NAACP Image Awards winners: 'Selma,' 'How to Get Away With Murder,' 'Black-Ish' Take Top Honors

The NAACP Image Awards gave top honors to civil rights film "Selma" and ABC series "How to Get Away With Murder" and "Black-Ish" during Friday night's ceremony, which aired live on TV One from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium.

Hosted by "Black-Ish" star Anthony Anderson, it also gave special recognition to music mogul Clive Davis, who receive the Vanguard Award; director Spike Lee, who was given the President's Award, while this year's Chairman's Award went to Attorney General of the United States, Eric H. Holder, Jr.

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On Thursday, the organization handed out 45 awards across literature, music, television and film during the non-televised ceremony. Musicians Beyonce, Sam Smith and Mary J. Blige, "Black-Ish's" Laurence Fishburne and Yara Shahidi, "House of Cards" director Carl Franklin and "Selma" stars Common and Carmen Ejogowere were among those early winners.

Read the full list of winners (in bold) and nominees below.

TELEVISION
Outstanding Comedy Series
• "Black-ish" (ABC)*
• "House of Lies" (Showtime)
• "Key & Peele" (Comedy Central)
• "Orange is the New Black" (Netflix)
• "Real Husbands of Hollywood" (BET)

Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series • Andre Braugher

Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series • Mindy Kaling – "The Mindy Project" (FOX) • Niecy Nash – "The Soul Man" (TV Land)• Tracee Ellis Ross – "Black-ish" (ABC)* • Uzo Aduba – "Orange is the New Black" (Netflix) • Wendy Raquel Robinson – "The Game" (BET) Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series • Boris Kodjoe – "Real Husbands of Hollywood" (BET) • Glynn Turman – "House of Lies" (Showtime) • Laurence Fishburne – "Black-ish" (ABC) • Marcus Scribner – "Black-ish" (ABC) • Terry Crews – "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" (FOX)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series • Adrienne C. Moore – "Orange is the New Black" (Netflix) • Laverne Cox – "Orange is the New Black" (Netflix) • Lorraine Toussaint – "Orange is the New Black" (Netflix) • Sofia Vergara – "Modern Family" (ABC)• Yara Shahidi – "black-ish" (ABC)*

Outstanding Drama Series
• "Being Mary Jane" (BET)
• "Grey's Anatomy" (ABC)
• "House of Cards" (Netflix)
• "How to Get Away with Murder" (ABC)*
• "Scandal" (ABC)

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Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series • LL Cool J – "NCIS: LA" (CBS) • Omar Epps – "Resurrection" (ABC) • Omari Hardwick – "Being Mary Jane" (BET)• Shemar Moore – "Criminal Minds" (CBS)* • Taye Diggs – "Murder in the First" (TNT)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series • Alfred Enoch – "How to Get Away with Murder" (ABC) • Courtney B. Vance – "Masters of Sex" (Showtime) • Guillermo Diaz – "Scandal" (ABC) • Jeffrey Wright – "Boardwalk Empire" (HBO)• Joe Morton – "Scandal" (ABC)*

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Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series • 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)• Khandi Alexander – "Scandal" (ABC)*

Outstanding Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special
• "A Day Late and a Dollar Short" (Lifetime Networks)
• "American Horror Story: Freak Show" (FX)
• "Drumline: A New Beat" (VH1)
• "The Gabby Douglas Story" (Lifetime Networks)
• "The Trip to Bountiful" (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 Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special• Cicely Tyson – "The Trip to Bountiful" (Lifetime Networks)* • Angela Bassett – "American Horror Story: Freak Show" (FX) • 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) • "America After Ferguson" (PBS) • "Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr." (PBS) • "Melissa Harris Perry" (MSNBC) • "Oprah's Lifeclass" (OWN)• "Unsung" (TV One)*

Outstanding Talk Series
• "Oprah Prime" (OWN)
• "Steve Harvey" (Syndicated)*
• "The Queen Latifah Show" (Syndicated)
• "The View" (ABC)
• "The Wendy Williams Show" (Syndicated)

Outstanding Reality Series
• "Dancing with the Stars" (ABC)
• "Iyanla: Fix My Life" (OWN)*
• "Shark Tank" (ABC)
• "The Voice" (NBC)
• "Welcome to Sweetie Pie's" (OWN)

