Glitch Quilt Bee: Sidney Poitier

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Sidney L. Poitier KBE was an American actor, film director, activist, and ambassador. In 1964, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, becoming the first Black male actor to win the award. He received two total Academy Award nominations, ten Golden Globes nominations, two Primetime Emmy Awards nominations, six BAFTA nominations, eight Laurel nominations, and one Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination. Poitier was one of the last surviving major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. From 1997 to 2007, Poitier served as Bahamian Ambassador to Japan.