Netflix, HBO and Beyoncé lead 2021 NAACP Image Award nominations

The NAACP has revealed this year’s nominees for its annual Image Awards, celebrating the work of artists of color and those advocating for social justice through art. Netflix leads this year’s film and TV nominations with 48 — including multiple nods for award-season heavyweights “Da 5 Bloods” and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” — followed by HBO with 25. Boseman is nominated for both supporting actor and actor in a motion picture, for Netflix’s “Da 5 Bloods” and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” respectively. Here’s a sampling of the nominees : Television Comedy Series: “#blackAF” “Black-ish” “Grown-ish” “Insecure” “The Last O.G.” Actor in a Comedy Series: Anthony Anderson - “Black-ish” Cedric the Entertainer - “The Neighborhood” Don Cheadle - “Black Monday” Idris Elba - “In the Long Run” Tracy Morgan - “The Last O.G.” Actress in a Comedy Series: Issa Rae - “Insecure” Folake Olowofoyeku - “Bob Hearts Abishola” Regina Hall - “Black Monday” Tracee Ellis Ross - “Black-ish” Yara Shahidi - “Grown-ish” Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series: Andre Braugher - “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” Deon Cole - “Black-ish” Jay Ellis - “Insecure” Kenan Thompson - “Saturday Night Live” Laurence Fishburne - “Black-ish” Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series: Jenifer Lewis - “Black-ish” Marsai Martin - “Black-ish” Natasha Rothwell - “Insecure” Tichina Arnold - “The Neighborhood” Yvonne Orji - “Insecure” Drama Series: “All Rise” “Bridgerton” “Lovecraft Country” “Power Book II: Ghost” “This Is Us” Actor in a Drama Series: Jonathan Majors - “Lovecraft Country” Keith David - “Greenleaf” Nicco Annan - “P-Valley” Regé-Jean Page - “Bridgerton” Sterling K. Brown - “This Is Us” Actress in a Drama Series: Angela Bassett - “9-1-1” Brandee Evans - “P-Valley” Jurnee Smollett - “Lovecraft Country” Simone Missick - “All Rise” Viola Davis - “How to Get Away With Murder” Supporting Actor in a Drama Series: Clifford “Method Man” Smith - “Power Book II: Ghost” Delroy Lindo - “The Good Fight” J. Alphonse Nicholson - “P-Valley” Jeffrey Wright - “Westworld” Michael Kenneth Williams - “Lovecraft Country” Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Adjoa Andoh - “Bridgerton” Aunjanue Ellis - “Lovecraft Country” Lynn Whitfield - “Greenleaf” Mary J. Blige - “Power Book II: Ghost” Susan Kelechi Watson - “This Is Us” TV Movie, Limited Series or Dramatic Special: “Hamilton” “Little Fires Everywhere” “Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Beyoncé “Cool Off” - Missy Elliott “Laugh Now, Cry Later” - Drake “Life Is Good” - Future & Drake Film Motion Picture: “Bad Boys For Life” “Da 5 Bloods” “Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” “One Night In Miami” Actor in a Motion Picture: Anthony Mackie - “The Banker” Chadwick Boseman - “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” Delroy Lindo - “Da 5 Bloods” Forest Whitaker - “Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey” Will Smith - “Bad Boys For Life” Actress in a Motion Picture: Issa Rae - “The Photograph” Janelle Monáe - “Antebellum” Madalen Mills - “Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey” Tracee Ellis Ross - “The High Note” Viola Davis - “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture: Aldis Hodge - “One Night In Miami” Chadwick Boseman - “Da 5 Bloods” Clarke Peters - “Da 5 Bloods” Colman Domingo - “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” Glynn Turman - “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture: Anika Noni Rose - “Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey” Gabourey Sidibe - “Antebellum” Nia Long - “The Banker” Phylicia Rashad - “Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey” Taylour Paige - “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture: “Da 5 Bloods” “Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” “Soul” “The Banker” Animated Motion Picture: “Onward” “Over the Moon” “Scoob!” “Soul” “Trolls World Tour” Literature Fiction: “Black Bottom Saints” - Alice Randall “Lakewood” - Megan Giddings “Riot Baby” - Tochi Onyebuchi “The Awkward Black Man” - Walter Mosley “The Vanishing Half” - Brit Bennett Nonfiction: “A Black Women’s History of the United States” - Daina Berry “A Promised Land” - Barack Obama “Driving While Black” - Gretchen Sorin “Long Time Coming: Reckoning With Race in America” - Michael Eric Dyson “We’re Better Than This” - Elijah Cummings Debut Author: “A Knock at Midnight” - Brittany Barnett “Greyboy: Finding Blackness in a White World” - Cole Brown “Lakewood” - Megan Giddings “The Compton Cowboys” - Walter Thompson-Hernández “We’re Better Than This” - Elijah Cummings Poetry: “Homie” - Danez Smith “Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry” - John Murillo “Seeing the Body” - Rachel Eliza Griffiths “The Age of Phillis” - Honorée Jeffers “Un-American” - Hafizah Geter Children: “I Promise” - LeBron James, Nina Mata “Just Like a Mama” - Alice Faye Duncan, Charnelle Pinkney Barlow “Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice” - Nikki Grimes, Laura Freeman “She Was the First!