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A Complete List Of Black Golden Globe Winners - The Golden Globe Awards are tonight and in honor of the occasion, we've put together a comprehensive list of every Black perform who has been honored with hardware from the academy. From Sterling K. Brown, who became the first Black actor to win a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama to Oprah Winfrey who took home the Cecil B. DeMille Award, we want everyone to remember the incredible screenwork of these fine men and women.(Photo: Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic and Roy Rochlin/FilmMagic)

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Regina King - Regina King took home awards for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture and Best Supporting Actress in 2019 for her role as Sharon Rivers in If Beale Street Could Talk. She was also nominated for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for her acting in Seven Seconds. (Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage)

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Mahershala Ali - In 2019, Mahershala Ali took home the awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture and Best Supporting Actor for his role as classical jazz pianist Don Shirley in Greenbook. (Photo: David Livingston/Getty Images)

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Sterling K. Brown - In 2018, Sterling K. Brown became the first Black actor to win a Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama, which was for his role  role as Randall Pearson in NBC’s hit television series This Is Us. Brown said to the creator of the show Dan Fogelman, “Throughout the majority of my career I’ve benefited from color-blind casting. Dan Fogelman, you wrote a role for a Black man, that can only be played by a Black man — and what I appreciate so much about this thing is that I’m being seen for who I am and being appreciated for who I am and it makes it that much more difficult to dismiss me or dismiss anybody who looks like me.”(Photo: George Pimentel/WireImage)

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Oprah Winfrey - In 2018, Oprah Winfrey received the Cecil B. DeMille Award, the first Black woman to receive this honor. The award was presented to her by Reese Witherspoon and she gave a legendary speech, which you can watch here.(Photo: Paul Drinkwater/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)In 2018, Oprah Winfrey received the Cecil B. DeMille Award, the first Black woman to receive this honor. The award was presented to her by Reese Witherspoon and she gave a legendary speech, which you can watch here.In 2018, Oprah Winfrey received the Cecil B. DeMille Award, the first Black woman to receive this honor. The award was presented to her by Reese Witherspoon and she gave a legendary speech, which you can watch here.

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Tracee Ellis Ross - The Black-ish actress made history in 2017 as the first Black actress to win Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy in over 30 years. Debbie Allen won back in 1983. (Photo: Paul Drinkwater/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)

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Moonlight  - Moonlight won best drama at the 2017 Golden Globe Awards. It was the film's only win of the night, but the most prestigious award of the evening.

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Taraji P. Henson - The Empire actress may have missed her chance to make Emmys history last year, but 2016 is all about Cookie Lyon. Henson won her first Golden Globe Award this year for her role on the hit Fox show, and in her touching acceptance speech, she said the win was 20 years in the making. 

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Common and John Legend  - The 2015 Golden Globes saw John Legend and Common take home their very first trophy — for their very first nomination — in the category of Best Original Song. They provided the song "Glory" for the soundtrack of the film Selma and went on to win an Oscar for the track.(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

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12 Years a Slave -   Actors Chiwetel Ejiofor, Lupita Nyong'o and Michael Fassbender were shut out from wins at the 2014 Golden Globe Awards. In addition, director Steve McQueen lost the Best Director trophy. But the antebellum epic 12 Years a Slave took home the biggest win — Best Picture (Drama). It was the British director's first Globes win. (Photo: Plan B Entertainment)

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Don Cheadle - The star has two Globes wins to his name. Cheadle won for his portrayal of Sammy Davis Jr. in 1998's The Rat Pack, and scored a second win at the 2013 Golden Globes, as Best Actor in a Comedy Series for his edgy role in House of Lies.  (Photo: Jeff Vespa/WireImage)

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Sidney Poitier - Poitier was nominated five times, but won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in 1964 for Lilies in the Field. The revered actor went on to win the Oscar for his portrayal of a Black handyman who builds a chapel for a group of German nuns.(Photo: Paul Drinkwater/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

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James Earl Jones - A youthful Jones won a Golden Globe and earned an Oscar nod in 1971 for his role as a Black boxing champion in the racially charged biographical drama The Great White Hope.(Photo: Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)

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Louis Gossett Jr. - Gossett Jr. won the Best Supporting Actor award at both the Golden Globes and the Oscars in 1983 for his part in the romance classic An Officer and a Gentleman.(Photo: Ron Galella/WireImage)

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Denzel Washington - His performance in Flight earned Washington his sixth nomination, but he did not win. Nonetheless, Washington won two Golden Globes for Glory and The Hurricane. In 2016, the actor was given the Cecille B. DeMille award at the Golden Globes for his lifetime achievement in cinema.(Photo: Ron Galella/WireImage)

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Forest Whitaker - Whitaker beat Will Smith (nominated for The Pursuit of Happyness) in 2007 for Best Actor at both the Globes and the Oscars for his memorable role as dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland.  (Photo: M. Caulfield/WireImage for InStyle Magazine)

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Morgan Freeman - The much-celebrated actor has been nominated four times but has only taken home one Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in 1989's Driving Miss Daisy.  In 2012, Freeman was honored with the Cecil D. De Mille Award.  (Photo: George Pimentel/WireImage)

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Jamie Foxx - The multi-talented performer has been nominated for three Globes (two in the same year, 2004, for TV movie Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story and for feature film Collateral), but won in 2005 for Ray.(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

