Sidney Poitier Articles

Sidney Poitier’s "Summer Under the Stars" day is Friday, Aug. 14. Turner Classic Movies will have no Sidney Poitier premieres, but fans of the groundbreaking actor will have the opportunity to catch him in some of his most important roles. Poitier’s acting always looked and sounded like Acting (capital "A") to me, while the characters he played tended to be much too stolidly dignified for [...]

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented "An Academy Centennial Salute to Joseph L. Mankiewicz," on Thursday, May 21, 2009, at the Academy’s headquarters in Beverly Hills. Pictured above at the reception for the event from left to right: Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz (nephew); Sidney Poitier, who was featured in Mankiewicz’s 1950 drama No Way Out; Rosemary Mankiewicz (widow, seated); Martin [...]

Four-time Academy Award winner screenwriter-director-producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz will be saluted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with a special 50th anniversary screening of a recently restored print of Suddenly, Last Summer, starring Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor (above, and right, with Mankiewicz), and Montgomery Clift. The screening will take place on Thursday, May 21, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater [...]

Press Release: Beverly Hills, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will launch the third part of its successful screening series “Great To Be Nominated” on Monday, April 10. The 19-week series will once again showcase the Best Picture nominees, this time from 1958 to 1976, that accumulated the most Academy Award® nominations in all categories in a particular year, but did [...]