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Philippine Singing Competitions

Philippine Singing Competitions

List: 40th NAACP awards nominees

Posted: 07 Jan 2009 04:31 PM CST

THE 40th NAACP IMAGE AWARDS NOMINATIONS
TELEVISION CATEGORIES
Outstanding Comedy Series • "30 Rock" (NBC)
• "Everybody Hates Chris" (CW)
• "The Game" (CW)
• "Tyler Perry's House of Payne" (TBS)
• "Ugly Betty" (ABC)

Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series
• Donald Faison – "Scrubs" (NBC)
• LaVan Davis – "Tyler Perry's House of Payne" (TBS)
• Paul James – "Greek" (ABC Family)
• Terry Crews – "Everybody Hates Chris" (CW)
• Tyler James Williams – "Everybody Hates Chris" (CW)

Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series
• America Ferrera – "Ugly Betty" (ABC)
• Cassi Davis – "Tyler Perry's House of Payne" (TBS)
• Tia Mowry – "The Game" (CW)
• Tichina Arnold – "Everybody Hates Chris" (CW)
• Tracee Ellis Ross – "Girlfriends" (CW)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
• Blair Underwood – "The New Adventures of Old Christine" (CBS)
• Dulé Hill – "Psych" (USA)
• Lance Gross – "Tyler Perry's House of Payne" (TBS)
• Larramie 'Doc' Shaw – "Tyler Perry's House of Payne" (TBS)
• Tracy Morgan – "30 Rock" (NBC)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
• Keshia Knight Pulliam – "Tyler Perry's House of Payne" (TBS)
• Tisha Campbell-Martin – "Rita Rocks" (Lifetime)
• Vanessa Williams – "Ugly Betty" (ABC)
• Wanda Sykes – "The New Adventures of Old Christine" (CBS)
• Wendy Raquel Robinson – "The Game" (CW)

Outstanding Drama Series
• "Grey's Anatomy" (ABC)
• "House" (FOX)
• "Lincoln Heights" (ABC Family)
• "The Unit" (CBS)
• "The Wire" (HBO)

Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series
• Anthony Anderson – "Law & Order" (NBC)
• Blair Underwood – "In Treatment" (HBO)
• Dennis Haysbert – "The Unit" (CBS)
• Hill Harper – "CSI: NY" (CBS)
• Omar Epps – "House" (FOX)

Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series
• CCH Pounder – "The Shield" (FX)
• Chandra Wilson – "Grey's Anatomy" (ABC)
• Loretta Divine – "Eli Stone" (ABC)
• Nicki Micheaux – "Lincoln Heights" (ABC Family)
• Wendy Davis – "Army Wives" (Lifetime)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
• Blair Underwood – "Dirty Sexy Money" (ABC)
• James Pickens, Jr. – "Grey's Anatomy" (ABC)
• Laurence Fishburne – "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (CBS)
• Michael Kenneth Williams – "The Wire" (HBO)
• Taye Diggs – "Private Practice" (ABC)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
• Alfre Woodard – "My Own Worst Enemy" (NBC)
• Angela Bassett – "ER" (NBC)
• Audra McDonald – "Private Practice" (ABC)
• S. Epatha Merkerson – "Law & Order" (NBC)
• Sonja Sohn – "The Wire" (HBO)

Outstanding Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special
• "24: Redemption" (FOX)
• "A Raisin in The Sun" (ABC)
• "Accidental Friendship" (Hallmark Channel)
• "House of Saddam" (HBO)
• "Racing For Time" (Lifetime)

Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special
• Andre Braugher – "The Andromeda Strain" (A&E)
• Ben Vereen – "Accidental Friendship" (Hallmark Channel)
• Charles S. Dutton – "Racing For Time" (Lifetime)
• Sean Combs – "A Raisin in The Sun" (ABC)
• Sean Patrick Thomas – "A Raisin in The Sun" (ABC)

Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special
• Audra McDonald – "A Raisin in The Sun" (ABC)
• Chandra Wilson – "Accidental Friendship" (Hallmark Channel)
• Phylicia Rashad – "A Raisin in The Sun" (ABC)
• Sanaa Lathan – "A Raisin in The Sun" (ABC)
• Vanessa Williams – "Flirting With Forty" (Lifetime)

Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Series
• Bryton McClure – "The Young And The Restless" (CBS)
• Cornelius Smith, Jr. – "All My Children" (ABC)
• Dan Martin – "The Bold and the Beautiful" (CBS)
• Montell Williams – "The Guiding Light" (CBS)
• Texas Battle – "The Bold and the Beautiful" (CBS)

Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series
• Christel Khalil – "The Young And The Restless" (CBS)
• Debbi Morgan – "All My Children" (ABC)
• Eva Marcille – "The Young and the Restless" (CBS)
• Nia Peeples – "The Young and the Restless" (CBS)
• Tonya Lee Williams – "The Young and the Restless" (CBS)

