‘Scandal,’ ‘How to Get Away With Murder’ Among NAACP Image Awards Nominees 

‘Scandal,’ ‘How to Get Away With Murder’ Among NAACP Image Awards Nominees

Awards | By Ryan O'Connell on December 9, 2014 @ 9:41 am

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The full list of nominees were announced Tuesday for the awards that will be held on Feb. 6, 2015

The nominees for the 46th NAACP Image Awards were announced on Tuesday during a press conference from the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, California.

Tracee Ellis Ross (“Black-ish”), Gina Rodriguez (“Jane the Virgin”), Alfred Enoch (“How To Get Away With Murder”), Aja Naomi King (“How To Get Away With Murder” and Tessa Thompson (“Dear White People”) were joined by the President and CEO of the NAACP, Cornell William Brooks, to reveal who received nods in 2014.

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ABC and Lifetime lead the nominees in the television category, with both “Scandal” and “How to Get Away With Murder” receiving multiple nominations, including Best Actress in a Drama recognition for both Kerry Washington and Viola Davis.

In the recording category, Columbia Records leads with 10 nominations while Paramount Pictures’ 10 nominations secured it as the top in the motion picture categories.

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“It was an honor to be part of today's announcement recognizing the outstanding artistic achievements by members of our community,” said Brooks. “The NAACP Image Awards is more than just ceremony, but an institution for artists and social justice pioneers of color. “As the Image Awards continues to grow and evolve, the principles of social justice remain at its core.”

The winners will be announced live during a two-hour event, broadcast on TV ONE on Friday, Feb. 6, 2015.

• Andre Braugher – “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” (FOX)

• Keegan-Michael Key – “Key & Peele” (Comedy Central)

• Kevin Hart – “Real Husbands of Hollywood” (BET)

• Mindy Kaling – “The Mindy Project” (FOX)

• Niecy Nash – “The Soul Man” (TV Land)

• Tracee Ellis Ross – “Black-ish” (ABC)

• Wendy Raquel Robinson – “The Game” (BET)

• Boris Kodjoe – “Real Husbands of Hollywood” (BET)

• Glynn Turman – “House of Lies” (Showtime)

• Terry Crews – “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” (FOX)

• Adrienne C. Moore – “Orange is the New Black” (Netflix)

• Lorraine Toussaint – “Orange is the New Black” (Netflix)

• Sofia Vergara – “Modern Family” (ABC)

• Omari Hardwick – “Being Mary Jane” (BET)

• Shemar Moore – “Criminal Minds” (CBS)

• Taye Diggs – “Murder in the First” (TNT)

• Gabrielle Union – “Being Mary Jane” (BET)

• Nicole Beharie – “Sleepy Hollow” (FOX)

• Octavia Spencer – “Red Band Society” (FOX)

• Viola Davis – “How to Get Away with Murder” (ABC)

• Alfred Enoch – “How to Get Away with Murder” (ABC)

• Courtney B. Vance – “Masters of Sex” (Showtime)

• Jeffrey Wright – “Boardwalk Empire” (HBO)

• Aja Naomi King – “How to Get Away with Murder” (ABC)

• Alfre Woodard – “State of Affairs” (NBC)

• Chandra Wilson – “Grey's Anatomy” (ABC)

• Jada Pinkett Smith – “Gotham” (FOX)

Outstanding Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special

• “A Day Late and a Dollar Short” (Lifetime Networks)

• “American Horror Story: Freak Show” (FX)

• “The Gabby Douglas Story” (Lifetime Networks)

Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special

• Blair Underwood – “The Trip to Bountiful” (Lifetime Networks)

• Charles S. Dutton – “Comeback Dad” (UP Entertainment)

• Larenz Tate – “Gun Hill” (BET)

• Mekhi Phifer – “A Day Late and a Dollar Short” (Lifetime Networks)

• Ving Rhames – “A Day Late and a Dollar Short” (Lifetime Networks)

Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special

• Angela Bassett – “American Horror Story: Freak Show” (FX)

• Cicely Tyson – “The Trip to Bountiful” (Lifetime Networks)

