Editing NAACP Image Awards (section)

==History==
The [[award ceremony]] was conceived by [[Toni Vaz]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=NAACPLA: Image Awards Founder Honored |date=2021-05-20 |url=https://naacplosangeles.org/f/naacpla-image-awards-founder-honored?blogcategory=News |website=naacplosangeles.org/}}</ref> during an April 1967 NAACP branch meeting in Beverly Hills. "I called it the Image Awards because I wanted a better image for the people who worked in the industry," Vaz said. "I wanted to put this award show together to thank the producers for giving good roles to people of color." The branch president liked the idea, Vaz said, but when she made follow-up calls to members and friends to enlist volunteers for an awards show committee, no one volunteered. Vaz reached out to Black A-listers such as Sammy Davis Jr., who hosted the first meeting of the NAACP Beverly Hills Hollywood Branch in his home; Sidney Poitier, whom she had worked with on the movie Porgy and Bess; and the late Ivan Dixon, an actor, director and producer of Hogan's Heroes at the time. Vaz also wrote letters to secure sponsors for the event and booked the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where the first NAACP Image Awards show was held on August 13, 1967.

The ceremony was presented by activists [[Maggie Hathaway]], [[Sammy Davis Jr.]] and [[Willis Edwards (activist)|Willis Edwards]], all three of whom were leaders of the Beverly Hills-Hollywood NAACP branch.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Show {{!}} Image Awards History |date=2020-01-12 |website=naacpimageawards.net |url=https://naacpimageawards.net/the-show/history/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200112215455/https://naacpimageawards.net/the-show/history/ |archive-date=2020-01-12 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name= first/> While  it was first taped for television by [[NBC]] (which broadcast the awards from 1987 to 1994 in January, on weeks when ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' wasn't airing a new episode), it would only be broadcast in primetime beginning in 1996. Due to changes in timing of the awards, there was no awards ceremony held the following years: 1973, as the timing was changed to honor a full calendar year early in the following year (reverted to a "late-in-year" ceremony for 1981–1990); 1991, as the timing returned too late in a calendar year to honor that same year; 1995.

The first [[Streaming media|live broadcast]] of the awards, also on the Fox Network, occurred in 2007 for its 38th edition (up until 2007, the ceremony had been broadcast with [[broadcast delay|tape delay]]) and the annual ceremonies usually take place in or around the [[Los Angeles]] area, in February or early March. The 44th edition aired on NBC. Sources have had trouble verifying the winners in the top categories from 1983 to 1995.

The New York firm [[Society Awards]] manufactures the trophy since its redesign in 2008.

=== Cultural impact ===
The NAACP Image awards has been widely accepted and dubbed as the "''Black'' ''[[Oscars]]/[[Emmy Awards|Emmy/]][[Grammy Awards|Grammy]]''" award show from the African-American and Latino community, as it is an important [[Reputation|prestigious]] award celebrating artists and entertainers of color that may have been overlooked from by the mainstream film, television, theater and music award counterparts ([[EGOT|E.G.O.T.]]) due to racial seclusion or lack of interests from film and television studios. Whereas, it created more exposure for content on a wide spectrum of urban media versus other awards shows where they can be celebrated and appreciated. Actors such as [[Will Smith]], [[Jada Pinkett Smith|Jada Pinkett-Smith]], [[Taraji P. Henson]] and many others expressed the differences of not being visually seen by the industry's standard and how artists and entertainers should look to the NAACP Image Awards as the highest achievement. The campaign of [[OscarsSoWhite|#OscarSoWhite]] began as a protest after seeing the lack of people of color being nominated or win in major categories at the [[Academy Awards]]. Since then, minor adjustments have been made for inclusion as more people of color have become nominated and win at the mainstream prestigious award ceremonies. Today, the NAACP Image Awards is what many people of color look forward to as "the one that matters".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Collins |first=Scott |date=2016-02-06 |title=NAACP Image Awards highlight the power of diversity |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-taraji-p-henson-wins-naacp-image-awards-acceptance-20160205-story.html |access-date=2024-03-18 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref>

