48th NAACP Image Awards explained

Number:	48
Award:	NAACP Image Awards
Award Link:	NAACP Image Award
Date:	February 11, 2017
Site:	Pasadena, California
Host:	Anthony Anderson
Network:	TV One
Website:	NAACPImageAwards.net
Last:	47th
Next:	49th

The 48th NAACP Image Awards, presented by the NAACP, honored outstanding representations and achievements of people of color in motion pictures, television, music and literature during the 2016 calendar year. The 48th ceremony was hosted by Anthony Anderson and broadcast on TV One on February 12, 2017.^[1]

American 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Lonnie Bunch was honored with the President's Award for his studies of American and African history, as well as his contribution as the founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.^{[2] [3]} Harvard Law School ProfessorCharles Ogletree was awarded with the Chairman's Award.^[4]

All nominees are listed below, and the winners are listed in bold.^{[5] [6]}

Special Awards

President's Award
Lonnie Bunch
Chairman's Award
Charles Ogletree
Entertainer of the Year
Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson Beyoncé Viola Davis Regina King Chance the Rapper

Motion Picture

Hidden Figures The Birth of a Nation Fences Loving Moonlight	Barry Jenkins – Moonlight Nate Parker – The Birth of a Nation Anthony and Joe Russo – Garth Davis – Lion Mira Nair – Queen of Katwe
Denzel Washington – Fences Don Cheadle – Miles Ahead Stephan James – Race Nate Parker – The Birth of a Nation Will Smith – Collateral Beauty	Taraji P. Henson – Hidden Figures Angela Bassett – London Has Fallen Madina Nalwanga – Queen of Katwe Ruth Negga – Loving Tika Sumpter – Southside With You
Mahershala Ali – Moonlight Chadwick Boseman – Alano Miller – Loving David Oyelowo – Queen of Katwe Trevante Rhodes – Moonlight	Viola Davis – Fences Aja Naomi King – The Birth of a Nation Mo’Nique – Almost Christmas Lupita Nyong'o – Queen of Katwe Octavia Spencer – Hidden Figures
Barry Jenkins – Moonlight Adam Mansbach – Barry Nate Parker – The Birth of a Nation Jeff Nichols – Loving Richard Tanne – Southside With You	Moonlight The Birth of a Nation Lion Loving Miles Ahead

Television

Outstanding Drama Series

• Queen Sugar
  • Empire
  • Power
  • This Is Us
  • Underground

Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series

• Sterling K. Brown – This Is Us
  • Mike Colter – Luke Cage
  • Omari Hardwick – Power
  • Terrence Howard – Empire
  • Kofi Siriboe – Queen Sugar

Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series

• Taraji P. Henson – Empire
  • Viola Davis – How to Get Away with Murder
  • Jurnee Smollett-Bell – Underground
  • Kerry Washington – Scandal
  • Rutina Wesley – Queen Sugar

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

• Jussie Smollett – Empire
  • Trai Byers – Empire
  • Alfred Enoch – How to Get Away with Murder
  • Joe Morton – Scandal
  • Jesse Williams – Grey's Anatomy

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

• Naturi Naughton – Power
  • CCH Pounder –
  • Cicely Tyson – How to Get Away with Murder
  • Lynn Whitfield – Greenleaf
  • Amirah Vann – Underground

Outstanding Directing in a Dramatic Series

• John Singleton – – "The Race Card"
  • Millicent Shelton – Empire – The Lyon Who Cried Wolf"
  • Sam Esmail – Mr. Robot – "eps2.5_h4ndshake.sme"
  • Paris Barclay – Pitch – "Pilot"
  • Anthony Hemingway – Underground – "The Macon 7"

Outstanding Writing in a Dramatic Series

• Ava DuVernay – Queen Sugar – "First Things First"
  • Akela Cooper – Luke Cage – "Manifest"
  • Anthony Sparks – Queen Sugar – "By Any Chance"
  • Joe Robert Cole – – "The Race Card"
  • LaToya Morgan – – "Benediction"

Outstanding Comedy Series

• Black-ish
  • Atlanta
  • The Carmichael Show
  • Insecure
  • Survivor's Remorse

Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series

• Anthony Anderson – Black-ish
  • Don Cheadle – House of Lies
  • Donald Glover – Atlanta
  • Kevin Hart – Real Husbands of Hollywood
  • Dwayne Johnson – Ballers

Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series

• Tracee Ellis Ross – Black-ish
  • Uzo Aduba – Orange is the New Black
  • Niecy Nash – The Soul Man
  • Issa Rae – Insecure
  • Keesha Sharp – Lethal Weapon

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

• Laurence Fishburne – Black-ish
  • Miles Brown – Black-ish
  • Tituss Burgess – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
  • Deon Cole – Black-ish
  • David Alan Grier – The Carmichael Show

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

• Adrienne C. Moore – Orange is the New Black
  • Erica Ash – Survivor's Remorse
  • Laverne Cox – Orange Is the New Black
  • Marsai Martin – Black-ish
  • Yvonne Orji – Insecure

Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series

• Donald Glover – Atlanta – "Value"
  • Anton Cropper – Black-ish – "God"
  • Anton Cropper – Black-ish – "Good-ish Times"
  • Melina Matsoukas – Insecure – "Insecure as F**k"
  • Marta Cunningham – Transparent – "Exciting and New"

Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series

• Kenya Barris – Black-ish – "Hope"
  • Donald Glover – Atlanta – "B.A.N."
  • Issa Rae and Larry Wilmore – Insecure – "Insecure as F**k"
  • Prentice Penny – Insecure – "Real as F**k"
  • Our Lady J – Transparent – "If I Were a Bell"

Outstanding Television Movie, Limited-Series or Dramatic Special

• • American Crime
  • Confirmation
  • The Night Of
  • Roots

Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Limited-Series or Dramatic Special

• Courtney B. Vance –
  • Sterling K. Brown –
  • Cuba Gooding Jr. –
  • Malachi Kirby – Roots
  • Jeffrey Wright – Confirmation

Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Limited-Series or Dramatic Special

• Regina King – American Crime
  • Emayatzy Corinealdi – Roots
  • Audra McDonald – Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
  • Anika Noni Rose – Roots
  • Kerry Washington – Confirmation

Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture (Television)

• Rick Famuyiwa – Confirmation
  • Carl Seaton – Bad Dad Rehab
  • Mario Van Peebles – Roots (Night 2)
  • Thomas Carter – Roots (Night 3)
  • Vondie Curtis-Hall –

Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture – (Television)

• Charles Murray – Roots (Night 3)
  • Alison McDonald –
  • Rashida Jones and Michael Schur – Black Mirror ("Nosedive")
  • Rhonda Freeman-Baraka – Merry Christmas, Baby!
  • Alison McDonald – Roots (Night 2)

Outstanding Performance by a Youth (Series, Special, Television Movie or Limited Series)

• Marsai Martin – Black-ish
  • Emyyri Crutchfield – Roots
  • Hudson Yang – Fresh Off The Boat
  • Lonnie Chavis – This Is Us
  • Miles Brown – Black-ish

Outstanding Talk Series

• Steve Harvey
  • The Real
  • Super Soul Sunday
  • The Talk
  • The View

Outstanding Variety (Series or Special)

• 2016 Black Girls Rock
  • Celebrity Family Feud
  • The Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards 2016
  • Lemonade
  • Lip Sync Battle

Outstanding Reality Program/Reality Competition Series

• • Little Big Shots
  • Mary Mary
  • United Shades of America
  • The Voice

Outstanding Children’s Program

• • All In with Cam Newton
  • Doc McStuffins
  • K.C. Undercover
  • The Lion Guard

Outstanding News / Information – (Series or Special)

• • AM Joy with Joy Reid
  • StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Stay Woke
  • Unsung: Sugarhill Gang

Outstanding Host in a Talk, Reality, News/ Information or Variety (Series or Special)

• Roland S. Martin – NewsOne Now with Roland S. Martin (TV One)
  • Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross – BET Awards 2016
  • W. Kamau Bell – United Shades of America
  • Steve Harvey – Steve Harvey
  • Joy Reid – AM Joy with Joy Reid

Documentary

Outstanding Documentary – (Film)

• 13th
  • I Am Not Your Negro
  • Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
  • Miss Sharon Jones!
  • Olympic Pride, American Prejudice

Outstanding Documentary – (Television)

• Roots: A New Vision
  • Major League Legends: Hank Aaron
  • Policing the Police
  • Roots: A History Revealed
  • Streets of Compton

Animated/CGI

Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance – (Television or Film)

• Idris Elba – The Jungle Book
  • Loretta Devine – Doc McStuffins
  • Idris Elba – Finding Dory
  • Kevin Hart – The Secret Life of Pets
  • Dwayne Johnson – Moana

Music

Outstanding New Artist

• Chance the Rapper
  • Ro James
  • MAJOR.
  • Serayah
  • Chloe x Halle

Outstanding Male Artist

• Maxwell
  • Chance the Rapper
  • Kendrick Lamar
  • Bruno Mars
  • Anthony Hamilton

Outstanding Female Artist

• Beyoncé
  • Fantasia
  • Alicia Keys
  • K. Michelle
  • Solange

Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration

• Beyoncé feat. Kendrick Lamar – "Freedom"
  • Alicia Keys feat. ASAP Rocky – "Blended Family (What You Do for Love)"
  • Solange feat. Lil Wayne – "Mad"
  • Robert Glasper and Miles Davis – "Everything's Beautiful"
  • Sounds of Blackness feat. HSRA (High School for Recording Arts) – "Royalty"

Outstanding Jazz Album

• Edward Simon – Latin American Songbook
  • Leslie Odom Jr. – Leslie Odom Jr.
  • Branford Marsalis Quartet and Kurt Elling – Upward Spiral
  • Robert Glasper and Miles Davis – Everything's Beautiful
  • Erroll Garner – Ready Take One

Outstanding Gospel Album – Traditional or Contemporary

• Tamela Mann – One Way
  • Donnie McClurkin – The Journey (Live)
  • Myron Butler – Myron Butler & Levi On Purpose
  • Livre – Jericho: Tribe of Joshua
  • Fred Hammond – Worship Journal Live

