49th NAACP Image 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"
• * JAY-Z –
• * 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

  Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration

• 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 "
• * Ledisi – "High"
• * John Legend – "Surefire "
• * MAJOR. – "Honest"

  Outstanding Song, Contemporary

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

  Outstanding Album

• Kendrick Lamar – DAMN.
• * Mary J. Blige – Strength of a Woman
• * JAY-Z –
• * 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
• * Patricia Williams with Jeannine Amber – Rabbit: The Autobiography of 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

• Patricia Smith –
• * 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