HDNET MOVIES CELEBRATES BLACK HISTORY MONTH ON TUESDAY, FEB. 28 WITH ‘THE A-LIST,’ HONORING SIDNEY POITIER AND DENZEL WASHINGTON, THE FIRST TWO AFRICAN-AMERICAN RECIPIENTS OF THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST ACTOR
The Lineup Features Sidney Poitier’s Historic Oscar®-Winning Performance in LILIES OF THE FIELD, Denzel Washington in JOHN Q, and More
Los Angeles – January 30, 2017 – HDNET MOVIES celebrates Black History Month with a night of acclaimed films starring the first two African-Americans to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, in “The A-List: Sidney Poitier and Denzel Washington” on Tuesday, Feb. 28, at 7pE.
The event begins with Washington as a young policeman caught in a tricky predicament when his childhood friend is accused of robbery and murder in THE MIGHTY QUINN followed by Washington as a determined father who takes a hospital emergency room hostage when his insurance won’t cover his son’s heart transplant in JOHN Q at 8:45pE.
The tribute continues with Poitier in the historic performance that earned him his first Oscar®, starring as a construction worker who helps Catholic nuns build a church in the desert in LILIES OF THE FIELD at 10:50pE. Then at 12:30aE Poitier and Tony Curtis star as rival inmates on the lam, who must put their disdain aside and work together to elude the police in Oscar®-winning 1958 drama THE DEFIANT ONES. The evening comes to a close with Poitier as a prison psychiatrist assigned to an inmate (Bobby Darin) with Nazi tendencies in PRESSURE POINT, with Peter Falk, at 2:10aE.
For a complete schedule of films and times, visit www.hdnetmovies.com/schedules.
HDNET MOVIES’ “The A-List: Sidney Poitier and Denzel Washington” Lineup is as follows (all times eastern):
“The A-List: Sidney Poitier And Denzel Washington”—Tuesday, Feb. 28
THE MIGHTY QUINN (1989) – 7pE
JOHN Q (2002) – 8:45pE
LILIES OF THE FIELD (1963) – 10:50pE
THE DEFIANT ONES (1958) – 2:10aE
PRESSURE POINT (1962) – 12:30aE
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