LITERATURE
Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction
• “A Deeper Love Inside: The Porscha Santiaga Story” – Sister Souljah (Atria/Emily Bestler Books)
• “Anybody’s Daughter” – Pamela Samuels Young (Goldman House Publishing)
• “Little Green: An Easy Rawlins Mystery” – Walter Mosley (Doubleday)
• “Never Say Never: A Novel” – Victoria Christopher Murray (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster)
• “Who Asked You?” – Terry McMillan (Viking)
Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction
• “Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations: 5,000 Years of Literature, Lyrics, Poems, Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs from Voices Around the World” – Retha Powers (Little, Brown and Company)
• “Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery” – Deborah Willis, Barbara Krauthamer (Temple University Press)
• “High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society” – Carl Hart (HarperCollins, Harper)
• “Letters to an Incarcerated Brother: Encouragement, Hope, and Healing for Inmates and Their Loved Ones” – Hill Harper (Gotham Books)
• “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross” – Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Donald Yacovone (SmileyBooks)
Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author
• “Better Than Good Hair – The Curly Girl Guide to Healthy Gorgeous Natural Hair!” – Nikki Walton with Ernessa T. Carter (Harper Collins- Amistad)
• “Ghana Must Go” – Taiye Selasi (The Penguin Press)
• “Nine Years Under” – Sheri Booker (Gotham Books)
• “On The Come Up” – Hannah Weyer (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday)
• “The Returned” – Jason Mott (Harlequin MIRA)
Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/ Auto-Biography
• “Buck: A Memoir” – MK Asante (Spiegel & Grau)
• “Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington” – Terry Teachout (Gotham Books)
• “Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker” – Stanley Crouch (HarperCollins, Harper)
• “Mom & Me & Mom” – Maya Angelou (Random House)
• “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks” – Jeanne Theoharis (Beacon Press)
Outstanding Literary Work – Instructional
• “Do I Look Like An ATM? A Parent’s Guide to Raising Financially Responsible African American Children” – Sabrina Lamb (Chicago Review Press)
• “Plan D: How to Lose Weight and Beat Diabetes (Even If You Don’t Have It)” – Sherri Shepherd with Billie Fitzpatrick (HarperCollins, It Books)
• “Recruiting and Retaining Culturally Different Students in Gifted Education” – Donna Y. Ford, Ph.D. (Prufrock Press Inc.)
• “The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs” – Kevin D. Johnson (Johnson Media Inc.)
• “The Vegucation of Robin: How Real Food Saved My Life” – Robin Quivers (Avery)
Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry
• “Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid” – Nikki Giovanni (HarperCollins, William Morrow)
• “Hum” – Jamaal May (Alice James Books)
• “The Cineaste: Poems” – A. Van Jordan (W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
• “The Collected Poems of Ai” – Ai (W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
• “Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers” – Frank X Walker (University of Georgia Press)
Outstanding Literary Work – Children
• “I’m A Pretty Little Black Girl!” – Betty K. Bynum (Author), Claire Armstrong-Parod (Illustrator) (Dream Title Publishing)
• “Knock Knock: My Dad’s Dream for Me” – Daniel Beaty (Author), Bryan Collier (Illustrator) (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• “Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song” – Andrea Davis Pinkney (Author), Brian Pinkney (Illustrator) (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• “Nelson Mandela” – Kadir Nelson (HarperCollins Children’s Books/Katherine Tegen Books)
• “You Never Heard of Willie Mays?!” – Jonah Winter (Author), Terry Widener (Illustrator) (RH Childrens Books; Schwartz & Wade)
