NEWSTyler Perry's 'For Colored Girls' Dominates NAACP Image Awards
March 5 2011, Published 8:34 a.m. ET
Tyler Perry’s film For Colored Girls stole the show at the 42nd Annual NAACP Image Awards on Friday night in L.A., scoring the statue of the night for Outstanding Motion Picture, while Halle Berry also walked away with a big honor.
Tyler made out with more than one nod for his directorial work, including a win for his television show Tyler Perry’s House of Payne in the Outstanding Comedy category.
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Halle took home a nice award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture for her work in the yet to be released film Frankie and Alice.
The stunned actress, excited by surprise presenter and musical icon Prince, exclaimed while accepting her statue, “As if this wasn’t amazing enough, but to have it be handed to you by Prince? I have only loved him my whole life so thank you prince for honoring me tonight and thank you to the NAACP because I want to mirror other comments tonight and say that if it were not for the NAACP, a girl like me would have not had wind beneath her wings in a little small town in Ohio and dared to dream what was impossible and what people said a little black girl cant do.”
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Frankie and Alice, to be released, is, “about a woman with multiple personality,” Halle explained, “I play an amazing woman who is still alive. Her name is Frankie Murdock.”
Columbian funny woman Sofia Vergara also took home a prize in the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series category for her work in Modern Family.
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For a full list of all winners at the 42nd Annual NAACP Image Awards see below:
TELEVISION
Comedy Series: Tyler Perry's House of Payne
Actor in a Comedy Series: David Mann - Meet the Browns
Actress in a Comedy Series: Vanessa Williams - Desperate Housewives
Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series: Ice Cube - Are We There Yet?
Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series: Sofia Vergara - Modern Family
Drama Series: Grey's Anatomy
Actor in a Drama Series: LL Cool J - NCIS: Los Angeles
Actress in a Drama Series: Regina King - Southland
Supporting Actor in a Drama Series: Terrence Howard - Law & Order: Los Angeles
Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: S. Epatha Merkerson - Law & Order
Television Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special: Sins of the Mother
Actor in a Television Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special: Idris Elba - Luther
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Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special: Jill Scott - Sins of the Mother
Actor in a Daytime Drama Series: Darnell Williams - All My Children
Actress in a Daytime Drama Series: Tatyana Ali - The Young and the Restless
News/Information (Series or Special): Unsung
Talk (Series): The View
Reality Series: Sunday Best
Variety (Series or Special): UNCF An Evening of Stars Tribute to Lionel Richie
Children's Program: True Jackson, VP
Performance in a Youth/ Children's Program (Series or Special): Keke Palmer - True Jackson, VP
RECORDING
New Artist: Willow Smith
Male Artist: Usher
Female Artist: Mary J. Blige
Duo, Group or Collaboration: John Legend and The Roots
Jazz Album: From Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf - Live in Marciac -The Wynton Marsalis Quintet & Richard Galliano
Gospel Album: You Are Not Alone - Mavis Staples
World Music Album: VOCAbuLarieS - Bobby McFerrin
Music Video: "Un-thinkable (I'm Ready)" - Alicia Keys
Song: "Bittersweet" - Fantasia
Album: Wake Up! - John Legend and The Roots
MOTION PICTURE
Motion Picture: For Colored Girls
Actor in a Motion Picture: Denzel Washington - The Book of Eli
Actress in a Motion Picture: Halle Berry - Frankie & Alice
Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture: Samuel L. Jackson - Mother and Child
Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture: Kimberly Elise - For Colored Girls
Foreign Motion Picture: Biutiful
Independent Motion Picture: Frankie and Alice
