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Complete Nominees List for the 42st Annual NAACP Images Awards<\/strong>by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

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January 12, 2010<\/p>\n

Following is the complete list of categories and nominees:<\/p>\n

TELEVISION CATEGORIES<\/strong><\/p>\n

Outstanding Comedy Series<\/strong>
\n\u2022 ’30 Rock’ (NBC)
\n\u2022 ‘Are We There Yet?’ (TBS)
\n\u2022 ‘Glee’ (FOX)
\n\u2022 ‘Modern Family’ (ABC)
\n\u2022 ‘Tyler Perry’s House of Payne’ (TBS)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series<\/strong>
\n\u2022 David Mann – ‘Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns’ (TBS)
\n\u2022 Dul\u00e9 Hill – ‘Psych’ (USA)
\n\u2022 LaVan Davis – ‘Tyler Perry’s House of Payne’ (TBS)
\n\u2022 Phil Morris – ‘Love That Girl!’ (TV One)
\n\u2022 Terry Crews – ‘Are We There Yet?’ (TBS)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Cassi Davis – ‘Tyler Perry’s House of Payne’ (TBS)
\n\u2022 Essence Atkins – ‘Are We There Yet?’ (TBS)
\n\u2022 Salli Richardson-Whitfield – ‘Eureka’ (Syfy)
\n\u2022 Tatyana Ali – ‘Love That Girl!’ (TV One)
\n\u2022 Vanessa Williams – ‘Desperate Housewives’ (ABC)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Craig Robinson – ‘The Office’ (NBC)
\n\u2022 Ice Cube – ‘Are We There Yet?’ (TBS)
\n\u2022 Lamman Rucker – ‘Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns’ (TBS)
\n\u2022 Lance Gross – ‘Tyler Perry’s House of Payne’ (TBS)
\n\u2022 Tracy Morgan – ’30 Rock’ (NBC)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Amber Riley – ‘Glee’ (FOX)
\n\u2022 Anna Deavere Smith – ‘Nurse Jackie’ (Showtime)
\n\u2022 Keshia Knight Pulliam – ‘Tyler Perry’s House of Payne’ (TBS)
\n\u2022 Sofia Vergara – ‘Modern Family’ (ABC)
\n\u2022 Viola Davis – ‘United States of Tara’ (Showtime)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Drama Series<\/strong>
\n\u2022 ‘Detroit 1-8-7’ (ABC)
\n\u2022 ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ (ABC)
\n\u2022 ‘HawthoRNe’ (TNT)
\n\u2022 ‘Law & Order: Special Victims Unit’ (NBC)
\n\u2022 ‘Treme’ (HBO)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Anthony Anderson – ‘Law & Order’ (NBC)
\n\u2022 Blair Underwood – ‘The Event’ (NBC)
\n\u2022 Hill Harper – ‘CSI: NY’ (CBS)
\n\u2022 Laurence Fishburne – ‘CSI: Crime Scene Investigation’ (CBS)
\n\u2022 LL Cool J – ‘NCIS: Los Angeles’ (CBS)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Chandra Wilson – ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ (ABC)
\n\u2022 Gugu Mbatha-Raw – ‘Undercovers’ (NBC)
\n\u2022 Jada Pinkett Smith – ‘HawthoRNe’ (TNT)
\n\u2022 Regina King – ‘Southland’ (TNT)
\n\u2022 Wendy Davis – ‘Army Wives’ (Lifetime)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Andre Braugher – ‘Men of a Certain Age’ (TNT)
\n\u2022 Giancarlo Esposito – ‘Breaking Bad’ (AMC)
\n\u2022 James Pickens, Jr. – ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ (ABC)
\n\u2022 Nelsan Ellis – ‘True Blood’ (HBO)
\n\u2022 Terrence Howard – ‘Law & Order: Los Angeles’ (NBC)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Alfre Woodard – ‘Memphis Beat’ (TNT)
\n\u2022 Sandra Oh – ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ (ABC)
\n\u2022 Sara Ramirez – ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ (ABC)
\n\u2022 S. Epatha Merkerson – ‘Law & Order’ (NBC)
\n\u2022 Vanessa Bell Calloway – ‘HawthoRNe’ (TNT)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special<\/strong>
\n\u2022 ‘America: The Story of Us (Part 4)’ (History)
\n\u2022 ‘Filling the Gap’ (PBS)
\n\u2022 ‘Luther’ (BBC America)
\n\u2022 ‘Sins of the Mother’ (Lifetime Movie Network)
\n\u2022 ‘The Wronged Man’ (Lifetime Movie Network)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Benito Martinez – ‘Lies in Plain Sight’ (Lifetime Movie Network)
\n\u2022 Idris Elba – ‘Luther’ (BBC America)
\n\u2022 Jon Seda – ‘The Pacific’ (HBO)
\n\u2022 Mahershalalhashbaz Ali – ‘The Wronged Man’ (Lifetime Movie Network)
\n\u2022 Michael Jai White – ‘One Angry Juror’ (Lifetime Movie Network)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Jill Scott – ‘Sins of the Mother’ (Lifetime Movie Network)
\n\u2022 Lucy Liu – ‘Marry Me’ (Lifetime Movie Network)
\n\u2022 Rosie Perez – ‘Lies in Plain Sight’ (Lifetime Movie Network)
\n\u2022 Tamera Mowry – ‘Double Wedding’ (Lifetime Movie Network)
\n\u2022 Tia Mowry – ‘Double Wedding’ (Lifetime Movie Network)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Series<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Aaron D. Spears – ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’ (CBS)
\n\u2022 Cornelius Smith, Jr. – ‘All My Children’ (ABC)
\n\u2022 Darnell Williams – ‘All My Children’ (ABC)
\n\u2022 Rodney Saulsberry – ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’ (CBS)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Debbi Morgan – ‘All My Children’ (ABC)
\n\u2022 Julia Pace Mitchell – ‘The Young and the Restless’ (CBS)
\n\u2022 Tatyana Ali – ‘The Young and the Restless’ (CBS)
\n\u2022 Tonya Lee Williams – ‘The Young and the Restless’ (CBS)
\n\u2022 Yvette Freeman – ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’ (CBS)<\/p>\n