• Keke Palmer – “The Trip to Bountiful” (Lifetime Networks)

• Regina King – “The Gabby Douglas Story” (Lifetime Networks)

• Vanessa Williams – “The Trip to Bountiful” (Lifetime Networks)

Outstanding News/ Information – (Series or Special)

• “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.” (PBS)

• “UNCF An Evening of Stars” (NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, The CW, BET, Centric)

• “Anna Deavere Smith: A Youngarts Masterclass” (HBO)

Outstanding Performance by a Youth in a Youth/ Children's Program – (Series or Special)

• Amber Montana – “Haunted Hathaways” (Nickelodeon)

• China Anne McClain – “How to Build a Better Boy” (Disney Channel)

• Curtis Harris – “Haunted Hathaways” (Nickelodeon)

• Fatima Ptacek – “Dora and Friends: Into The City!” (Nickelodeon)

Outstanding Host in a Talk, Reality, News/ Information or Variety

• Chris Rock – “BET Awards” (BET)

• Gwen Ifill – “America After Ferguson” (PBS)

• Melissa Harris Perry – “Melissa Harris Perry” (MSNBC)

• Queen Latifah – “The Queen Latifah Show” (Syndicated)

• Steve Harvey – “Steve Harvey” (Syndicated)

• “Being With You” – Smokey Robinson feat. Mary J Blige (Verve)

• “Brand New” – Pharrell Williams feat. Justin Timberlake (Columbia Records)

• “Gust of Wind” – Pharrell Williams feat. Daft Punk (Columbia Records)

• “Love, Marriage & Divorce” – Toni Braxton & Babyface (Def Jam Recordings)

• “Stay with Me” – Sam Smith feat. Mary J Blige (Capitol)

• “Beautiful Life” – Dianne Reeves (Concord)

• “Dave Koz and Friends: The 25th of December” – Dave Koz (Concord Records)

• “Living My Dream” – Jonathan Butler (Rendezvous Music)

• “My Old Friend: Celebrating George Duke” – Al Jarreau (Concord)

• “Up” – Stanley Clarke (Mack Avenue Records)

Outstanding Gospel Album – (Traditional or Contemporary)

• “Duets” – Donnie McClurkin (RCA Inspiration)

• “Help” – Erica Campbell (My Block Inc./eOne Music)

• “I Will Trust” – Fred Hammond (RCA Inspiration)

• “Journey To Freedom” – Michelle Williams (eOne Music)

• “Where My Heart Belongs” – Gladys Knight (Shadow Mountain Records)

• “It's You” – KEM (Motown – Capitol)

• “Love Never Felt So Good” – Michael Jackson feat. Justin Timberlake (Epic Records)

• “Pretty Hurts” – Beyoncé (Columbia Records)

• “You & I (Nobody in the World)” – John Legend (Columbia Records)

• “Good Kisser” – Usher (RCA Records)

• “The Man” – Aloe Blacc (Interscope Records)

• “We Are Here” – Alicia Keys (RCA Records)

• “Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics” – Aretha Franklin (RCA Records)

• “Beyoncé Platinum Edition” – Beyoncé (Columbia Records)

• “G I R L” – Pharrell Williams (Columbia Records)

• “JHUD” – Jennifer Hudson (RCA Records)

• “A Wanted Woman” – Eric Jerome Dickey (Penguin Random House)

• “An Untamed State” – Roxane Gay (Grove/Atlantic – Black Cat)

• “Another Woman's Man” – Shelly Ellis (Kensington Publishing Corp.)