Outstanding Variety Series or Special
• "BET Awards" (BET)
• "Family Feud" (Syndicated)
• "On the Run: Beyoncé and Jay Z" (HBO)
• "Oprah's Master Class" (OWN)*
• "UNCF An Evening of Stars" (NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, The CW, BET, Centric)

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)* • Taliyah Whitaker – "Wallykazam!" (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)*

RECORDING
Outstanding New Artist
• 3 Winans Brothers (BMG)*
• Aloe Blacc (XIX Recordings/Interscope Records)
• Erica Campbell (My Block Inc./eOne Music)
• Jhene Aiko (Def Jam Recordings)
• Liv Warfield (Kobalt Label Services)

Outstanding Male Artist • John Legend (Columbia Records) • Kem (Motown – Capitol) • Kendrick Lamar (Interscope Records) • Michael Jackson (Epic Records)• Pharrell Williams (Columbia Records)*

Outstanding Female Artist
• Alicia Keys (RCA Records)
• Beyoncé (Columbia Records)*
• Jennifer Hudson (RCA Records)
• Ledisi (Verve Records)
• Mary J Blige (Capitol)

Outstanding Jazz Album • "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)*

Outstanding Music Video • "i"

Outstanding Song • "Good Kisser" – Usher (RCA Records) • "i" – Kendrick Lamar (TDE/Interscope) • "Pretty Hurts" – Beyoncé (Columbia Records) • "The Man" – Aloe Blacc (Interscope Records)• "We Are Here" – Alicia Keys (RCA Records)*

Outstanding Album• "Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics"

Outstanding Literary Work

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 Georgia Press)* • "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)

Outstanding Literary Work

Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry• "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 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) • "We Didn't Know Any Gangsters" – Brian Gilmore (Cherry Castle Publishing, LLC)

Outstanding Literary Work – Youth/Teens • "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) (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

MOTION PICTURE
Outstanding Motion Picture
• "Belle" (Fox Searchlight Pictures/ DJ Films)
• "Beyond The Lights" (Relativity Media)
• "Dear White People" (Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions)
• "Get On Up" (Universal Pictures)
• "Selma" (Paramount Pictures)*

Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture • 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)

Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture • 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)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture • André Holland – "Selma" (Paramount Pictures) • Cedric the Entertainer – "Top Five" (Paramount Pictures) • Common – "Selma" (Paramount Pictures)* • Danny Glover – "Beyond The Lights" (Relativity Media) • Wendell Pierce – "Selma" (Paramount Pictures)

Outstanding Independent Motion Picture
• "Belle" (Fox Searchlight Pictures/ DJ Films)*
• "Dear White People" (Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions)
• "Half of a Yellow Sun" (monterey media inc.)
• "JIMI: All Is By My Side" (XLrator Media)
• "Life of a King" (Animus Films/Serena Films)

DOCUMENTARYOutstanding Documentary – (Film) • "Documented" (Apo Anak Productions) • "Finding Fela" (Jigsaw Productions) • "I Am Ali" (Focus World/Fisheye Films) • "Keep On Keepin On" (RADiUS) • "Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People" (Chimpanzee Productions, Inc.)*

Outstanding Documentary – (Television) • "American Experience: Freedom Summer" (PBS)• "Bad Boys" (ESPN)* • "Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown" (HBO) • "Rand University" (ESPN) • "The War Comes Home: Soledad O'Brien Reports" (CNN)

WRITINGOutstanding Writing in a Comedy Series • Aisha Muharrar

Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series• Erika Green Swafford

Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture • 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)

DIRECTINGOutstanding Directing in a Comedy Series• 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)

Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series • 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)

Outstanding Directing in a Television Movie • Bille Woodruff – "Drumline: A New Beat" (VH1) • Greg Champion – "The Gabby Douglas Story" (Lifetime Networks) • Michael Wilson – "The Trip to Bountiful" (Lifetime Networks)• Reggie Bythewood – "Gun Hill" (BET)* • Stephen Tolkin – "A Day Late and a Dollar Short" (Lifetime Networks)

Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture • Amma Asante – "Belle" (Fox Searchlight Pictures/ DJ Films)• Antoine Fuqua – "The Equalizer" (Columbia Pictures)* • Ava DuVernay – "Selma" (Paramount Pictures) • Gina Prince-Bythewood – "Beyond The Lights" (Relativity Media) • John Ridley – "JIMI: All Is By My Side" (XLrator Media)