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The NAACP Image Awards is an award presented annually by the American National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, usually abbreviated as NAACP and pronounced N-double-A-C-P, is one of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United States....
 to honor outstanding people of color in film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
, television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
, music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
, and literature
Literature

Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" . In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and non-fiction....
.

Similar to other awards, like the Oscars and the Grammys
Grammy Award

The Grammy Awards ?or Grammys?are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry....
. The 35 categories of Image Awards are voted on by members of the NAACP. There are also honorary awards, including the President's Award, the Chairman's Award, Entertainer of the Year and The Image Award Hall of Fame.

The awards were first presented in 1969.






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The NAACP Image Awards is an award presented annually by the American National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, usually abbreviated as NAACP and pronounced N-double-A-C-P, is one of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United States....
 to honor outstanding people of color in film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
, television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
, music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
, and literature
Literature

Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" . In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and non-fiction....
.

Similar to other awards, like the Oscars and the Grammys
Grammy Award

The Grammy Awards ?or Grammys?are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry....
. The 35 categories of Image Awards are voted on by members of the NAACP. There are also honorary awards, including the President's Award, the Chairman's Award, Entertainer of the Year and The Image Award Hall of Fame.

The awards were first presented in 1969. The awards series, normally broadcast with tape delay
Tape delay

Tape delay can mean:*Delay , an audio effect reminiscent of an echo*Broadcast delay, the practice of intentionally delaying a radio and television broadcast of live material....
 and aired by Fox Network
Fox Broadcasting Company

The Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox and stylized as FOX, is an United States television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation....
, was broadcast live for the first time in 2007 for the 38th edition of the awards show. It was first nationally televised in 1974. The ceremonies usually take place in or around the Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

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 area in February or early March.

Past Shows

Year Day Host Location
1970  
1972 November  
1974 January 19 Hollywood Palladium
Hollywood Palladium

The Hollywood Palladium is a theater located at 6215 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California. The facility, built in an Art Deco style, includes an 11,200 square foot dance floor with room for up to 4,000 people....
1982 December 5 Robert Guillaume
Robert Guillaume

Robert Guillaume is an United States stage and television actor, best known for his role as Benson Du Bois on the TV series Soap and the spin-off Benson , voicing the mandrill Rafiki in The Lion King, as Isaac Jaffe on Sports Night, and as Eli Vance in the Half Life 2 series....
 		 Hollywood Palladium
Hollywood Palladium

The Hollywood Palladium is a theater located at 6215 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California. The facility, built in an Art Deco style, includes an 11,200 square foot dance floor with room for up to 4,000 people....
1984 December 4  
1987 Debbie Allen
Debbie Allen

Deborrah Maye ?Debbie? Allen is an United States actress, choreographer, television director, television producer, and a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities....
/Denzel Washington
Denzel Washington

Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. is an United States actor and film director. He has garnered much critical acclaim for his work in film since the 1990s, including for his portrayals of real-life figures, such as Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, Melvin B....
 		 
1996 Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston

Whitney Elizabeth Houston is an United States singer, songwriter,actress, record producer, film producer, and former model . Houston rose to international fame in the mid-1980s and her crossover success opened doors for many other African American women to find success in booty shaking & pop music and movies....
/Denzel Washington
Denzel Washington

Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. is an United States actor and film director. He has garnered much critical acclaim for his work in film since the 1990s, including for his portrayals of real-life figures, such as Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, Melvin B....
 		 
1997 February 8 Arsenio Hall
Arsenio Hall

Arsenio Hall is an American actor, comedian, and former talk show host. He is best known for his talk show, The Arsenio Hall Show, which ran between 1989 and 1994....
/Patti LaBelle
Patti LaBelle

Patricia Louise Holte , best known by her stage name of Patti LaBelle, is an American rhythm and blues and soul music singer-songwriter and actor....
 		 Pasadena Civic Auditorium
1998 February 14 Vanessa L. Williams
Vanessa L. Williams

Vanessa Lynn Williams is an American singer-songwriter and actor. Williams made history on September 17, 1983 when she became the first woman of African descent to be crowned Miss America....
/Gregory Hines
Gregory Hines

Gregory Oliver Hines was an American actor, singer, dancer and choreographer....
 		 