Outstanding News\/Information (Series or Special)<\/strong>
\n\u2022 ‘A Conversation with President Obama’ (BET, CMT, MTV)
\n\u2022 ‘Anderson Cooper 360’ (CNN)
\n\u2022 ‘The Judge Mathis Show’ (Syndicated)
\n\u2022 ‘Unsung’ (TV One)
\n\u2022 ‘Washington Watch with Roland Martin’ (TV One)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Talk (Series)<\/strong>
\n\u2022 ‘Conversations with Ed Gordon’ (BET Networks)
\n\u2022 ‘Larry King Live’ (CNN)
\n\u2022 ‘The Mo’Nique Show’ (BET Networks)
\n\u2022 ‘The View’ (ABC)
\n\u2022 ‘TV One on One with Cathy Hughes’ (TV One)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Reality Series<\/strong>
\n\u2022 ‘American Idol’ (FOX)
\n\u2022 ‘America’s Next Top Model’ (The CW)
\n\u2022 ‘Dancing with the Stars’ (ABC)
\n\u2022 ‘Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’ (ABC)
\n\u2022 “Sunday Best” (BET Networks)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Variety (Series or Special)<\/strong>
\n\u2022 ‘2010 BET Honors’ (BET Networks)
\n\u2022 ‘Beyonc\u00e9: I AM…WORLD TOUR’ (ABC)
\n\u2022 ‘Black Girls Rock!’ (BET Networks)
\n\u2022 ‘TV One Night Only: Live from the Essence Music Festival’ (TV One)
\n\u2022 ‘UNCF An Evening of Stars Tribute to Lionel Richie’ (Syndicated)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Children’s Program<\/strong>
\n\u2022 ‘Brave New Voices 2010’ (HBO)
\n\u2022 ‘Dora the Explorer’ (Nickelodeon)
\n\u2022 ‘The Backyardigans’ (Nickelodeon)
\n\u2022 ‘True Jackson, VP’ (Nickelodeon)
\n\u2022 ‘Wizards of Waverly Place’ (Disney Channel)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Performance in a Youth\/ Children’s Program (Series or Special)<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Keke Palmer – ‘True Jackson, VP’ (Nickelodeon)
\n\u2022 Lance Robertson – ‘Yo Gabba Gabba: Baby’ (Nickelodeon)
\n\u2022 Nick Cannon – ‘TeenNick Halo Awards 2010’ (TeenNick)
\n\u2022 Selena Gomez – ‘Wizards of Waverly Place’ (Disney Channel)
\n\u2022 Victoria Justice – ‘Victorious’ (Nickelodeon)<\/p>\n

