Awards and Nominations
Acapulco Black Film Festival
- 1999: Nominated - Best Actress for Beloved (1998)
African-American Film Critics Association
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- 2010: Won - Best Supporting Actress for For Colored Girls
Black Reel Awards
- 2002: Won - Best Supporting Actress for Bojangles (2001)
- 2003: Nominated - Best Actress for John Q (2002)
- 2005: Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
- 2005: Won - Best Actress, Independent Film for Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004)
- 2006: Won - Best Actress for Diary of a Mad Black Woman
- 2011: Nominated - Best Actress for For Colored Girls
- 2011: Won - Outstanding Ensemble for For Colored Girls
CableACE Award
- 1997: Won - Supporting Actress in a Movie or Miniseries for The Ditchdigger's Daughters (1997)
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
- 1999: Won - Most Promising Actress for Beloved (1998)
- 1999: Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Beloved (1998)
Golden Satellite Awards
- 1999: Won - Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture - Drama for Beloved (1998)
NAACP Image Awards
- 1999: Nominated - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for Beloved (1998)
- 2002: Nominated - Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special for Bojangles (2001)
- 2003: Nominated - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for John Q (2002)
- 2003: Nominated - Image Award Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for "Soul Food" (2000)
- 2005: Nominated - Image Award Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture for Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004)
- 2006: Winner - Image Award Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture for Diary of a Mad Black Woman
- 2006: Nominated - Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series for "Close to Home"
- 2007: Winner - Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series for "Close to Home"
- 2010: Winner - NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special for "Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story"
- 2011: Winner - Image Award Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture for "For Colored Girls"
Independent Spirit Awards
- 2005: Nominated - Best Female Lead for Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004)
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