Outstanding Literary Work – Youth/Teens
• “Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America’s First Black Paratroopers” – Tanya Lee
Stone (Candlewick Press)
• “God’s Graffiti: Inspiring Stories for Teens” – Romal Tune (Judson Press)
• “Invasion” – Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic Press/Scholastic)
• “Raising the Bar” – Gabrielle Douglas (Zondervan)
• “Serafina’s Promise: A Novel In Verse” – Ann E. Burg (Scholastic Press/Scholastic)
MOTION PICTURE
Outstanding Motion Picture
• “12 Years A Slave” (River Road/Plan B/New Regency/Fox Searchlight Pictures)
• “Fruitvale Station” (The Weinstein Company/Forest Whitaker’s Significant Productions, OG Project)
• “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” (The Weinstein Company/Lee Daniels Entertainment, Laura Ziskin Productions, Windy Hill Pictures, Follow Through Productions, Salamander Pictures, Pam Williams Productions)
• “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom” (The Weinstein Company/Distant Horizon, Origin Pictures, Pathé, Videovision Entertainment)
• “The Best Man Holiday” (Universal Pictures)
Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
• Chadwick Boseman – “42″ (Warner Bros. Pictures/Legendary Pictures)
• Chiwetel Ejiofor – “12 Years A Slave” (River Road/Plan B/New Regency/Fox Searchlight Pictures)
• Forest Whitaker – “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” (The Weinstein Company/Lee Daniels Entertainment, Laura Ziskin Productions, Windy Hill Pictures, Follow Through Productions, Salamander Pictures, Pam Williams Productions)
• Idris Elba – “Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom” (The Weinstein Company/Distant Horizon, Origin Pictures, Pathé, Videovision Entertainment)
• Michael B. Jordan – “Fruitvale Station” (The Weinstein Company/Forest Whitaker’s Significant Productions, OG Project)
Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
• Angela Bassett – “Black Nativity” (Fox Searchlight Pictures/Mavin Pictures/Wonderful Films)
• Halle Berry – “The Call” (TriStar Pictures)
• Jennifer Hudson – “Winnie Mandela” (Ma-Afrika Films (PTY) LTD and Equinoxe Films Inc.)
• Kerry Washington – “Tyler Perry Presents Peeples” (Lionsgate)
• Nicole Beharie – “42″ (Warner Bros. Pictures/Legendary Pictures)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
• Cuba Gooding Jr. – “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” (The Weinstein Company/Lee Daniels Entertainment, Laura Ziskin Productions, Windy Hill Pictures, Follow Through Productions, Salamander Pictures, Pam Williams Productions)
• David Oyelowo – “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” (The Weinstein Company/Lee Daniels Entertainment, Laura Ziskin Productions, Windy Hill Pictures, Follow Through Productions, Salamander Pictures, Pam Williams Productions)
• Morris Chestnut – “The Best Man Holiday” (Universal Pictures)
• Terrence Howard – “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” (The Weinstein Company/Lee Daniels Entertainment, Laura Ziskin Productions, Windy Hill Pictures, Follow Through Productions, Salamander Pictures, Pam Williams Productions)
• Terrence Howard – “The Best Man Holiday” (Universal Pictures)
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
• Alfre Woodard – “12 Years A Slave” (River Road/Plan B/New Regency/Fox Searchlight Pictures)
• Lupita Nyong’o – “12 Years A Slave ” (River Road/Plan B/New Regency/Fox Searchlight Pictures)
• Naomie Harris – “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom” (The Weinstein Company/Distant Horizon, Origin Pictures, Pathé, Videovision Entertainment)
• Octavia Spencer – “Fruitvale Station” (The Weinstein Company/Forest Whitaker’s Significant Productions, OG Project)
• Oprah Winfrey – “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” (The Weinstein Company/Lee Daniels Entertainment, Laura Ziskin Productions, Windy Hill Pictures, Follow Through Productions, Salamander Pictures, Pam Williams Productions)
Outstanding Independent Motion Picture
• “Blue Caprice” (Sundance Selects)