RECORDING CATEGORIES<\/strong><\/p>\n

Outstanding New Artist<\/strong>
\n\u2022 B.o.B (Rebel Rock\/Grand Hustle\/Atlantic)
\n\u2022 Bruno Mars (Elektra Records)
\n\u2022 Jason Derulo (Warner Bros. Records)
\n\u2022 Nicki Minaj (Young Money\/Cash Money\/Universal Motown)
\n\u2022 Willow (Roc Nation\/Columbia Records)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Male Artist<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Cee Lo Green (Elektra Records)
\n\u2022 Jay-Z (Roc Nation\/Def Jam)
\n\u2022 Kanye West (Island Def Jam Music Group)
\n\u2022 Ne-Yo (Island Def Jam Music Group)
\n\u2022 Usher (Laface\/Jive Records)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Female Artist<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Chrisette Michele (Island Def Jam Music Group)
\n\u2022 Corinne Bailey Rae (Capitol Records)
\n\u2022 Mary J. Blige (Geffen Records\/Matriarch)
\n\u2022 Rihanna (Island Def Jam Music Group)
\n\u2022 Sade (Epic Records)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Diddy-Dirty Money (Bad Boy\/Interscope)
\n\u2022 Eminem & Rihanna (Shady\/Aftermath\/Interscope)
\n\u2022 Herbie Hancock (feat. India.Arie, Chaka Khan and others) (Hancock Music)
\n\u2022 John Legend and The Roots (Columbia Records)
\n\u2022 The Black Eyed Peas (Interscope)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Jazz Album<\/strong>
\n\u2022 ‘Dee Dee Bridgewater Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee’
\n– Dee Dee Bridgewater (EmArcy, Decca Label Group, DDB Records)
\n\u2022 ‘From Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf – Live in Marciac’ -The Wynton Marsalis Quintet &
\nRichard Galliano (The Orchard)
\n\u2022 ‘Geri Allen & Timeline Live’ – Geri Allen & Timeline Live (Motema Music)
\n\u2022 ‘The Imagine Project’ – Herbie Hancock (Hancock Music)
\n\u2022 ‘VOCAbuLarieS’ – Bobby McFerrin (Universal Music Group\/Decca\/Emarcy)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Gospel Album -(Traditional or Contemporary)<\/strong>
\n\u2022 ‘Gospel According to Jazz, Chapter III’ – Kirk Whalum (Rendezvous Music\/Mack Avenue
\nRecords)
\n\u2022 ‘Here I Am’ – Marvin Sapp (Verity Gospel Music Group)
\n\u2022 ‘Just Love Deluxe’ – Brian Courtney Wilson (Music World Gospel)
\n\u2022 ‘Master Plan’ -Tamela Mann (TillyMann)
\n\u2022 ‘You Are Not Alone’ – Mavis Staples (ANTI Records)<\/p>\n

Outstanding World Music Album<\/strong>
\n\u2022 ‘Hymns for the Rebel Soul’ – Rocky Dawuni (Aquarian Records)
\n\u2022 ‘Oyo’ – Angelique Kidjo (Razor & Tie)
\n\u2022 ‘The Imagine Project’ – Herbie Hancock (Hancock Music)
\n\u2022 ‘The Sound of Sunshine’ – Michael Franti (EMI Music)
\n\u2022 ‘VOCAbuLarieS’ – Bobby McFerrin (Universal Music Group\/Decca\/Emarcy)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Music Video<\/strong>
\n\u2022 ‘Fistful of Tears’ – Maxwell (Columbia Records)
\n\u2022 ‘Soldier of Love’ – Sade (Epic Records)
\n\u2022 ‘Un-thinkable (I’m Ready)’ – Alicia Keys (J Records)
\n\u2022 ‘Whip My Hair’ \u2013 Willow Smith (Roc Nation\/Columbia Records)
\n\u2022 ‘Why Don’t You Love Me’ – Beyonc\u00e9 Knowles (Columbia Records)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Song<\/strong>
\n\u2022 ‘Bittersweet’ – Fantasia (J Records)
\n\u2022 ‘Fistful of Tears’ – Maxwell (Columbia Records)
\n\u2022 ‘Forget You’ – Cee-Lo Green (Elektra Records)
\n\u2022 ‘Soldier of Love’ – Sade (Epic Records)
\n\u2022 ‘Un-thinkable (I’m Ready)’ – Alicia Keys (J Records)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Album<\/strong>
\n\u2022 ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ – Kanye West (Island Def Jam Music Group)
\n\u2022 ‘Now and Then’ – Smokey Robinson (Saguaro Road\/Cracker Barrel\/Robso Records)
\n\u2022 ‘Raymond vs. Raymond’ – Usher (Laface\/Jive Records)
\n\u2022 ‘Soldier of Love’ – Sade (Epic Records)
\n\u2022 ‘Wake Up!’ – John Legend and The Roots (Columbia Records)<\/p>\n

