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Tonight's '42nd annual NAACP Image Awards' was a star-studded affair that brought together some of the most notable personalities in entertainment to Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium. From Angela Bassett and Anthony Mackie to LL Cool J and Regina King, the stars came out in full force.
Tyler Perry, who garnered the most Image Award nominations in the categories of film and television, was the big winner of the night, racking up awards for Outstanding Motion Picture and Outstanding Director in a Motion Picture for the film 'For Colored Girls.' In accepting the award for Outstanding Motion Picture, Perry thanked the choreopoem's original author Ntozake Shange, whose play the film was adapted from. With the cast of 'For Colored Girls' standing behind him, the 'Madea Goes to Jail' director also spoke about a challenge in making the film, stating that the difficulty was in bringing the film to audiences that might not be familiar with the work. Perry also made sure to thank black women for their continued support of his work.
Some of the other highlights of the show included the presentation of the President's Award to Colin Powell and surprise guest Prince, who presented the award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture to Halle Berry for her role in 'Frankie & Alice.'
Below is a complete list of winners:
TELEVISION
Comedy Series
30 Rock (NBC)
Actor in a Comedy Series
Actress in a Comedy Series
Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Craig Robinson - The Office (NBC)
Ice Cube - Are We There Yet? (TBS)
Lamman Rucker - Meet the Browns (TBS)
Lance Gross - Tyler Perry's House of Payne (TBS)
Tracy Morgan - 30 Rock (NBC)
Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Amber Riley - Glee (FOX)
Anna Deavere Smith - Nurse Jackie (Showtime)
Keshia Knight Pulliam - Tyler Perry's House of Payne (TBS)
Sofia Vergara - Modern Family (ABC)
Viola Davis - United States of Tara (Showtime)
Drama Series
Detroit 1-8-7 (ABC)
Grey's Anatomy (ABC)
HawthoRNe (TNT)
Law & Order: Special Victim's Unit (NBC)
Treme (HBO)
Actor in a Drama Series
Anthony Anderson - Law & Order (NBC)
Blair Underwood - The Event (NBC)
Hill Harper - CSI: NY (CBS)
Laurence Fishburne - CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (CBS)
LL Cool J - NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS)
Actress in a Drama Series
Chandra Wilson - Grey's Anatomy (ABC)
Gu-Gu Mbatha-Raw - Undercovers (NBC)
Jada Pinkett-Smith - HawthoRNe (TNT)
Regina King - Southland (TNT)
Wendy Davis - Army Wives (Lifetime)
Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Andre Braughner - Men of a Certain Age (TNT)
Giancarlo Esposito - Breaking Bad (AMC)
James Pickens, Jr. - Grey's Anatomy (ABC)
Nelsan Ellis - True Blood (HBO)
Terrence Howard - Law & Order: Los Angeles (NBC)
Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Alfre Woodard - Memphis Beat (TNT)
Sandra Oh - Grey's Anatomy (ABC)
Sara Ramirez - Grey's Anatomy (ABC)
S. Epatha Merkerson - Law & Order (NBC)
Vanessa Bell Calloway - HawthoRNe (TNT)
Actor in a Daytime Drama Series
Aaron D. Spears - The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)
Cornelius Smith, Jr. - All My Children (ABC)
Darnell Williams - All My Children (ABC)
Rodney Saulsberry - The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)
Actress in a Daytime Drama Series
Debbi Morgan - All My Children (ABC)
Julia Pace Mitchell - The Young and the Restless (CBS)
Tatyana Ali - The Young and the Restless (CBS)
Yvette Freeman - The Bold and Beautiful (CBS)
News/Information - Series or Special
A Conversation with President Obama - (BET, CMT, MTV)
Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
The Judge Mathis Show (Syndicated)
Unsung (TV One)
Washington Watch with Roland Martin (TV One)
Talk Series
Conversations with Ed Gordon (BET Networks)
Larry King Live (CNN)
The Mo'Nique Show (BET Networks)
The View (ABC)
TV One on One with Cathy Hughes (TV One)
Reality Series
American Idol (FOX)
America's Next Top Model (The CW)
Dancing with the Stars (ABC)
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (ABC)
Sunday Best (BET Networks)
Variety - Series or Special
2010 Best Honors (BET Networks)
Beyonce: I AM...WORLD TOUR (ABC)
Black Girls Rock! (BET Networks)
TV One Night Only: Live from the Essence Music Festival (TV One)
UNCF An Evening of Stars Tribute to Lionel Richie (Syndicated)
Children's Program
Brave New Voices 2010 (HBO)
Dora the Explorer (Nickelodeon)
The Backyardigans (Nickelodeon)
True Jackson, VP (Nickelodeon)
Wizards of Waverly Place (Disney Channel)
Performance in Youth/Children's Program - Series or Special