===Event dates and locations===
{| class="wikitable"
! #
! Date 
! Host(s)
! Location
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| 1st
| August 13, 1967<ref name="first">{{cite news|title=NAACP Will Present Nine Image Awards|date=August 7, 1967|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|page=74|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/382503072/|url-access=subscription|via=[[Ancestry.com#Newspapers.com|Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
| 
| [[The Beverly Hilton]]
|-
| 2nd
| September 22, 1968<ref>{{cite news|title=NAACP to Confer Honors at Beverly Hilton Fete|date=August 6, 1968|page=7|newspaper=Valley Times (of North Hollywood)|publisher=San Fernando Valley Times Co.|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/580787175/|url-access=subscription|via=[[Ancestry.com#Newspapers.com|Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
| 
| The Beverly Hilton
|-
| 3rd
| October 11, 1969<ref>{{cite news|title=Getting Blacker, But Not Black Enough|first=Dan|last=Knapp|date=September 27, 1969|page=|newspaper=[[Vancouver Sun]]|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/492444525/|url-access=subscription|via=[[Ancestry.com#Newspapers.com|Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
| 
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| 4th
| November 15, 1970<ref>{{cite news|title=NAACP Sets Annual Image Awards Show|date=September 8, 1970|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/384822016/|url-access=subscription|via=[[Ancestry.com#Newspapers.com|Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
| 
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|-
| 5th
| November 21, 1971<ref>{{cite news|title=Marvin Gaye Wins Top Honors at NAACP Image Awards Show|date=December 4, 1971|newspaper=[[Pittsburgh Courier]]|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/39187045/|url-access=subscription|via=[[Ancestry.com#Newspapers.com|Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
|
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|-
| 6th
| November 18, 1972<ref>{{cite news|title=NAACP Honors Black Performers|date=November 20, 1972|newspaper=[[The Palm Beach Post]]|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/133712492/|url-access=subscription|via=[[Ancestry.com#Newspapers.com|Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
| 
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|-
| 
| colspan="3" align="center"| ''1973 - not presented, timing changed to have achievements of a calendar year honored early in following year''
|-
| 7th
| January 19, 1974
|
| [[Hollywood Palladium]]
|-
| 8th
| January 18, 1975
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| 9th
| February 7, 1976
| 
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| 10th
| April 24, 1977
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| 11th
| June 9, 1978
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| 12th
| January 27, 1979
| 
| Hollywood Palladium
|-
| 13th
| January 27, 1980<ref>{{cite magazine|title='Together They Did It!' The 12th Annual NAACP Image Awards|first=Leroy|last=Robinson|editor-first=Warren II|editor-last=Marr|date=May 1980|volume=85|issue=5|pages=162–164|magazine=[[The Crisis]]|issn=0011-1422|oclc=609962350|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FSoEAAAAMBAJ&dq=image%20awards%20january%201980&pg=PA162|url-access=subscription|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>
|[[Louis Gossett Jr.]]/[[Rita Moreno]]/[[Ted Lange]]/[[Benjamin Hooks]]/Valenti
|
|-
| 14th
| December 5, 1981
| [[Robert Guillaume]]<br>(''note: timing changed, achievements of 1980/81 were honored late in 1981)''
| rowspan="2"| Hollywood Palladium
|-
| 15th
| December 1982
| [[Jayne Kennedy]]/[[George Peppard]]/[[Michael Warren (actor)|Michael Warren]]
|-
| 16th
| December 4, 1983
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| [[Dorothy Chandler Pavilion]]
|-
| 17th
| December 1984
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| 18th
| December 1985
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| 19th
| December 13, 1986
| [[Debbie Allen]]/[[Denzel Washington]] 
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| 20th
| December 1987
| [[Denzel Washington]]/[[Debbie Allen]]
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| 21st
| December 1988
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| 22nd
| December 9, 1989
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| 23rd
| December 9, 1990
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| 
| colspan="3" align="center"| ''1991 - not presented, timing changed to have achievements of a calendar year honored early in following year''
|-
| 24th
| January 11, 1992
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| rowspan="3"| [[Pasadena Convention Center#Pasadena Civic Auditorium|Pasadena Civic Auditorium]]
|-
| [[25th NAACP Image Awards|25th]]
| January 16, 1993
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|-
| [[26th NAACP Image Awards|26th]]
| January 5, 1994
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|-
| 
| colspan="3" align="center"| ''1995 - not presented, financial concerns''<ref>{{Cite web|title=NAACP board may decide fate of costly Image Awards at meeting this week|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1995-02-12-1995043017-story.html|access-date=September 10, 2022|website=[[The Baltimore Sun]]}}</ref>
|-
| 27th
