Sidney Poitier Is the Same Age as the Oscars
The first black performer to win Best Actor turned 89 this weekend.
Technically speaking, next Sunday’s Academy Awards will be the 87th ceremony rather than 88th. However, since the very first Oscars held in 1929 honored not one but two previous film years, it got the event off to a running, extra-year start.
Born at the beginning of the first Oscars year honored: Sidney Poitier, Feb. 20, 1927. Last night, Denzel Washington and several others joined Poitier at Craig’s in West Hollywood to help the actor and his wife celebrate Poitier’s 89th birthday.
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