... 1950, Poitier made his first film. It was called No Way Out . He played the part of a doctor tormented by the racist brother of a man he could not save. Some of the other films he did in the 1950's were Cry, the Beloved Country, The Blackboard Jungle, and Defiant Ones which won the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival in 1958. He also appeared in Porgy and Bess. In ... the 1960's he appeared in A Raisin in The Sun and in 1963 he was in Lillies of the Field. The part in that play won him an ... Academy Award, and that made him the first black ... ...

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