Η Beyoncé, ο Justin Timberlake, η Ariana Grande και ο Bruno Mars είναι μεταξύ των υποψηφίων για το NAACP Image Awards που θα πραγματοποιηθούν το Σάββατο 22 Φεβρουαρίου στις 21:00 στην τηλεόραση One.
Μιλώντας ο πρόεδρος της NAACP, Roslyn M. Brock, δήλωσε «Αυτή ήταν μια απίστευτη χρονιά από την καλλιτεχνική κοινότητα, με εκπληκτική εισφορά σε όλους τους τομείς από τη μουσική, την τηλεόραση, τον κινηματογράφο, και τη λογοτεχνία που έχουν την εξουσία και τις επιπτώσεις στην οδήγηση για κοινωνική αλλαγή».
Στη μουσική, ο Justin Timberlake και ο Bruno Mars είναι υποψήφια για το σημαντικό βραβείο Male Artist, ενώ η Beyoncé, η Janelle Monae και η Mary J. Blige περιλαμβάνονται στην κατηγορία Outstanding Female Artist.
Ρίξτε μια ματιά στον κατάλογο με όλους τους υποψήφιους για τα μουσικά βραβεία:
Outstanding New Artist
Ariana Grande (Republic Records)
Candice Glover (19 Recordings/Interscope Records)
K. Michelle (Atlantic Records)
RaVaughn Brown (Columbia Records)
Zendaya (Hollywood Records)
Outstanding Male Artist
Bruno Mars (Atlantic Records)
Charlie Wilson (RCA Records)
John Legend (Columbia Records)
Justin Timberlake (RCA Records)
Robin Thicke (Star Trak/Interscope)
Outstanding Female Artist
Beyoncé (Columbia Records)
India.Arie (Motown Records)
Janelle Monáe (Bad Boy/Atlantic)
Ledisi (Verve Records)
Mary J Blige (Verve Records/Interscope)
Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration
“#Beautiful” – Mariah Carey feat. Miguel (Island Def Jam)
“Blurred Lines” – Robin Thicke feat. T.I. & Pharrell (Star Trak/Interscope)
“Fire We Make” – Alicia Keys feat. Maxwell (RCA Records)
“Hurt You” – Toni Braxton feat. Babyface (Motown Records)
“Suit & Tie” – Justin Timberlake feat. Jay-Z (RCA Records)
Outstanding Jazz Album
“Summer Horns” – Dave Koz, Gerald Albright, Mindi Abair, Richard Elliot (Concord Records)
“The Beat” – Boney James (Concord Records)
“The Messenger” – Kevin Eubanks (Mack Avenue Records)
“The Morning After: A Musical Love Journey” – Najee (Shanachie)
“The Songs of Stevie Wonder” – SFJAZZ Collective (SFJAZZ Records)
Outstanding Gospel Album – (Traditional or Contemporary)
“20 Year Celebration Volume 1 – Best For Last” – Donald Lawrence (Quietwater Entertainment/eOne Music)
“Azusa: The Next Generation” – Hezekiah Walker (RCA Inspiration)
“Best Days Deluxe Edition” – Tamela Mann (Tillymann Music)
“Good God” – Shirley Caesar (eOne Music)
“Music From the Motion Picture Black Nativity” – Various (RCA Inspiration)
Outstanding World Music Album
“Coming from a Lady” – Lady Ele (13 Black Records)
“Live At The Royal Albert Hall” – Emeli Sande (Capitol)
“Natalie Cole en Español” – Natalie Cole (Verve Records)
“Sing To The Moon” – Laura Mvula (Columbia Records)
“The Standards” – Gloria Estefan (Masterworks)
Outstanding Music Video
“Cocoa Butter” – India.Arie (Motown Records)
“Fire We Make” – Alicia Keys feat. Maxwell (RCA Records)
“Made To Love” – John Legend (Columbia Records)
“Q.U.E.E.N.” – Janelle Monáe feat. Erykah Badu (Bad Boy/Atlantic)
“Treasure” – Bruno Mars (Atlantic Records)
Outstanding Song
“All Of Me” – John Legend (Columbia Records)
“Blurred Lines ” – Robin Thicke feat. T.I. & Pharrell (Star Trak/Interscope)
“Fire We Make” – Alicia Keys feat. Maxwell (RCA Records)
“Q.U.E.E.N.” – Janelle Monáe feat. Erykah Badu (Bad Boy/Atlantic)
“Treasure” – Bruno Mars (Atlantic Records)
Outstanding Album
“20/20 Experience – The Complete Experience” – Justin Timberlake (RCA Records)
“Blurred Lines” – Robin Thicke (Star Trak/Interscope)
“Love In The Future” – John Legend (Columbia Records)
“Love, Charlie” – Charlie Wilson (RCA Records)
“The Electric Lady” – Janelle Monáe (Bad Boy/Atlantic)
Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction
“A Deeper Love Inside: The Porscha Santiaga Story” – Sister Souljah (Atria/Emily Bestler Books)
“Anybody’s Daughter” – Pamela Samuels Young (Goldman House Publishing)
“Little Green: An Easy Rawlins Mystery” – Walter Mosley (Doubleday)
“Never Say Never: A Novel” – Victoria Christopher Murray (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster)
