List of awards and nominations received by Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier was a Bahamian-American actor known for his performances on the stage and screen.

He became the first Black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor for Lilies of the Field (1963). He also received a Grammy Award, two Golden Globe Awards and a British Academy Film Award. Poitier received numerous honoraries during his lifetime including the Academy Honorary Award for his lifetime achievement in film in 2001. In 1992, he received the AFI Life Achievement Award. In 1994, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1981, he received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award and in 2016 he received the BAFTA Fellowship.

In 1995, Poitier received the Kennedy Center Honor and in 2009, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama.^[1]^[2] He was also awarded as Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1974.^[3]

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1958	Best Actor	The Defiant Ones	Nominated	^[4]
1963	Best Actor	Lilies of the Field	Won
2001	Honorary Academy Award		Received

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1958	Silver Bear for Best Actor	The Defiant Ones	Won	^[5]
1963	Silver Bear for Best Actor	Lilies of the Field	Won	^[6]

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1958	Best Foreign Actor	Edge of the City	Nominated	^[7]
1959		The Defiant Ones	Won
1962		A Raisin in the Sun	Nominated
1965		Lilies of the Field	Nominated
1967		A Patch of Blue	Nominated
1968		In the Heat of the Night	Nominated
2016	BAFTA Fellowship		Received

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1958	Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama	The Defiant Ones	Nominated	^[8]
1959	Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy	Porgy and Bess	Nominated
1961	Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama	A Raisin in the Sun	Nominated
1963		Lilies of the Field	Won
1965		A Patch of Blue	Nominated
1967		In the Heat of the Night	Nominated
1968	Henrietta Award	World Film Favorite	Won
1969			Nominated
1970			Nominated
1981	Cecil B. DeMille Award		Received
1991	Best Actor - Miniseries or Television Film	Separate but Equal	Nominated

Academy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2001	Best Spoken Word Album	The Measure of a Man	Won	^[9]
2009	Best Spoken Word Album	Life Beyond Measure	Nominated	^[9]

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1991	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Special	Separate but Equal	Nominated	^[10]
1997	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Special	Mandela and de Klerk	Nominated	^[10]

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1998	Outstanding Actor in a Miniseries of Television Movie	Mandela and de Klerk	Nominated	^[11]
2000	Life Achievement Award		Received	^[12]