42nd Annual NAACP Awards Nominees!


NAACP Image Awards honors outstanding works in TV, Movie and other fields like Literature. The winners will be handed the statuettes at a ceremony to air on March 4 at 8 P.M. on FOX. Check the nominees:

TELEVISION
Outstanding Comedy Series
•       “30 Rock” (NBC)
•       “Are We There Yet?” (TBS)
•       “Glee” (FOX)
•       “Modern Family” (ABC)
•       “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne” (TBS)
Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series
•       David Mann – “Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns” (TBS)
•       Dulé Hill – “Psych” (USA)
•       LaVan Davis – “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne” (TBS)
•       Phil Morris – “Love That Girl!” (TV One)
•       Terry Crews – “Are We There Yet?” (TBS)
Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series
•       Cassi Davis – “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne” (TBS)
•       Essence Atkins – “Are We There Yet?” (TBS)
•       Salli Richardson-Whitfield – “Eureka” (Syfy)
•       Tatyana Ali – “Love That Girl!” (TV One)
•       Vanessa Williams – “Desperate Housewives” (ABC)
Outstanding Drama Series
•       “Detroit 1-8-7″ (ABC)
•       “Grey’s Anatomy” (ABC)
•       “HawthoRNe” (TNT)
•       “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” (NBC)
•       “Treme” (HBO)
Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series
•       Anthony Anderson – “Law & Order” (NBC)
•       Blair Underwood – “The Event” (NBC)
•       Hill Harper – “CSI: NY” (CBS)
•       Laurence Fishburne – “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” (CBS)
•       LL Cool J – “NCIS: Los Angeles ” (CBS)
Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series
•       Chandra Wilson – “Grey’s Anatomy” (ABC)
•       GuGu Mbatha-Raw – “Undercovers” (NBC)
•       Jada Pinkett Smith – “HawthoRNe” (TNT)
•       Regina King – “Southland” (TNT)
•       Wendy Davis – “Army Wives” (Lifetime)
Outstanding Talk (Series)
•       “Conversations with Ed Gordon” (BET Networks)
•       “Larry King Live” (CNN)
•       “The Mo’Nique Show” (BET Networks)
•       “The View” (ABC)
•       “TV One on One with Cathy Hughes” (TV One)
Outstanding Reality Series
•       “American Idol” (FOX)
•       “America’s Next Top Model” (The CW)
•       “Dancing with the Stars” (ABC)
•       “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” (ABC)
•       “Sunday Best” (BET Networks)

RECORDING
Outstanding New Artist
•       B.o.B (Rebel Rock/Grand Hustle/Atlantic)
•       Bruno Mars (Elektra Records)
•      Jason Derulo (Warner Bros. Records)
•       Nicki Minaj (Young Money/Cash Money/Universal Motown)
•       Willow (Roc Nation/Columbia Records)
Outstanding Male Artist
•       Cee Lo Green (Elektra Records)
•       Jay-Z (Roc Nation/Def Jam)
•       Kanye West (Island Def Jam Music Group)
•       Ne-Yo (Island Def Jam Music Group)
•       Usher (Laface/Jive Records)
Outstanding Female Artist
•       Chrisette Michele (Island Def Jam Music Group)
•       Corinne Bailey Rae (Capitol Records)
•       Mary J. Blige (Geffen Records/Matriarch)
•       Rihanna (Island Def Jam Music Group)
•       Sade (Epic Records)
Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration
•       Diddy-Dirty Money (Bad Boy/Interscope)
•       Eminem & Rihanna (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope)
•       Herbie Hancock (feat. India.Arie, Chaka Khan and others) (Hancock Music)
•       John Legend and The Roots (Columbia Records)
•       The Black Eyed Peas (Interscope)
Outstanding Album
•       “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” – Kanye West (Island Def Jam Music Group)
•       “Now and Then” – Smokey Robinson (Saguaro Road/Cracker Barrel/Robso Records)
•       “Raymond vs. Raymond” – Usher (Laface/Jive Records)
•       “Soldier of Love” – Sade (Epic Records)
•       “Wake Up!” – John Legend and The Roots (Columbia Records)

LITERATURE
Outstanding Literary Work -Fiction
•       “A Taste of Honey” – Jabari Asim (Broadway Books)
•       “Getting to Happy” – Terry McMillan (Penguin Group)
•       “Glorious” – Bernice L. McFadden (Akashic Books)
•       “Till You Hear From Me” – Pearl Cleage (Ballantine Books/One World)
•       “Wench” – Dolen Perkins-Valdez (Amistad)
Outstanding Literary Work -Debut Author
•       “Wench” – Dolen Perkins-Valdez (Amistad)
•       “The Girl Who Fell from the Sky” – Heidi Durrow (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
•       “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration” – Isabel Wilkerson (Random House)
•       “Beneath the Lion’s Gaze” – Maaza Mengiste (W.W. Norton & Company)
•       “Forest Gate” – Peter Akinti (Free Press/Simon & Schuster)

MOTION PICTURE
Outstanding Motion Picture
•       “For Colored Girls” (Lionsgate/34th Street Films)
•       “Just Wright” (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
•       “The Book of Eli” (Warner Bros. Pictures)
•       “The Kids Are All Right” (Focus Features)
•       “Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too?” (Lionsgate)
Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
•       Anthony Mackie – “Night Catches Us” (Magnolia Pictures)
•       Common – “Just Wright” (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
•       Denzel Washington – “The Book of Eli” (Warner Bros. Pictures)
•       Jaden Smith – “The Karate Kid” (Columbia Pictures)
•       Morgan Freeman – “Red” (Summit Entertainment)
Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
•       Halle Berry – “Frankie & Alice” (Freestyle Releasing)
•       Janet Jackson – “Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too?” (Lionsgate)
•       Kerry Washington – “Night Catches Us” (Magnolia Pictures)
•       Queen Latifah – “Just Wright” (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
•       Zoë Saldana – “The Losers” (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Outstanding Independent Motion Picture
•       “Conviction” (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
•       “Frankie & Alice” (Freestyle Releasing)
•       “La Mission” (Screen Media Ventures)
•       “Mother and Child” (Sony Pictures Classics)
•       “Night Catches Us” (Magnolia Pictures)
Outstanding Foreign Motion Picture
•       “A Barefoot Dream” (Showbox/Mediaplex)
•       “Biutiful” (Roadside Attractions)
•       “Four Lions” (Drafthouse Films)
•       “Mother” (Magnolia Pictures)
•       “Outside the Law” (Tessalit Productions)
Outstanding Documentary (Theatrical or Television)
•       “For Love of Liberty: The Story of America’s Black Patriots” (PBS)
•       “Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel” (Metaphor Films)
•       “If God is Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise” (HBO)
•       “Waiting for “Superman” (Paramount Vantage)
•       “William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe” (POV)

Congrats to Tyler Perry who nabbed 19 noms! Let's see if he'll get them all.