Excellence in film, television, music, and literature by outstanding people of color
Country
United States
Presented by
NAACP
First awarded
1969
Website
www.naacpimageawards.net
The NAACP Image Award is an annual awards ceremony presented by the American National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to honor outstanding people of color in film, television, music, and literature.[1] Similar to other awards, like the Oscars and the Grammys, the over 40 categories of the Image Awards are voted on by the award organization's members (in this case, NAACP members). Honorary awards (similar to the Academy Honorary Award) have also been included, such as the President's Award, the Chairman's Award, the Entertainer of the Year, and the Hall of Fame Award.
Contents
1History
2Event dates and locations
3Controversy
4Award categories
4.1Motion picture
4.2Music
4.3Literature
4.4Television
4.5Special awards
5References
6External links
History
The award ceremony was first presented in 1969 and was first nationally televised in 1994 on the Fox Network. There was no awards ceremony in 1973 or 1995. The first live broadcast of the event, also on the Fox Network, occurred in 2007 for its 38th edition (up until 2007, the ceremony had been broadcast with tape delay) and the annual ceremonies usually take place in or around the Los Angeles, United States area, in February or early March. The 44th edition aired on NBC. Sources have had trouble verifying the winners in the top categories from 1983-1995.
The New York firm Society Awards manufactures the trophy since its redesign in 2008.
Event dates and locations
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Date
Host(s)
Location
1st
1969
The Beverly Hilton
2nd
November, 1970
3rd
1971
4th
November, 1972
5th
January 19, 1974
Hollywood Palladium
6th
January, 1975
7th
1976
8th
April, 1977
9th
June, 1978
11th[2]
January 27, 1980
Louis Gossett Jr./Rita Moreno/Ted Lange/Benjamin Hooks
Hollywood Palladium
12th
December, 1981
13th
December 5, 1982
Robert Guillaume
Hollywood Palladium
14th
December, 1983
Jayne Kennedy/George Peppard/Michael Warren
15th
December 4, 1984
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
16th
December, 1985
17th
December, 1986
18th
December 13, 1987
Debbie Allen/Denzel Washington
19th
December, 1988
20th
December, 1989
21st
December 9, 1990
22nd
1991
23rd
January 11, 1992
24th
January 16, 1993
Pasadena Civic Auditorium
25th
January 5, 1994
27th
April, 1996
Whitney Houston/Denzel Washington
Pasadena Civic Auditorium
28th
February 8, 1997
Arsenio Hall/Patti LaBelle
29th
February 14, 1998
Vanessa L. Williams/Gregory Hines
30th
February 14, 1999
Mariah Carey/Blair Underwood[3]
Pasadena Civic Auditorium
31st
February 12, 2000
Diana Ross
32nd
February 23, 2001
Chris Tucker
Universal Amphitheatre
33rd
March 3, 2002
Chris Tucker
34th
March 8, 2003
Cedric the Entertainer
35th
March 6, 2004
Tracee Ellis Ross/Golden Brooks/Persia White/Jill Marie Jones
36th
March 19, 2005
Chris Tucker
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
37th
February 26, 2006
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Shrine Auditorium
38th
March 2, 2007
LL Cool J
39th
February 14, 2008
D. L. Hughley
40th
February 12, 2009
Halle Berry/Tyler Perry
41st
February 26, 2010
Anika Noni Rose/Hill Harper
42nd
March 4, 2011
Wayne Brady/Holly Robinson Peete
43rd
February 17, 2012
Sanaa Lathan/Anthony Mackie
44th
February 1, 2013
Steve Harvey
45th
February 22, 2014
Anthony Anderson[4]
Pasadena Civic Auditorium
46th
February 6, 2015
47th
February 5, 2016
48th
February 11, 2017
49th
January 15, 2018
Controversy
In 1987, the NAACP came under fire for dropping their Best Actress award for that year. They defended this position, citing a lack of meaningful roles for black women.[5] In 1990, they were criticized once again for not awarding Best Actress.[6] This was the fourth time it could not find enough nominees for Best Actress.[6] Sandra Evers-Manly, president of the organization's Beverly Hills/Hollywood branch, said "The [film] industry has yet to show diversity or present realistic leading roles for African-American women."[6]
The NAACP Image Awards have been the subject of controversy due to prior claims that certain nominees were undeserving of NAACP attention. In response, parties have argued that the quality of an artist's work is the salient issue, with factors such as criminal charges inconsequential in this regard. For example, in 1994, Tupac Shakur was a nominee for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture for the film Poetic Justice following sexual assault charges in December 1993.[7] More specifically, Shakur was accused of felony counts of forcible sodomy and unlawful detainment in New York City, when a woman alleged that Shakur and two other men held her down in a hotel room while a fourth man sodomized her.[8] Shakur was also indicted with two counts of aggravated assault in an unrelated incident in which he supposedly shot and wounded two off-duty police officers.[8] In the same year, Martin Lawrence was criticized for winning Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Comedy Series and the show was criticized for its sexual controversy.[8] In 2004, R. Kelly's Chocolate Factory was nominated for Outstanding Album[9] while he was under indictment for charges related to child pornography.[10]
Other nominees have faced controversy due to their portrayals of major civil rights figures. In 2003, the movie, Barbershop, received five nominations, including Outstanding Motion Picture and Outstanding Supporting Actor (for Cedric the Entertainer's performance). In the film, Cedric's character makes pejorative remarks about Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., Michael Jackson and Jesse Jackson, content that elicited criticism, including Rosa Parks boycotting the awards event.[11] The rap group 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 over the use of her name.[10]
Award categories
These are the major categories:
Motion picture
Outstanding Motion Picture
Outstanding Documentary
Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
Outstanding International Motion Picture
Outstanding Independent Motion Picture
Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture
Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture
Music
Outstanding New Artist
Outstanding Female Artist
Outstanding Male Artist
Outstanding Duo or Group
Outstanding Jazz Artist
Outstanding Jazz Album
Outstanding Gospel Artist
Outstanding Gospel Album (Traditional or Contemporary)
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