50th NAACP Image Awards has given attention and trophies to book-based movies

Outstanding Motion Picture

• BlacKkKlansman
• Crazy Rich Asians
• If Beale Street Could Talk
• The Hate U Give

Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture

• Barry Jenkins – If Beale Street Could Talk
• Spike Lee – BlacKkKlansman

Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture

• John David Washington – BlacKkKlansman
• Stephan James – If Beale Street Could Talk

Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture

• Constance Wu – Crazy Rich Asians
• KiKi Layne – If Beale Street Could Talk
• Sanaa Lathan – Nappily Ever After
• Amandla Stenberg- The Hate U Give (WINNER)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture

• Russell Hornsby – The Hate U Give
• Mahershala Ali – Green Book
• Brian Tyree Henry – If Beale Street Could Talk

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture

• Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk
• Regina Hall – The Hate U Give

Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture

• Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim – Crazy Rich Asians
• Barry Jenkins – If Beale Street Could Talk
• Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott and Spike Lee –BlacKkKlansman

Outstanding Independent Motion Picture

• BlacKkKlansman
• Nappily Ever After
• If Beale Street Could Talk (WINNER)

Outstanding Breakthrough Role in a Motion Picture

• Winston Duke – Black Panther
• Storm Reid – A Wrinkle in Time
• KiKi Layne – If Beale Street Could Talk
• John David Washington – BlacKkKlansman

Outstanding Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture

• The Hate U Give
• Crazy Rich Asians
• BlacKkKlansman

Outstanding Drama Series

• Queen Sugar

Outstanding Television Movie, Limited-Series or Dramatic Special

• The Simone Biles Story: Courage to Soar

Best Acting in a Drama Series( Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series)

• Kofi Siriboe – Queen Sugar

Best Acting in a Drama Series (Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series)

• Rutina Wesley – Queen Sugar

Best Acting in a Drama Series (Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series)

• Wendell Pierce – Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan​

Best Acting in a Comedy Series(Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series)

• Danielle Brooks – Orange Is the New Black

Best Acting in a Comedy Series(Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series)

• Uzo Aduba – Orange Is the New Black

Best Acting in a Movie/Limited Series(Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Limited-Series or Dramatic Special)

       Michael B. Jordan – Fahrenheit 451(WINNER)

Best Acting in a Movie/Limited Series(Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Limited-Series or Dramatic Special)

• Jeanté Godlock – The Simone Biles Story: Courage to Soar

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction

WINNER: An American Marriage - Tayari Jones (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
Better Late Than Never - Kimberla Lawson Roby (Grand Central Publishing)
Black Panther: Who Is The Black Panther? Prose Novel - Jesse James Holland Jr (Titan Books)
Envy - Victoria Christopher Murray (Touchstone)
They Come in All Colors: A Novel - Malcolm Hansen (Atria Books)


NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Nonfiction

Barracoon - Zora Neale Hurston (Amistad HarperCollins Publishers)
Black Girls Rock! Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth - Beverly Bond (37 Ink, A Division of Atria Books)
WINNER: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics - Donna Brazile (Author), Yolanda Caraway (Author), Leah Daughtry (Author), Minyon Moore (Author), Veronica Chambers (With), (St. Martin's Press)
May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem - Imani Perry (University of North Carolina Press)
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row - Anthony Ray Hinton (Author), Lara Love Hardin (With), (St. Martin's Press)


NAACP Image Award winners for Outstanding Literary Work, Children's:
Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, A Monumental American Man - Tonya Bolden (Abrams For Young Readers)
WINNER: Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race - Margot Lee Shetterly (Author), Laura Freeman (Illustrator), (Harper)
I Can Be Anything! Don't Tell Me I Can't - Diane Dillon (The Blue Sky Press)
The 5 O'Clock Band - Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews (Author), Bryan Collier (Illustrator), (Abrams For Young Readers)
The Word Collector - Peter H. Reynolds (Orchard Books)

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Debut Author
Heads of the Colored People: Stories - Nafissa Thompson-Spires (37 Ink, A Division of Atria Books)
Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement - Janet Dewart Bell (The New Press)
Lucile H. Bluford and the Kansas City Call: Activist Voice for Social Justice - Dr. Sheila D. Brooks (Author), Clinton C. Wilson II (Author), (Rowman & Littlefield)
Small Country: A Novel - Gael Faye (Hogarth)
WINNER: Us Against The World: Our Secrets to Love, Marriage, and Family - David Mann (Author), Tamela Mann (Author), Shaun Saunders (With), (W Publishing)

NAACPImage Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Biography/Autobiography
Barracoon - Zora Neale Hurston (Amistad HarperCollins Publishers)
WINNER: Becoming - Michelle Obama (Crown)
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke - Jeffrey C. Stewart (Oxford University Press)
The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela - Nelson Mandela (Author), Sahm Venter (Editor) (Liveright Publishing)
Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist - Franchesa Ramsey (Grand Central Publishing)


NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry
Carla Hall's Soul Food: Everyday and Celebration - Carla Hall (Author) Genevive Ko (With) (Harper Wave)
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics - Donna Brazile (Author), Yolanda Caraway (Author), Leah Daughtry (Author), Minyon Moore (Author), Veronica Chambers (With), (St. Martin's Press)
Poised For Excellence: Fundamental Principles of Effective Leadership in the Boardroom and Beyond - Karima Mariam-Arthur (Palgrave Macmillan)
WINNER: Rise and Grind: Outperform, Outwork, and Outhustle Your Way to a More Successful and Rewarding Life - Daymond John (Author), Daniel Paisner(With), (Currency)
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves - Glory Edim (Ballantine Books)


NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Instructional

The Awakened Woman: Remembering & Reigniting Our Sacred Dreams'''Tererai Trent(WINNER)
Ballerina Body: Dancing and Eating Your Way to a Leaner, Stronger, and More Graceful You by Misty Copeland
Notoriously Dapper - How to Be A Modern Gentleman with Manners, Style and Body ConfidenceKelvin Davis
Kristen Kish Cooking Kristen Kish and Meredith Erickson
Exponential Living - Stop Spending 100% of Your Time on 10% of Who You AreSheri Riley and Douglas Abrams


NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Youth/Teens
WINNER: Clayton Byrd Goes Underground - Rita Williams-Garcia (Author), Frank Morrison (Illustrator (Amistad/HarperCollins Publishers) 

Allegedly - Tiffany D. Jackson (HarperCollins Publishers)
Long Way Down - Jason Reynolds (S&S Children's Publishing)
Solo - Kwame Alexander (Author), Mary Rand Hess (With) (Blink)
The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas (HarperCollins Publishers)