2012 NAACP Image Award Screenwriting and Writing Award Winners

Posted on February 20, 2012

The 43rd annual NAACP Image Awards wre presented last Friday at The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. The Help won three awards, including Best Film. Viola Davis won Best Actress and Octavia Spencer won Best Supporting Actress. Salim Akil and Mara Brock Akil - winners in the comedy screenwriting category for The Game - are pictured above.

Here are the winners in the screenwriting and literature categories:

Screenwriting

• Comedy Series: The Game, Salim Akil, Mara Brock Akil
• Dramatic Series: Treme, Lolis Eric Elie
• Motion Picture: The First Grader, Ann Peacock

• Fiction: Say Amen, Again by Reshonda Tate Billingsley
• Nonfiction: The Wealth Cure: Putting Money in Its Place by Hill Harper
• Debut Author: The Strawberry Letter by Lyah Le Flore
• Biography/Autobiography: My Song by Harry Belafonte
• Instructional: The T.D. Jakes Relationship Bible: Life Lessons on Relationships from the Inspired Word of God by T.D. Jakes
• Poetry: Afro Clouds & Nappy Rain: The Curtis Brown Poems by James Golden
• Children: You Can Be a Friend by Tony Dungy, illustrations by Ron Mazellan
• Youth/Teens: Jesse Owens: I Always Loved Running by Jeff Burlingame