The NAACP Picture Awards rejoice excellent achievements and performances throughout greater than 80 aggressive classes spanning movie, tv and streaming, music, literature, and podcasts. The fifty fifth version will broadcast reside from Los Angeles on Saturday, March 16, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on BET and CBS.
Burna Boy dominated the nominations with 5 nods, together with Excellent New Artist and Male Artist. His album “I Advised Them…“, and the singles “Metropolis Boys” and “Sittin’ On High of the World” (with 21 Savage) secured him a spot in a number of classes.
Davido adopted with 4 nominations, together with Excellent Male Artist and a nod for his observe “Unavailable” within the Worldwide Music class. He additionally shared a nomination for the video of “Sensational” with Chris Brown and Lojay. Lojay, himself, picked up two nominations for his contribution to “Sensational.”
The 2023 black-and-white fantasy thriller “Mami Wata,” directed by C.J. Obasi and starring Evelyne Ily, Uzoamaka Aniunoh, and Kelechi Udegbe, secured a nomination for Excellent Worldwide Movement Image.
Tems secured two nominations together with the Excellent Feminine Artist class. Ayra Starr, and Omah Lay every earned a single nomination, whereas Asake and Olamide shared one for his or her collaboration “Amapiano.”
Ayo Edebiri obtained two nominations within the Emmy Awards: one for Excellent Visitor Efficiency for her function in “Abbott Elementary” and the opposite for Excellent Supporting Actress in a Comedy for her function in “The Bear“. Moreover, the brief movie “The After” directed by Misan Harriman and that includes David Oyelowo was nominated for the “Excellent Brief-Kind (Dwell Motion)” class.
Different Nigerian nominees are; Ani Kayode Somtochukwu, Lola Akinmade Åkerström, Hudson Obayuwana, Nkechi Okoro Carroll, Thara Popoola, Ego Nwodim, Damson Idris, Arsema Thomas, and John Boyega.
Listed below are all of this yr’s nominees:
ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR
Colman Domingo
Fantasia Barrino
Halle Bailey
Keke Palmer
Usher
MOTION PICTURE
Excellent Movement Image
American Fiction (Orion Photos / Amazon MGM Studios)
Origin (Neon)
Rustin (Netflix)
The Shade Purple (Warner Bros. Photos)
They Cloned Tyrone (Netflix)
Excellent Actor in a Movement Image
Colman Domingo – “Rustin” (Netflix)
Denzel Washington – “The Equalizer 3” (Sony Photos Releasing)
Jamie Foxx – “The Burial” (Amazon MGM Studios)
Jeffrey Wright – “American Fiction” (Orion Photos / Amazon MGM Studios)
John Boyega – “They Cloned Tyrone” (Netflix)
Excellent Actress in a Movement Image
Aunjanue Ellis–Taylor – “Origin” (Neon)
Fantasia Barrino – “The Shade Purple” (Warner Bros. Photos)
Halle Bailey – “The Little Mermaid” (Walt Disney Photos)
Teyana Taylor – “A Thousand And One” (Focus Options)
Yara Shahidi – “Sitting in Bars with Cake” (Amazon MGM Studios)
