Sidney L. Poitier ( February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022)

In 1964, Sidney Poitier won the Academy Award for Best Actor becoming
the first Black male and Bahamian actor to win the award.

He also received two further Academy Award nominations, ten
Golden Globes nominations, two Primetime Emmy Awards
nominations, six BAFTA nominations, eight Laurel nominations,
and one Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination. Poitier was
one of the last surviving major stars from the Golden Age of
Hollywood cinema, and after the death of Kirk Douglas in 2020,
was the oldest living and earliest surviving male Academy Award
winner

The star’s death was confirmed to Fox News on Friday by the
Bahamian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office.

Sidney Poitier was awarded the 1964 Academy Award for
Best Actor for his role in the movie Lilies of the Field.

A Star Wars script book autographed by over two hundred original cast and crew will be part of an auction. (SWNS)

(FOXNEWS) – This collection was started a long time ago, but not
in a galaxy far,far away. 

A Star Wars fan is selling their collection of memorabilia, which
includes over 1,500 autographs from cast and crew members and hundreds of unopened toys. The collection could potentially sell
for over $90K when it is put up for auction next month.

A rare Empire Strikes Back ‘Boba Fett’ action figure is just
one of hundreds of toys in the collection. (SWNS)

Actor Denzel Hayes Washington Jr.  is 67 years old today.

Washington has earned various awards including two Academy
Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild
Award, and a Tony Award. In 2016, he received the Cecil B.
DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2020, The New York
Times ranked him as the greatest actor of the twenty-first
century.

Ralph Fiennes is an actor, film producer and director best known
for his role as the menacing Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter
films and for portraying Nazi captain Amon Goeth in the 1993
Steven Spielberg film Schindler’s List (below).

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SIMPSON

Director/producer,Steven A. Spielberg is 75 years old today.