“Who Asked You?” – Terry McMillan (Viking)
Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction
“Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations: 5,000 Years of Literature, Lyrics, Poems, Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs from Voices Around the World” – Retha Powers (Little, Brown and Company)
“Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery” – Deborah Willis, Barbara Krauthamer (Temple University Press)
“High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society” – Carl Hart (HarperCollins, Harper)
“Letters to an Incarcerated Brother: Encouragement, Hope, and Healing for Inmates and Their Loved Ones” – Hill Harper (Gotham Books)
“The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross” – Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Donald Yacovone (SmileyBooks)
Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author
“Better Than Good Hair – The Curly Girl Guide to Healthy Gorgeous Natural Hair!” – Nikki Walton with Ernessa T. Carter (Harper Collins- Amistad)
“Ghana Must Go” – Taiye Selasi (The Penguin Press)
“Nine Years Under” – Sheri Booker (Gotham Books)
“On The Come Up” – Hannah Weyer (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday)
“The Returned” – Jason Mott (Harlequin MIRA)
Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/ Auto-Biography
“Buck: A Memoir” – MK Asante (Spiegel & Grau)
“Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington” – Terry Teachout (Gotham Books)
“Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker” – Stanley Crouch (HarperCollins, Harper)
“Mom & Me & Mom” – Maya Angelou (Random House)
“The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks” – Jeanne Theoharis (Beacon Press)
Outstanding Literary Work – Instructional
“Do I Look Like An ATM? A Parent’s Guide to Raising Financially Responsible African American Children” – Sabrina Lamb (Chicago Review Press)
“Plan D: How to Lose Weight and Beat Diabetes (Even If You Don’t Have It)” – Sherri Shepherd with Billie Fitzpatrick (HarperCollins, It Books)
“Recruiting and Retaining Culturally Different Students in Gifted Education” – Donna Y. Ford, Ph.D. (Prufrock Press Inc.)
“The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs” – Kevin D. Johnson (Johnson Media Inc.)
“The Vegucation of Robin: How Real Food Saved My Life” – Robin Quivers (Avery)
Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry
“Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid” – Nikki Giovanni (HarperCollins, William Morrow)
“Hum” – Jamaal May (Alice James Books)
“The Cineaste: Poems” – A. Van Jordan (W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
“The Collected Poems of Ai” – Ai (W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
“Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers” – Frank X Walker (University of Georgia Press)
Outstanding Literary Work – Children
“I’m A Pretty Little Black Girl!” – Betty K. Bynum (Author), Claire Armstrong-Parod (Illustrator) (Dream Title Publishing)
“Knock Knock: My Dad’s Dream for Me” – Daniel Beaty (Author), Bryan Collier (Illustrator) (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
“Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song” – Andrea Davis Pinkney (Author), Brian Pinkney (Illustrator) (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
“Nelson Mandela” – Kadir Nelson (HarperCollins Children’s Books/Katherine Tegen Books)
“You Never Heard of Willie Mays?!” – Jonah Winter (Author), Terry Widener (Illustrator) (RH Childrens Books; Schwartz & Wade)
Outstanding Literary Work – Youth/Teens
“Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America’s First Black Paratroopers” – Tanya Lee
Stone (Candlewick Press)
“God’s Graffiti: Inspiring Stories for Teens” – Romal Tune (Judson Press)
“Invasion” – Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic Press/Scholastic)
“Raising the Bar” – Gabrielle Douglas (Zondervan)
“Serafina’s Promise: A Novel In Verse” – Ann E. Burg (Scholastic Press/Scholastic)
