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:

Year	Actress	Motion Picture
1981	None (1)
1982	Jayne Kennedy	Body and Soul
1983	?	?
1984	Jennifer Beals	Flashdance
1985	?	?
1986	Tina Turner	Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
1987	?	?
1988	Whoopi Goldberg	The Color Purple
1989	?	?
1990	Whoopi Goldberg	Fatal Beauty
1991	Ruby Dee	Do the Right Thing
1992	Whoopi Goldberg	Ghost
1993	Whoopi Goldberg	The Long Walk Home
1994	Whoopi Goldberg	Sister Act
1995	Angela Bassett	What's Love Got to Do with It?
1996	Angela Bassett	Waiting to Exhale
1997	Whitney Houston	The Preacher's Wife
1998	Vanessa L. Williams	Soul Food
1999	Angela Bassett	How Stella Got Her Groove Back
2000	Nia Long	The Best Man
2001	Sanaa Lathan	Love & Basketball
2002	Halle Berry	Swordfish
2003	Angela Bassett	Sunshine State
2004	Queen Latifah	Bringing Down the House
2005	Kerry Washington	Ray
2006	Kimberly Elise	Diary of a Mad Black Woman

(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."