{"id":8333,"date":"2011-05-04T08:54:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T12:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=8333"},"modified":"2011-05-04T08:54:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T12:54:10","slug":"sidney-poitier-receives-charlie-chaplin-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/05\/sidney-poitier-receives-charlie-chaplin-award","title":{"rendered":"Sidney Poitier Receives Charlie Chaplin Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8334\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8334\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8334\" title=\"sidney-poitier\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/sidney-poitier-e1304513548793.jpg\" alt=\"Sidney Poitier\" width=\"260\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/sidney-poitier-e1304513548793.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/sidney-poitier-e1304513548793-150x134.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/sidney-poitier-e1304513548793-250x224.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bahamian film star Sidney Poitier was honoured at last night\u2019s Film Society of Lincoln Center gala. Numerous celebrities were on hand to celebrate with the 38<sup>th<\/sup> annual Charlie Chaplin award recipient. Poitier was the first black  person to win an Oscar for best actor, for his role in the 1963 movie  \u201cLilies of the Field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Poitier garnered leading roles in films at a time when black actors  were usually relegated to submissive or demeaning parts. During the  presentation, presenter Quentin Tarantino recounted the time he asked  Poitier why he had never starred in \u201ccolored films\u201d \u2014 or movies that  were created primarily for a black audience. Poitier responded that his  first role was \u201ca doctor\u2026 in a 20<sup>th<\/sup> Century Fox film\u2026 directed by Joseph Mankiewicz, so there was simply no need.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahamian film star Sidney Poitier was honoured as the 38th annual Charlie Chaplin award recipient at last night\u2019s Film Society of Lincoln Center gala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"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":[18],"tags":[55,46,30],"class_list":["post-8333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-awards","tag-celebrities","tag-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333","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=8333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}