Image Award/Beste Hauptdarstellerin

1969

Estelle Evans – Haß (The Learning Tree)

1970

Barbara McNair – … aber das Blut ist immer rot (If He Hollers, Let Him Go!)

1982

Jayne Kennedy – Body and Soul

1984

Jennifer Beals – Flashdance

1986

Tina Turner – Mad Max – Jenseits der Donnerkuppel (Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome)

1988

Whoopi Goldberg – Die Farbe Lila (The Color Purple)

1990

Whoopi Goldberg – Fatal Beauty

1991

Ruby Dee – Do the Right Thing

1992

Whoopi Goldberg – Ghost – Nachricht von Sam (Ghost)

1993

Whoopi Goldberg – Der lange Weg (The Long Walk Home)

1994

Whoopi Goldberg – Sister Act – Eine himmlische Karriere (Sister Act)

1995

Angela Bassett – Tina – What’s Love Got to Do with It? (What’s Love Got to Do with It)

1996

Angela Bassett – Warten auf Mr. Right (Waiting to Exhale)

• Whoopi Goldberg – Kaffee, Milch und Zucker (Boys on the Side)
• Jennifer Beals – Teufel in Blau (Devil in a Blue Dress)
• Halle Berry – Die andere Mutter (Losing Isaiah)
• Whitney Houston – Warten auf Mr. Right (Waiting to Exhale)

1997

Whitney Houston – Rendezvous mit einem Engel (The Preacher’s Wife)

• Jada Pinkett Smith – Set It Off
• Queen Latifah – Set It Off
• Phylicia Rashad – Once Upon a Time… When We Were Colored
• Whoopi Goldberg – Das Attentat (Ghosts of Mississippi)

1998

Vanessa Lynn Williams – Soul Food

• Lynn Whitfield – Eve’s Bayou
• Nia Long – Love Jones
• Vivica Fox – Soul Food
• Pam Grier – Jackie Brown

1999

Angela Bassett – Stella’s Groove – Männer sind die halbe Miete (How Stella Got Her Groove Back)

• Halle Berry – Bulworth
• Regina King – Der Staatsfeind Nr. 1 (Enemy of the State)
• Alfre Woodard – Down in the Delta
• Oprah Winfrey – Menschenkind (Beloved)

2000

Nia Long – The Best Man – Hochzeit mit Hindernissen (The Best Man)

• Monica Calhoun – The Best Man – Hochzeit mit Hindernissen (The Best Man)
• Debbi Morgan – Hurricane (The Hurricane)
• LisaGay Hamilton – Ein wahres Verbrechen (True Crime)
• Rosario Dawson – Light It Up

2001

Sanaa Lathan – Love & Basketball

• Jada Pinkett Smith – It’s Showtime (Bamboozled)
• Nia Long – Big Mamas Haus (Big Momma’s House)
• Angela Bassett – Boesman and Lena
• Vanessa Lynn Williams – Shaft – Noch Fragen? (Shaft)

2002

Halle Berry – Passwort: Swordfish (Swordfish)

• Regina King – Einmal Himmel und zurück (Down to Earth)
• Alfre Woodard – K-PAX – Alles ist möglich (K-PAX)
• Vivica Fox – Two Can Play That Game
• Whoopi Goldberg – Kingdom Come

2003

Angela Bassett – Land des Sonnenscheins – Sunshine State (Sunshine State)

• Jennifer Lopez – Manhattan Love Story (Maid in Manhattan)
• Sanaa Lathan – Brown Sugar
• Vivica Fox – Juwanna Mann
• Thandie Newton – The Truth About Charlie

2004

Queen Latifah – Haus über Kopf (Bringing Down the House)

• Beyoncé Knowles – Fighting Temptations (The Fighting Temptations)
• Halle Berry – Gothika
• Keisha Castle-Hughes – Whale Rider
• Gabrielle Union – Deliver Us from Eva

2005

Kerry Washington – Ray

• Irma P. Hall – Ladykillers (The Ladykillers)
• Kimberly Elise – Woman Thou Art Loosed
• Gabrielle Union – Breakin’ All the Rules
• Angela Bassett – Mr. 3000

2006

Kimberly Elise – Das verrückte Tagebuch (Diary of a Mad Black Woman)

• Queen Latifah – Beauty Shop
• Rosario Dawson – Rent
• Zhang Ziyi – Die Geisha (Memoirs of a Geisha)
• Zoë Saldaña – Guess Who – Meine Tochter kriegst du nicht! (Guess Who)

2007

Keke Palmer – Akeelah ist die Größte (Akeelah and the Bee)

• Beyoncé Knowles – Dreamgirls
• Sanaa Lathan – Neue Liebe, neues Glück (Something New)
• Queen Latifah – Noch einmal Ferien (Last Holiday)
• Penélope Cruz – Volver – Zurückkehren (Volver)

2008

Jurnee Smollett – The Great Debaters

• Taraji P. Henson – Talk to Me
• Halle Berry – Eine neue Chance (Things We Lost in the Fire)
• Jill Scott – Why Did I Get Married?
• Angelina Jolie – Ein mutiger Weg (A Mighty Heart)

2009

Rosario Dawson – Sieben Leben (Seven Pounds)

• Angela Bassett – Meet the Browns
• Alfre Woodard – The Family That Preys
• Dakota Fanning – Die Bienenhüterin (The Secret Life of Bees)
• Queen Latifah – Die Bienenhüterin (The Secret Life of Bees)

2010

Gabourey Sidibe – Precious – Das Leben ist kostbar (Precious)

• Taraji P. Henson – (I Can Do Bad All By Myself)
• Sandra Bullock – (The Blind Side)
• Anika Noni Rose – Küss den Frosch (The Princess and the Frog)
• Sophie Okonedo - Skin – Schrei nach Gerechtigkeit (Skin)

2011

Halle Berry – (Frankie and Alice)

• Janet Jackson – (Auch Liebe macht mal Ferien 2)
• Queen Latifah – (Just Wright)
• Kerry Washington – (Night Catches Us)
• Zoë Saldaña – (The Losers)

2012

Viola Davis – The Help (The Help)

• Emma Stone – The Help (The Help)
• Adepero Oduye – (Pariah)
• Zoë Saldaña – Colombiana
• Paula Patton – (Jumping the Broom)

2013

Viola Davis – (Won't Back Down)

• Halle Berry – Cloud Atlas
• Emayatzy Corinealdi – (Middle of Nowhere)
• Loretta Devine – (In the Hive)
• Quvenzhané Wallis – (Beasts of the Southern Wild)