Winners of the 2012 NAACP Image Awards aired tonight on NBC. Gospel and inspirational nominees were represented across several categories. Below are the categories that had at least one gospel or inspirational nominee, with the winner denoted in red. Congratulations to all!
Outstanding New Artist
Committed
Epic
Diggy Simmons
Atlantic Records
Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr.
Columbia Records
Mindless Behavior
Streamline/Conjunction/Interscope Records
Wynter Gordon
Big Beat/Atlantic Records
Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration
Boyz II Men
Benchmark Entertainment/MSM Music Group
Cee Lo Green feat. Melanie Fiona
Elektra Records
Mary J. Blige feat. Drake
Geffen
Sounds of Blackness
Malaco Music Group
The Roots
Island Def Jam Music Group
Outstanding Gospel Album (Traditional or Contemporary)
BecomingYolanda Adams
N House Music Group
Church on the Moon
Deitrick Haddon
Verity Gospel Music Group
Hello Fear
Kirk Franklin
Verity Gospel Music Group
Mary Mary
Columbia Records
The Journey
Andraé Crouch
RiverPhlo Entertainment
Outstanding World Music Album
Afrodiaspora
Susana Baca
Luaka Bop
Carnival Fever
Brother B
King Chero Records
Live at 2011 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Boukman Eksperyans
MunckMix, Inc.
The First Grader
Alex Heffes
Varese Sarabande
Outstanding Song
“Best Thing I Never Had”
Beyoncé
Columbia Records
“Fool for You” feat. Melanie Fiona
Cee Lo Green
Elektra Records
“So In Love” feat. Anthony Hamilton
Jill Scott
Warner Bros. Records
“Someone Like You”
Adele
Columbia Records
Outstanding Reality Series
All-American Muslim
TLC
American Idol
FOX
Dancing with the Stars
Sunday Best
BET
Tia & Tamera
Style Network
Outstanding Literary Work – Instructional
A Year to Wellness and Other Weight Loss Secrets
Bertice Berry
Freeman House Publishing
Living My Dream: An Artistic Approach to Marketing
Synthia Saint James
Create Space
Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy, & Social Justice in Classroom & Community
Quraysh Ali Lansana
Teachers & Writers Collaborative
Too Important to Fail: Saving America’s Boys
Tavis Smiley (Author), Juan Roberts (Illustrator)
SmileyBooks
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