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Home • ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood

Alfre Woodard's Pre-Oscars Sistahs Soiree Was The Love Fest Hollywood Needs 

By Danielle Kwateng-Clark and Crist · Updated October 24, 2020

You can literally see the joy bursting off the photos for Alfre Woodard’s 9th Annual Sistahs Soiree, hosted by Morgan Stanley. The pre-Oscars event is an intimate dinner with Black actresses who portrayed us accurately and beautifully in all their roles. We live for moments like this! And, as revealed by these photos, so do Woodard’s guests. 

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Alfre Woodard’s Oscar’s Sistahs Soiree 2018

So much black excellence in one room!

Alfre Woodard's Annual Oscar's Sistahs Soiree Through The Years Has Always Been Lit, Take A Look!

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Edwina Findley, Loretta Devine, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Margaret Avery, Mary J. Blige and Regina Hall
Alfre Woodard's Pre-Oscars Sistahs Soiree Was The Love Fest Hollywood Needs
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Regina Hall, Jada Pinkett Smith, Janelle Monae and Amandla Stenberg
Alfre Woodard's Pre-Oscars Sistahs Soiree Was The Love Fest Hollywood Needs
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Margaret Avery, Jada Pinkett Smith, Yolanda Ross and Danai Gurira
Alfre Woodard's Pre-Oscars Sistahs Soiree Was The Love Fest Hollywood Needs
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Mary J Blige, Amandla Stenberg and Rosario Dawson
Alfre Woodard's Pre-Oscars Sistahs Soiree Was The Love Fest Hollywood Needs
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Mary J Blige and Janelle Monae
Alfre Woodard's Pre-Oscars Sistahs Soiree Was The Love Fest Hollywood Needs
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Gabourey Sidibe and Loretta Devine
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Emayatzy Corinealdi, Margaret Avery, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Yolanda Ross
Alfre Woodard's Pre-Oscars Sistahs Soiree Was The Love Fest Hollywood Needs
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Gabourey Sidibe, Jada Pinkett Smith, LaTanya Richardson, Janelle Monae and Amandla Stenberg
Alfre Woodard's Pre-Oscars Sistahs Soiree Was The Love Fest Hollywood Needs
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Gabourey Sidibe, Jada Pinkett Smith and LaTanya Richardson
Alfre Woodard's Pre-Oscars Sistahs Soiree Was The Love Fest Hollywood Needs
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Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Yolanda Ross
Alfre Woodard's Pre-Oscars Sistahs Soiree Was The Love Fest Hollywood Needs
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Yolanda Ross and Gabourey Sidibe
Alfre Woodard's Pre-Oscars Sistahs Soiree Was The Love Fest Hollywood Needs
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Alfre Woodard, Regina Hall, Aisha Tyler and Rosario Dawson
Alfre Woodard's Pre-Oscars Sistahs Soiree Was The Love Fest Hollywood Needs
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Tiffany Haddish
Alfre Woodard's Pre-Oscars Sistahs Soiree Was The Love Fest Hollywood Needs
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Regina Hall and Nia Long
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Regina Hall, Aisha Tyler and Nia Long
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Janelle Monae
Alfre Woodard's Pre-Oscars Sistahs Soiree Was The Love Fest Hollywood Needs
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