NAACP Image Award 2011 Nominations for Motion Picture

NAACP Image Awards 2011 announced its nominees on Wednesday. Below is the list of nominees for Motion Picture.

Outstanding Motion Picture
For Colored Gilrs – Lionsgate/34th Street Films
Just Wright – Fox Searchlight Pictures
The Book of Eli – Warner Bros. Pictures
The Kids Are All Right – Focus Features
Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too? – Lionsgate

Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
Anthony Mackie – Night Catches Us – Magnolia Pictures
Common – Just Wright – Fox Searchlight Pictures
Denzel Washington – The Book of Eli – Warner Bros. Pictures
Jaden Smith – The Karate Kid – Columbia Pictures
Morgan Freeman – Red – Summit Entertainment

Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
Halle Berry – Frankie & Alice – Freestyle Releasing
Janet Jackson – Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too? – Lionsgate
Kerry Washington – Night Catches Us – Magnolia Pictures
Queen Latifah – Just Wright – Fox Searchlight Pictures
Zoe Saldana – The Losers – Warner Bros. Pictures

Outstanding Support Actor in a Motion Picture
Don Cheadle – Brooklyn’s Finest – Overture Films
Idris Elba – Takers- Screen Gems
Justin Timberlake – The Social Network – Columbia Pictures
Michael Ealy – For Colored Girls – Lionsgate/34th Street Films
Samuel L. Jackson – Mother and Child – Sony Pictures Classics

Outstanding Support Actress in a Motion Picture
Anika Noni Rose – For Colored Girls – Lionsgate/34th Street Films
Kimberly Elise – For Colored Girls – Lionsgate/34th Street Films
Phylicia Rashad – For Colored Girls – Lionsgate/34th Street Films
Jill Scott – Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too? – Lionsgate
Whoopi Goldberg – For Colored Girls – Lionsgate/34th Street Films

Outstanding Independent Motion Picture
Conviction – Fox Searchlight Pictures
Frankie & Alice – Freestyle Releasing
La Mission – Screen Media Ventures
Mother and Child – Sony Pictures Classics
Night Catches Us – Magnolia Pictures

Outstanding Foreign Motion Picture
A Barefoot Dream – Showbox/Mediaplex
Biutiful – Roadside Attractions
Four Lions – Drafthouse Films
Mother – Magnolia Pictures
Outside the Law – Tessalit Productions

Outstanding Documentary (Theatrical or Television)
For Love of Liberty: The Story of America’s Black Patriots – PBS
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel – Metaphor Films
If God is Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise – HBO
Waiting for Superman – Paramount Vantage
William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe – POV

Watch the NAACP Image Award 2011 show that will air March 4 on Fox.