44th NAACP Image Awards
{{Short description|American entertainment awards for 2012 works}}
{{Infobox award
| name = 44th NAACP Image Awards
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| date = February 1, 2013
| location = Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California
| presenter = National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
| host = Steve Harvey
| network = NBC
| producer =
| previous = 43rd
| main = {{nowrap|NAACP Image Awards}}
| next = 45th
}}
The 44th NAACP Image Awards ceremony, presented by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), honored the best in film, television, recording, and literature of 2012.{{cite web|title=2013 Image Award Nominations |url=http://www.naacp.org/news/entry/2013-image-awards-nominations |publisher=National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |access-date=January 11, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150128061107/http://www.naacp.org/news/entry/2013-image-awards-nominations |archive-date=January 28, 2015 }}{{cite web|title=The 44th NAACP Image Award complete winners list|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/la-et-en-the-44th-naacp-image-award-winners-20130201-story.html|work=Los Angeles Times|date=February 1, 2013|access-date=February 28, 2015}} The ceremony took place on February 1, 2013, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, aired live on NBC and was hosted by Steve Harvey.{{Cite web |last=Hofler |first=Robert |date=February 1, 2013 |title=NAACP Image Award nominees crossover with Oscar |url=https://variety.com/2013/film/awards/naacp-image-award-nominees-crossover-with-oscar-1118065410/ |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=Variety}}
U.S. Admiral Michelle Howard was received the Chairman's Award.{{Cite web |last=Bunch |first=Joey |date=February 4, 2013 |title=Aurora native and Navy leader receives NAACP Image Award |url=https://www.denverpost.com/2013/02/04/aurora-native-and-navy-leader-receives-naacp-image-award/ |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The Denver Post}} American actress Kerry Washington was honored with the President's Award for being a "modern trailblazer".{{Cite web |last=Hofler |first=Robert |date=February 1, 2013 |title=Kerry Washington receives NAACP Honors |url=https://variety.com/2013/film/awards/kerry-washington-receives-naacp-honors-1118065403/ |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=Variety}} Harry Belafonte was recognized with the Spingarn Medal while Jamie Foxx won the Entertainer of the Year.{{Cite web |last=Finn |first=Natalie |date=February 2, 2013 |title=NAACP Image Awards Best Moments: Halle Berry, Kerry Washington's Quentin Tarantino Shout-Out, George Lucas & More |url=https://www.eonline.com/news/384450/naacp-image-awards-best-moments-halle-berry-kerry-washington-s-quentin-tarantino-shout-out-george-lucas-more |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=E! Online}}
All nominees are listed below with the winners listed in bold.{{Cite web |last=Couch |first=Aaron |date=February 1, 2013 |title=NAACP Image Awards: Winners Announced |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/naacp-image-awards-winners-announced-417553/ |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The Hollywood Reporter}}{{Cite web |last=Medium |first=Seattle |date=January 9, 2013 |title=The 2013 NAACP Image Awards Nominees Announced |url=https://seattlemedium.com/the-2013-naacp-image-awards-nominees-announced/ |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=Seattle Medium}}
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Motion picture
= Motion Picture =
- Beasts of the Southern Wild (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
- Django Unchained (The Weinstein Company)
