Sidney Poitier KBE was a Bahamian-American actor, fi lm director, and ambassador. In 1964, he was the fi rst black person and fi rst Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. He received two Academy Awards nominations, ten Golden Globe Awards nominations, two Primetime Emmy Awards nominations, six British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominations, eight Laurel nominations, one Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination, one Grammy Award, and another Grammy nomination.