A Warm December is a 1973 romance film directed by Sidney Poitier and starring him in the lead role as Dr. Matt Younger. It also starred Jamaican actress Esther Anderson as Catherine, Matt's love interest. Anderson's role of an African princess won her a NAACP Image Award for Best Actress in 1973. A Warm December is also notable for an appearanceof Letta Mbulu singing "Nonqonqo" with an African choir, written my Miriam Makeba. Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson wrote and conducted the score.