- Flight (Paramount Pictures)
- Red Tails (Lucasfilm)
- Tyler Perry's Good Deeds (Lionsgate)
= Actor in a Motion Picture =
- Denzel Washington - Flight (Paramount Pictures)
- Jamie Foxx - Django Unchained (The Weinstein Company)
- Morgan Freeman - The Magic of Belle Isle (Magnolia Pictures)
- Suraj Sharma- Life of Pi (20th Century Fox)
- Tyler Perry - Alex Cross (Summit Entertainment)
= Actress in a Motion Picture =
- Emayatzy Corinealdi - Middle of Nowhere (AAFRM)
- Halle Berry - Cloud Atlas (Warner Bros. Pictures)
- Loretta Devine - In The Hive (Eone Entertainment)
- Quvenzhané Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
- Viola Davis - Won't Back Down (20th Century Fox)
= Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture =
- David Oyelowo - Middle of Nowhere (AFFRM)
- Don Cheadle - Flight (Paramount Pictures)
- Dwight Henry - Beasts of the Southern Wild (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
- Lenny Kravitz - The Hunger Games (Lionsgate)
- Samuel L. Jackson - Django Unchained (The Weinstein Company)
= Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture =
- Amandla Stenberg - The Hunger Games (Lionsgate)
- Gloria Reuben - Lincoln (The Walt Disney Studios)
- Kerry Washington - Django Unchained (The Weinstein Company)
- Phylicia Rashad - Tyler Perry's Good Deeds (Lionsgate)
- Taraji P. Henson - Think Like a Man (Screen Gems)
= Independent Motion Picture =
- Beasts of the Southern Wild (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
- Chico & Rita (GKIDS)
- Red Tails (Lucasfilm)
- Unconditional (Harbinger Media Partners)
- Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day (Codeblack)
= International Motion Picture =
- Chico & Rita (GKIDS)
- For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada (ARC Entertainment)
- Special Forces (eOne Films)
- The Intouchables (The Weinstein Company)
- The Raid: Redemption (Sony Pictures Classics)
Documentary
= Documentary - (Theatrical or Television) =
- Black Wings (Smithsonian Channel)
- Brooklyn Castle (Producers Distribution Agency)
- First Position (IFC Films)
- Marley (Magnolia Pictures)
- On the Shoulders of Giants - The Story of the Greatest Team You've Never Heard Of (Showtime)
Television
= Comedy Series =
- Glee (Fox)
- Modern Family (ABC)
- The Game (BET)
- The Mindy Project (Fox)
- The Soul Man (TV Land)
= Actor in a Comedy Series =
- Anthony Anderson - Guys with Kids (NBC)
- Damon Wayans, Jr. - Happy Endings (ABC)
- Don Cheadle - House Of Lies (Showtime)
- Donald Faison - The Exes (TV Land)
- Hosea Chanchez - The Game (BET)
= Actress in a Comedy Series =
- Amber Riley - Glee (Fox)
- Cassi Davis - Tyler Perry's House of Payne (TBS)
- Kellita Smith - The First Family (Syndicated)
- Tatyana Ali - Love That Girl (TV One)
- Wendy Raquel Robinson - The Game (BET)
= Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series =
- Aziz Ansari - Parks and Recreation (NBC)
- Craig Robinson - The Office (NBC)
- Donald Glover - Community (NBC)
- Lance Gross - Tyler Perry's House of Payne (TBS)
- Tracy Morgan - 30 Rock (NBC)
= Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series =
- Anna Deavere Smith - Nurse Jackie (Showtime)
- Gabourey Sidibe - The Big C (Showtime)
- Gladys Knight - The First Family (Syndicated)
- Rashida Jones - Parks and Recreation (NBC)
- Vanessa Williams - Desperate Housewives (ABC)
= Drama Series =
- Boardwalk Empire (HBO)
- Grey's Anatomy (ABC)
- Scandal (ABC)
- Treme (HBO)
- True Blood (HBO)
= Actor in a Drama Series =
- Dulé Hill - Psych (USA)
- Hill Harper - CSI: NY (CBS)
- LL Cool J - NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS)
- Michael Clarke Duncan - The Finder (FOX)
- Wendell Pierce - Treme (HBO)
= Actress in a Drama Series =
- Chandra Wilson - Grey's Anatomy (ABC)
- Kerry Washington - Scandal (ABC)
