on honing his acting skills And get rid of his notable Bahamian accent.

This artist did not leave his dark-skinned comrades and brothers, but rather worked to support them in every facility and link, which made him the second in the Jamahiriya among people of color after the leader Martin Luther King, yes he was before Malcolm X and other active personalities in the history of the struggle against racism, at a time He ranked number 22 in the list of the most effective American stars in the history of cinema, according to a census carried out by the American Film Institute.