Outstanding News/ Information – (Series or Special)
• "American Gangster" (BET)
• "Anderson Cooper 360: Race in America" (CNN)
• "An Oprah Winfrey Show Special Event: The Dream Lives – A
Martin Luther King Day Special" (Syndicated)
• "In Conversation: Michelle Obama Interview" (TVOne)
• "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel" (HBO)

Outstanding Talk – (Series)
• "Iconoclasts: Venus Williams & Wyclef Jean" (Sundance Channel)
• "Judge Mathis" (Syndicated)
• "Tavis Smiley" (PBS)
• "The Tyra Banks Show" (CW)
• "The View" (ABC)

Outstanding Reality – (Series)
• "American Idol 7" (FOX)
• "Dancing with the Stars" (ABC)
• "Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is" (BET)
• "Project Runway" (Bravo)
• "Run's House 5" (MTV)

Outstanding Variety – (Series or Special)
• "American Idol 7: Idol Gives Back" (FOX)
• "BET Awards '08" (BET)
• "Chris Rock – Kill the Messenger" (HBO)
• "Russell Simmons' Def Comedy Jam" (HBO)
• "UNCF An Evening of Stars: Tribute to Smokey Robinson" (Syndicated)

Outstanding Children's Program
• "Cheetah Girls: One World" (Disney Channel)
• "Cory in the House" (Disney Channel)
• "Dora The Explorer" (Nickelodeon)
• "Go, Diego, Go" (Nickelodeon)
• "True Jackson, VP" (Nickelodeon)

Outstanding Performance in a Youth/Children's Program - Series or Special
• Caitlin Sanchez – "Cheetah Girls: One World" (Disney Channel)
• Keke Palmer – "True Jackson" (Nickelodeon)
• Kyle Massey – "Cory in the House" (Disney Channel)
• Lil' JJ – "Just Jordan" (Nickelodeon)
• Selena Gomez – "Wizards of Waverly Place" (Disney Channel)

RECORDING CATEGORIES
Outstanding New Artist
• Anthony David (Soulbird/Universal Republic)
• Estelle (Atlantic/Homeschool)
• Jazmine Sullivan (J Records)
• Jennifer Hudson (Arista)
• Leona Lewis (J Records/Syco)

Outstanding Male Artist
• Chris Brown (Jive/Zomba)
• Common (G.o.o.d. Music/Geffen Records)
• Jamie Foxx (J Records)
• John Legend (Columbia Records)
• Will.i.am (Will.i.am Music Group/Interscope Records)

Outstanding Female Artist
• Alicia Keys (J Records)
• Beyoncé (MusicWorld/Columbia Records)
• Jennifer Hudson (Arista)
• Mariah Carey (Island Def Jam)
• Rihanna (Island Def Jam)

Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration
• Anthony David & India.Arie (Soulbird/Universal Republic)
• Estelle feat. Kanye West (Atlantic/Homeschool)
• Jennifer Hudson feat. Fantasia (Arista)
• Jordin Sparks feat. Chris Brown (Jive/Zomba)
• Natalie Cole/ Nat "King" Cole (DMI Records)

Outstanding Jazz Artist
• Esperanza Spalding – "Esperanza" (Heads Up International)
• James Carter – "Present Tense" (Emarcy)
• Natalie Cole – "Still Unforgettable" (DMI Records)
• The Roy Hargrove Quintet – "Earfood" (Decca Label Group)
• Sonny Rollins – "Road Shows Vol. 1"(Doxy/Emarcy)

Outstanding Gospel Artist – (Traditional or Contemporary)
• Hezekiah Walker (Zomba Gospel)
• Marvin Sapp (Zomba Gospel)
• Mary Mary (Columbia Records)
• Regina Belle (Pendulum Records/Walker Davis Entertainment)
• Take 6 (Heads Up International)

Outstanding World Music Album
• Cheryl Keyes – "Let Me Take You There" (Keycan Records)
• Esperanza Spalding – "Esperanza" (Heads Up International)
• Miquel Zen'on – "Awake" (Marsalis Music)
• Omega Bugembe Okello – "Kiwombra Emmeeme" (Alexom Productions)
• Toumani Diabate – "The Mande Variations" (Nonesuch Records)

Outstanding Music Video
• "If I Were A Boy" – Beyoncé (MusicWorld/Columbia Records)
• "Single Ladies" – Beyoncé (MusicWorld/Columbia Records)
• "Spotlight" – Jennifer Hudson (Arista)
• "Superwoman" – Alicia Keys (J Records)
• "Yes We Can" – Will.i.am (Will.i.am Music Group/Interscope)

