2012 NAACP Image Award Screenwriting and Writing Award Winners
February 20, 2012
The 43rd annual NAACP Image Awards wre presented last Friday at The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. The Help won three awards, including Best Film. Viola Davis won Best Actress and Octavia Spencer won Best Supporting Actress. Salim Akil and Mara Brock Akil - winners in the comedy screenwriting category for The Game - are pictured above.
Here are the winners in the screenwriting and literature categories:
Screenwriting
Comedy Series: The Game, Salim Akil, Mara Brock Akil
Dramatic Series: Treme, Lolis Eric Elie
Motion Picture: The First Grader, Ann Peacock
Literature
Fiction: Say Amen, Again by Reshonda Tate Billingsley
Nonfiction: The Wealth Cure: Putting Money in Its Place by Hill Harper
Debut Author: The Strawberry Letter by Lyah Le Flore
Biography/Autobiography: My Song by Harry Belafonte
Instructional: The T.D. Jakes Relationship Bible: Life Lessons on Relationships from the Inspired Word of God by T.D. Jakes
Poetry: Afro Clouds & Nappy Rain: The Curtis Brown Poems by James Golden
Children: You Can Be a Friend by Tony Dungy, illustrations by Ron Mazellan
Youth/Teens: Jesse Owens: I Always Loved Running by Jeff Burlingame
