Poll: Favorite Performance by a Black Actress Nominated for Best Actress?

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   Dorothy Dandridge

   Carmen Jones (1954)

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   Diana Ross

   Lady Sings the Blues (1972)

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   Cicely Tyson

   Sounder (1972)

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   Diahann Carroll

   Claudine (1974)

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   Whoopi Goldberg

   The Color Purple (1985)

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   Angela Bassett

   What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)

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   Halle Berry

   Monster's Ball (2001)

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   Gabourey Sidibe

   Precious (2009)

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   Viola Davis

   The Help (2011)

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    Quvenzhané Wallis

    Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

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