Outstanding Song
• "Greenlight" – John Legend (Columbia Records)
• "Single Ladies" – Beyoncé (MusicWorld/Columbia Records)
• "Spotlight" – Jennifer Hudson (Arista)
• "Superwoman" – Alicia Keys (J Records)
• "Yes We Can" – Will.i.am (Will.i.am Music Group/Interscope)

Outstanding Album
• Beyoncé – "I Am…Sasha Fierce" (MusicWorld/Columbia Records)
• Jennifer Hudson – "Jennifer Hudson" (Arista)
• Kanye West – "808 & Heartbreaks" (Island Def Jam)
• Ne-Yo – "Year of the Gentleman" (Island Def Jam)
• Seal – "Soul" (Warner Bros. Records)

LITERATURE CATEGORIES
Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction
• "Blood Colony: A Novel" – Tananarive Due (Atria Books/Simon & Schuster)
• "Going Down South: A Novel" – Bonnie J. Glover (Random House/One World/Ballentine)
• "In the Night of the Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel" – Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes (Atria Books/ Simon & Schuster)
• "Just Too Good to Be True" – E. Lynn Harris (Doubleday)
• "Song Yet Sung" – James McBride (Riverhead Books)

Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction
• "Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom" – Cornel West (Smiley Books)
• "Letter to My Daughter" – Maya Angelou (Random House)
• "Moving to Higher Ground" – Wynton Marsalis, Geoffrey Ward (Random House)
• "The Sea is So Wide And My Boat Is So Small" – Marian Wright Edelman (Hyperion)
• "There's No Traffic on the Extra Mile: Lessons on the Road From Dreams to Destiny" – Rickey Minor (Gotham Books)

Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author
• "Barack, Race, and the Media: Drawing My Own Conclusion" – David Glenn Brown (David G. Brown Studios)
• "The Beautiful Struggle" – Ta-Nehisi Coates (Spiegel and Grau)
• "Homeroom Heroes: Freshman Edition" – Michael B. Jordan, Rahfeal Gordan (RahGor Publishing)
• "No Way Home" – Carlos Acosta (Scribner)
• "War of the Blood In My Veins" – Dashaun "Jiwe" Morris (Scribner)

Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Auto-Biography
• "21 Nights" – Prince (Atria Books/Simon & Schuster)
• "Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin" – Herb Boyd (Atria Books/Simon & Schuster)
• "The Black List" – Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Elvis Mitchell (Atria Books/Simon & Schuster)
• "The Legs Are The Last To Go" – Diahann Carroll (Amistad)
• "Maya Angelou: A Glorious Celebration" – Marcia Ann Gillespie, Rosa Johnson Butler, Richard A. Long (Doubleday)

Outstanding Literary Work – Instructional
• "32 Ways To Be A Champion In Business" – Earvin "Magic" Johnson (Crown Business)
• "The Black Male Handbook: A Blueprint for Life" – Kevin Powell (Atria Books/Simon & Schuster)
• "Dining In" – G. Garvin (Meredith Books)
• "Good is not Enough and Other Unwritten Rules for Minority Professionals" – Keith R. Wyche (Portfolio/Centennial)
• "Tapping the Power Within: A Path To Self-Empowerment For Women" – Iyanla Vanzant (Smiley Books)

Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry
• "Hardheaded Weather" – Cornelius Eady (Marian Wood Books)
• "Hip Hop Speaks To Children: A Celebration of "Poetry With A Beat" – Nikki Giovanni (Source Books/Jabberwocky)
• "Honoring the Ancestors" – James Cherry (Third World Press)
• "Things I Must Have Known" – A B Spellman (Coffee House Press)
• "Warhorses" – Yusef Komunyakaa (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Outstanding Literary Work – Children
• "Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem" – Maya Angelou (illustrators - Lou Fancher & Steven Johnson) (Schwartz & Wade)
• "Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope" – Nikki Grimes, (illustrator - Bryan Collier) (Simon & Schuster)
• "Say a Little Prayer" – Dionne Warwick, David Freeman Wooley, Tonya Bolden, (illustrator – Soud) (Running Press)
• "We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball" – Kadir Nelson (Disney Publishing)
• "You Can Do It!" – Tony Dungy, (illustrator - Amy June Bates) (Simon & Schuster)

Outstanding Literary Work – Youth/Teens
• "Beacon Hills High" – Mo'Nique Imes Jackson, Sherri McGee

American Idol 8 spoilers

Posted: 07 Jan 2009 04:19 PM CST

More spoilers for the American Idol Season 8 Top 50. Rumored to be in the Top 50 are the following:

Adam Lambert, Angela Martin, Felicia Barton, Jacob McKay, Jacklyn Tohn, Junot Joyner, Justin Williams, Kendall Beard, Lil Rounds, Michael Bartul, Reggi Beasley, Ryan P. A. Johnson, Stephen Fowler, Taylor Vaifanua and Terrance T.K. Hash.

Thanks to Mj.

at 8:05 AM