KeKe Palmer - True Jackson, VP (Nickelodeon)
Lance Robertson - Yo Gabba Gabba: Baby (Nickelodeon)
Nick Cannon - TeenNick Halo Awards 2010 (TeenNick)
Selena Gomez - Wizards of Waverly Place (Disney Channel)
Victoria Justice - Victorious (Nickelodeon)
RECORDING
Duo, Group, or Collaboration
Diddy-Dirty Money (Bad Boy/Interscope)
Eminem & Rihanna (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope)
Herbie Hancock feat. India Arie, Chaka Khan and others (Hancock Music)
John Legend and The Roots (Columbia Records)
The Black Eyed Peas (Interscope)
Jazz Album
Dee Dee Bridgewater Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love from Dee Dee - Dee Dee Bridgwater (EmArcy/Decca Label Group/DDB Records)
From Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf: Live in Marciac - The Wynton Marsalis Quintet & Richard (The Orchard)
Geri Allen & Timeline Live - Geri Allen & Timeline Live (Motema Music)
The Imagine Project - Herbie Hancock (Hancock Music)
VOCAbuLarieS - Bobby McFerrin (Universal Music Group/Decca/Emarcy)
Gospel Album - Traditional or Contemporary
Gospel According to Jazz, Chapter III - Kirk Whalum (Rendezvous Music/Mack Avenue Records)
Here I Am - Marvin Sapp (Verity Gospel Music Group)
Just Love Deluxe - Brian Courtney Wilson (Music World Gospel)
Master Plan - Tamela Mann (TillyMann)
You Are Not Alone - Marvin Sapp (ANTI Records)
World Music Album
Hymns for Rebel Soul - Rocky Dawuni (Aquarian Records)
Oyo - Angelique Kidjo (Razor & Tie)
The Imagine Project - Herbie Hancock (Hancock Music)
The Sound of Sunshine - Michael Franti (EMI Music)
VOCAbuLarieS - Bobby McFerrin (Universal Music Group/Decca/Emarcy)
Music Video
Fistful of Tears - Maxwell (Columbia Records)
Solider of Love - Sade (Epic Records)
Un-thinkable (I'm Ready) - Alicia Keys (J Records)
Whip My Hair - Willow (Roc Nation/Columbia Records)
Why Don't You Love Me - Beyonce Knowles (Columbia Records)
Literary Work - Debut Author
Wench - Dolen Perkins-Valdez (Amistad)
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky - Heidi Durrow (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration - Isabel Wilkerson (Random House)
Forest Gate - Peter Akinti (Free Press/Simon & Schuster)
Literary Work - Biography/Auto-Biography
Conversations with Myself - Ruth Hobday, Nelson Mandela (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Decoded - Jay-Z (Spiegel & Gran, a Division of Random House)
Extraordinary, Ordinary People - Condoleezza Rice (Crown Archetype)
I'm Still Standing: From Captive U.S. Soldier to Free Citizen - My Journey Home - Shoshana Johnson, Mary Doyle (Touchstone, An Imprint of Simon & Schuster)
You Don't Know Me: Reflections of My Father, Ray Charles - Ray Charles Robinson, Jr. (Crown)
Literary Work - Instructional
A Boy Should Know How to Tie a Tie: And Other Lessons for Succeeding in Life - Antwone Fisher (Touchstone, An Imprint of Simon & Schuster)
Diet-Free For Life: A Revolutionary Food, Fitness, and Mindset Makeover to Maximize Fat Loss - Robert Ferguson (Penguin Group USA, Perigee Hardcover)
If it Takes A Village, Build One: How I Found Meaning Through a Life of Service and 100+ Ways You Can Too - Malaak Compton-Rock (Crown Archetype)
The Blueprint: A Plan for Living Above Life's Storms - Kirk Franklin (Gotham Books)
The Little Black Book of Success: Laws of Leadership for Black Women - Elaine Meryl Brown, Rhonda McLean, Marsha Haygood (Ballantine Books/One World)
Literary Work - Poetry
100 Best African-American Poems - Nikki Giovanni (Sourcebooks MediaFusion)
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing - Alice Walker (Author), Shiloh McCloud (Illustrator) (New World Library)
Holding Company - Major Jackson (W.W. Norton & Company)
Stuck On the Marrow - Camille T. Dungy (Red Hen Press)
White Egrets - Derek Walcott (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Literary Work - Children
Grandma's Gift - Eric Velasquez (Bloomsbury USA Children's Books)
Mama Miti: Wangai Maathai and the Tree of Kenya - Donna Jo Napoli (Author), Kadir Nelson (Illustrator) (Paul Wiseman Books, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing)
My Brother Charlie - Holly Robinson Peete, Ryan Elizabeth Peete (Authors) , Shane W. Evans (Illustrator) (Scholastic Press)
Side By Side/Lado a Lado: The Story of Delores Huerta and Cesar Chavez - Monica Brown (Author), Joe Cepada (Illustrator) (Harper Collins Children's Books)
Literary Work - Youth/Teens
Condoleezza Rice A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me - Condoleezza Rice (Random House Children's Books)
Lockdown - Walter Dean Myers (Harper Collins Children's Books)
Malcolm X: I Believe in the Brotherhood of Men, All Men - Jeff Burlingame (Enslow Publishers, Inc.)
