Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige Lead 2018 NAACP Image Award Nominees: Full List

ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR

• Ava DuVernay
• Bruno Mars
• Chadwick Boseman
• Chance the Rapper
• Issa Rae
• Jay-Z

TELEVISION

Comedy Series

• “Ballers” (HBO)
• “black-ish” (ABC)
• “Dear White People” (Netflix)
• “Insecure” (HBO)
• “Survivor’s Remorse” (Starz)

Actor in a comedy series

• Anthony Anderson – “black-ish” (ABC)
• Aziz Ansari – “Master of None” (Netflix)
• Dwayne Johnson – “Ballers” (HBO)
• Keegan-Michael Key – “Friends from College” (Netflix)
• RonReaco Lee – “Survivor’s Remorse” (Starz)

Actress in a comedy series

• Danielle Brooks – “Orange Is the New Black” (Netflix)
• Issa Rae – “Insecure” (HBO)
• Loretta Devine – “The Carmichael Show” (NBC)
• Niecy Nash – “Claws” (TNT)
• Tracee Ellis Ross – “black-ish ” (ABC)

Drama Series

• “Greenleaf” (OWN)
• “Power” (Starz)
• “Queen Sugar” (OWN)
• “This Is Us” (NBC)
• “Underground” (WGN America)

Actor in a drama series

• Kofi Siriboe – “Queen Sugar” (OWN)
• Mike Colter – “Marvel’s the Defenders” (Netflix)
• Omari Hardwick – “Power” (Starz)
• Sterling K. Brown – “This Is Us ” (NBC)
• Terrence Howard – “Empire” (FOX)

Actress in a drama series

• Jurnee Smollett-Bell – “Underground” (WGN America)
• Kerry Washington – “Scandal” (ABC)
• Rutina Wesley – “Queen Sugar” (OWN)
• Taraji P. Henson – “Empire” (FOX)
• Viola Davis – “How to Get Away With Murder” (ABC)

Television movie, limited-series or dramatic special

• “Flint” (Lifetime)
• “Shots Fired” (FOX)
• “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” (HBO)
• “The New Edition Story” (BET)
• “When Love Kills: The Falicia Blakely Story” (TV One)

Talk series

• “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (ABC)
• “Super Soul Sunday” (OWN)
• “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” (Comedy Central)
• “The Real” (Syndicated)
• “The View” (ABC)

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

• Caleb McLaughlin – “Stranger Things” (Netflix)
• Ethan Hutchison – “Queen Sugar” (OWN)
• Lonnie Chavis – “This Is Us” (NBC)
• Marsai Martin – “black-ish” (ABC)
• Michael Rainey – “Power” (Starz)

RECORDING

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)

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)

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)

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

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.)

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)

MOTION PICTURE

Motion picture

• “Detroit” (Annapurna Pictures)
• “Get Out” (Universal Pictures)
• “Girls Trip” (Universal Pictures)
• “Marshall” (Open Road Films)
• “Roman J. Israel, Esq.” (Sony Pictures Entertainment)

Actor in a motion picture

• Algee Smith – “Detroit” (Annapurna Pictures)
• Chadwick Boseman – “Marshall” (Open Road Films)
• Daniel Kaluuya – “Get Out” (Universal Pictures)
• Denzel Washington – “Roman J. Israel, Esq.” (Columbia Pictures)
• Idris Elba – “The Mountain Between Us” (20th Century Fox)

Actress in a motion picture

• Amandla Stenberg – “Everything, Everything” (Warner Bros. Pictures / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures)
• Danai Gurira – “All Eyez on Me” (Summit Entertainment)
• Halle Berry – “Kidnap” (Aviron Pictures)
• Natalie Paul – “Crown Heights” (Amazon Studios)
• Octavia Spencer – “Gifted” (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Independent motion picture

• “Detroit” (Annapurna Pictures)
• “Last Flag Flying” (Amazon Studios)
• “Mudbound” (Netflix)
• “Professor Marston and the Wonder Women” (Annapurna Pictures)
• “Wind River” (Acacia Filmed Entertainment)

WRITING

Writing in a comedy series

• Aziz Ansari – “Master of None” – Thanksgiving (Netflix)
• Janine Barrois – “Claws” – Batsh*t (TNT)
• Justin Simien – “Dear White People” – Chapter 1 (Netflix)
• Issa Rae – “Insecure” – Hella Great (HBO)
• Issa Rae – “Insecure” – Hella Perspective (HBO)

Writing in a dramatic series

• Anthony Sparks – “Queen Sugar” – What Do I Care for Morning (OWN)
• Ava DuVernay – “Queen Sugar” – Dream Variations (OWN)
• Erica Anderson – “Greenleaf” – The Bear (OWN)
• Gina Prince-Bythewood – “Shots Fired” – Hour One: Pilot (FOX)
• Vera Herbert – “This Is Us” – Still Here (NBC)

Writing in a television movie or special

• Abdul Williams – “The New Edition Story” – Night Two (BET)
• Alison McDonald – “An American Girl Story: Summer Camp, Friends for Life” (Amazon)
• Cas Sigers-Beedles – “When Love Kills: The Falicia Blakely Story” (TV One)
• May Chan – “An American Girl Story – Ivy & Julie 1976: A Happy Balance” (Amazon)
• Peter Landesman, Alexander Woo, George C. Wolfe – “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” (HBO)

Writing in a motion picture

• Dee Rees, Virgil Williams – “Mudbound” (Netflix)
• Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani – “The Big Sick” (Amazon Studios)
• Jordan Peele – “Get Out” (Universal Pictures)
• Kenya Barris, Tracy Oliver – “Girls Trip” (Universal Pictures)
• Mark Boal – “Detroit” (Annapurna Pictures)

DIRECTING

Directing in a comedy series

• Anton Cropper – “black-ish” – Juneteenth (ABC)
• Barry Jenkins – “Dear White People” – Chapter 5 (Netflix)
• Justin Simien – “Dear White People” – Chapter 1 (Netflix)
• Spike Lee – “She’s Gotta Have It” – #NolasChoice (Netflix)
• Ken Whittingham – “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” – Kimmy Bites an Onion! (Netflix)

Directing in a dramatic series

• Carl Franklin – “13 Reasons Why” – Tape 5, Side B (Netflix)
• Ernest R. Dickerson – “The Deuce” – Show and Prove (HBO)
• Gina Prince-Bythewood – “Shots Fired” – Hour One: Pilot (FOX)
• Jeffrey Byrd – “Switched at Birth” – Occupy Truth (Freeform)
• Jonathan Demme – “Shots Fired” Hour Six: The Fire This Time (FOX)

Directing in a television movie or special

• Allen Hughes – “The Defiant Ones” (HBO)
• Chris Robinson – “The New Edition Story” – Night 1 (BET)
• Codie Elaine Oliver – “Black Love” (OWN)
• Kevin Hooks – “Madiba ” – Night 2 (BET)
• Mark Ford – “Biggie: The Life of Notorious B.I.G.” (A&E)

Directing in a motion picture

• Dee Rees – “Mudbound” (Netflix)
• Jordan Peele – “Get Out” (Universal Pictures)
• Malcolm D. Lee – “Girls Trip” (Universal Pictures)
• Reginald Hudlin – “Marshall” (Open Road Films)
• Stella Meghie – “Everything, Everything” (Warner Bros. Pictures / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures)