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When the late Sidney Poitier embarked on a movie career in the early 1950s, he entered an industry with a history of depicting Black people in the most negative fashion. The Birth of a Nation, the seminal 1915 silent film, had set the template – portraying African American characters as sex-crazed and…

The Gotham Film & Media Institute paid tribute to the late Sidney Poitier at the Gotham Awards ceremony Monday night at NYC's Cipriani Wall Street. Deadline previously reported that The Gotham Awards Advisory Committee planned the tribute to the actor's trailblazing impact on Hollywood as the first…

The Gotham Film & Media Institute has set the late actor, filmmaker and activist Sidney Poitier for the Icon Trbute at the 32nd annual Gotham Awards, taking place live and in person at NYC’s Cipriani Wall Street on November 28.  The Icon Tribute was conceived by the Gotham Awards Advisory Committee…

The challenge in making Sidney — about the pioneering Black actor, filmmaker and activist Sidney Poitier — was knowing where to stop, director Reginald Hudlin said during an appearance for Deadline's Contenders Film: New York event at The Times Center in Manhattan. "He had a long life, and every year…

The great acting legend Sidney Poitier died in January at age 94. He did not live to see the thrilling new documentary on his life and career, Sidney, which had its world premiere Saturday night at the Toronto Film Festival. However, it had its blessing, and that of his family, for a film that has been percolating and…

Apple TV+ has dropped a trailer for Sidney, the Oprah Winfrey-produced documentary on screen giant Sidney Poitier. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Reginald Hudlin directed the documentary, which debuts in theaters and on Apple TV+ on September 23. It examines one of the most important figures in the history of cinema…

Ahead of the tribute to Sidney Poitier during this year's Oscars ceremony, his daughter Sydney has expressed her pride in her father's legacy of "changing minds and changing hearts as to what it meant to be Black." This year's acting categories see four actors of colour included in the nominations – Denzel Washington…

Sidney Poitier died in early January from a combination of cardiopulmonary failure, prostate cancer and Alzheimer’s dementia, according to a death certificate issued by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. The document was made public today. At the time of his death, details about how the Oscar-winning…

Broadway theaters will dim their marquee lights tomorrow night in honor of the late Sidney Poitier. Poitier, who made his Broadway debut in 1946’s Lysistrata and earned a Tony Award nomination for his career-making portrayal of Walter Lee Younger in Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun, died Jan. 6 at…

A pained observation: The only intriguing stories on Hollywood this week consisted of obits – all kinds of obits. There were obits reminding us of the remarkable lives of Sidney Poitier, Peter Bogdanovich and Betty White. Also speculative obits about the Golden Globes, sentimental obits about the extinct 20th Century…

UPDATED with latest: Networks are marshaling to set programming this month in tribute of Sidney Poitier, the groundbreaking and Oscar-winning actor and civil rights activist who died in January at age 94. OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network will feature special programming this Sunday that includes the iconic actor’s 2000 and…

Editor’s note: Deadline presents the fifth episode of Two Shot, a video series in which Pete Hammond and Todd McCarthy tackle the artistry of films. Each has reviewed and written about the craft for decades and built a remarkable breadth of knowledge of films past and present. What we hoped for when we asked them to do…