2017 NAMIC Vision Awards Nominees

Animation

  • Disney Junior – Sofia the First
  • Disney Junior – Miles from Tomorrowland
  • Disney Junior – Doc McStuffins
  • Nickelodeon – Sanjay and Craig
  • Nickelodeon – The Loud House

Awards & Honors

  • BET Networks – BET Awards 2016
  • BET Networks – Black Girls Rock!
  • TV One – 47th NAACP Image Awards
  • VH1 – Hip Hop Honors: All Hail the Queens
  • VH1 – Dear Mama
  • VH1 – Trailblazers Honors

Best Performance – Comedy          

  • HBO – Issa Rae: Insecure
  • Showtime – Don Cheadle: House of Lies
  • Starz – Tichina Arnold: Survivor’s Remorse
  • Starz – RonReaco Lee: Survivor’s Remorse
  • Starz – Teyonah Paris: Survivor’s Remorse

Best Performance – Drama 

  • BET Networks – Gabrielle Union: Being Mary Jane
  • HBO – Kerry Washington: Confirmation
  • HISTORY – Malachi Kirby: Roots
  • HISTORY – Regé-Jean Page: Roots
  • HISTORY – Anika Noni Rose: Roots
  • HISTORY – Forest Whitaker: Roots
  • TV One – Malik Yoba: Bad Dad Rehab

Children’s     

  • Disney Channel – Stuck in the Middle
  • HBO – Sesame Street
  • Nickelodeon – All in with Cam Newton
  • Nickelodeon – Game Shakers
  • Sprout – Nina’s World

Comedy        

  • ABC – black-ish
  • Fuse – Fluffy Breaks Even
  • HBO – Ballers
  • HBO – Insecure
  • Starz – Survivor’s Remorse

Daytime         

  • CBS – The Talk
  • OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network – SuperSoul Sunday

Digital Media – Short Form 

  • CNN – This is Birth with Lisa Ling
  • NBC Asian America – Voices
  • NBC Latino – One Heritage, Two Generations: Amelia Morán Ceja and Dalia Ceja
  • Powerhouse Productions – Harlem on My Plate
  • TV One – Change Agents: History in the Making

Documentary

  • Al Jazeera English – Fault Lines: The Lives of Black Women
  • CNN – We Will Rise: Michelle Obama’s Mission to Educate Girls Around the World
  • HISTORY – Roots
  • Investigation Discovery – Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four
  • World Channel – Eyes on the Prize Then and Now: A WORLD Channel Special

Drama

  • ABC – Grey’s Anatomy
  • ABC – How to Get Away With Murder
  • ABC – Secret and Lies
  • BET Networks – Being Mary Jane
  • Hulu – East Los High       

Foreign Language

  • Discovery Latin America/US Hispanic – Pancho Villa: Se Busca Vivo o Muerto
  • Discovery Latin America/US Hispanic – Texas Trocas

Lifestyle        

  • ABS-CBN International – Design + Story
  • ABS-CBN International – Spice to Life
  • CNN – Special Projects: Breakthrough Women
  • Cooking Channel – Patti LaBelle’s Holiday Pies
  • Food Network – Ayesha’s Homemade
  • Food Network – Smollett Eats

News/Informational 

  • ABS-CBN International – BA Election Day Coverage 2016
  • BET Networks – Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement
  • CNN – Special Projects: Impact Your World
  • NBC Out – Arab and Queer: Lebanese Singer Pushes Boundaries
  • National Geographic – The Story of God with Morgan Freeman
  • TV One – NewsOne Now with Roland Martin

Original Movie or Special   

  • ABS-CBN International – Rock the Runway
  • BET Networks – BET Presents Love & Happiness: An Obama Celebration
  • BET Networks – Black Girls Rock!
  • CNN – Special Projects: Amalgam Comics
  • HBO – All the Way

Reality           

  • ESPN – ESPN Features: SC Featured – Chubbtown
  • ESPN – ESPN Features: SC Featured – Inky Johnson
  • ESPN – ESPN Features: SportsCenter – Mother of Hampton Lacrosse
  • ESPN – ESPN Features: Sunday NFL Countdown – Jarrius Robertson
  • VICELAND – Black Market with Michael K. Williams

Reality – Social Issues         

  • ESPN – E:60 American
  • ESPN – Rise Up: A SportsCenter Special
  • HBO – Vice News Tonight
  • HBO – Vice: “Viva Cuba Libre”
  • VICELAND – Gaycation with Ellen Page

Sports

  • ESPN – E:60 Mike Evans
  • ESPN – ESPN Features: SC Featured – The Meaning of Miyah
  • HBO – Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
  • HBO – Terrance Crawford: My Fight
  • VICELAND – VICE World of Sports

Variety/Talk Show    

  • BET Networks – Being: Brandy
  • HBO – All Def Comedy
  • HBO – Lemonade
  • National Geographic – StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • VH1 – VH1 Live!

Winners for the 2017 NAMIC Vision Awards can be found here
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