• “Momma: Gone” – Nina Foxx (Brown Girls Publishing)

• “The Prodigal Son” – Kimberla Lawson Roby (Grand Central Publishing/Hachette

• “Bad Feminist” – Roxane Gay (Harper Perennial/HarperCollins)

• “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption” – Bryan Stevenson (Spiegel & Grau)

• “Place not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America” – Sheryll Cashin (Beacon Press)

• “The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act” – Clay Risen (Bloomsbury Press)

• “Who We Be: The Colorization of America” – Jeff Chang (St. Martin's Press)

Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author

• “Forty Acres” – Dwayne Alexander Smith (Atria Books)

• “Queen Sugar” – Natalie Baszile (Pamela Dorman Books/Penguin Random House)

• “Remedy For A Broken Angel” – Toni Ann Johnson (Nortia Press)

• “The 16th Minute of Fame: An Insider's Guide for Maintaining Success Beyond

15 Minutes of Fame” – Darrell Miller (Dunham Books)

• “Time of the Locust” – Morowa Yejide (Atria Books)

Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/ Auto-Biography

• “Breaking Ground: My Life in Medicine” – Louis Sullivan with David Chanoff (University of

• “Handbook for an Unpredictable Life: How I Survived Sister Renata and My Crazy

Mother, and Still Came Out Smiling (with Great Hair)” – Rosie Perez (Crown Archetype)

• “Life In Motion” – Misty Copeland (Touchstone)

• “Mayor for Life” – Marion Barry, Omar Tyree (Strebor Books)

• “Stand Up Straight and Sing!” – Jessye Norman (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

• “10-Day Green Smoothie Cleanse” – JJ Smith (Atria Books/Simon & Schuster)

• “101 Scholarship Applications: What It Takes to Obtain a Debt-Free College

Education” – Gwen Richardson (Cushcity Communications)

• “Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean, and Southern Flavors Remixed” -

• “Justice While Black: Helping African-American Families Navigate and Survive the Criminal Justice

System” – Robbin Shipp, Nick Chiles (Agate Bolden)

• “Promises Kept: Raising Black Boys to Succeed in School and in Life” – Joe Brewster, Michele

Stephenson, Hilary Beard (Spiegel & Grau)

• “Citizen: An American Lyric” – Claudia Rankine (Graywolf Press)

• “Digest” – Gregory Pardlo (Four Way Books)

• “The New Testament” – Jericho Brown (Copper Canyon Press)

• “The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013” – Derek Walcott, Selected by Glyn Maxwell

• “We Didn't Know Any Gangsters” – Brian Gilmore (Cherry Castle Publishing, LLC)

• “Beautiful Moon” – Tonya Bolden (Author), Eric Velasquez (Illustrator) (Abrams/Abrams

• “Dork Diaries 8: Tales From A Note-So-Happily Ever After” – Rachel Renee

Russell with Nikki Russell and Erin Russell (Simon & Schuster)

• “Little Melba and Her Big Trombone” – Katheryn Russell-Brown (Author), Frank

• “Malcolm Little” – Ilyasah Shabazz (Author), AG Ford (Illustrator) (Simon & Schuster)

• “Searching for Sarah Rector” – Tonya Bolden (Abrams/Abrams Books for Young Readers)

• “Because They Marched: The People's Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed

America” – Russell Freedman (Holiday House)

• “Brown Girl Dreaming” – Jacqueline Woodson (Nancy Paulsen Books)

• “Revolution” – Deborah Wiles (Scholastic Press)

• “The Freedom Summer Murders” – Don Mitchell (Scholastic Press)

• “The Red Pencil” – Andrea Davis Pinkney (Author), Shane Evans (Illustrator)

• “Dear White People” (Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions)

• Chadwick Boseman – “Get On Up” (Universal Pictures)

• David Oyelowo – “Selma” (Paramount Pictures)

• Denzel Washington – “The Equalizer” (Columbia Pictures)

• Idris Elba – “No Good Deed” (Screen Gems)

• Nate Parker – “Beyond The Lights” (Relativity Media)

• Gugu Mbatha-Raw – “Belle” (Fox Searchlight Pictures/ DJ Films)

• Quvenzhané Wallis – “Annie” (Columbia Pictures)

• Taraji P. Henson – “No Good Deed” (Screen Gems)

• Tessa Thompson – “Dear White People” (Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions)

• Viola Davis – “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby” (The Weinstein Company)

• André Holland – “Selma” (Paramount Pictures)

• Cedric the Entertainer – “Top Five” (Paramount Pictures)

• Danny Glover – “Beyond The Lights” (Relativity Media)

• Wendell Pierce – “Selma” (Paramount Pictures)

• Carmen Ejogo – “Selma” (Paramount Pictures)

• Jill Scott – “Get On Up” (Universal Pictures)

• Octavia Spencer – “Get On Up” (Universal Pictures)

• Oprah Winfrey – “Selma” (Paramount Pictures)

• Viola Davis – “Get On Up” (Universal Pictures)

• “Half of a Yellow Sun” (monterey media inc.)

• “Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a

• “Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown” (HBO)

• “The War Comes Home: Soledad O'Brien Reports” (CNN)

• Aisha Muharrar – “Parks and Recreation” – Ann & Chris (NBC)

• Brigette Munoz-Liebowitz – “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” – Road Trip (FOX)

• Mindy Kaling – “The Mindy Project” – Danny and Mindy (FOX)

• Regina Hicks – “Instant Mom” – A Kids's Choice (Nickelodeon and Nick@Nite)

• Sara Hess – “Orange is the New Black” – It Was the Change (Netflix)

• Erika Green Swafford – “How to Get Away with Murder” – Let's Get To Scooping

• Mara Brock Akil – “Being Mary Jane” – Uber Love (BET)

• Warren Leight, Julie Martin – “Law & Order: SVU” – American Disgrace (NBC)

• Zahir McGhee – “Scandal” – Mama Said Knock You Out (ABC)

• Zoanne Clack – “Grey's Anatomy” – You Be Illin’ (ABC)

• Karin Gist, Regina Hicks – “Drumline: A New Beat” (VH1)

• Reggie Bythewood – “Gun Hill” (BET)

• Sharon Brathwaite, Peres Owino – “Seasons of Love” (Lifetime Networks)

• Shernold Edwards – “A Day Late and a Dollar Short” (Lifetime Networks)

• Sterling Anderson, Maria Nation – “The Gabby Douglas Story” (Lifetime Networks)

• Chris Rock – “Top Five” (Paramount Pictures)

• Justin Simien – “Dear White People” (Roadside Attractions and Lionsgate)

• Margaret Nagle – “The Good Lie” (Alcon Entertainment)

• Misan Sagay – “Belle” (Fox Searchlight Pictures/ DJ Films)

• Richard Wenk – “The Equalizer” (Columbia Pictures)

• Ken Whittingham – “Parks and Recreation” – Prom (NBC)

• Ken Whittingham – “The Mindy Project” – Think Like a Peter (FOX)

• Linda Mendoza – “Bad Judge” – One Brave Waitress (NBC)

• Reginald Hudlin – “Bad Judge” – Knife to a Gunfight (NBC)

• Stan Lathan – “Real Husbands of Hollywood” – No New Friends (BET)

• Anton Cropper – “Suits” – One-Two-Three Go… (USA)

• Carl Franklin – “House of Cards” – Chapter 14 (Netflix)

• Cary Joji Fukunaga – “True Detective” – Who Goes There (HBO)

• Hanelle Culpepper – “Criminal Minds” – The Edge of Winter (CBS)

• Millicent Shelton – “The Divide” – And the Little Ones Get Caught (WE tv)

• Bille Woodruff – “Drumline: A New Beat” (VH1)

• Greg Champion – “The Gabby Douglas Story” (Lifetime Networks)

• Michael Wilson – “The Trip to Bountiful” (Lifetime Networks)

• Stephen Tolkin – “A Day Late and a Dollar Short” (Lifetime Networks)

• Amma Asante – “Belle” (Fox Searchlight Pictures/ DJ Films)

• Antoine Fuqua – “The Equalizer” (Columbia Pictures)

• Gina Prince-Bythewood – “Beyond The Lights” (Relativity Media)

• John Ridley – “JIMI: All Is By My Side” (XLrator Media)

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

• Jamie Foxx – “Rio 2” (20th Century Fox)

• Loretta Devine – “Doc McStuffins” (Disney Junior)

• Morgan Freeman – “The Lego Movie” (Warner Bros. Pictures/Village Roadshow Pictures/RatpacDune

• Tracy Morgan – “The Boxtrolls” (Focus Features)

• Zoe Saldana – “The Book of Life” (20th Century Fox)

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