The winners of the 49th Annual NAACP Image Awards were announced this week. The honorees included some expected choices and a few surprises. Ava Duvernay took home the Entertainer of the Year award, while Girls Trip took home top prize for Outstanding Motion Picture.
Anthony Anderson — who himself won for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series, for his work on black-ish — returned to host the of the ceremony in Pasadena on Monday, January 15 (MLK Day).
ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR
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MOTION PICTURE
Outstanding Motion Picture
Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
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Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
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Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Outstanding Independent Motion Picture
TELEVISION
Outstanding Comedy Series
Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series
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Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Outstanding Drama Series
Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series
Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Outstanding Television Movie, Limited-Series or Dramatic Special
Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Limited-Series or Dramatic Special
Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Limited-Series or Dramatic Special
Outstanding Performance by a Youth (Series, Special, Television Movie or Limited-series)
Outstanding News/Information – (Series or Special)
- News One Now (TV One)
- Oprah’s Master Class (OWN)
- The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman (National Geographic)
- Through the Fire: The Legacy of Barack Obama (BET)
- Unsung (TV One)
Outstanding Talk Series
- Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC)
- SuperSoul Sunday (OWN)
- The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (Comedy Central)
- The Real (Syndicated)
- The View (ABC)
Outstanding Reality Program/Reality Competition Series
- Iyanla: Fix My Life (OWN)
- Martha and Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party (VH1)
- Shark Tank (ABC)
- The Manns (TV One)
- United Shades of America with Kamau Bell (CNN)
Outstanding Variety (Series or Special)
- 2017 Black Girls Rock (BET)
- Dave Chappelle: The Age of Spin & Deep in the Hearts of Texas (Netflix)
- Def Comedy Jam 25 (Netflix)
- Lip Sync Battle (Spike TV)
- Saturday Night Live (OWN)
Outstanding Children’s Program
- Doc McStuffins (Disney Junior)
- Free Rein (Netflix)
- Nella, the Princess Knight (Nickelodeon)
- Project Mc² (Netflix)
- Raven’s Home (Disney Channel)
Outstanding Host in a News, Talk, Reality, or Variety (Series or Special) – Individual or Ensemble
- Fredricka Whitfield –Fredricka Whitfield (CNN)
- Morgan Freeman – The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman (National Geographic)
- Neil deGrasse Tyson – StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson (National Geographic)
- Roland Martin – News One Now (TV One)
- Trevor Noah – The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (Comedy Central)
Outstanding Host in a Reality/Reality Competition, Game Show or Variety (Series or Special) – Individual or Ensemble
- Alfonso Ribeiro –America’s Funniest Home Videos (ABC)
- Iyanla Vanzant – Iyanla: Fix My Life (OWN)
- Michael Smith and Jemele Hill – SC6 with Michael and Jemele (ESPN)
- LL Cool J – Lip Sync Battle (Spike)
- W. Kamau Bell – United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell (CNN)
DOCUMENTARY
Outstanding Documentary – (Film)
Outstanding Documentary – (Television)
- Birth of a Movement (PBS)
- Black Love (OWN)
- The 44th President: In His Own Words (History)
- The Defiant Ones (HBO)
- What the Health (AUM Films and Media + First Spark Media)
WRITING
Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series
Outstanding Writing in a Dramatic Series
Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture – (Television)
Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture (Film)
DIRECTING
Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series
Outstanding Directing in a Dramatic Series
Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture (Television)
Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture – (Film)
ANIMATED/CGI
Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance – (Television or Film)
RECORDING
Outstanding New Artist
- Demetria McKinney – “Officially Yours” (eOne Music)
- Kevin Ross – “The Awakening” (Motown/Capitol Records)
- Khalid – “American Teen” (RCA Records/Right Hand Music Group)
- SZA – “Ctrl” (RCA Records/Top Dawg Entertainment)
- Vic Mensa – “The Autobiography” (Roc Nation/Capitol Records)
Outstanding Male Artist
- Brian McKnight – “Genesis” (SoNo Recording Group)
- Bruno Mars – “Versace On the Floor” (Atlantic Records)
- Charlie Wilson – “In It to Win It” (RCA Records/P Music Group)
- JAY-Z – “4:44” (Roc Nation)
- Kendrick Lamar – “DAMN.” (TDE/Aftermath/Interscope)
Outstanding Female Artist
- Andra Day – “Stand Up For Something” (Warner Bros. Records)
- Beyoncé – “Die With You” (Columbia Records/Parkwood Entertainment)
- Ledisi – “Let Love Rule” (Verve Label Group)
- Mary J. Blige – “Strength of a Woman” (Capitol Records)
- SZA – “Ctrl” (RCA Records/Top Dawg Entertainment)
Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration
- Andra Day feat. Common – Stand Up For Something (Warner Bros. Records)
- Charlie Wilson feat. T.I. – I’m Blessed (RCA Records/P Music Group)
- Kendrick Lamar feat. Rihanna – LOYALTY. (TDE/Aftermath/Interscope)
- Mary J. Blige feat. Kanye West – Love Yourself (Capitol Records)
- SZA feat. Travis Scott – Love Galore (RCA Records/Top Dawg Entertainment)
Outstanding Jazz Album
- Boundless – Damien Escobar (Phoenix Lane Entertainment)
- Dreams and Daggers – Cécile McLorin Salvant (Mack Avenue Records)
- Petite Afrique – Somi (Sony Music/OKeh)
- Poetry In Motion – Najee (Shanachie Entertainment)
- So It Is – Preservation Hall Jazz Band (Legacy Recordings)
Outstanding Gospel Album – (Traditional or Contemporary)
- “Close” – Marvin Sapp (Verity Records)
- “Crossover Live From Music City” – Travis Greene (RCA Inspiration)
- “Greenleaf Soundtrack Volume 2” – Greenleaf Soundtrack (RCA Inspiration)
- “Heart. Passion. Pursuit.” – Tasha Cobbs Leonard (Motown Gospel)
- “Let Them Fall In Love” – CeCe Winans (Puresprings Gospel)
Outstanding Music Video
- “4:44” – JAY-Z (Roc Nation)
- “Gods” – Maxwell (Columbia Records)
- “High” – Ledisi (Verve Label Group)
- “Strength of A Woman” – Mary J. Blige (Capitol Records)
- “That’s What I Like” – Bruno Mars (Atlantic Records)
Outstanding Song – Traditional
- “High” – Ledisi (Verve Label Group)
- “Honest” – MAJOR. (BOE/Empire)
- “Surefire (Piano Version)” – John Legend (Columbia Records)
- “That’s What I Like” – Bruno Mars (Atlantic Records)
- “U + Me” – Mary J. Blige (Capitol Records)
Outstanding Song – Contemporary
- “Gonna Be Alright” – Mali Music (RCA Records/ByStorm Entertainment)
- “HUMBLE.” – Kendrick Lamar (TDE/Aftermath/Interscope)
- “Insecure” – Jazmine Sullivan X Bryson Tiller (RCA Records)
- “Love Galore” – SZA feat. Travis Scott (RCA Records/Top Dawg Entertainment)
- “The Story of O.J.” – JAY-Z (Roc Nation)
Outstanding Album
- “4:44” – JAY-Z (Roc Nation)
- “DAMN.” – Kendrick Lamar (TDE/Aftermath/Interscope)
- “Genesis” – Brian McKnight (SoNo Recording Group)
- “In It To Win It” – Charlie Wilson (RCA Records/P Music Group)
- “Strength of A Woman” – Mary J. Blige (Capitol Records)
LITERATURE
Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction
- “Little Fires Everywhere” – Celeste Ng (Penguin Random House)
- “No One Is Coming to Save Us” – Stephanie Powell Watts (HarperCollins Publishers)
- “Sing, Unburied, Sing” – Jesmyn Ward (Simon and Schuster)
- “The Annotated African American Folktales” – Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Author), Maria Tatar (Author) (Liveright Publishing Corporation)
- “The Wide Circumference of Love” – Marita Golden (Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.)
Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction
- “Black Detroit – A People’s History of Self-Determination” – Herb Boyd (HarperCollins Publishers)
- “Chokehold: Policing Black Men” – Paul Butler (The New Press)
- “Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies” – Dick Gregory (HarperCollins Publishers)
- “The President’s Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas” – Adrian Miller (University of North Carolina Press)
- “We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy” – Ta-Nehisi Coates (Random House)
Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author
- “A Beautiful Ghetto” – Devin Allen (Haymarket Books)
- “Chasing Spaces: An Astronaut’s Story of Grit, Grace & Second Chances” – Leland Melvin (HarperCollins Publishers)
- “No One Is Coming to Save Us” – Stephanie Powell Watts (HarperCollins Publishers)
- “Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat” – Patricia Williams (Author) Jeannine Amber (With) (HarperCollins Publishers)
- “We’re Going to Need More Wine” – Gabrielle Union (HarperCollins Publishers)
Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/ Auto-Biography
- “Ali: A Life” – Jonathan Eig (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- “Becoming Ms. Burton – From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women” – Susan Burton (Author), Cari Lynn (Author), Michelle Alexander (Foreword By) (The New Press)
- “Chester B. Himes” – Lawrence P. Jackson (W. W. Norton & Company)
- “Obama: The Call of History” – Peter Baker (New York Times/Callaway)
- “We’re Going to Need More Wine” – Gabrielle Union (HarperCollins Publishers)
Outstanding Literary Work – Instructional
- “Ballerina Body: Dancing and Eating Your Way to a Leaner, Stronger, and More Graceful You” – Misty Copeland (Grand Central Publishing)
- “Exponential Living – Stop Spending 100% of Your Time on 10% of Who You Are” – Sheri Riley (Author), Usher (Foreword By) (Penguin Random House)
- “Kristen Kish Cooking” – Kristen Kish (Author), Meredith Erickson (With) (Clarkson Potter)
- “Notoriously Dapper – How to Be A Modern Gentleman with Manners, Style and Body Confidence” – Kelvin Davis (Mango Media Inc.)
- “The Awakened Woman: Remembering & Reigniting Our Sacred Dreams” – Dr. Tererai Trent (Author), Oprah Winfrey (Foreword By) (Simon and Schuster)
Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry
- “Incendiary Art: Poems” – Patricia Smith (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press)
- “My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter” – Aja Monet (Haymarket Books)
- “Silencer” – Marcus Wicker (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- “The Drowning Boy’s Guide to Water” – Cameron Barnett (Autumn House Press)
- “Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems” – Ntozake Shange (Simon and Schuster)
Outstanding Literary Work – Children
- “Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court” – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Author), Raymond Obstfeld (With) (Hachette Book Group)
- “Before She Was Harriet” – Lesa Cline-Ransome (Author), James E. Ransome (Illustrator) (Holiday House)
- “Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History” – Vashti Harrison (Hachette Book Group)
- “Take a Picture of Me, James VanDerZee!” – Andrea J. Loney (Author), Keith Mallett (Illustrator) (Lee & Low Books)
- “The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, A Young Civil Rights Activist” – Cynthia Levinson (Author), Vanessa Brantley-Newton (Illustrator) (S&S Children’s Publishing)
Outstanding Literary Work – Youth/Teens
- “Allegedly” – Tiffany D. Jackson (HarperCollins Publishers)
- “Clayton Byrd Goes Underground” – Rita Williams-Garcia (Author), Frank Morrison (Illustrator) (Amistad/HarperCollins Publishers)
- “Long Way Down” – Jason Reynolds (S&S Children’s Publishing)
- “Solo” – Kwame Alexander (Author), Mary Rand Hess (With) (Blink)
- “The Hate U Give” – Angie Thomas (HarperCollins Publishers)