Out of My Mind - Sharon Draper (Atheneum Young Reader)
One Crazy Summer - Rita Williams-Garcia (Harper Collins Children's Books)
MOTION PICTURE
Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
Don Cheale - Brooklyn's Finest (Overture Films)
Idris Elba - Takers (Screen Gems)
Justin Timberlake - The Social Network (Columbia Pictures)
Michael Ealy - For Colored Girls (Lionsgate/34th Street Films)
Samuel L. Jackson - Mother and Child (Sony Picture Classics)
Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Anika Noni Rose - For Colored Girls (Lionsgate/34th Street Films)
Kimberly Elise - For Colored Girls (Lionsgate/34th Street Films)
Phylicia Rashad - For Colored Girls (Lionsgate/34th Street Films)
Jill Scott - Why Did I Get Married Too? (Lionsgate)
Whoopi Goldberg - For Colored Girls (Lionsgate/34th Street Films)
Independent Motion Picture
Conviction (Fox Searchlight Pictures
Frankie & Alice (Freestyle Releasing)
La Mission (Screen Media Ventures)
Mother and Child (Sony Pictures Classics)
Night Catches Us (Magnolia Pictures)
Foreign Motion Picture
A Barefoot Dream (Showbox/Mediaplex)
Biutiful (Roadside Atrtractions)
Four Lions (Drafthouse Films)
Mother (Magnolia Pictures)
Outside the Law (Tessalit Productions)
Documentary - Theatrical or Television
Writing in a Drama Series
Alexander Woo - True Blood - "It Hurts Me Too" (HBO)
Janine Sherman Barrois - Criminal Minds - "Remembrance of Things Past (CBS)
Judith McCreary - Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - "Disabled" (NBC)
Leyani Diaz, Venessa Rojas - The Event - "Loyalty" (NBC)
Shonda Rhimes - Private Practice - "Did You Hear What Happened to Charlotte King?" (ABC)
Cheryl Edwards, Marko King, Mary King, Jonathan Walters, Joe Shrapnel, Anna Waterhouse - Frankie & Alice (Freestyle Releasing)
Michael C. Martin - Brooklyn's Finest (Overture Films)
Michael Elliot - Just Wright (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Rodrigo Garcia - Mother and Child (Sony Pictures Classics)
Tyler Perry - Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too? (Lionsgate)
Directing in a Drama Series
Felix Acala - Southland - "What Makes Sammy Run" (TNT)
Millicent Shelton - Men of a Certain Age - "Go with the Flow" (TNT)
Paris Barclay - In Treatment - "Sunil: Week 6" (HBO)
Seith Mann - Friday Night Lights - "Injury List" (DirecTV/NBC)
Stephen L. Williams - Undercovers - "Instructions" (NBC)
Directing in a Motion Picture -Theatrical or Television
Geoffrey Sax - Frankie & Alice (Freestyle Releasing)
George Tillman, Jr. - Faster (CBS Films)
Tanya Hamilton - Night Catches Us (Magnolia Pictures)
The Hughes Brothers - The Book of Eli (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Tyler Perry - For Colored Girls (Lionsgate/34th Street Films)
Black Music Notes Jan. 19
1/24/10: Kanye West
In the midst of promoting his forthcoming album, 'Watch the Throne' alongside Jay-Z, Kanye West has also announced details about his next solo effort. The 33-year-old superstar took to his Twitter page to reveal his big music plans for the next coming months. "I'll be back this summer," he wrote. "Watch the Throne coming in 2 months! My new album coming this summer." In addition, West is also set to close this year's annual Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival on April 17.
