In January 1990, Goldberg starred with Jean Stapleton in the situation comedy "Bagdad Cafe ("inspired by the 1987 film of the same name). The sitcom ran for two seasons on CBS. Simultaneously, she starred in "The Long Walk Home", portraying a woman in the US civil rights movement. She played a psychic in the film "Ghost" (1990) and became the first black woman to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in nearly 50 years, and the second black woman to win an Academy Award for acting (the first being Hattie McDaniel for "Gone with the Wind" in 1940). "Premiere" named her character Oda Mae Brown in its list of Top 100 best film characters.