Saturday, February 7, 2015

"Selma," "black-ish" Dominate 2015 NAACP Image Awards - Complete Winners List

The NAACP Image Award is an award bestowed by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).  The award honors outstanding achievements by people of color in film, television, music, and literature.  The awards are voted on by members of the NAACP.

The nominations for the 46th NAACP Image Awards were announced with the categories divided into eight groups:  Television, Recording (Music), Literary (Books), Motion Picture, Documentary (film and television), Writing (for film and television), Directing (for film and television), and Animated/CGI (for film and television).

The 2015 NAACP Image Awards were presented Friday, February 6, 2015.

Entertainer of the Year: Taraji P. Henson

NAACP President’s Award: Spike Lee


2015 / 46TH NAACP Image Awards winners:

TELEVISION

Outstanding Comedy Series
• "black-ish" (ABC)

Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series
• Anthony Anderson - "'black-ish" (ABC)

Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series
• Tracee Ellis Ross - "black-ish" (ABC)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
• Laurence Fishburne - "black-ish" (ABC)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
• Yara Shahidi - "black-ish" (ABC)

Outstanding Drama Series
• "How to Get Away with Murder" (ABC)

Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series
• Shemar Moore - "Criminal Minds" (CBS)

Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series
• Viola Davis - "How to Get Away with Murder" (ABC)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
• Joe Morton - "Scandal" (ABC)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
• Khandi Alexander - "Scandal" (ABC)

Outstanding Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special
• "The Trip to Bountiful" (Lifetime Networks)

Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special
• Blair Underwood - "The Trip to Bountiful" (Lifetime Networks)

Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special
• Cicely Tyson - "The Trip to Bountiful" (Lifetime Networks)

Outstanding News/ Information - (Series or Special)
• "Unsung" (TV One)

Outstanding Talk Series
• "Steve Harvey" (Syndicated)

Outstanding Reality Series
• "Iyanla: Fix My Life" (OWN)

Outstanding Variety Series or Special
• "Oprah's Master Class" (OWN)

Outstanding Children’s Program
• "Doc McStuffins" (Disney Junior)

Outstanding Performance by a Youth in a Youth/ Children’s Program - (Series or Special)
• Fatima Ptacek - "Dora and Friends: Into The City!" (Nickelodeon)

Outstanding Host in a Talk, Reality, News/ Information or Variety
• Steve Harvey - "Steve Harvey" (Syndicated)


RECORDING

Outstanding New Artist
• 3 Winans Brothers (BMG)

Outstanding Male Artist
• Pharrell Williams (Columbia Records)

Outstanding Female Artist
• Beyoncé (Columbia Records)

Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration
• "Stay with Me" - Sam Smith feat. Mary J Blige (Capitol)

Outstanding Jazz Album
• "My Old Friend: Celebrating George Duke" - Al Jarreau (Concord)

Outstanding Gospel Album - (Traditional or Contemporary)
• "Where My Heart Belongs" - Gladys Knight (Shadow Mountain Records)

Outstanding Music Video
• "You & I (Nobody in the World)" - John Legend (Columbia Records)

Outstanding Song
• "We Are Here" - Alicia Keys (RCA Records)

Outstanding Album
• "Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics" - Aretha Franklin (RCA Records)

LITERATURE

Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction
• "A Wanted Woman" - Eric Jerome Dickey (Penguin Random House)

Outstanding Literary Work - Non-Fiction
• "Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption" - Bryan Stevenson (Spiegel & Grau)

Outstanding Literary Work - Debut Author
• "Forty Acres" - Dwayne Alexander Smith (Atria Books)

Outstanding Literary Work - Biography/ Auto-Biography
• "Breaking Ground: My Life in Medicine" - Louis Sullivan with David Chanoff (University of Georgia Press)

Outstanding Literary Work - Instructional
• "Promises Kept: Raising Black Boys to Succeed in School and in Life" - Joe Brewster, Michele Stephenson, Hilary Beard (Spiegel & Grau)

Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry
• "Citizen: An American Lyric" - Claudia Rankine (Graywolf Press)

Outstanding Literary Work - Children
• "Dork Diaries 8: Tales From A Note-So-Happily Ever After" - Rachel Renee Russell with Nikki Russell and Erin Russell (Simon & Schuster)

Outstanding Literary Work - Youth/Teens
• "Brown Girl Dreaming" - Jacqueline Woodson (Nancy Paulsen Books)


MOTION PICTURE

Outstanding Motion Picture
• "Selma" (Paramount Pictures)

Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
• David Oyelowo - "Selma" (Paramount Pictures)

Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
• Taraji P. Henson - "No Good Deed" (Screen Gems)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
• Common - "Selma" (Paramount Pictures)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
• Carmen Ejogo - "Selma" (Paramount Pictures)

Outstanding Independent Motion Picture
• "Belle" (Fox Searchlight Pictures/ DJ Films)


DOCUMENTARY

Outstanding Documentary - (Film)
• "Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People" (Chimpanzee Productions, Inc.)

Outstanding Documentary - (Television)
• "Bad Boys" (ESPN)

WRITING

Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series
• Sara Hess - "Orange is the New Black" - It Was the Change (Netflix)

Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series
• Erika Green Swafford - "How to Get Away with Murder" - Let's Get To Scooping (ABC)

Outstanding Writing in a Television Movie
• Shernold Edwards - "A Day Late and a Dollar Short" (Lifetime Networks)

Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture
• Misan Sagay - "Belle" (Fox Searchlight Pictures/ DJ Films)


DIRECTING

Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series
• Ken Whittingham - "Parks and Recreation" - Prom (NBC)

Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series
• Carl Franklin - "House of Cards" - Chapter 14 (Netflix)

Outstanding Directing in a Television Movie
• Reggie Bythewood - "Gun Hill" (BET)

Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture
• Antoine Fuqua - "The Equalizer" (Columbia Pictures)


ANIMATED/CGI

Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance - (Television or Film)
• Loretta Devine - "Doc McStuffins" (Disney Junior)

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