1/19/10: Diddy / Janelle Monae
In celebration of this year's annual Grammy Awards Essence magazine and Sean "Diddy" Combs are teaming up to recognize Grammy nominee Janelle Monae at the 2nd annual Essence Black Women in Music. The exclusive, invite-only, event is scheduled to take place during Grammy week and is hosted by Essence.com Managing Editor Emil Wilbekin, Joy Bryant and Taraji P. Henson. "Janelle Monae is a remarkable creative force and a passionately talented young performer, who perfectly personifies ESSENCE as the 'voice and soul' of Black women," said Wilbekin. "As fans around the world continue to embrace Janelle's artistic vision, we are recognizing her tremendous influence among her peers with a salute to her contributions at the 2nd annual ESSENCE Black Women in Music event."
1/19/10: Snoop Dogg
Last month international hip hop star Snoop Dogg released his latest single, 'Wet' in honor of Prince William's engagement announcement. And this week the self-proclaimed "Doggfather" officially announced the release date of his 11th studio album, 'Doggumentary,' will hit stores on Mar. 29. In support of the forthcoming opus, Snoop will be hitting the road for the 'Get Wet' tour. The 'Get Wet' tour begins January 18 in San Francisco and concludes Feb. 25 in West Virginia.
1/12/10: Boosty Collins
Iconic Funk bassist Boosty Collins is set to release his first new studio project in five years, 'The Funk Capital of the World' on April 26. On Collins' latest effort he chose to tap into an all-star lineup of collaborators including former Parliament Funkadelic member George Clinton, rappers Snoop Dogg, Chuck D, and Ice Cube among others. "There are real messages on this album that I wanted to share," explains Collins, "whose soul-deep rhythms and layered melodies are punctuated by lyrics that range from meditations on the nature of truth and spiritual transcendence, to blissed-out joy."
1/12/10: Corinne Bailey Rae
Just in time for Valentine's Day, Corinne Bailey Rae is paying homage to some of her favorite musicians with the release of 'The Love EP.' The Grammy nominee's five track opus finds Bailey Rae covering Prince's 'I Wanna Be Your Lover,' Bob Marley's 'Is This Love,' Paul McCartney's 'My Love,' Sly & The Family Stone's 'Que Sera, Sera,' and Belly's 'Low Red Moon.' Corinne Bailey Rae's 'The Love EP' hits stores Jan. 25.
1/10/10: Janet Jackson
As previously reported by Black Music Notes, Janet Jackson is set to kick off her intimate 35-city 'Janet Jackson Number Ones, Up Close and Personal' international tour in Singapore on Feb. 7. In addition to Jackson's global trek, the platinum-selling singer will begin the North America leg on Mar. 7 in Chicago. During each show one lucky fan will have the chance to accompany Janet as one of her VIP guests. "I'm asking my fans and their friends, Parents, relatives, neighbors and teachers to nominate five people to qualify as one of the 20 under 20 in each place I will perform," she said in a statement. "At each concert the 20 people chosen and the person who nominated them will be VIP guests at my show. " Janet Jackson's North American tour concludes on April 23 in Las Vegas.
1/10/10: Rihanna
International Pop star Rihanna recently made history in the UK by becoming the first female artist to score five #1 singles in consecutive years. Her current single 'What's My Name' landed at the number one spot on the Singles Chart last week surpassing Elvis Presley, who previously held the record for his span of #1 hits from 1957 to 1963.
1/7/10: Nicki Minaj
Nicki Minaj has overcome all critics and disbelievers of her debut opus, 'Pink Friday.' The critically acclaimed album has reached platinum status within six weeks of its release, outpacing Kanye West's 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy' which was also released on Nov. 22. To date, 'Pink Friday' remains the #2 Rap Album and the #4 Album in the country on Billboard's 200 charts.
1/7/10: Cee Lo Green, Sade, Michael Jackson
In preparation of the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards, set to take place on Feb. 13, comes the release of the 2011 Grammy Nominees album. The Jan. 25 release highlights 19 songs from various artists who are up for nominations this year including Cee Lo Green ('Forget You'), B.o.B ('Nothin On You'), Sade ('Babyfather'), and Michael Jackson ('This Is It') among others. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the album will benefit the MusiCares Foundation and the Grammy Foundation.
12/29/10: Janet Jackson
Good news for Janet Jackson fans of Southeast Asia. The multi-talented Pop singer will kick off her 35-city tour in Singapore on Feb. 7. Jackson will perform tracks from her 2009 greatest hits album, 'Number Ones' and plans on dedicating a song during each tour stop, which she promises will be "more intimate and more personal" than ever before. "It's not about effects, it's not an extravaganza, it's not about being as big as in the past," she said. "This one is all about you and me. I love you Singapore. Let's go!" Tickets for Janet Jackson Number Ones, Up Close and Personal tour go on sale Jan. 7.