History-making actor Sidney Poitier is dead at the age of 94, Complex reports.
The legendary actor’s death was announced by Bahamian Minister of Foreign Affairs Fred Mitchell, per Eyewitness News Bahamas. TMZ has also reported Poitier’s death, though—at the time of this writing—additional details had not been released.
For his role in the 1963 James Poe film Lilies of the Field, Sidney Poitier won the Academy Award for Best Actor, making history as the first Black actor to win in the category. He was previously nominated for 1958’s The Defiant Ones and earned an honorary Oscar in 2002.
“Because it is a long journey to this moment, I am naturally indebted to countless numbers of people,” Poitier said at the 36th Academy Awards in 1964 when accepting the Best Actor honor.
