Halle Berry, Willow Smith, Tyler Perry Among NAACP Image Award Winners

By Christine Fenno Posted Mar 6th 2011 02:03PM

The big winner this year at the NAACP Image Awards was the Tyler Perry film 'For Colored Girls,' which was honored with trophies for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting Actress (Kimberly Elise).

Holly Robinson-Peete and Wayne Brady hosted Friday's ceremony in Hollywood.

Prince announced the Best Actress winner, according to CBS News, and presented the prize to Halle Berry, who won for her movie 'Frankie & Alice.' The film (produced by Berry) was honored as the Outstanding Independent Picture of the year.

Meanwhile, Denzel Washington was named Best Actor for his performance in 'The Book of Eli.'

TV excellence was honored as Vanessa Williams took the award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series, thanks to 'Desperate Housewives.'

And Perry celebrated more wins when his hit 'Tyler Perry's House of Payne' was named Outstanding Comedy Series, and the leading man on 'Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns,' David Mann, was named Best Actor in a Comedy Series.

Big winners in music included Alicia Keys, for her video 'Un-thinkable (I'm Ready)', as well as Willow Smith (Outstanding New Artist), Mary J. Blige (Outstanding Female Artist) and Usher (Oustanding Male Artist). Fantasia picked up Oustanding Song for her track 'Bittersweet.'

Condoleeza Rice was honored as an author with a prize for Outstanding Literary Work for Youth ('Condoleeza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me'). And Terry McMillan's book 'Getting to Happy' won Outstanding Fictional Literary Work.

The Image Awards, first presented in 1967, were launched by the NAACP to celebrate "outstanding achievements by people of color in film, television, music and literature, as well as individuals or groups who promote social justice."

Tags: halle berry, NAACP, NaacpImageAwards, tyler perry, willow smith

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Sunday 06 March

By confused

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if these awards are to celebrate people of color then why was Justin Timberlake nominated?

By kevnlesly

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Justin is of color, he is white, isn't that a color??

By fact

why wasn't Charlie Sheen nominated? his Grandma is Cuban/Black, that's a fact which makes him a person of color.

Monday 07 March

By Claudia

The NAACP is practically obsolete these days...but they'll take money from anyone. They are resting on their past achievements to stay credible.

By patricia

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Why was justin timberlake nominated, why was Sofia Vergara nominated? These are white people in a show honoring people of color. BTW to the other poster Charlie Sheen is Irish and Spanish from Spain. He is not mixed racially he is a white man since his heritage is white European.

By fowlerno1ins

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WOW,I can't believe that they give an almost all white girl an award.

By KS.

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IS there,EVER an end to award shows???

By mickey blue eyes

That's perfect. I 've been a fan of halle ever since she made the movie "queenie".
one actress who definetly deserves an naacp award is Zoe Saldana. she is an excellent role model for girls everywhere, besides she is very talented and very beautiful.

By bobbytee7934

WHAT ,, NO MICHEAL VICK

By stuffstuff21

GET A LIFE

By Confederado

Did you all hear about the NAACP having a shindig in Columbia,SC? They put a box around a bronze statue of George Washington so none of those simians would be offended by a statue of the Father of our Country looking at them while they spewed their racist BS!

By Sherry

I love these actors and singers, don't get me wrong but I wonder how an awards format for whites only would fly? Or a Miss white america?

By itsgettingold

Sorry No Beautiful People!!!

By Cali-lily

It is time to shut down the NAACP.
Much like the Unions they have out lived their usefullness.
Why give an undo advantage to people based on race?
THAT IS RACIST!!!!!!!!!

p.s. Halle Berry is NOT that good. Not even all black....

By G

Willow Smith? What Bs!

By Richard Ott

To the person who wrote the first artical on the NAACP
Image Awards 2011, you thought Nicki Minaj, Kanye West or
Jay Z shouldn't have been nominated, and none of those artists
won. The next time you try to rant and rave about an
artist who's nominated or is on any awards show, or the
awards shows, themselves when you don't know if they'll
win or lose, save all your e-bashing until after the show.
If the artist you mentioned should not win, but does, or if
the artist you don't like at all ends up nominated for that
award. at least learn to respect that artist, more, if
you don't like the way these shows are running the votes.

By JUjuBEE

Does this mean Halle has to return her oscar? What a load of crap. None are role models for any COLOR

By victory

Beautiful dress Halle is wearing! Nothing like picking up a couple of award statues to take your mind off your home life troubles.

By Ken

Willow Smith?? WTF has she done,besides be born to parents that are "stars". She has all the talent of a baby kangaroo.

Tuesday 08 March

By rich

Once ' Black " actors break in the mainstream ,then they go back to the " Colored ' thing that they were trying to get out of as far as sterotyping .One thing we have no control over is how we we born ,be it mail or female etc . You can't honor yourself as far as that is concerned because you had nothing to do with it . . what you do from the time you are born is what matters . .

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