Hosted by actors Sanaa Lathan and Anthony Mackie, the 43rd Annual NAACP Awards went down on Friday evening (February 18). A slew of celebrities hit the stage in Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium to present the various award nominees, perform a song or two or to accept an Image Award.
Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer cleaned house and swept up 2 out of the 3 awards for their hit box office film, The Help. Actors Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte presented the President’s Award to the Black Stuntmen’s Association. Samuel L. Jackson presented George Lucas with the Vanguard Award for his work on the motion picture, Red Tails. Jennifer Hudson and Ne-Yo performed “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” in tribute to the movie director.
Jennifer Hudson won the Outstanding Album and Outstanding Music Video award for her album & single, “I Remember Me.” Traccee Ellis Ross and Regina King won awards for their roles on Reed Between the Lines and SouthLAnd, respectively.
As far as performers, Jill Scott & Lenny Kravitz rocked the house. Kirk Franklin sang a bit of “The Greatest Love of All” and Yolanda Adams performed the spiritual song “I Love the Lord, He Heard My Cry” in tribute to the late Whitney Houston. PEEP SOME OF THE PERFORMANCES HERE.
everyone looks beautiful, however i do wish mrs. viola davis would rock her natural hair and I see she has her girls out for display lol
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I was just thinking about all the weave in them photos. Viola is dressed inappropriate
NO MA’AM, Ms. Davis!!!!! Actually, HELL NAW, that’s so tacky and NOT sexy!!!!
Agreed.
Go head Viola , she looks good! Got them girls out.
OH MY MY MS. DAVIS MS. DAVIS!
DAMN!!!!!!!! they should give Viola Davis TWO!! awards!
….and I like to thank her for wearing that dress, because
without it none of this would be possible!!
LOL at everyone commenting on Viola Davis’ cleavage…it almost seems like that’s het thing for a lot of events/ appearances, rockin’ “the girls” out…not that I’m hatin’, that is one talented woman
Cleavage is Hollywood ic common, and can be easily purchased for the right price. Class and taste is NOT and as talented an actress as Ms. Davis is, one has a certain expectation of sexiness with class rather than without when it comes to her.
That should read “in hollywood is”, d@mn iPad!
HER BOOBAGE!!!!!!!!!
Why is her boobs even an issue. I know, because she isn’t white or hollywood’s standard of beauty! I sure as hell don’t hear all this about Christina hagulera or the rest coming out to events like they stepped out a whorehouse, just finishing with a john. She looks beautiful leave her and all the other black girls alone.
WTF!? You are reaching! Whoever said anything about color or standards of beauty!? Tacky is tacky no matter what the color of the person representing it. Geez, people like you on your soap boxes. Did you happen to notice that YOU were in fact the first person to bring those issues up!? People are entitled their opinions, and in case u had not noticed, this is a BLACK blog, so get off of it going way deeper than necessary.
Ms. Ross is ROCKING her wonky eye. Girl GO!
Did she really put her titties out there like that? Oh noooooooo!!!
Everyone looks good. Hi Viola.
Yes…maybe Violas girls could have been covered up a little more, but their not and so wht. People are only as distasteful as they act and Ms Davis is far frm distasteful. She a awesome woman and a great talent. I would also like to add that her wardrobe stylist does a great job matching her skin tone with those amazing colors!
The only people that are calling Viola’s dress tacky are the ones with droopy small man like breasts. Go ahead Ms. Viola show them off. Nothing is tacky about your breast.
Exactly what a person who doesn’t speak standard English well would say and exactly how they would say it!!!
FYI, not everyone WITH cleavage feels the need to tackily advertise it. So OSCAR, could it be that her cleavage is more impressive than YOURS?
Or are you morbidly obese woman and have large “breasts” by default?
RED TAILS1 & THE HELP….175!!
WOW! What a powerful call to action was Harry Belafonte’s speech!
Kerry Washington is awe inspiring!
Where do I find a copy of what Harry Bellafonte said at the NAACP Image Awards? It was a magnificent encouraging “get busy and do something”.
I’m currently trying to find the speech myself for our recap post. Not sure if they will have video available online..
Me too! If you do, please forward it to me, as I would to you.
Thanks
IT’S ON HIS FACEBOOK PAGE!
Thanks
Updated the 44th Annual NAACP AWARDS POST with his full speech transcript: http://concreteloop.com/2013/02/events-the-44th-naacp-image-awards-photos
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