Michael January 7, 2022 10:57pm R.I.P. Sidney Poitier 🎥🏆 Sidney Poitier, Who Paved the Way for Black Actors in Film, Dies at 94 #SidneyPoitier #filmhistory #movies #actor #director #RIP #obit Sidney Poitier, Who Paved the Way for Black Actors in Film, Dies at 94 The first Black performer to win the Academy Award for best actor, for “Lilies of the Field,” he once said he felt “as if I were representing 15, 18 million people with every move I made.”