55th NAACP Image Awards Nominations

It’s no surprise that The Color Purple dominated these nominations. The overperformance of Rustin and They Cloned Tyrone, however, was not expected. There are also several TV programs in the below list because some of the categories are for both TV and film. As such, the nominations tallies for those titles are not accurate of their total with the rest of the Image Awards that I don’t cover.

Nominations Tallies

(16) The Color Purple
(9) Rustin, They Cloned Tyrone
(7) American Fiction, A Thousand and One
(6) Creed III, Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
(4) Brother, Origin
(2) Air, The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster, The Blackening, The Burial, The Equalizer 3, Invisible Beauty, Lil’ Ruby, The Little Mermaid, Little Richard: I Am Everything, Stamped from the Beginning, Wish
(1) The After, Alive in Bronze: Huey P. Newton, American Symphony, Anatomy of a Fall, Back on the Strip, Bel-Air, Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney, Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games, A Black Lady Sketch Show, Blueberry, Bridges, Burning Rubber, The Continental: From the World of John Wick, Dear Mama, Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over, Ego’ Curse, Elemental, Fast Dreams, Flower, Freshwater, Gaps, Godfather of Harlem: Season 3, The Holdovers, Ifine (Beauty), I’m a Virgo, Joy Ride, Lessons in Chemistry, Lucille, Mami Wata, A New Life, The Other Black Girl, Rocky Road on Channel Three, Rye Lane, Shooting Stars, Sitting in Bars with Cake, Society of the Snow, Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, Story Ave, Sweetwater, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Titans, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, UnPrisoned, Warrior, Wonka

The Nominations

Best Motion Picture

American Fiction
The Color Purple
Origin
Rustin
They Cloned Tyrone

Best Animated Picture

Elemental
Lil’ Ruby
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Wish

Best Directing

Ava DuVernay – Origin
Antoine Fuqua – The Equalizer 3
Michael B. Jordan – Creed III
Juel Taylor – They Cloned Tyrone
George C. Wolfe – Rustin

Best Actor

John Boyega – They Cloned Tyrone
Colman Domingo – Rustin
Jamie Foxx – The Burial
Denzel Washington – The Equalizer 3
Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction

Best Actress

Halle Bailey – The Little Mermaid
Fantasia Barrino – The Color Purple
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor – Origin
Yara Shahidi – Sitting in Bars with Cake
Teyana Taylor – A Thousand and One

Best Supporting Actor

Sterling K. Brown – American Fiction
Colman Domingo – The Color Purple
Jamie Foxx – They Cloned Tyrone
Corey Hawkins – The Color Purple
Glynn Turman – Rustin

Best Supporting Actress

Erika Alexander – American Fiction
Halle Bailey – The Color Purple
Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple
Taraji P. Henson – The Color Purple
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers

Best Writing

American Fiction
The Burial
The Color Purple
They Cloned Tyrone
A Thousand and One

Best Original Score

American Fiction
The Color Purple
The Other Black Girl
Rustin
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

Best Cinematography

Brother
Joy Ride
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
They Cloned Tyrone
A Thousand and One

Best Costume Design

Air
The Color Purple
I’m a Virgo
Rustin
Shooting Stars

Best Make-Up

Bel-Air
The Color Purple
Lessons in Chemistry
Rustin
UnPrisoned

Best Hairstyling

Air
A Black Lady Sketch Show
The Color Purple
Creed III
Rustin

Best International Motion Picture

Anatomy of a Fall
Brother
Mami Wata
Rye Lane
Society of the Snow

Best Documentary

American Symphony
Fast Dreams
Invisible Beauty
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Stamped from the Beginning

Short Form (Animated)

Blueberry
Bridges
Burning Rubber
Ego’ Curse
Lil’ Ruby

Short Form (Documentary)

Alive in Bronze: Huey P. Newton
Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney
Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games
Freshwater
Ifine (Beauty)

Best Stunt Ensemble

The Continental: From the World of John Wick
Creed III
They Cloned Tyrone
Titans
Warrior

Short Form (Live Action)

The After
Flower
Gaps
Lucille
Rocky Road on Channel Three

Best Youth Performance

Aaron Kingsley Adetola – A Thousand and One
Aven Courtnery – A Thousand and One
Mila Davis-Kent – Creed III
Calah Lane – Wonka
Lennox Simms – Origin

Best Breakthrough Performance in a Motion Picture

Mila Davis-Kent – Creed III
Laya DeLeon Hayes – The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster
Phylicia Pealr Mpasi – The Color Purple
Aaron Pierre – Brother
Teyana Taylor – A Thousand and One

Best Character Voice-Over Performance (Television or Film)

Ariana DeBose – Wish
Brian Tyree Henry – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Daniel Kaluuya – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Shameik Moore – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Issa Rae – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best Ensemble Cast

American Fiction
The Blackening
The Color Purple
Rustin
They Cloned Tyrone

Soundtrack/Compilation Album

The Color Purple
Creed III
Godfather of Harlem: Season 3
The Little Mermaid
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse

Breakthrough Creative in a Motion Picture

Blitz Bazawule – The Color Purple
Dewayne Perkins – The Blackening
A.V. Rockwell – A Thousand and One
Choice Skinner – A New Life
Juel Taylor – They Cloned Tyrone

Best Independent Motion Picture

The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster
Back on the Strip
Brother
Story Ave
Sweetwater

Directing in a Documentary

Lisa Cortés – Little Richard: I Am Everything
Bethann Hardison, FrédéricTcheng – Invisible Beauty
Allen Hughes – Dear Mama
Roger Ross Williams – Stamped from the Beginning
Dave Wooley, David Heilbroner – Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over