- Khandi Alexander - Treme (HBO)
- Regina King - SouthLAnd (TNT)
- Sandra Oh - Grey's Anatomy (ABC)
= Supporting Actor in a Drama Series =
- Clarke Peters - Treme (HBO)
- Dev Patel - The Newsroom (HBO)
- Omar Epps - House M.D. (FOX)
- Rockmond Dunbar - Sons of Anarchy (FX)
- Rocky Carroll - NCIS (CBS)
= Supporting Actress in a Drama Series =
- Archie Panjabi - The Good Wife (CBS)
- Joy Bryant - Parenthood (NBC)
- Loretta Devine - Grey's Anatomy (ABC)
- Lucy Liu - SouthLAnd (TNT)
- Rutina Wesley - True Blood (HBO)
= Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special =
- Abducted: The Carlina White Story (Lifetime)
- Hallmark Hall of Fame's FIRELIGHT (ABC)
- Raising Izzie (GMC TV)'
- Steel Magnolias (Lifetime)
- Sugar Mommas (GMC TV)
= Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special =
- Afemo Omilami - Steel Magnolias (Lifetime)
- Cuba Gooding, Jr. - Hallmark Hall of Fame's FIRELIGHT (ABC)
- Michael Jai White - Somebody's C' (GMC TV)
- Rockmond Dunbar - Raising Izzie (GMC TV)
- Tory Kittles - Steel Magnolias (Lifetime)
= Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special =
- Alfre Woodard - Steel Magnolias (Lifetime)
- Jill Scott - Steel Magnolias (Lifetime)
- Keke Palmer - Abducted: The Carlina White Story (Lifetime)
- Phylicia Rashad - Steel Magnolias (Lifetime)
- Queen Latifah - Steel Magnolias (Lifetime)
= Actor in a Daytime Drama Series =
- Aaron D. Spears - The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)
- Erik Valdez - General Hospital (ABC)
- James Reynolds - Days of Our Lives (NBC)
- Kristoff St. John - The Young and the Restless (CBS)
- Rodney Saulsberry - The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)
= Actress in a Daytime Drama Series =
- Angell Conwell - The Young and the Restless (CBS)
- Julia Pace Mitchell - The Young and the Restless (CBS)
- Kristolyn Lloyd - The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)
- Shenell Edmonds - One Life to Live (ABC)
- Tatyana Ali - The Young and the Restless (CBS)
= News/ Information - (Series or Special) =
- Ask Obama Live: An MTV Interview with The President (MTV)
- Judge Mathis (Syndicated)
- Save My Son with Dr. Steve Perry (TV One)
- Unsung (TV One)
- Washington Watch with Roland Martin (TV One)
= Talk Series =
- Don't Sleep! (BET)
- Oprah's Lifeclass (OWN)
- Oprah's Next Chapter (OWN)
- The View (ABC)
- Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell (FX)
= Reality Series =
- Dancing with the Stars (ABC)
- Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (HBO)
- The X Factor (FOX)
- Tia & Tamera (Style)
- Welcome to Sweetie Pie's (OWN)
= Variety Series or Special =
- Black Girls Rock (BET)
- Oprah and the Legendary Cast of Roots 35 Years Later (OWN)
- Oprah's Master Class (OWN)
- The First Graduating Class: Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls (OWN)
- Verses & Flow (TV One)
= Children’s Program =
- Degrassi (TeenNick)
- Kasha and the Zulu King (BET)
- The Legend of Korra (Nickelodeon)
- Big Time Movie (TeenNick)
- The Weight of the Nation for Kids (HBO)
= Performance in a Youth/ Children’s Program - (Series or Special) =
- China Anne McClain - A.N.T. Farm (Disney Channel)
- Keke Palmer - Winx Club (Nickelodeon)
- Loretta Devine - Doc McStuffins (Disney Junior)
- Nick Cannon - The HALO
Screenwriting
= Writing in a Comedy Series =
- Karin Gist - House of Lies - Mini-Mogul (Showtime)
- Marc Wilmore - The Simpsons - The Spy Who Learned Me (FOX)
- Michael Shipley - Last Man Standing - High Expectations (ABC)
- Prentice Penny - Happy Endings - Meet the Parrots (ABC)
- Vali Chandrasekaran, Robert Carlock - 30 Rock - Murphy Brown Lied to Us (NBC)
= Writing in a Dramatic Series =
- Cheo Hodari Coker - SouthLAnd - God's Work (TNT)
- Janine Sherman Barrios - Criminal Minds - The Pact (CBS)
