A Look Back At Some Of The Awards Past Movie Winners

On March 30, 2019, everyone will be tuned in to TV One live to watch some of our favorite actors, musicians, films and more receive much needed honors from the African American community they’ve uplifted and inspired. For the first time ever, the telecast will take place from the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, California which is the perfect place to celebrate the amazing films that came out in 2018.

This year, “Black Panther”, “BlacKkKlansman”, “Crazy Rich Asians”, “If Beale Street Could Talk” and “The Hate U Give” have all picked up Outstanding Motion Picture nods. Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Denzel Washington, John David Washington and Steven James have earned themselves Outstanding Actor In A Motion Picture nominations while Amandla Stenberg, Constance Wu, Kiki Lane, Sanaa Lathan and Viola Davis have nabbed themselves Outstanding Actress nominations. While we await the night’s big decisions in each division, let’s take a look back at the last five years and see how well the winners in these categories have aged over time.

2018

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Outstanding Motion Picture: Girls Trip (Universal Pictures)

Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture: Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out (Universal Pictures)

Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture: Octavia Spencer, Gifted (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Some of the biggest films in 2017 were Girls Trip and Get Out, so it’s a no brainer that they’d be some of the bigger motion picture winners.

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2017

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Outstanding Motion Picture: Hidden Figures

Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture: Taraji P. Henson, Hidden Figures

Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture: Denzel Washington, Fences

As you can see, Hidden Figures and Fences were THE movies to see in 2016!

2016

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Outstanding Motion Picture: “Straight Outta Compton” (Universal Pictures)

Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture:  Michael B. Jordan – “Creed” (Warner Bros. Pictures/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures)

Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture: Sanaa Lathan – “The Perfect Guy” (Screen Gems)

2015 blessed us with several great films and introduced us with some awesome new actors. We also got to see Michael B. Jordan and Sanaa Lathan shine.

2015

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Outstanding Motion Picture: “Selma” (Paramount Pictures)

Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture: David Oyelowo – “Selma” (Paramount Pictures)

Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture: Taraji P. Henson – “No Good Deed” (Screen Gems)

2014 was all about David Oyelowo’s portrayal of Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma. That film was racking up awards left and right in 2015.

2014

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Outstanding Motion Picture: “12 Years a Slave”

Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture: Forest Whitaker – “Lee Daniels’ The Butler”

Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture: Angela Bassett – “Black Nativity”

Blackness was in full display in 2013. We were introduced to Lupita in “12 Years A Slave”, “The Butler” had us laughing and crying and “Black Nativity” proved that Auntie Angela Bassett will always be a queen.