LITERATURE CATEGORIES<\/strong><\/p>\n

Outstanding Literary Work -Fiction<\/strong>
\n\u2022 ‘A Taste of Honey’ – Jabari Asim (Broadway Books)
\n\u2022 ‘Getting to Happy’ – Terry McMillan (Penguin Group)
\n\u2022 ‘Glorious’ – Bernice L. McFadden (Akashic Books)
\n\u2022 ‘Till You Hear From Me’ – Pearl Cleage (Ballantine Books\/One World)
\n\u2022 ‘Wench’ – Dolen Perkins-Valdez (Amistad)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Literary Work -Non-Fiction<\/strong>
\n\u2022 ‘Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority’ – Tom Burrell (SmileyBooks)
\n\u2022 ‘Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts of Women in SNCC’ – Editors: Faith
\nS. Holsaert, Judy Richardson, Martha Prescod Norman Noonan, Betty Garman
\nRobinson, Jean Smith Young, Dorothy M. Zellner (University of Illinois Press)
\n\u2022 ‘Surviving and Thriving 365 Days in Black Economic History’ – Dr. Julianne Malveaux
\n(Last Word Productions, Inc.)
\n\u2022 ‘The History of White People’ – Nell Irvin Painter (W.W. Norton & Company)
\n\u2022 ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ – Michelle
\nAlexander (The New Press)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Literary Work -Debut Author<\/strong>
\n\u2022 ‘Wench’ – Dolen Perkins-Valdez (Amistad)
\n\u2022 ‘The Girl Who Fell from the Sky’ – Heidi Durrow (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
\n\u2022 ‘The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration’ – Isabel
\nWilkerson (Random House)
\n\u2022 ‘Beneath the Lion’s Gaze’ – Maaza Mengiste (W.W. Norton & Company)
\n\u2022 ‘Forest Gate’ – Peter Akinti (Free Press\/Simon & Schuster)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Literary Work -Biography\/Auto-Biography<\/strong>
\n\u2022 ‘Conversations with Myself’ – Ruth Hobday, Nelson Mandela (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
\n\u2022 ‘Decoded’ – Jay-Z (Spiegel & Gran, a division of Random House)
\n\u2022 ‘Extraordinary, Ordinary People’ – Condoleezza Rice (Crown Archetype)
\n\u2022 ‘I’m Still Standing: From Captive U.S. Soldier to Free Citizen – My Journey Home’ –
\nShoshana Johnson (Touchstone, An Imprint of Simon & Schuster)
\n\u2022 ‘You Don’t Know Me: Reflections of My Father, Ray Charles’ – Ray Charles Robinson,
\nJr. (Crown)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Literary Work -Instructional<\/strong>
\n\u2022 ‘A Boy Should Know How to Tie a Tie: And Other Lessons for Succeeding in Life’ –
\nAntwone Fisher (Touchstone, An Imprint of Simon & Schuster)
\n\u2022 ‘Diet-Free for Life: A Revolutionary Food, Fitness and Mindset Makeover to Maximize
\nFat Loss’ – Robert Ferguson (Penguin Group USA, Perigee Hardcover)
\n\u2022 ‘If it Takes a Village, Build One: How I Found Meaning Through a Life of Service and
\n100+ Ways You Can Too’ – Malaak Compton-Rock (Crown Archetype)
\n\u2022 ‘The Blueprint: A Plan for Living Above Life’s Storms’ – Kirk Franklin (Gotham Books)
\n\u2022 ‘The Little Black Book of Success: Laws of Leadership for Black Women’ – Elaine Meryl
\nBrown, Rhonda McLean, Marsha Haygood (Ballantine Books\/One World)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Literary Work -Poetry<\/strong>
\n\u2022 ‘100 Best African-American Poems’ – Nikki Giovanni (Sourcebooks MediaFusion)
\n\u2022 ‘Hard Times Require Furious Dancing’ – Alice Walker (Author), Shiloh McCloud
\n(Illustrator) (New World Library)
\n\u2022 ‘Holding Company’ – Major Jackson (W.W. Norton & Company)
\n\u2022 ‘Suck on the Marrow’ – Camille T. Dungy (Red Hen Press)
\n\u2022 ‘White Egrets’ – Derek Walcott (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Literary Work -Children<\/strong>
\n\u2022 ‘Grandma’s Gift’ – Eric Velasquez (Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books)
\n\u2022 ‘Mama Miti: Wangai Maathai and the Tree of Kenya’ – Donna Jo Napoli (Author), Kadir
\nNelson (Illustrator) (Paula Wiseman Books, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing)
\n\u2022 ‘My Brother Charlie’ – Holly Robinson Peete, Ryan Elizabeth Peete (Scholastic Press)
\n\u2022 ‘Side by Side\/Lado a Lado: The Story of Delores Huerta and Cesar Chavez’ – Monica
\nBrown (Author), Joe Cepeda (Illustrator) (Harper Collins Children’s Books)
\n\u2022 ‘The Great Migration: Journey to the North’ – Eloise Greenfield (Author), Jan Pivey
\nGilchrist (Illustrator) (Harper Collins Children’s Books)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Literary Work -Youth\/Teens<\/strong>
\n\u2022 ‘Condoleezza Rice A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me’ –
\nCondoleezza Rice (Random House Children’s Books)
\n\u2022 ‘Lockdown’ – Walter Dean Myers (Harper Collins Children’s Books)
\n\u2022 ‘Malcolm X: I Believe in the Brotherhood of Man, All Men’ – Jeff Burlingame (Enslow
\nPublishers, Inc.)
\n\u2022 ‘Out of My Mind’ – Sharon Draper (Atheneum Young Reader)
\n\u2022 ‘One Crazy Summer’ – Rita Williams-Garcia (Harper Collins Children’s Books)<\/p>\n

