Wednesday, July 16, 2008

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your footsteps."Poitier, who won his Oscar in 1963 for Lilies of the Field, received special honors earlier in the evening."Before Sidney, African-American actors had to take supporting roles that were easy to cut out in certain parts of the country," Washington said. "But you couldn't cut Sidney Poitier out of a Sidney Poitier picture.""I arrived in Hollywood at the age of 22, at a time that was different than today's," Poitier recalled. "[It was] a time in which the odds against me standing here tonight 53 years later would not have fallen in my favor," he said. "Back then no route had been established for where I was hoping to go."Only 26 black actors have been nominated for Academy Awards. Before tonight, only six had won — including Washington, who won a Supporting Actor award for Glory in 1989.A Feathered Whoopi Enters

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