Sidney Poitier's Birth Card: The 5 of Diamonds

In the record

Sidney Poitier ( PWAH-tyay; February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, activist, and diplomat. The birth-card coordinate for February 20 is the 5 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1964 Best Actor — Lilies of the Field win.

Academy Award record

• 1964 Best Actor — Lilies of the Field

The 5 of Diamonds coordinate

Sidney Poitier's birthday maps to the 5 of Diamonds (The Dynamic Entrepreneur). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about an Academy Award and not a verdict on Sidney Poitier. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You adjust the resource plan when the ground moves, without pretending nothing changed.

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Sidney Poitier in the public record

In 1964, he was the first black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. Among his other accolades are two competitive Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award and a Grammy Award, in addition to nominations for two Emmy Awards and a Tony Award. In 1999, he was ranked number 22 among the "American Film Institute's 100 Stars". Poitier was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Poitier's family lived in the Bahamas, then still a Crown colony, but he was born in Miami, Florida, while they were visiting, which granted him U.S. citizenship. He grew up in the Bahamas, but moved back to Miami at age 15, and to New York City when he was 16. He joined the American Negro Theatre, gaining his breakthrough film role as a high school student in the film Blackboard Jungle (1955). Poitier gained fame for his leading roles in films such as The Defiant Ones (1958), for which he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor and became the first African American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Sidney Poitier (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the cards

No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for 5♦, 3♣, 9♦, K♣, J♦, 8♠, 2♠, Q♠, J♣, 7♠, 2♣, 4♥, 4♦, 8♥, 6♣, 6♠, Q♥, 10♣. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast an Oscar.

Also on the record

1. In 1964, he won the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Actor for Lilies of the Field (1963).
2. Poitier broke ground playing strong leading African American male roles in films such as Porgy and Bess (1959), A Raisin in the Sun (1961), and A Patch of Blue (1965).
3. He acted in three films in 1967, films which addressed race and race relations: To Sir, with Love; Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and In the Heat of the Night, the latter of which earned him Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations.
4. In a poll the next year he was voted the US's top box-office star.

Other winners with this card

• Burt Lancaster — 1961 Best Actor — Elmer Gantry
• Cate Blanchett — 2014 Best Actress — Blue Jasmine
• Charlton Heston — 1960 Best Actor — Ben-Hur
• Dustin Hoffman — 1980 Best Actor — Kramer vs. Kramer; 1989 Best Actor — Rain Man
• Robert Donat — 1940 Best Actor — Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• Susan Sarandon — 1996 Best Actress — Dead Man Walking

FAQ

What is Sidney Poitier's birth card?

The 5 of Diamonds. February 20 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict an Oscar?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Sidney Poitier's dates come from?

Birth date 1927-02-20 is the day-precision date on Sidney Poitier's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Winner identity comes from the Wikipedia Best Actor / Best Actress lists, which cite Oscars.org ceremony pages. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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