MOTION PICTURE CATEGORIES<\/strong><\/p>\n

Outstanding Motion Picture<\/strong>
\n\u2022 ‘For Colored Girls’ (Lionsgate\/34th Street Films)
\n\u2022 ‘Just Wright’ (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
\n\u2022 ‘The Book of Eli’ (Warner Bros. Pictures)
\n\u2022 ‘The Kids Are All Right’ (Focus Features)
\n\u2022 ‘Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too?’ (Lionsgate)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Anthony Mackie – ‘Night Catches Us’ (Magnolia Pictures)
\n\u2022 Common – ‘Just Wright’ (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
\n\u2022 Denzel Washington – ‘The Book of Eli’ (Warner Bros. Pictures)
\n\u2022 Jaden Smith – ‘The Karate Kid’ (Columbia Pictures)
\n\u2022 Morgan Freeman – ‘Red’ (Summit Entertainment)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Halle Berry – ‘Frankie & Alice’ (Freestyle Releasing)
\n\u2022 Janet Jackson – ‘Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too?’ (Lionsgate)
\n\u2022 Kerry Washington – ‘Night Catches Us’ (Magnolia Pictures)
\n\u2022 Queen Latifah – ‘Just Wright’ (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
\n\u2022 Zo\u00eb Saldana – ‘The Losers’ (Warner Bros. Pictures)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Don Cheadle – ‘Brooklyn’s Finest’ (Overture Films)
\n\u2022 Idris Elba – ‘Takers’ (Screen Gems)
\n\u2022 Justin Timberlake – ‘The Social Network’ (Columbia Pictures)
\n\u2022 Michael Ealy – ‘For Colored Girls’ (Lionsgate\/34th Street Films)
\n\u2022 Samuel L. Jackson – ‘Mother and Child’ (Sony Pictures Classics)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Anika Noni Rose – ‘For Colored Girls’ (Lionsgate\/34th Street Films)
\n\u2022 Kimberly Elise – ‘For Colored Girls’ (Lionsgate\/34th Street Films)
\n\u2022 Phylicia Rashad – ‘For Colored Girls’ (Lionsgate\/34th Street Films)
\n\u2022 Jill Scott – ‘Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too?’ (Lionsgate)
\n\u2022 Whoopi Goldberg – ‘For Colored Girls’ (Lionsgate\/34th Street Films)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Independent Motion Picture<\/strong>
\n\u2022 ‘Conviction’ (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
\n\u2022 ‘Frankie & Alice’ (Freestyle Releasing)
\n\u2022 ‘La Mission’ (Screen Media Ventures)
\n\u2022 ‘Mother and Child’ (Sony Pictures Classics)
\n\u2022 ‘Night Catches Us’ (Magnolia Pictures)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Foreign Motion Picture<\/strong>
\n\u2022 ‘A Barefoot Dream’ (Showbox\/Mediaplex)
\n\u2022 ‘Biutiful’ (Roadside Attractions)
\n\u2022 ‘Four Lions’ (Drafthouse Films)
\n\u2022 ‘Mother’ (Magnolia Pictures)
\n\u2022 ‘Outside the Law’ (Tessalit Productions)<\/p>\n