1999 February 14 Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey is an United States singer-songwriter, record producer and actress. She made her recording debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, and became the first recording artist to have her first five singles top the U.S....
/Blair Underwood
Blair Underwood

'Blair Underwood' is an United States television and film actor. He is perhaps best known as headstrong attorney Jonathan Rollins from the NBC legal drama L.A....
 		 Pasadena Civic Auditorium
2000 February 12 Diana Ross
Diana Ross

Diane Ernestine "Diana" Ross is a recording artist, actress, and entertainer. During the 1960s, she helped shape the Motown Sound as lead singer of The Supremes before leaving for a solo career in the beginning of 1970....
 		 Pasadena Civic Auditorium
2001 February 23 Chris Tucker
Chris Tucker

Christopher "Chris" Tucker is an United States actor and comedian most widely known for his roles as Smokey in Friday and James Carter in the Rush Hour trilogy....
 		 Universal Amphitheatre
2002 March 3 Chris Tucker
Chris Tucker

Christopher "Chris" Tucker is an United States actor and comedian most widely known for his roles as Smokey in Friday and James Carter in the Rush Hour trilogy....
 		 Universal Amphitheatre
2003 March 8 Cedric the Entertainer
Cedric the Entertainer

'Cedric Antonio Kyles' , best known by his stage name, 'Cedric the Entertainer,' is an United States actor and comedian. He is perhaps best known as the co-star of the The WB Television Network sitcom The Steve Harvey Show, as Eddie in the Barbershop films, and as one of the four comedians featured in the Spike Lee film The Origi...
 		 Universal Amphitheatre
2004 March 6 Tracee Ellis Ross
Tracee Ellis Ross

Tracee Ellis Ross is an NAACP Image Award winning United States actress. The daughter of singer/actress Diana Ross and Robert Ellis Silberstein; she is best known for her lead role on the UPN/The CW Television Network series, Girlfriends....
/Golden Brooks
Golden Brooks

Golden Ameda Brooks is an United States actor....
/Persia White
Persia White

Persia White is an United States actor and musician. White is known for playing free-spirited professional student Lynn Searcy on the long-running situation comedy Girlfriends....
/Jill Marie Jones
Jill Marie Jones

Jill Marie Jones is an United States actress....
 		 Universal Amphitheater
2005 March 25 Chris Tucker
Chris Tucker

Christopher "Chris" Tucker is an United States actor and comedian most widely known for his roles as Smokey in Friday and James Carter in the Rush Hour trilogy....
 		 Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is one of the halls in the Los Angeles Music Center . The Music Center's other halls include the Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre, and Walt Disney Concert Hall....
2006 March 3 Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Cuba Gooding Jr. is an United States actor. He is best known for his Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor-winning portrayal as Rod Tidwell in Cameron Crowe's Jerry Maguire and his critically acclaimed performance in John Singleton's Boyz in the Hood ....
 		 Shrine Auditorium
Shrine Auditorium

The Shrine Auditorium is a landmark large-event venue in Los Angeles, California, United States. It is also the headquarters of the Al Malaikah Temple, a division of the Shriners....
2007 March 2 LL Cool J
LL Cool J

James Todd Smith , better known as LL Cool J, is an American rapper and actor. LL Cool J stands for "Ladies love Cool James." He is known for romantic ballads such as "I Need Love" and "Hey Lover" as well as pioneering hip-hop such as "Headsprung", "I Can't Live Without My Radio", "I'm Bad", "The Boomin' System", "Mama Said Knock You O...
 		 Shrine Auditorium
Shrine Auditorium

The Shrine Auditorium is a landmark large-event venue in Los Angeles, California, United States. It is also the headquarters of the Al Malaikah Temple, a division of the Shriners....
2008 February 14 D.L. Hughley Shrine Auditorium
Shrine Auditorium

The Shrine Auditorium is a landmark large-event venue in Los Angeles, California, United States. It is also the headquarters of the Al Malaikah Temple, a division of the Shriners....
2009 February 12 Halle Berry
Halle Berry

Halle Berry is an American actress, former fashion model, and beauty queen. Berry has received Emmy and Golden Globe awards for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2001 for her performance in Monster's Ball, becoming the first and, as of 2009, only woman of African-American descent to have won the a...
/Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry

Tyler Perry is an American playwright, screenwriter, actor and director and producer of independent films and stage plays. His best-known character is Mable "Madea" Simmons, who is a physically imposing and overbearing but well-intentioned woman who serves both as comic relief and as the loud voice of conscience for the protagonists of Perry...
 		 Shrine Auditorium
Shrine Auditorium

The Shrine Auditorium is a landmark large-event venue in Los Angeles, California, United States. It is also the headquarters of the Al Malaikah Temple, a division of the Shriners....


Controversy


The NAACP Image Awards have sometimes been the subject of controversy due to claims that certain nominees did not deserve to be honored by the NAACP. For example, in 1994, Tupac Shakur
Tupac Shakur

Tupac Amaru Shakur , also known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American Rapping. In addition to his status as a top-selling recording artist, Shakur was a promising actor and a social activist....
 was a nominee for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture for the film Poetic Justice
Poetic justice

Poetic justice is a Literary technique in which virtue is ultimately rewarded or vice punishment, often in modern literature by an irony twist of fate intimately related to the character's own conduct....
 although he had been charged in December 1993 with sexually abusing a woman. In 2004, R. Kelly
R. Kelly

Robert Sylvester Kelly better known by his stage name R. Kelly, is an American singer-songwriter, occasional rapper, and record producer....
's Chocolate Factory
Chocolate Factory

Chocolate Factory is the fifth studio album by contemporary R&B singer R. Kelly, released February 18, 2003 on Jive Records. Recording sessions for the album took place throughout 2001 to 2003 at Rockland Studios and Chicago Recording Company in Chicago, Illinois, featuring production of the album handled entirely by Kelly....
 was nominated for Outstanding Album although he was under indictment at the time for charges related to child pornography
Child pornography

Child pornography refers to images or films depicting sexually explicit activities involving a child; as such, child pornography is a visual record of child sexual abuse....
.

