Beyonce Leads NAACP Picture Awards Nominations

Music celebrity Beyonce Knowles is prime nominee on the 2020 NAACP Picture Awards after touchdown a various listing of nominations.

The Formation hitmaker’s Coachella competition movie, Homecoming, is up for Excellent Documentary (Tv – Sequence or Particular) and Excellent Selection (Sequence or Particular), whereas its accompanying stay album is shortlisted within the Excellent Album class.

Beyonce can even compete for Excellent Feminine Artist and Excellent Music – Up to date for Earlier than I Let Go, whereas her music contributions on The Lion King: The Present have earned her recognition for Excellent Soundtrack/Compilation Album, Excellent Music – Conventional for Spirit, and Excellent Duo, Group or Collaboration for Brown Pores and skin Lady, which featured her daughter Blue Ivy Carter, Saint Jhn, and Wizkid.

Lizzo can be one other major contender within the music part, incomes six nods, together with Excellent Feminine Artist, Excellent Album for Cuz I Love You, Excellent Music – Up to date for Juice, and Excellent Music – Conventional for Jerome, pitting her towards Beyonce in every of these classes.

The star can also be within the working for the coveted Entertainer of the 12 months trophy, alongside Billy Porter, Angela Bassett, Regina King, and Tyler Perry.

In the meantime, the Harriet Tubman biopic Harriet dominates the film nominations with 10 mentions, together with Excellent Movement Image, Excellent Directing in a Movement Image (Movie) for Kasi Lemmons, Excellent Actress in a Movement Image and Excellent Breakthrough Efficiency in Movement Image for Cynthia Erivo, and supporting nods for Leslie Odom, Jr., and Janelle Monae.

Jordan Peele’s Us, Eddie Murphy’s Dolemite Is My Title, and Melina Matsoukas’ Queen & Slim are among the many different large movies to be praised by officers on the Nationwide Affiliation for the Development of Coloured Individuals (NAACP).

In TV, black-ish, Pose, and This Is Us all scored nods, as did Regina King’s Watchmen and Bassett’s 9-1-1.

The winners of the NAACP Picture Awards can be unveiled at a ceremony in Pasadena, California on 22 February (20).