NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
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The NAACP Image Award winners for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture:
(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."