| 55th NAACP Image Awards | |
|---|---|
| Date | March 16, 2024 |
| Site | Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California |
| Hosted by | Queen Latifah |
| Official website | NAACPImageAwards.net |
| Highlights | |
| Best Picture | The Color Purple |
| Best Drama Series | Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story |
| Best Musical or Comedy Series | Abbott Elementary |
| Most nominations | The Color Purple
|
| Television coverage | |
| Network | BET CBS BET Her MTV MTV2 CMT Comedy Central Logo TV Paramount Network Smithsonian Channel TV Land VH1 (simulcast) |
The 55th NAACP Image Awards, presented by the NAACP, honored outstanding representations and achievements of people of color in motion pictures, television, music, and literature during the 2023 calendar year. The ceremony was hosted by Queen Latifah and aired on March 16, 2024 on BET and simulcasted on CBS.[1][2] Non–televised Image Awards categories were livestreamed March 11–14th on the Image Awards website.[3]
Submissions were received online from July 31 to November 3, 2023,[4] and public online voting on the shortlisted nominations for performance categories are set to run from January 25 to February 24, 2024 on the Image Awards website.[5]
The nominations were announced on January 25, 2024 with the film The Color Purple and actor Colman Domingo leading the motion picture categories with 16 and 3 nominations, respectively, and Ayo Edebiri leading the nominations for television and streaming categories with two for Abbott Elementary and The Bear.[6][7] In the recording categories, Victoria Monét and Usher led the nominations with six and five nominations, respectively.[8] RCA Records collectively led the nominations in the recording categories with 20 nominations, while HarperCollins Publisher and Penguin Random House led the literary categories with seven and four nods, respectively.[9]
Poet, writer and activist Amanda Gorman was honored with the Chairman’s Award.[10] Creative director and costume designer June Ambrose received the Vanguard Award at the previous award ceremony's NAACP Fashion Show on March 15, 2024.[11]
The film The Color Purple became the most nominated motion picture in the ceremony's history, scoring 16 nominations and winning 11. Breaking the record previously held by The Best Man (1999), Black Panther (2018) and Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (2020) which were all tied for 10 nominations.
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- ^ Brathwaite, Lester Fabian (January 25, 2024). "Colman Domingo, Ayo Edebiri, and The Color Purple dominate 55th NAACP Image Awards". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on January 25, 2024. Retrieved January 26, 2024.
- ^ Grein, Paul (January 25, 2024). "Usher, Victoria Monét Score in 2024 NAACP Image Awards Nods: Here Are All Music Nominees". Billboard. Archived from the original on January 30, 2024. Retrieved January 26, 2024.
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- ^ Jackson, Angelique (March 5, 2024). "Queen Latifah Returns to Host NAACP Image Awards, Amanda Gorman and June Ambrose to Receive Special Honors". Variety. Archived from the original on March 5, 2024. Retrieved March 6, 2024.