A resurfaced clip of iconic actor Sidney Poitier rebuking reporters focused on his race was widely shared on the late actor's birthday Monday. In a video entitled "Black Views on Race," Poitier and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With Oprah Winfrey on board as a producer (with Derik Murray) and Reginald Hudlin as director, Poitier gets an extraordinarily ...

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 ...

Thanks to an assist from Oprah, the filmmaker had a wealth of material to work with for 'Sidney,' but struggled with what to leave out: "We had to tell the whole story." By Mia Galuppo Senior ...

“Sidney,” a documentary tribute to the trailblazing Black movie star Sidney Poitier, was produced by Oprah Winfrey, and it leans far more toward one-dimensional inspiration than insight. Important ...

After making his documentary about the Hollywood icon, the director reflected to IndieWire, "Sidney was doing exactly what we as a people needed him to do." When director Reginald Hudlin finished his ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Oscar-winning actor Sidney Poitier, who broke racial barriers in Hollywood, recently died at the age of 94. He was the first Black man to win an Academy Award, a class act who ...

The star-producer, along with Sidney director Reginald Hudlin, sat down with EW to talk about the late groundbreaking actor, new revelations in the documentary, and why she was “terrible” at booking.

Editor's note: In 2000, USA TODAY reporter Claudia Puig sat down with Sidney Poitier and Denzel Washington for a rare joint interview. Washington, then 46, was on the cusp of directing his first film, ...

Sidney Poitier, who died in January at age 94, shouldn’t have been the only Black leading man of his talent, magnetism and stature in his Hollywood heyday, when all the firsts were his. But with the ...

Ross Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, ...

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 ...