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In the Heat of the Night is a 1967 film, based on the John Ball novel published in 1965 of the same name, which tells the story of a Northern U.S. African-American police detective who becomes involved in a murder investigation in a racist small town in the American South.

In 2002 the United States Library of Congress deemed the original film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. The quote, "They call me Mister Tibbs!," was listed as #16 on the American Film Institute's AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes, a list of top movie quotes.

The movie would later become the basis of a television series entitled In the Heat of the Night, starring Carroll O'Connor, Howard Rollins, Alan Autry, David Hart, Anne-Marie Johnson, and Hugh O'Connor.

Part of the movie was filmed in Sparta, Illinois, where many of the film's landmarks can still be seen.

Primary cast

Sidney Poitier
: Detective Virgil Tibbs
Rod Steiger
: Police Chief Bill Gillespie
Warren Oates
: Officer Sam Wood
Lee Grant
: Mrs. Leslie Colbert
Larry Gates : Eric Endicott
James Patterson : Purdy
William Schallert
: Mayor Webb Schubert
Beah Richards
: Mama Caleba (aka Mrs. Bellamy)
Peter Whitney : Officer George Courtney
Kermit Murdock : H.E. Henderson (banker)
Larry D. Mann
: Watkins
Quentin Dean : Delores Purdy

Awards

Wins

Academy Award for Best Picture
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama
New York Film Critics Circle Awards for Best Picture
Academy Award for Best Actor
(Rod Steiger
)
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama (Rod Steiger)
Academy Award for Film Editing (Hal Ashby)
Academy Award for Sound (Samuel Goldwyn Studios)
Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay (Stirling Silliphant)
Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay (Stirling Silliphant)
BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor - Rod Steiger
BAFTA UN Award - Norman Jewison

Nominations

Academy Award for Directing - Norman Jewison
Academy Award for Sound Editing - James Richard
BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor - Sidney Poitier
BAFTA Award for Best Film from any Source - Norman Jewison
Directors Guild of America for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures - Norman Jewison
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Director - Norman Jewison
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama - Sidney Poitier
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Lee Grant
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Quentin Dean
Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media - Quincy Jones
Writers Guild of America for Best Written American Drama - Stirling Silliphant

Sequels

In the Heat of the Night was followed by two sequels, They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!
in 1970, and The Organization in 1971.

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