Black History Month: Best African-American Film Debuts

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Oprah Winfrey in The Color Purple

Though she's omnipresent in the media, Winfrey has been remarkably choosy about her film roles. Her debut performance in this adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was pitch perfect and earned her the only Oscar nomination of her career.

(Photo: Courtesy Warner Bros Pictures)

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