Sidney Poitier Wins Oscar, 1964
date: label: date made
content: September 1986
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: Poitier, Sidney
label: maker
content: Wiener, Leigh
notes: label: Description
content: Black and white photograph of actor Sidney Poitier winning the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance as Homer Smith in the 1963 film <i>Lillies of the Field</i>. Poitier is the first African-American man to win an Oscar and photographer Leigh Weiner captured this historic moment in film history.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Movie
label: Subject
content: Entertainment, Film
label: Subject
content: Academy Awards
label: Subject
content: African American History
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Movie Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2011.0249.01
label: accession number
content: 2011.0249
label: catalog number
content: 2011.0249.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 14 in; 27.94 cm x 35.56 cm