NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture information
NAACP Image Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture
The 2024 recipient: Fantasia Barrino
Awarded for
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture
Location
Los Angeles, California
Presented by
NAACP
First awarded
Estelle Evans for The Learning Tree (1969)
Currently held by
Fantasia Barrino for The Color Purple (2023)
This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture. The award has also been called Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion Picture. Out of 12 films which featured African-Americans 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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