[This coming weekend marks the 60th anniversary of Sidney Poitier becoming the first Black actor to win a Best Actor Oscar. So this week I’ll AmericanStudy a handful of Poitier performances, leading up to a special post on a handful of 21C actors carrying his legacy forward!]
Back in
January, at the end of my
series on Columbia Pictures’ 100th anniversary, I paid
tribute to a current FilmStudier I really love: Vaughn Joy. I ended that
list of (some of) Vaughn’s many impressive pieces and projects by highlighting
one of her newest, her Review
Roulette newsletter. Not too long after that, Vaughn focused on a Black
History Month edition of her newsletter on Sidney Poitier’s film debut, No Way Out (1950). It’s one of my favorite
entries in a newsletter that I’m always excited to see in my inbox, so in lieu
of today’s post I’ll ask you to check out that hyperlinked piece of Vaughn’s,
subscribe to Review Roulette, and come on back here tomorrow for the next
PoitierStudying!
Next
Poitier post tomorrow,
Ben
PS. What
do you think? Other Poitier films you’d highlight?
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