{"id":51052,"date":"2014-03-04T09:28:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T14:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=51052"},"modified":"2014-03-04T09:28:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T14:28:52","slug":"sidney-poitier-celebrates-50th-anniversary-of-academy-award-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/03\/sidney-poitier-celebrates-50th-anniversary-of-academy-award-win","title":{"rendered":"Sidney Poitier Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Academy Award Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51053\" alt=\"sidney-poitier-oscars-2014\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sidney-poitier-oscars-2014.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"325\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-51055\" alt=\"sidney-poitier-1964-oscar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sidney-poitier-1964-oscar.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"423\" \/>Sidney Poitier visited the Academy Awards on Sunday night to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his landmark win for Best Actor at the 1964 Academy Awards.<\/p>\n<p>With the win for his role in \u201cLilies of the Field,\u201d Poitier became the first black person to win in the category.<\/p>\n<p>Poitier, who was born to Bahamians in Miami but grew up in the Bahamas, is currently the Bahamas\u2019 Ambassador to Japan, a role in which he has served since 1997.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour talent and integrity have shattered barriers and inspired audiences everywhere,\u201d said actress Angelina Jolie, who joined Poitier in presenting the award for Best Director. \u201cFor that, my friend, we are very much in your debt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Poitier was on hand to announce the winner of the award for Best Director, which went to Alfonso Cuaron for his film \u201cGravity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is my pleasure to be here in such inspiring company to celebrate all the extraordinary talent represented here tonight,\u201d Poitier said. \u201cIt is encouraging and invigorating. Please \u2014 keep up the wonderful work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Caribbean Journal<br \/>\nwww.caribjournal.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the 2014 Oscar Sidney Poitier marked the 50th anniversary of his landmark win for Best Actor at the 1964 Academy Awards for his role in \u201cLilies of the Field\u201d. He was the first black person to win in the category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":51053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[55,46],"class_list":["post-51052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-awards","tag-celebrities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}