- Shonda Rhimes - Grey's Anatomy - Flight (ABC)
- Shonda Rhimes - Scandal - Sweet Baby (ABC)
- Zoanne Clack - Grey's Anatomy - This Magic Moment (ABC)
= Writing in a Motion Picture - (Theatrical or Television) =
- Elizabeth Hunter - Abducted: The Carlina White Story (Lifetime)
- John Gatins - Flight (Paramount Pictures)
- John Ridley, Aaron McGruder - Red Tails (Lucasfilm)
- Keith Merryman, David A. Newman - Think Like a Man (Screen Gems)
- Ol Parker - The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Recording
= New Artist =
- Elle Varner (MBK / RCA)
- Gary Clark, Jr. (Warner Bros. Records)
- Lianne La Havas (Nonesuch Records Inc. / Warner Bros. Records)
- Melanie Amaro (Epic Records)
- The OMG Girlz (Pretty Hustle / Grand Hustle / Streamline / Interscope)
= Male Artist =
- Bruno Mars (Atlantic)
- Lupe Fiasco (Atlantic)
- Miguel (ByStorm / RCA)
- Trey Songz (Atlantic)
- Usher (RCA Records)
= Female Artist =
- Alicia Keys (RCA Records)
- Elle Varner (MBK / RCA)
- Estelle (Atlantic)
- Missy Elliott (Atlantic)
- Tamela Mann (Tillymann Music Group)
= Duo, Group or Collaboration =
- Chuck D, Johnny Juice, Will.i.am, Herbie Hancock (Iconomy Multi-Media & Entertainment)
- fun. feat. Janelle Monáe (Atlantic)
- Lupe Fiasco feat. Guy Sebastian (Atlantic)
- Mary Mary (Columbia)
- Ne-Yo, Herbie Hancock, Johnny Rzeznik, Delta Rae, Natasha Bedingfield (Forward Song, LLC)
= Jazz Album =
- Bone Appetit [Vol. 1 and 2] - Jeff Bradshaw (Hidden Beach)
- Dreams - Brian Culbertson (Verve Records)
- Renaissance - Marcus Miller (Concord Jazz)
- Seeds From The Underground - Kenny Garrett (Mack Avenue Records)
- The Preservation Hall 50th Anniversary Collection - The Preservation Hall Jazz Band (Legacy)
= Gospel Album - (Traditional or Contemporary) =
- Best Days - Tamela Mann (Tillymann Music Group)
- Go Get It - Mary Mary (Columbia)
- God, Love & Romance - Fred Hammond (Verity Gospel Music Group)
- I Win - Marvin Sapp (Verity Gospel Music Group)
- Le'Andria Johnson The Experience - Le'Andria Johnson (Music World Gospel / Music World)
= World Music Album =
- [https://www.npr.org/2012/01/22/145531571/k-g-omulo-globally-minded-afropop Ayah Ye! Moving Train] - KG Omulo (KG Omulo)
- Country, God, Or The Girl - K'NAAN (A&M / Octone Records)
- Diversionary - Brother B (King Chero Records)
- All of Me - Estelle (Atlantic)
= Music Video =
- Adorn - Miguel (ByStorm / RCA)
- Girl On Fire - Alicia Keys (RCA Records)
- Locked Out Of Heaven - Bruno Mars (Atlantic)
- This Christmas - CeeLo Green (Elektra)
- You're On My Mind - KEM (Universal Motown)
= Song =
- "Be Mine for Christmas" - KEM (Universal Motown)
- "Glorify the King" - KEM (Universal Motown)
- "I Look To You" - Whitney Houston and R. Kelly (RCA Records)
- "Locked Out Of Heaven" - Bruno Mars (Atlantic)
- "You're On My Mind" - KEM (Universal Motown)
= Album =
- Bad - 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition - Michael Jackson (Legacy / Epic)
- Girl On Fire - Alicia Keys (RCA Records)
- I Will Always Love You: The Best Of Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston (RCA Records)
- On the Shoulders of Giants - The Soundtrack - Chuck D, Will.i.am, Herbie Hancock, Nikki Yannofsky (Iconomy Multi-Media & Entertainment )
- Perfectly Imperfect - Elle Varner (MBK / RCA)
Literature
= Literary Work - Fiction =
- A Wish and a Prayer: A Blessings Novel - Beverly Jenkins (HarperCollins Publishers (William Morrow Paperbacks))
- Destiny's Divas - Victoria Christopher Murray (Touchstone / Simon & Schuster)
- Silent Cry - Dywane Birch (Strebor Books)
- The Reverend's Wife - Kimberla Lawson Roby (Grand Central's Wife)
- The Secret She Kept - ReShonda Tate Billingsley (Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster)
= Literary Work - Non-Fiction =