Outstanding Music Video

• Beyoncé – "Formation"
  • Johnny Gill feat. New Edition – "This One's for Me and You"
  • Bruno Mars – "24K Magic"
  • Solange – "Cranes in the Sky"
  • Alicia Keys – "In Common"

Outstanding Song, Contemporary

• Beyoncé feat. Kendrick Lamar – "Freedom"
  • Common feat. Bilal – "Letter to the Free"
  • Sounds of Blackness feat. HSRA (High School for Recording Arts) – "Royalty"
  • Bruno Mars – "24K Magic"
  • Beyoncé – "Formation"

Outstanding Song, Traditional

• Kim Burrell and Pharrell Williams – "I See Victory"
  • Solange – "Cranes in the Sky"
  • Anthony Hamilton – "Amen"
  • Tamela Mann – "God Provides"
  • Maxwell – "Lake by the Ocean"

Outstanding Album

• Beyoncé – Lemonade
  • Solange – A Seat at the Table
  • Kendrick Lamar – untitled unmastered.
  • Chance the Rapper – Coloring Book
  • Anthony Hamilton – What I'm Feelin'

Literature

Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction

• Bernice L. McFadden – The Book of Harlan
  • Jacqueline Woodson – Another Brooklyn
  • Lawrence Hill – The Illegal
  • Yvvette Edwards – The Mother
  • Colson Whitehead – The Underground Railroad: A Novel

Outstanding Literary Work, Non-Fiction

• Margot Lee Shetterly – Hidden Figures
  • Eddie S. Glaude Jr. – Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
  • Angela Y. Davis – Freedom is a Constant Struggle
  • Ibram X. Kendi –
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld – Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White

Outstanding Literary Work, Debut Author

• Trevor Noah – Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
  • Lisa Fenn – Carry On
  • Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court
  • Natashia Deón – Grace: A Novel
  • Cory Booker – United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good

Outstanding Literary Work, Biography/Auto-Biography

• Trevor Noah – Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
  • Taraji P. Henson – Around the Way Girl: A Memoir
  • Nathaniel Jones – Answering the Call: An Autobiography of the Modern Struggle to End Racial Discrimination in America
  • Mychal Denzel Smith – Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, A Young Black Man's Education
  • Herb Powell and Maurice White – My Life with Earth, Wind & Fire

Outstanding Literary Work, Instructional

• Daymond John and Daniel Paisner – The Power of Broke: How Empty Pockets, a Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive Advantage
  • JJ Smith – Green Smoothies for Life
  • LA Reid – LA Reid Sing to Me: My Story of Making Music, Finding Magic, and Searching for Who's Next
  • Joy M. Scott-Carrol and Anthony Sparks – Running the Long Race in Gifted Education: Narratives and Interviews from Culturally Diverse Gifted Adults
  • The Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Abrams – The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

Outstanding Literary Work, Poetry

• Rita Dove – Collected Poems: 1974 – 2004
  • Clint Smith – Counting Descent
  • Jamaal May – The Big Book of Exit Strategies
  • Joshua Bennett – The Sobbing School
  • Phillip B. Williams – Thief in the Interior

Outstanding Literary Work, Children

• Andrea Davis Pinkney – A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day
  • Karissa Culbreath – Daddy's Little Girl
  • Javaka Steptoe – Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • Nikkolas Smith – The Golden Girls Of Rio
  • Gwendolyn Hooks – Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas

Outstanding Literary Work, Youth/Teens

• Jason Reynolds – As Brave As You
  • Christine Kendall – Riding Chance
  • Holly Robinson Peete, Ryan Elizabeth Peete, and RJ Peete - Same But Different: Teen Life on the Autism Express
  • Sharon Robinson – The Hero Two Doors Down: Based on the True Story of Friendship Between a Boy and a Baseball Legend
  • Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich and Audrey Vernick – Two Naomis

External links

• NAACP Image Awards official site

Notes and References

1. Web site: Holmes . Mannie . February 9, 2017 . Anthony Anderson Revels in 2017 Image Awards Hosting Gig . November 27, 2022 . . en-US.
2. Web site: February 13, 2017 . Lonnie G. Bunch III To Receive NAACP President’s Award at the 48th NAACP Image Awards on Feb 11 . November 27, 2022 . . en.
3. Web site: Photo: Dr. Lonnie G. Bunch III wins an award at the 48th NAACP Image Awards in Pasadena, California - LAP20170211488 . November 27, 2022 . . en.
4. Web site: Kelley . Sonaiya . February 12, 2022 . 'Hidden Figures' and 'Fences' win big at 48th NAACP Image Awards . November 27, 2022 . . en-US.
5. Web site: Lewis . Hilary . December 13, 2016 . NAACP Image Awards: ‘Birth of a Nation’ Scores 6 Nominations . December 13, 2023 . . en.
6. Web site: Washington . Arlene . Lewis . Hilary . February 11, 2022 . 2017 NAACP Image Award Winners: Complete List . November 27, 2022 . . en-US.