| April 6, 1996
| [[Whitney Houston]]/[[Denzel Washington]]
| rowspan="5"| [[Pasadena Convention Center#Pasadena Civic Auditorium|Pasadena Civic Auditorium]]
|-
| 28th
| February 8, 1997
| [[Arsenio Hall]], [[Patti LaBelle]]
|-
| 29th
| February 14, 1998
| [[Vanessa Williams|Vanessa L. Williams]], [[Gregory Hines]]
|-
| 30th
| February 14, 1999
| [[Mariah Carey]], [[Blair Underwood]]<ref>{{cite magazine|editor-first=Ida E.|editor-last=Lewis|editor-link=Ida E. Lewis|title=NAACP Image Awards Glitters For 30 Years |magazine=[[The Crisis]]|date=March 1999|volume=106|issue=2|pages=35–37|issn=0011-1422|oclc=609962350|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UVkEAAAAMBAJ&q=NAACP+Image+Awards+music+1999+Outstanding+Actor+in+a+Motion+Picture&pg=PA37|access-date=January 21, 2017}}</ref>
|-
| 31st
| February 12, 2000
| [[Diana Ross]]
|-
| 32nd
| February 23, 2001
| rowspan="2"| [[Chris Tucker]]
| rowspan="4"| [[Universal Amphitheatre]]
|-
| 33rd
| March 3, 2002
|-
| 34th
| March 8, 2003
| [[Cedric the Entertainer]]
|-
| [[35th NAACP Image Awards|35th]]
| March 6, 2004
| [[Tracee Ellis Ross]]/[[Golden Brooks]]/[[Persia White]]/[[Jill Marie Jones]]
|-
| [[36th NAACP Image Awards|36th]]
| March 19, 2005
| [[Chris Tucker]]
| Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
|-
| [[37th NAACP Image Awards|37th]]
| February 26, 2006
| [[Cuba Gooding Jr.]]
| rowspan="8"| [[Shrine Auditorium]]
|-
| [[38th NAACP Image Awards|38th]]
| March 2, 2007
| [[LL Cool J]]
|-
| [[39th NAACP Image Awards|39th]]
| February 14, 2008
| [[D. L. Hughley]]
|-
| [[40th NAACP Image Awards|40th]]
| February 12, 2009<ref>{{cite press release|title=Halle Berry and Tyler Perry to Host Live Broadcast of "40th Naacp Image Awards" Thursday, February 12, on Fox|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2008/12/16/halle-berry-and-tyler-perry-to-host-live-broadcast-of-40th-naacp-image-awards-thursday-february-12-on-fox-29846/20081216fox01/|publisher=[[Fox Broadcasting Company]]|via=[[The Futon Critic]]|date=December 16, 2008|access-date=May 4, 2022}}</ref>
| [[Halle Berry]]/[[Tyler Perry]]
|-
| [[41st NAACP Image Awards|41st]]
| February 26, 2010
| [[Anika Noni Rose]]/[[Hill Harper]]
|-
| 42nd
| March 4, 2011<ref name=42ndNAACPImage>{{cite web|title=42nd NAACP Image Awards {{!}} Winners & Honorees {{!}} Television|date=March 4, 2011|website=naacpimageawards.net|url=http://www.naacpimageawards.net/42/winners-and-honorees/television/|access-date=August 9, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120625093121/http://www.naacpimageawards.net/42/winners-and-honorees/television/|archive-date=June 25, 2012}}</ref> 
| [[Wayne Brady]]/[[Holly Robinson Peete]]
|-
| [[43rd NAACP Image Awards|43rd]]
| February 17, 2012
| [[Sanaa Lathan]]/[[Anthony Mackie]]
|-
| [[44th NAACP Image Awards|44th]]
| February 1, 2013
| [[Steve Harvey]]
|-
| [[45th NAACP Image Awards|45th]]
| February 22, 2014
| rowspan="9"| [[Anthony Anderson]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/network-press-releases/the-45th-naacp-image-awards-announces-additional-presenters-including-idris-elba-vin-diesel-terry-crews-more/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170630192018/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/network-press-releases/the-45th-naacp-image-awards-announces-additional-presenters-including-idris-elba-vin-diesel-terry-crews-more/|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 30, 2017|title=The 45th NAACP Image Awards Announces Additional Presenters Including Idris Elba, Vin Diesel, Terry Crews & More|date=February 13, 2014|website=TV By The Numbers|language=en|access-date=June 3, 2019}}</ref>
| rowspan="5"| [[Pasadena Convention Center#Pasadena Civic Auditorium|Pasadena Civic Auditorium]]
|-
| [[46th NAACP Image Awards|46th]] 
| February 6, 2015
|-
| [[47th NAACP Image Awards|47th]]
| February 5, 2016
|-
| [[48th NAACP Image Awards|48th]]
| February 11, 2017
|-
| [[49th NAACP Image Awards|49th]]
| January 15, 2018
|-
| [[50th NAACP Image Awards|50th]]
| March 30, 2019
| [[Dolby Theatre]]
|-
| [[51st NAACP Image Awards|51st]]
| February 22, 2020
| [[Pasadena Convention Center#Pasadena Civic Auditorium|Pasadena Civic Auditorium]]
|-
| [[52nd NAACP Image Awards|52nd]]
| March 27, 2021
| rowspan="2"| Virtual
|-
| [[53rd NAACP Image Awards|53rd]]
| February 26, 2022
|-
| [[54th NAACP Image Awards|54th]]
| February 25, 2023
| rowspan="2"| [[Queen Latifah]]
| [[Pasadena Convention Center#Pasadena Civic Auditorium|Pasadena Civic Auditorium]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=2024 NAACP IMAGE AWARDS VIP|url=https://vipconcierge.com/events/ncaap-image-awards-vip-tickets-after-party/|website=VIP Concierge|access-date=December 15, 2023}}</ref>
|-
| [[55th NAACP Image Awards|55th]]
| March 16, 2024<ref>{{Cite press release|title=NAACP Announces "55th NAACP Image Awards" to Air Live in Los Angeles Saturday, March 16, 2024, on BET|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2023/09/29/naacp-announces-55th-naacp-image-awards-to-air-live-in-los-angeles-saturday-march-16-2024-on-bet-522511/20230929bet01/|publisher=[[BET]]|via=[[The Futon Critic]]|date=September 29, 2023|access-date=December 15, 2023}}</ref>
| [[Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall|Shrine Auditorium]]
|-
| [[56th NAACP Image Awards|56th]]
| February 22, 2025
| [[Deon Cole]]
| [[Pasadena Convention Center#Pasadena Civic Auditorium|Pasadena Civic Auditorium]]
|}