- Fraternity - Diane Brady (Spiegel & Grau (Random House))
- Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation - Deborah Davis (Atria Books / Simon & Schuster)
- Power Concedes Nothing: One Woman's Quest for Social Justice in America, from the Courtroom to the Kill Zones - Connie Rice (Scribner)
- The Courage to Hope - Shirley Sherrod (Atria Books)
- The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court - Jeffrey Toobin (Doubleday)
= Literary Work - Debut Author =
- A Cupboard Full of Coats - Yvvette Edwards (HarperCollins Publishers (Amistad))
- Antebellum - R. Kayeen Thomas (Strebor Books)
- Congo: Spirit of Darkness - Mayi Ngwala (Genet Press)
- Nikki G: A Portrait of Nikki Giovanni in Her Own Words - Darryl L. Lacy (Darryl L. Lacy (iUniverse))
- The Sister Accord: 51 Ways To Love Your Sister - Sonia Jackson Myles (The Sister Accord, LLC)
= Literary Work - Biography/ Auto-Biography =
- Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change - John Lewis (Hyperion)
- Interventions: A Life in War and Peace - Kofi Annan (The Penguin Press)
- The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo - Tom Reiss (Crown Publishers)
- The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities – Will Allen (Gotham Books)
- The One: The Life and Music of James Brown - RJ Smith (Gotham Books)
= Literary Work - Instructional =
- 12 Ways to Put Money in Your Pocket Every Month Without A Part Time Job; The Skinny Book That Makes Your Wallet Fat - Jennifer Matthews (Pickett Fennell Publishing Group)
- Formula 50: A 6-Week Workout and Nutrition Plan That Will Transform Your Life – 50 Cent (Avery (Penguin Group))
- Health First: The Black Woman's Wellness Guide - Eleanor Hinton Hoytt, Hilary Beard (SmileyBooks)
- It's Complicated (But It Doesn't Have to Be): A Modern Guide to Finding and Keeping Love - Paul Carrick Brunson (Gotham Books)
- The No Excuse Guide to Success: No Matter What Your Boss or Life Throws at You - Jim Smith, Jr. (Career Press)
= Literary Work - Poetry =
- Hurrah's Nest - Arisa White (Virtual Artists Collective)
- Maybe the Saddest Thing - Marcus Wicker (HarperCollins Publishers (Harper Perennial))
- Speak Water - Truth Thomas (Cherry Castle Publishing)
- The Ground - Rowan Ricardo Phillips (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Thrall - Natasha Trethewey (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
= Literary Work - Children =
- Fifty Cents and a Dream - Jabari Asim (Author), Bryan Collier (Illustrator) (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
- Harlem's Little Blackbird - Renee Watson (Author), Christian Robinson (Illustrator) (Random House Books for Young Readers (Random House Children's Books))
- In the Land of Milk and Honey - Joyce Carol Thomas (Author), Floyd Cooper (Illustrator) (HarperCollins / Amistad)
- Indigo Blume and the Garden City - Kwame Alexander (Word of Mouth Books)
- What Color is My World? - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Author), Raymons Obstfeld (Author), A.G. Ford (Illustrator) (Candlewick Press)
= Literary Work - Youth/Teens =
- Fire in the Streets - Kekla Magoon (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing)
- Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons - A Dialogue With America's Young Leaders - Gregory Reed (Amber Books)
- Pinned - Sharon G. Flake (Scholastic Press)
- The Diary of B. B. Bright, Possible Princess - Alice Randall (Author), Caroline Williams (Author), Shadra Strickland (Illustrator) (Turner Publishing Company)
- The Mighty Miss Malone - Christopher Paul Curtis (Wendy Lamb Books (Random House Children's Books))
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070715074824/http://www.naacpimageawards.net/ NAACP Image Awards official site]
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