"Sidney Poitier may have been the star of the detective drama ""In the Heat of the Night,"" but he was snubbed in the Oscars race. It wasn't that academy voters didn't love the movie though: ""In the Heat of the Night"" won best picture as well as best actor for Poitier's co-star, Rod Steiger, here holding his Oscar at the 1968 ceremony."
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