Sidney Poitier was an actor, director, author and a diplomat. He was one of the first black actors in Hollywood. He is a Bahamian actor, and made his success by starting out in Broadway and this lead him to big Hollywood films. . His best known Broadway peformances are in "The Bedford Incident" and "A Patch Of Blue".
Sidney Poitier was the first male black person to get nominated for an Acadamy Award, for this performance in "The Defiant Ones" in 1958. He was also the first black person to win an Acadamy Award for Best Actor in "Lilies of The Field" in 1963.
In 1967, he was the most successful year at the box office, the commercial peak of his career, with three successful films, "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; To Sir," "With Love" and "In the Heat of the Night".
Poitier directed several films. His most successful direction was in "Stir Crazy" which for years was the highest grossing film directed by a person of African descent. In 1998, to 2003, Sidney Poitier served as a Member of the Board of Directors in The Walt Disney Company. In April 1997, he was appointed as ambassador of the Bahamas to Japan and he is also the ambassador of the Bahamas to UNESCO.
Geography:
The Bahamas has a subtropical/ tropical climate and is moderated by the waters of The Gulf Stream, especially in winter time. This can be very dangerous around summer and autumn months, as this is when hurricanes pass through Bahamas and the surrounding islands, which include: San Salvador Island, Crooked Island, Cat Island and Long Island. There has never been a freeze recorded in the Bahamas, but the temperature can fall between 2-3 degrees during Artic outbreaks, which also affected Florida. The last record of sleet in the Bahamas, was in 1977. July and August are the hottest months of the year in the Bahamas, usually reaching a high of about 32/33 degrees. Winter months, unlike Ireland, are usually 25/26 degrees, sometimes hotter. It usually only rains 140 days out of the year in the Bahamas.
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