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NAACP Image Awards
Awarded for	Excellence in film, television, music, and literature by outstanding people of color
Presented by	NAACP
Country	United States
First awarded	1970
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The NAACP Image Awards is an award presented annually by the American National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to honor outstanding people of color in film, television, music, and literature.

Similar to other awards, like the Oscars and the Grammys, the 35 categories of Image Awards are voted on by members of the NAACP. There are also honorary awards, including the President's Award, the Chairman's Award, Entertainer of the Year and The Image Award Hall of Fame.

The awards were first presented in 1970. The awards series, normally broadcast with tape delay and aired by Fox Network, was broadcast live for the first time in 2007 for the 38th edition of the awards show. It was first nationally televised in 1974. The ceremonies usually take place in or around the Los Angeles area in February or early March.

[edit] Past Shows

Year	Day	Host	Location
1970
1972	November
1974	January 19		Hollywood Palladium
1982	December 5	Robert Guillaume	Hollywood Palladium
1984	December 4
1987		Debbie Allen/Denzel Washington
1996		Whitney Houston/Denzel Washington
1997	February 8	Arsenio Hall/Patti LaBelle	Pasadena Civic Auditorium
1998	February 14	Vanessa L. Williams/Gregory Hines
1999	February 14	Mariah Carey/Blair Underwood	Pasadena Civic Auditorium
2000	February 12	Diana Ross	Pasadena Civic Auditorium
2001	February 23	Chris Tucker	Universal Amphitheatre
2002	March 3	Chris Tucker	Universal Amphitheatre
2003	March 8	Cedric the Entertainer	Universal Amphitheatre
2004	March 6	Tracee Ellis Ross/Golden Brooks/Persia White/Jill Marie Jones	Universal Amphitheater
2005	March 25	Chris Tucker	Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
2006	March 3	Cuba Gooding, Jr.	Shrine Auditorium
2007	March 2	LL Cool J	Shrine Auditorium
2008	February 14	D.L. Hughley	Shrine Auditorium
2009	February 12	Halle Berry/Tyler Perry	Shrine Auditorium

[edit] Controversy

The NAACP Image Awards have sometimes been the subject of controversy due to claims that certain nominees did not deserve to be honored by the NAACP. For example, in 1994, Tupac Shakur was a nominee for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture for the film Poetic Justice although he had been charged in December 1993 with sexually abusing a woman.^[1] In 2004, R. Kelly's Chocolate Factory was nominated for Outstanding Album^[2] although he was under indictment at the time for charges related to child pornography.^[3]

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 Cedric the Entertainer as Outstanding Supporting Actor. The film had been criticized because Cedric's character in the film makes unflattering remarks about Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Jesse Jackson.^[4] 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.^[3]

[edit] Award categories

[edit] Motion picture

[edit] Television

Outstanding Performance in a Youth/Children's Series or Special

[edit] Music

[edit] Literature

[edit] Special awards

[edit] External links

[edit] References

^ "Michael Jackson makes surprise appearance at NAACP Image Awards". Jet. 1994-01-24. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_n12_v85/ai_14777970. Retrieved 2006-09-29.
^ Wiederhorn, Jon (2004-01-08). "Outkast, Beyonce, R. Kelly Nominated For NAACP Image Awards". VH1.com. http://www.vh1.com/artists/news/1484218/01082004/ashanti.jhtml. Retrieved 2006-09-29.
^ ^a ^b "Paula Zahn Now: Can Democrats Challenge Kerry?; NAACP Controversy; California Death Penalty Debate". CNN.com. 2004-01-28. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0401/28/pzn.00.html. Retrieved 2006-09-29.
^ "Image Awards rekindle 'Barbershop' controversy". CNN.com. 2003-03-09. http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/08/image.awards.ap/. Retrieved 2006-09-29.

[0] "Michael Jackson makes surprise appearance at NAACP Image Awards". Jet. 1994-01-24. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_n12_v85/ai_14777970. Retrieved 2006-09-29.

[1] Wiederhorn, Jon (2004-01-08). "Outkast, Beyonce, R. Kelly Nominated For NAACP Image Awards". VH1.com. http://www.vh1.com/artists/news/1484218/01082004/ashanti.jhtml. Retrieved 2006-09-29.

[zahn-2] "Paula Zahn Now: Can Democrats Challenge Kerry?; NAACP Controversy; California Death Penalty Debate". CNN.com. 2004-01-28. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0401/28/pzn.00.html. Retrieved 2006-09-29.

[3] "Image Awards rekindle 'Barbershop' controversy". CNN.com. 2003-03-09. http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/08/image.awards.ap/. Retrieved 2006-09-29.

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