NAACP Image Awards

The Image Awards continue to be a place to honor underrated black actors, and although their nominations are sometimes not the best quality it is nice to see talented actors in excellent roles such as Phylicia Rashad, Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, and Anika Noni Rose, who have been absent during the Oscar season get some overdue recognition. The film nominees are listed below, and the other categories can be found at their website: http://www.naacpimageawards.net/42/nominees-and-honorees/

Outstanding Motion Picture

For Colored Girls
Just Wright
The Book of Eli
The Kids Are All Right
Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too?

Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture

Anthony Mackie - Night Catches Us
Common - Just Wright
Denzel Washington - The Book of Eli
Jaden Smith - The Karate Kid
Morgan Freeman - Red

Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture

Halle Berry - Frankie & Alice
Janet Jackson - Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too?
Kerry Washington - Night Catches Us
Queen Latifah - Just Wright
Zoe Saldana - The Losers

Outstanding Support Actor in a Motion Picture

Don Cheadle - Brooklyn's Finest
Idris Elba - Takers
Justin Timberlake - The Social Network
Michael Ealy - For Colored Girls
Samuel L. Jackson - Mother and Child

Outstanding Support Actress in a Motion Picture

Anika Noni Rose - For Colored Girls
Kimberly Elise - For Colored Girls
Phylicia Rashad - For Colored Girls
Jill Scott - Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too?
Whoopi Goldberg - For Colored Girls

Outstanding Independent Motion Picture

Conviction
Frankie & Alice
La Mission
Mother and Child
Night Catches Us

Outstanding Foreign Motion Picture

A Barefoot Dream
Biutiful
Four Lions
Mother
Outside the Law

Outstanding Documentary (Theatrical or Television)

For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
If God is Willing and the Creek Don't Rise
Waiting for Superman

Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture (Theatrical or Television)


Mary King, Anna Waterhouse, Joe Shrapnel, Marko King, Jonathan Watters, Cheryl Edwards - Frankie & Alice
Michael C. Martin - Brooklyn's Finest
Michael Elliot - Just Wright
Rodrigo Garcia - Mother and Child
Tyler Perry - Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too?

Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture (Theatrical or Television)

 
Geoffrey Sax - Frankie & Alice
George Tillman, Jr. - Faster
Tanya Hamilton - Night Catches Us
The Hughes Brothers - The Book of Eli
Tyler Perry - For Colored Girls