Yesterday the 2016 NAACP Image Awards were aired on TVOne. The Oscars may be so white, the Image Awards were live and fully in color. We have a snippet of award winners and photos from the event below.

Outstanding Motion Picture:
Straight Outta Compton

Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture:
Michael B. Jordan, Creed

Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture:
Sanaa Lathan, The Perfect Guy

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture:
O’Shea Jackson, Jr., Straight Outta Compton

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture:
Phylicia Rashad, Creed

Outstanding Independent Motion Picture:
Beasts of No Nation

Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture (Film):
Ryan Coogler, Aaron Covington, Creed

Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture (Film):
Ryan Coogler, Creed

Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series:
Terrence Howard, Empire

Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series:
Taraji P. Henson, Empire

Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series:
Anthony Anderson, Black-Ish

Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series
Tracee Ellis Ross, Black-Ish

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series:
Mike Epps, Survivor’s Remorse

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series:
Marsai Martin, Black-Ish

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series:
Joe Morton, Scandal

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series:
Regina King, American Crime

Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special:
Queen Latifah, Bessie

Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special:
David Alan Grier, The Wiz Live!

Outstanding Comedy Series:
Black-Ish

Outstanding Drama Series:
Empire

Outstanding Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special:
The Wiz Live!

Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series
Kenya M. Barris, Black-Ish – “The Word”

Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series:
Mara Brack Ali, Jameal Turner, Keli Goff, Being Mary Jane “Sparrow”

Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture (Television):
Lawrence Hill, Clement Virgo, The Book of Negroes

Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series:
Don Cheadle, House of Lies, “The Urge to Save Humanity is Almost Always a False Front for the Urge to Rule”

Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series:
John Ridley, American Crime

Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture (Television):
Dee Rees, Bessie

Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance (Television or Film):
Loretta Devine, Doc McStuffins

Outstanding Children’s Program:
Doc McStuffins

Outstanding Performance by a Youth (Series, Special, Television Movie or Mini-series):
Marcus Scribner, Black-Ish

Congratulations to all the 2016 NAACP Image Award winners. A full list of winners can be found here.

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The Perfect Guy opened this week, and it grabbed the Number One spot at the Box Office. The Perfect Guy took in $26.7 million over the weekend.

War Room fell to third place, taking in $7.4 million over the weekend. Straight Outta Compton placed sixth, taking in $3.9 million over the weekend.

More importantly, this has been the fifth week in a row that a film with predominantly Black cast has been Number One at the Box Office. Never let anyone tell you that there’s not a market for Black films.

Do you think we can make it six weeks in a row?

Tickets for The Perfect Guy are available here.

Tickets for War Room are available here.

Tickets for Straight Outta Compton are available here.

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Once again, War Room and Straight Outta Compton took the top two spots at the Box Office, except this time they traded spots.

War Room took the top spot with $9.3 million. It’s a late bloomer, but it got the job done. Straight Outta Compton took the second spot with $8.7 million. They both beat out new films A Walk in the Woods and The Transporter Refueled.

With The Perfect Guy being released this weekend, we’ll have three films in theater, four if you count the rerelease of Dope.

Tickets for Straight Outta Compton are available here.

Tickets for War Room are available here.

Tickets for The Perfect Guy are available here.

Tickets  for Dope are available here.

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How often does it happen that two films with Black casts occupy the top two spots at the Box Office? Well, it happened this weekend with Straight Outta Compton and War Room.

Straight Outta Compton took the Number One spot with $13.2 million at the Box Office, bringing its total to $134.1 million. This is the third consecutive week that the film has held the Number One spot. It is the only film besides Jurassic World to do so this summer.

The competition for the top spot was close as War Room was right on its heels, even tying it on Friday. The Christian film took in $11 million, beating out films such as We Are Your Friends and No Escape. War Room took in over six times the amount as the Zac Efron-led We Are Your Friends despite being released on less than half the amount of screens.

Tickets for Straight Outta Compton are available here.

Tickets for War Room are available here.

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Straight Outta Compton has once again taken the Number One spot at the box office, making it two weekends a row. It beat out new releases, Sinister 2, Hitman: Agent 47, and American Ultra, taking in more than the three films combined.

Straight Outta Compton took in $26.8 million this weekend, crossing the $100 million mark. It’s total now stands at $111 million. Not too shabby.

Tickets for Straight Outta Compton are available here.

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Straight Outta Compton has claimed the top spot at the box office this weekend. It took in $60.2 million over the weekend, beating out The Man from U.N.C.L.E., the other wide release this weekend, as well as previously released films, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation and Fantastic Four.

Straight Outta Compton’s opening is the fifth best August opening of all time, wrenching the spot away from Signs.

Who says Black films can’t make money? I hope this serves as a catalyst for Hollywood to put more support into Black films.

Tickets for Straight Outta Compton are available here.

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Abbie Mills (Sleepy Hollow)

Bonnie Bennett (The Vampire Diaries)

Cam Calloway (Survivor’s Remorse)

Hakeem Lyon (Empire)

Iris West (The Flash)

James St. Patrick (Power)

John Diggle (Arrow)

Olivia Pope (Scandal)

Papa Pope (Scandal)

Rainbow Johnson (black-ish)

Straight Outta Compton will be released in theaters August 14, 2015. Tickets are available here.

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It seems to be the era of biopics, with films about everyone from activists to actors to musicians. Another one is coming out, this time about the hip-hop group N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton explores the rise and fall of the legendary group. Take a look at the trailer and explore the controversial journey of the group.

Synopsis:

In the mid-1980s, the streets of Compton, California, were some of the most dangerous in the country. When five young men translated their experiences growing up into brutally honest music that rebelled against abusive authority, they gave an explosive voice to a silenced generation. Following the meteoric rise and fall of N.W.A., Straight Outta Compton tells the astonishing story of how these youngsters revolutionized music and pop culture forever the moment they told the world the truth about life in the hood and ignited a cultural war.

Cast:

• O’Shea Jackson, Jr. – Ice Cube
• Jason Mitchell – Eazy-E
• Corey Hawkins – Dr. Dre
• Aldis Hodge – MC Ren
• Neil Brown, Jr. – DJ Yella
• Marlon Yates, Jr. – The D.O.C.
• Alexandra Shipp – Kimberly Woodruff
• Keith Stanfield – Snoop Dogg
• R. Marcus Taylor – Suge Knight

Crew:

• Director – F. Gary Gray
• Writer – Jonathan Herman
• Writer – Alan Wenkus
• Writer – S. Leigh Savidge
• Writer – Andrea Berloff

Straight Outta Compton will be released in theaters August 14, 2015. Tickets are available here.

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