51st NAACP Image Awards


The 51st NAACP Image Awards, presented by the NAACP, honored outstanding representations and achievements of people of color in motion pictures, television, music, and literature during the 2019 calendar year. The ceremony took place on February 22, 2020, at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium and was broadcast for the first time on BET - as well as simulcast on several of its sister ViacomCBS networks, moving to the former after broadcasts on TV One in previous years.
All nominees are listed below, and the winners are listed in bold.

Motion Picture


  • Just Mercy
  • * Dolemite Is My Name
  • * Harriet
  • * Queen & Slim
  • * Us
  • Chiwetel Ejiofor – The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
  • * Mati Diop – Atlantics
  • * Reginald Hudlin – The Black Godfather
  • * Kasi Lemmons – Harriet
  • * Jordan Peele – Us
  • Michael B. Jordan – Just Mercy
  • * Chadwick Boseman – 21 Bridges
  • * Winston Duke – Us
  • * Daniel Kaluuya – Queen & Slim
  • * Eddie Murphy – Dolemite Is My Name
  • Lupita Nyong'o – Us
  • * Cynthia Erivo – Harriet
  • * Naomie Harris – Black and Blue
  • * Jodie Turner-Smith – Queen & Slim
  • * Alfre Woodard – Clemency
  • Jamie Foxx – Just Mercy
  • * Sterling K. Brown – Waves
  • * Tituss Burgess – Dolemite Is My Name
  • * Leslie Odom Jr. – Harriet
  • * Wesley Snipes – Dolemite Is My Name
  • Marsai Martin – Little
  • * Jennifer Lopez – Hustlers
  • * Janelle Monáe – Harriet
  • * Da'Vine Joy Randolph – Dolemite Is My Name
  • * Octavia Spencer – Luce
  • Jordan Peele – Us
  • * Doug Atchison – Brian Banks
  • * Chinonye Chukwu – Clemency
  • * Destin Daniel Cretton – Just Mercy
  • * Kasi Lemmons – Harriet
  • Dolemite Is My Name
  • * Clemency
  • * Luce
  • * Queen & Slim
  • * The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
  • Marsai Martin – Little
  • * Cynthia Erivo – Harriet
  • * Shahadi Wright Joseph – Us
  • * Rob Morgan – Just Mercy
  • * Jodie Turner-Smith – Queen & Slim
  • Just Mercy
  • * Dolemite Is My Name
  • * Harriet
  • * Queen & Slim
  • * Us

    • Television

    Recording

    Outstanding New Artist