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Oscar for the the defiant ones in 1959. the winner is sidney poitier. ( applause ) reporter: he d be the first to win one five years later for lillies of the field. with this a-list stature, h didn t ask for respect as much as he demanded it. you ask me questions that fall continually within the neg roroness of my life. i am an artist, a man, american, contemporary. i am an awful lot of things. reporter: poitier s influence would stretch far beyond movie theaters. as civil rights took center stage, he helped organize the march on washington. mom, this is john. he thinks you re going to faint because he s a negro. reporter: but it was his bearing on screen that most powerfully challenged the realities of american life. virgil, that s a funny name from a boy from philadelphia. ....

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