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Eddie Murphy - Murphy kicked off his career winning a Globe for New Star of the Year (a now-defunct category) in 1982 and was on a hot streak for the following two years, earning nominations for 48 Hours and Trading Places. He finally won again in 2006 for Dreamgirls.(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

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Idris Elba - In 2012, Idris Elba won Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television for his performance in Luther at the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards on January 15, 2012.(Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

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Octavia Spencer - Octavia Spencer won Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Award for The Help at the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards on January 15, 2012.(Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

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Diana Ross - This Motown songbird won a Golden Globe for playing Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues. (Photo: SGranitz/WireImage)

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Whoopi Goldberg - Goldberg won her first Golden Globe in 1986 for her supporting role in The Color Purple, and her second in 1991 for her portrayal as Patrick Swayze's psychic friend in Ghost. Nice pair of bookends!(Photo:  Ron Galella/WireImage)

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Angela Bassett - The actress is one for one at the Golden Globes. She received her only nomination — and win — for her portrayal of Tina Turner in What's Love Got to Do With It.(Photo: Ron Galella/WireImage)

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Jennifer Hudson - The first time was really a charm for this American Idol contestant, whose film debut in Dreamgirls earned her a Golden Globe... and an Oscar, a BAFTA, a SAG award and an NAACP award. (Photo: Paul Drinkwater/WireImage)

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Mo'Nique - Mo'Nique had her Golden moment in 2010 when she won a Best Supporting Actress statue for Precious. She went on to sweep the category at every major award function that year, winning at the Oscars, SAG Awards and the BAFTAs.(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

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Flip Wilson - Dubbed "TV's first Black superstar" by Time magazine in 1974, Wilson won a Golden Globe for The Flip Wilson Show in 1971 and was nominated the next two years in a row.(Photo: Nancy R. Schiff/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Redd Foxx - The Sanford and Son star was nominated four times for a Golden Globe, but won only once, in 1971.(Photo: Art Zelin/Getty Images)

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Bill Cosby - The comedy legend was nominated five times, three of those for his classic series The Cosby Show. He scored two consecutive wins (1985 and 1986) for playing the lovable doc Cliff Huxtable.(Photo: Paul Natkin/WireImage)

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Ving Rhames - Veteran character actor Rhames earned a Golden statue in 1998 for his portrayal of boxing manager Don King in HBO's Don King: Only in America. (Photo: HAL GARB/AFP/Getty Images)

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Jeffrey Wright - Wright won his first and only (for now) Golden Globe in 2004 for his portrayal of a gay nurse forced to care for a homophobic patient in Angels in America.(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

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Diahann Carroll - The Dynasty star received Globes recognition in 1969 for her groundbreaking title role in popular television series Julia.(Photo: Ron Galella/WireImage)

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Gail Fisher - One of the first Black women to play non-stereotypical parts on television, Fisher won two Golden Globe awards and two nominations in four consecutive years (1971-1974) for her character Peggy Fair on the popular '70s detective series Mannix. (Photo: CBS via Getty Images)

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Debbie Allen - Allen racked up two nominations and one win (in 1983) for her portrayal of dance teacher Lydia Grant in the television musical series Fame.(Photo: Ron Galella/WireImage)

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Regina Taylor - Actress and playwright Taylor won her solo Golden Globe in 1993 for her lead role in the television drama I'll Fly Away.(Photo: Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)

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Alfre Woodard - This veteran actress attracts awards like flypaper, but she won her only Golden Globe in 1998 for Miss Evers' Boys.(Photo: SGranitz/WireImage)

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Halle Berry - Though she will always be remembered for being the first African-American to win the coveted Best Actress Oscar, Berry has a number of Golden Globes noms to be proud of: a win in 2000 for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, and nominations for Monster's Ball, Their Eyes Were Watching God and Frankie and Alice.(Photo: Vince Bucci/AFP/Getty Images)

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S. Epatha Merkerson - A celebrated character actor since the mid-'80s, Merkerson won a Golden Globe for her first starring role in Lackawana Blues in 2006. (Photo: Vince Bucci/Getty Images)

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Queen Latifah - Though she had been honored by virtually every other Hollywood awards committee for her work in film, television and music, Latifah earned her first and only Golden Globe award in 2007, for playing an HIV-positive woman in Life Support. She was nominated again in 2016 for her role in Bessie.(Photo: Alberto Rodriguez/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

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Isaac Hayes - This legendary singer and songwriter earned a nomination in 1971 and a win in 1972 for creating the original score for Shaft.(Photo: Jim Dyson/Getty Images)

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Stevie Wonder - The musical genius won a Golden Globe for Best Original Song for his evergreen hit "I Just Called to Say I Love You." The song appeared in the 1984 film The Woman in Red.(Photo: Ben Peterson/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

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Lionel Richie - Richie earned both a Golden Globe nomination and Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song for creating the title track to the romantic drama Endless Love, and won a Globe in 1986 for the song "Say You, Say Me" from the film White Nights.(Photo: Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for DuJour)

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Prince - The legendary Prince won a Golden Globe for Best Original Song, "The Song of the Heart," in 2007 for the family-friendly animated film Happy Feet. (Photo: Paul Drinkwater/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)