• “Dallas Buyers Club” (Focus Features)
• “Fruitvale Station” (The Weinstein Company/Forest Whitaker’s Significant Productions, OG Project)
• “The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete” (Codeblack Films/Lionsgate/iDeal Partners/State Street)
• “The Trials of Muhammad Ali” (Kartemquin Films)
Outstanding International Motion Picture
• “Call Me Kuchu” (Lindy Hop Pictures LLC)
• “High Tech, Low Life” (Argot Pictures)
• “La Playa D.C.” (Burning Blue)
• “Lion Ark” (ADI Films)
• “War Witch” (Item 7)
DOCUMENTARY
Outstanding Documentary – (Theatrical)
• “20 Feet from Stardom” (Tremolo & Gil Friesen Productions)
• “Call Me Kuchu” (Lindy Hop Pictures LLC)
• “Free Angela and All Political Prisoners” (Codeblack Films/Lionsgate)
• “Girl Rising” (The Documentary Group)
• “The New Black” (Promised Land Film)
Outstanding Documentary – (Television)
• “Beyoncé: Life Is But a Dream” (HBO)
• “Dark Girls” (OWN)
• “Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic ” (Showtime)
• “Venus Vs.” (ESPN)
• “Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley” (HBO)
WRITING
Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series
• Erica Montolfo-Bura – “The Game” – In Treatment (BET)
• Karin Gist – “House of Lies” – Sincerity is an Easy Disguise in This Business (Showtime)
• Mara Brock Akil – “The Game” – The Blueprint I & II (BET)
• Ralph Farquhar, Chris Spencer – “Real Husbands of Hollywood” – Rock, Paper, Stealers (BET)
• Vincent Brown – “A.N.T. Farm” – influANTces (Disney Channel)
Outstanding Writing in a Dramatic Series
• Aaron Rahsaan Thomas – “SouthLAnd” – Babel (TNT)
• Chitra Elizabeth Sampath, Damian Kindler – “Sleepy Hollow” – Sanctuary (FOX)
• Janine Sherman Barrois – “Criminal Minds” – Strange Fruit (CBS)
• Karin Gist – “Revenge” – Mercy (ABC)
• Sara Hess – “Orange is the New Black” – Blood Donut (Netflix)
Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture – (Theatrical or Television)
• Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón – “Gravity” (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Brian Helgeland – “42″ (Warner Bros. Pictures/Legendary Pictures)
• Danny Strong – “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” (The Weinstein Company/Lee Daniels Entertainment, Laura Ziskin Productions, Windy Hill Pictures, Follow Through Productions, Salamander Pictures, Pam Williams Productions)
• John Ridley – “12 Years A Slave” (River Road/Plan B/New Regency/Fox Searchlight Pictures)
• Ryan Coogler – “Fruitvale Station” (The Weinstein Company/Forest Whitaker’s Significant Productions, OG Project)
DIRECTING
Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series
• Anton Cropper – “House of Lies” – Sincerity Is an Easy Disguise in This Business (Showtime)
• Eric Dean Seaton – “Mighty Med” – Saving The People Who Save People (Disney XD)
• Millicent Shelton – “The Hustle” – Rule 4080 (FUSE)
• Paris Barclay – “Glee” – Diva (FOX)
• Stan Lathan – “Real Husbands of Hollywood” – Rock, Paper, Stealers (BET)
Outstanding Directing in a Dramatic Series
• Carl Franklin – “House of Cards” – Chapter 11 (Netflix)
• Ernest Dickerson – “Treme” – Dippermouth Blues (HBO)
• Millicent Shelton – “The Fosters” – Clean (ABC Family)
• Regina King – “SouthLAnd” – Off Duty (TNT)
• Rob Hardy – “Criminal Minds” – Carbon Copy (CBS)
Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture – (Theatrical or Television)
• Jono Oliver – “Home” (The Home Film Group)
• Justin Chadwick – “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom” (The Weinstein Company/Distant Horizon, Origin Pictures, Pathé, Videovision Entertainment)
• Lee Daniels – “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” (The Weinstein Company/Lee Daniels Entertainment, Laura Ziskin Productions, Windy Hill Pictures, Follow Through Productions, Salamander Pictures, Pam Williams Productions)
• Malcolm D. Lee – “The Best Man Holiday” (Universal Pictures)
• Steve McQueen – “12 Years A Slave” (River Road/Plan B/New Regency/Fox Searchlight Pictures)
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