DOCUMENTARY CATEGORIES<\/strong><\/p>\n

Outstanding Documentary (Theatrical or Television)<\/strong>
\n\u2022 ‘For Love of Liberty: The Story of America’s Black Patriots’ (PBS)
\n\u2022 ‘Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel’ (Metaphor Films)
\n\u2022 ‘If God is Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise’ (HBO)
\n\u2022 ‘Waiting for “Superman’ (Paramount Vantage)
\n\u2022 ‘William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe’ (POV)<\/p>\n

WRITING CATEGORIES<\/strong><\/p>\n

Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Aaron McGruder – ‘The Boondocks’ -The Fund-Raiser (Cartoon Network)
\n\u2022 Daniel Chun – ‘The Office’ -Nepotism (NBC)
\n\u2022 Kenny Smith – ‘Pair of Kings’ -Where the Wild Kings Are (Disney XD)
\n\u2022 Myra J. – ‘Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns’ -Meet the Racist (TBS)
\n\u2022 Vali Chandrasekaran – ’30 Rock’ -Khonani (NBC)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Writing in a Dramatic Series<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Alexander Woo – ‘True Blood’ – It Hurts Me Too (HBO)
\n\u2022 Janine Sherman Barrois – ‘Criminal Minds’ -Remembrance of Things Past (CBS)
\n\u2022 Judith McCreary – ‘Law & Order: Special Victims Unit’ -Disabled (NBC)
\n\u2022 Leyani Diaz, Vanessa Rojas – ‘The Event’ -Loyalty (NBC)
\n\u2022 Shonda Rhimes – ‘Private Practice’ -Did You Hear What Happened to Charlotte King?
\n(ABC)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture -(Theatrical or Television)<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Mary King, Anna Waterhouse, Joe Shrapnel, Marko King, Jonathan Watters, Cheryl
\nEdwards – “Frankie & Alice” (Freestyle Releasing)
\n\u2022 Michael C. Martin – “Brooklyn’s Finest” (Overture Films)
\n\u2022 Michael Elliot – “Just Wright” (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
\n\u2022 Rodrigo Garcia – “Mother and Child” (Sony Pictures Classics)
\n\u2022 Tyler Perry – “Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too?” (Lionsgate)<\/p>\n

DIRECTING CATEGORIES<\/strong><\/p>\n

Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Joe Morton – ‘Eureka’ -Stoned (Syfy)
\n\u2022 Justin Lin – ‘Community’ -Modern Warfare (NBC)
\n\u2022 Ken Whittingham – ’30 Rock’ -Anna Howard Shaw Day (NBC)
\n\u2022 Kevin Rodney Sullivan – ‘Modern Family’ -Game Changer (ABC)
\n\u2022 Michael Schultz – ‘Chuck’ -Chuck vs. ‘The Couch Lock’ (NBC)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Directing in a Dramatic Series<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Felix Alcal – ‘Southland’ -What Makes Sammy Run (TNT)
\n\u2022 Millicent Shelton – ‘Men of A Certain Age’ -Go with the Flow (TNT)
\n\u2022 Paris Barclay – ‘In Treatment’ -Sunil: Week 6 (HBO)
\n\u2022 Seith Mann – ‘Friday Night Lights’ -Injury List (DirecTV\/NBC)
\n\u2022 Stephen L. Williams – ‘Undercovers’ -Instructions (NBC)<\/p>\n

Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture -(Theatrical or Television)<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Geoffrey Sax – ‘Frankie & Alice’ (Freestyle Releasing)
\n\u2022 George Tillman, Jr. – ‘Faster’ (CBS Films)
\n\u2022 Tanya Hamilton – ‘Night Catches Us’ (Magnolia Pictures)
\n\u2022 The Hughes Brothers – ‘The Book of Eli’ (Warner Bros. Pictures)
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