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2008 BLACK PERSPECTIVES TRIBUTE Tickets for the Black Perspectives Tribute Event, which include the post-Tribute reception at Chase Auditorium, are priced at $150 per ticket.
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TICKETS WILL NOT BE MAILED. Please pick up tickets at event WILL CALL.
About Sidney Poitier
As an Academy Award®-winning actor, director, producer and best-selling author, Sidney Poitier’s career of more than 50 years has garnered him innumerable honors and awards, including being knighted by H.M. Queen Elizabeth II in 1968.
In 1963, Poitier became the first African American to win the Academy Award® for Best Actor for his powerful performance in Lilies of the Field. A second Oscar® was presented to Sidney Poitier in 2002 for his “extraordinary performances and unique presence on the screen and for representing the industry with dignity, style and intelligence”. His extensive filmography as an actor includes such classics as: Cry, the Beloved Country; A Raisin in the Sun; To Sir, with Love; In the Heat of the Night; Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, and They Call Me MISTER Tibbs, among many others. He has also directed and starred in many notable films such as Buck and the Preacher and Uptown Saturday Night.
Other film awards include a BAFTA®, three Golden Globes®, the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the Kennedy Center Lifetime Achievement Award, the Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award, five NAACP Image Awards, and two Golden Bear Awards from the
Berlin Film Festival. Poitier has written three best-selling autobiographies: This Life (1980); The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography (2000); and Life Beyond Measure - Letters to My Great-Granddaughter (2008). The Measure of a Man was chosen to be an Oprah's Book Club selection.
About the 44th Chicago International Film Festival
Now in its fifth decade, the Chicago International Film Festival, October 16-29, 2008 brings red carpet premieres, appearances by legendary international actors and directors, and exclusive access to the latest and best films from around the world to Chicago audiences. In 2007, the Festival showcased more than 160 films from 44 countries and presented the work of both established masters and dynamic new filmmakers.
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