NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture

The NAACP Image Award winners for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture:. It is also called Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion Picture.

Number of performances that won or were nominated for Academy Awards:

(1) "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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