The Gotham Film & Media Institute paid tribute to the late Sidney Poitier at the awards ceremony taking place at NYC’s Cipriani Wall Street this evening.
Deadline previously reported that The Gotham Awards Advisory Committee planned the tribute to the actor’s trailblazing impact on Hollywood as the first Black man to win a Best Actor Oscar for 1964’s Lilies of the Field.
He also had an illustrious directing and stage career with films like A Warm December and Uptown Saturday Night and starred in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun on Broadway in 1959, in addition to starring in the film adaptation in 1961. RELATED: Gotham Awards: ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ Takes Best Feature – Full Winners List The acting icon passed away earlier this year in his home in Beverly Hills, California.
He was 94. The Gotham Awards tasked Devotion actor Jonathan Majors to kick off the sweeping 2022 Gotham Icon tribute and he presented the award to the Poitier family who was in attendance. “His activism changes movies and the way we see ourselves,” said Majors.
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