2023 NAACP Image Awards: Viola Davis Wins Outstanding Actress In A Motion Picture
Viola Davis is the 2023 NAACP Image Award recipient for Outstanding Actress In A Motion Picture, for her role in The Woman King.
Davis, 57, has a total of 24 nominations at the prestige award show and has just earned her 8th win for her depiction as Nanisca, a fierce leader of the all-female warrior group named Agojie, who protected the African Kingdom known as Dahomey in the Gina Prince-Bythewood-directed film.
The EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) winner makes a reference to a powerful quote in the movie, where Nanisca says, “Sorry I left you, I wasn’t brave enough.”
“I never want to not be brave enough,” she continued. “As a woman, as a Black woman, as an artist. And I thank everyone who was involved in The Woman King because that was just nothing but high-octane bravery.”
Davis, who began her Hollywood journey in the mid-90s, said the movie has been her “magnum opus.”
Davis also won the award for Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction, for her memoir, Finding Me.
