NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
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NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
The NAACP Image Award winners for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture:
- Number of Performances that won or was nominated for Academy Awards
- Whoopi Goldberg - The Color Purple, Ghost
- Angela Bassett - What's Love Got to Do With It?
- Keisha Castle Hughes - Whale Rider
- Penelope Cruz - Volver
- Sandra Bullock- The Blind Side
- Gabourey Sidibe- Precious
- Viola Davis- The Help
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Award statistics
Whoopi Goldberg has had the most wins, with five out of her eight nominations.
- Multiple nominee list
8 nominations
- Whoopi Goldberg-(Boys on the Side, Fatal Beauty, Ghost, Kingdom Come, Sister Act, The Color Purple, The Ghost of Mississippi, The Long Walk Home) 5 wins
7 nominations
- Angela Bassett- (Boseman & Lena, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Meet the Browns, Mr. 300, Sunshine State, Waiting to Exhale, What's Love Got to Do With It?) 4 wins
6 nominations
- Halle Berry- (Bulworth, Frankie & Alice, Gothika, Losing Isaiah, Swordfish, Things We Lost in the Fire) 2 wins
- Queen Latifah-(Beauty Shop, Bringing Down the House, Just Wright, Last Holiday, The Secret Life of Bees, Set It Off) 1 win
3 nominations
- Alfre Woodard- (Down in the Delta, K-Pax, The Family That Preys)
- Nia Long-(Big Momma's House, Soul Food, The Best Man) 1 win
- Rosario Dawson-(Light It Up, Rent, Seven Pounds) 1 win
- Sanaa Lathan-(Brown Sugar, Love & Basketball, Something New) 1 win
- Vivica A. Fox-(Juwanna Man, Soul Food, Two Can Play That Game)
- Zoe Saldana-(Colombiana, Guess Who?, The Losers)
2 nominations
- Beyonce Knowles- (Dreamgirls, The Fighting Temptations)
- Gabrielle Union- (Breaking All the Rules, Deliver Us From Eva)
- Jada Pinkett Smith-(Bamboozled, Set It Off)
- Jennifer Beals-(Devil in a Blue Dress, Flashdance) 1 win
- Kerry Washington-(Night Catches Us, Ray) 1 win
- Kimberly Elise-(Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Woman Thou Art Loosed) 1 win
- Taraji P. Henson-(I Can Do Bad All By Myself, Talk to Me)
- Vanessa L. Williams-(Shaft, Soul Food) 1 win
- Whitney Houston-(The Preacher's Wife, Waiting to Exhale) 1 win
Winners and nominees
1960s
| Year | Actress | Film | Other Nominees |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 (1st) | NOT AWARDED | - | |
| 1968 (2nd) | NOT AWARDED | - | |
| 1969 (3rd) | Estelle Evans | The Learning Tree |
1970s
| Year | Actress | Film | Other Nominees |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 (4th) | Barbara McNair | If He Hollers, Let Him Go | |
| 1971 | Jane Fonda | Klute | |
| 1972 | Diana Ross | Lady Sings The Blues | |
| 1974 | Esther Anderson | A Warm December | |
| 1975 | Diahann Carroll | Claudine | |
| 1976 | Denise Nicholas | Let's Do It Again | |
| 1977 | Cicely Tyson | River Niger | |
| 1978 | Cicely Tyson | A Hero Ain't Nothing But A Sandwich | |
| 1979 | Mavis Washington | Fast Break |
1980s
| Year | Actress | Film | Other Nominees |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Irene Cara | Fame | |
| 1981 | NOT AWARDED | - | |
| 1982 | Jayne Kennedy | Body and Soul | |
| 1983 | Jennifer Beals | Flashdance | |
| 1984 | Alfre Woodard | Cross Creek | |
| 1985 | Tina Turner | Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome | |
| 1986 | Whoopi Goldberg | The Color Purple | |
| 1987 | NOT AWARDED | - | |
| 1988 | Whoopi Goldberg | Fatal Beauty | |
| 1989 | Ruby Dee | Do the Right Thing |
1990s
| Year | Actress | Film | Other Nominees |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | NOT AWARDED | - | |
| 1992 | Whoopi Goldberg | The Long Walk Home | |
| 1993 | Whoopi Goldberg | Sister Act | |
| 1994 | Angela Bassett | What's Love Got to Do with It | |
| 1996 | Angela Bassett | Waiting to Exhale | Whoopi Goldberg - Boys on the Side Jennifer Beals - Devil in a Blue Dress |
| 1997 | Whitney Houston | The Preacher's Wife | Jada Pinkett Smith - Set It Off Queen Latifah - Set It Off |
| 1998 | Vanessa L. Williams | Soul Food | Lynn Whitfield - Eve's Bayou Nia Long - Love Jones |
| 1999 | Angela Bassett | How Stella Got Her Groove Back | Halle Berry - Bulworth Regina King - Enemy of the State |
2000s
2010s
| Year | Actress | Film | Other Nominees |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Gabourey Sidibe | Precious | Taraji P. Henson - I Can Do Bad All By Myself Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side |
| 2011 | Halle Berry | Frankie and Alice | Janet Jackson - Why Did I Get Married Too? Queen Latifah - Just Wright |
| 2012 | Viola Davis | The Help | Emma Stone - The Help Adepero Oduye - Pariah |
(1) "Out of 12 films which featured Blacks in leading roles in 1980, Cicely Tyson was the only female in that category. She played opposite Richard Pryor in "Bustin' Loose". Because of this, she and officials at the annual NAACP image Awards program decided that she should not accept the award."
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