>Tyler Perry is Big Winner at NAACP Awards

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The 42nd annual NAACP Image Awards took place on Friday and the winners were very different from the Academy Award winners. Tyler Perry was once again the big winner. He won Best Director for “For Colored Girls,” which also took home the Best Picture award.

In the TV categories, Perry won for Outstanding Comedy Series for “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne,” beating out “30 Rock” and “Glee.” Meanwhile, David Mann won Best Actor for “Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns.”

Denzel Washington also won Best Actor for “The Book of Eli,” beating Jaden Smith and Common. Halle Berry won Best Actress for “Frankie and Alice,” beating Janet Jackson and Queen Talifah. And of course the Best Documentary award went to “For Love of Liberty: The Story of America’s Black Patriots.”

Ice Cube and LL Cool J also won for their acting abilities in “Are We There Yet?” and “NCIS: Los Angeles.”

Here are the nominees and winners (in red) in the film categories:

Best Motion Picture:

* For Colored Girls

* Just Wright

* The Book of Eli

* The Kids Are All Right

* Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too?

Best Actor in a Motion Picture:

* Denzel Washington (The Book of Eli)

* Anthony Mackie (Night Catches Us)

* Common (Just Wright)

* Jaden Smith (The Karate Kid)

* Morgan Freeman (Red)

Best Actress in a Motion Picture:

* Halle Berry (Frankie and Alice)

* Janet Jackson (Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too?)

* Kerry Washington (Night Catches Us)

* Queen Latifah (Just Wright)

* Zoe Saldana (The Losers)

Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture:

* Samuel L. Jackson (Mother and Child)

* Don Cheadle (Brooklyn’s Finest)

* Idris Elba (Takers)

* Justin Timberlake (The Social Network)

* Michael Ealy (For Colored Girls)

Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture:

* Kimberly Elise (For Colored Girls)

* Anika Noni Rose (For Colored Girls)

* Phylicia Rashad (For Colored Girls)

* Jill Scott (Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too?)

* Whoopi Goldberg (For Colored Girls)

Best Independent Motion Picture:

* Frankie and Alice

* Conviction

* La Mission

* Mother and Child

* Night Catches Us

Best Foreign Motion Picture:

* Biutiful

* A Barefoot Dream

* Four Lions

* Mother

* Outside the Law

Best Documentary (Theatrical or Television):

* For Love of Liberty: The Story of America’s Black Patriots

* Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel

* If God is Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise

* Waiting for “Superman”

* William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe

Best Writing in a Motion Picture (Theatrical or Television):

* Just Wright

* Frankie and Alice

* Brooklyn’s Finest

* Mother and Child

* Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too?

Best Directing in a Motion Picture (Theatrical or Television):

* Tyler Perry (For Colored Girls)

* Geoffrey Sax (Frankie and Alice)

* George Tillman, Jr. (Faster)

* Tanya Hamilton (Night Catches Us)

* The Hughes Brothers (The Book of Eli)