Halle Berry, Vanessa Williams Win Awards at The 42nd NAACP Image Awards
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)Award Winners.
By Steven Escobar | March 09, 2011
Halle Berry Photo courtesy of Rodrigo Vaz
On Friday, March 4, 2011 The 42nd NAACP Image Awards were presented to luminaries from all fields in a live show hosted by Holly Robinson Peete and Wayne Brady at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, CA.
Outstanding Comedy Series: “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne”
Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series: David Mann – “Meet the Browns”
Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series: Vanessa Williams – “Desperate Housewives”
Outstanding Drama Series: “Grey’s Anatomy”
Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series: LL Cool J – “NCIS: Los Angeles”
Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series: Regina King – “Southland”
Outstanding Actor in a TV Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special: Idris Elba – “Luther”
Outstanding Actress in a TV M
General Colin and Alma Powell Photo courtesy of Rodrigo Vaz
ovie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special: Jill Scott – “Sins of the Mother”
Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Series: Darnell Williams (“All My Children”)
Outstanding Children’s Program: “True Jackson, VP”
Outstanding Motion Picture: “For Colored Girls”
Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture: Denzel Washington – “The Book of Eli”
Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture: Halle Berry – “Frankie and Alice”
Outstanding New Artist: Willow Smith
Outstanding Male Artist: Usher
Outstanding Female Artist: Mary J. Blige
Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction: Getting to Happy by Terry McMillan
Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceratio
Vanessa Williams Photo courtesy of Rodrigo Vaz
n in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
The NAACP Image Awards also presented special awards to Regina M. Benjamin, MD, MBA – Surgeon General awarded (The Chairman’s Award) and General Colin L. Powell (The President’s Award).
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