49th NAACP Image Awards

All nominees are listed below, and the winners are listed in bold.[7]

Special Awards

Motion Picture

Television

Documentary

Outstanding Documentary – (Film)

• STEP
  • I Called Him Morgan
  • The Rape of Recy Taylor
  • Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
  • Whose Streets?

Outstanding Documentary – (Television)

• The 44th President: In His Own Words
  • Birth of a Movement
  • Black Love
  • The Defiant Ones
  • What the Health

Animated/CGI

Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance – (Television or Film)

• Tiffany Haddish – Legends of Chamberlain Heights
  • Yvette Nicole Brown – Elena of Avalor
  • Loretta Devine – Doc McStuffins
  • David Oyelowo – The Lion Guard
  • Kerry Washington – Cars 3

Music

Outstanding New Artist

• SZA – Ctrl
  • Demetria McKinney – Officially Yours
  • Khalid – American Teen
  • Kevin Ross – The Awakening
  • Vic Mensa – The Autobiography

Outstanding Male Artist

• Bruno Mars – "Versace on the Floor"
  • 4:44
  • Kendrick Lamar – DAMN.
  • Brian McKnight – Genesis
  • Charlie Wilson – In It to Win It

Outstanding Female Artist

• Mary J. Blige – Strength of a Woman
  • Beyoncé – "Die with You"
  • Andra Day – "Stand Up For Something"
  • Ledisi – Let Love Rule
  • SZA – Ctrl

• Kendrick Lamar feat. Rihanna – "LOYALTY."
  • Mary J. Blige feat. Kanye West – "Love Yourself"
  • Andra Day feat. Common – "Stand Up For Something"
  • SZA feat. Travis Scott – "Love Galore
    "
  • Charlie Wilson feat. T.I. – "I'm Blessed"

Outstanding Jazz Album

• Somi
  – Petite Afrique
  • Damien Escobar – Boundless
  • Najee – Poetry in Motion
  • Cécile McLorin Salvant – Dreams and Daggers
  • Preservation Hall Jazz Band – So It Is

Outstanding Gospel Album – Traditional or Contemporary

• Greenleaf Soundtrack – Greenleaf Soundtrack Volume 2
  • Tasha Cobbs
    – Heart. Passion. Pursuit.
  • Travis Greene
    – Crossover Live From Music City
  • Marvin Sapp – Close
  • CeCe Winans – Let Them Fall In Love

Outstanding Music Video

• Bruno Mars – "That's What I Like"
  • Mary J. Blige – "Strength of a Woman"
  • JAY-Z
    – "4:44"
  • Maxwell – "Gods"
  • Ledisi – "High"

Outstanding Song, Traditional

• Bruno Mars – "That's What I Like"
  • Mary J. Blige – "U + Me (Love Lesson)"
  • Ledisi – "High"
  • John Legend – "Surefire (Piano Version)"
  • MAJOR. – "Honest"

Outstanding Song, Contemporary

• Kendrick Lamar – "HUMBLE."
  • JAY-Z
    – "The Story of O.J."
  • Mali Music – "Gonna Be Alright"
  • Insecure
    "
  • SZA feat. Travis Scott – "Love Galore
    "

• Kendrick Lamar – DAMN.
  • Mary J. Blige – Strength of a Woman
  • 4:44
  • Brian McKnight – Genesis
  • Charlie Wilson – In It to Win It

Literature

Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction

• Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar – The Annotated African American Folktales
  • Marita Golden – The Wide Circumference of Love
  • Celeste Ng – Little Fires Everywhere
  • Jesmyn Ward – Sing, Unburied, Sing
  • Stephanie Powell Watts – No One Is Coming to Save Us

Outstanding Literary Work, Non-Fiction

• Dick Gregory – Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies
  • Herb Boyd – Black Detroit – A People’s History of Self-Determination
  • Paul Butler – Chokehold: Policing Black Men
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates – We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
  • Adrian Miller – The President's Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas

Outstanding Literary Work, Debut Author

• Stephanie Powell Watts – No One Is Coming to Save Us
  • Devin Allen – A Beautiful Ghetto
  • Leland Melvin
    – Chasing Spaces: An Astronaut’s Story of Grit, Grace & Second Chances
  • Gabrielle Union – We're Going to Need More Wine
  • Ms. Pat

Outstanding Literary Work, Biography/Auto-Biography

• Susan Burton and Cari Lynn – Becoming Ms. Burton - From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women
  • Peter Baker
    – Obama: The Call of History
  • Jonathan Eig – Ali: A Life
  • Lawrence P. Jackson – Chester B. Himes
  • Gabrielle Union – We're Going to Need More Wine

Outstanding Literary Work, Instructional

• Tererai Trent – The Awakened Woman: Remembering & Reigniting Our Sacred Dreams
  • Misty Copeland – Ballerina Body: Dancing and Eating Your Way to a Leaner, Stronger, and More Graceful You
  • Kelvin Davis – Notoriously Dapper - How to Be A Modern Gentleman with Manners, Style and Body Confidence
  • Kristen Kish with Meredith Erickson – Kristen Kish Cooking
  • Sheri Riley – Exponential Living - Stop Spending 100% of Your Time on 10% of Who You Are

Outstanding Literary Work, Poetry

• Incendiary Art: Poems
  • Cameron Barnett – The Drowning Boy's Guide to Water
  • Aja Monet – My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter
  • Ntozake Shange – Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems
  • Marcus Wicker – Silencer

Outstanding Literary Work, Children

• Vashti Harrison – Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with Raymond Obstfeld – Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court
  • Lesa Cline-Ransome and
    James E. Ransome – Before She Was Harriet
  • Andrea J. Loney and Keith Mallett – Take a Picture of Me, James VanDerZee!
  • Cynthia Levinson and Vanessa Brantley-Newton – The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, A Young Civil Rights Activist

Outstanding Literary Work, Youth/Teens

• Rita Williams-Garcia and Frank Morrison – Clayton Byrd Goes Underground
  • Kwame Alexander with Mary Rand Hess – Solo
  • Tiffany D. Jackson – Allegedly
  • Jason Reynolds - Long Way Down
  • Angie Thomas – The Hate U Give

References

External links

• NAACP Image Awards official site