Other nominees have faced controversy due to their portrayals of major civil rights figures. In 2003, the movie Barbershop
Barbershop (film)

Barbershop is an Cinema of the United States comedy film film director by Tim Story , produced by State Street Pictures and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on September 13, 2002....
 received five nominations including Outstanding Motion Picture and Cedric the Entertainer
Cedric the Entertainer

'Cedric Antonio Kyles' , best known by his stage name, 'Cedric the Entertainer,' is an United States actor and comedian. He is perhaps best known as the co-star of the The WB Television Network sitcom The Steve Harvey Show, as Eddie in the Barbershop films, and as one of the four comedians featured in the Spike Lee film The Origi...
 as Outstanding Supporting Actor. The film had been criticized because Cedric's character in the film makes unflattering remarks
Barbershop (film)

Barbershop is an Cinema of the United States comedy film film director by Tim Story , produced by State Street Pictures and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on September 13, 2002....
 about Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African American civil rights activism whom the Congress of the United States later called the "Mother of the Modern-Day African-American Civil Rights Movement ."...
, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was an United States pastor, activist and prominent leader in the African-American African-American Civil Rights Movement ....
, and Jesse Jackson
Jesse Jackson

Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. is an American civil rights activism and Baptist Minister of religion. He was a candidate for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as "shadow senator" for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997....
. The rap group OutKast
OutKast

OutKast is an United States hip hop music duet based out of East Point, Georgia, a city south of Atlanta, Georgia, Georgia . The duo was originally known as The OKB but later changed its name to OutKast....
 received six nominations in 2004 but faced criticism because they had previously recorded a song titled "Rosa Parks" which had resulted in them being sued by Parks
Rosa Parks

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African American civil rights activism whom the Congress of the United States later called the "Mother of the Modern-Day African-American Civil Rights Movement ."...
 over the use of her name.

Award categories


Motion picture

  • Outstanding Motion Picture
    NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture

    The NAACP Image Award winners for Outstanding Motion Picture:...
  • Outstanding Documentary
    NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary

    The NAACP Image Award winners for Outstanding Motion Documentary:...
  • Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
    NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture

    The NAACP Image Award winners for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture: "Out of 12 films which featured Blacks in leading roles in 1980, Cicely Tyson was the only female in that category....
  • Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
    NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture

    The NAACP Image Award winners for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture:...
  • Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
    NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture

    The NAACP Image Award winners for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture:...
  • Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
    NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture

    The NAACP Image Award winners for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture:...


Television











Music

  • Outstanding New Artist
    NAACP Image Award for Outstanding New Artist

    The NAACP Image Award winners for Outstanding New Artist:...
  • Outstanding Female Artist
    NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Female Artist

    The NAACP Image Award winners for Outstanding Female Artist:...
  • Outstanding Male Artist
    NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Male Artist

    The NAACP Image Award winners for Outstanding Male Artist:...
  • Outstanding Duo or Group
    NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Duo or Group

    The NAACP Image Award winners for Outstanding Duo or Group:References...
  • Outstanding Jazz Artist
    NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Jazz Artist

    The NAACP Image Award winners for Outstanding Jazz Artist:...
  • Outstanding Gospel Artist
    NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Gospel Artist

    The NAACP Image Award winners for Outstanding Gospel Artist:...
  • Outstanding Music Video
    NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Music Video

    The NAACP Image Award winners for Outstanding Music Video:...
  • Outstanding Song
    NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Song

    The NAACP Image Award winners for Outstanding Song:...
  • Outstanding Album
    NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Album

    The NAACP Image Award winners for Outstanding Album:...


Literature



Special awards

  • Chairman's Award
    NAACP Image Award - Chairman's Award

    The NAACP Image Award winners for the Chairman's Award:...
  • President's Award
    NAACP Image Award - President's Award

    The NAACP Image Award winners for the President's Award:...
  • Hall of Fame Award
    NAACP Image Award - Hall of Fame Award

    The NAACP Image Award winners for the Hall of Fame Award:...
  • Entertainer of the Year
    NAACP Image Award for Entertainer of the Year

    The NAACP Image Award winners for Entertainer of the Year:...


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