The first winners of the 57th annual NAACP Image Awards have been announced, with Kendrick Lamar and former First Lady Michelle Obama among the victorious.
Obama won for outstanding literary work – biography/ autobiography for The Look, while K. Dot's Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show took home the award for outstanding short-form series or special -reality/nonfiction/documentary.
Other winners include Octavia Butler, whose book Parable of the Talents: A Graphic Novel Adaptation won outstanding literary work - graphic novel, and Keith Lee, this year's outstanding digital content creator - fitness/wellness/food.
The full list of the first round of winners, unveiled during night one of a three-night virtual show, can be found below. The 57th NAACP Image Awards will air live on Saturday at 8 p.m. ET/PT on BET and CBS.
Outstanding literary work – biography/ autobiography
The Look - Michelle Obama (Crown)
Outstanding literary work – non-fiction
A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm & Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics - Juanita Tolliver (Legacy Lit/Hachette Book Group)
Outstanding literary work – instructional
Who Better Than You?- Will Packer (Penguin Random House)
Outstanding literary work - journalism
On Borrowed Time - Anissa Durham (Online)
Outstanding literary work – debut author
Charles B. Fancher - Red Clay (Blackstone Publishing)
Outstanding literary work – fiction
Death of the Author - Nnedi Okorafor (William Morrow)
Outstanding literary work – poetry
The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems - Patricia Smith (Scribner)
Outstanding literary work – children
Yvonne Clark and Her Engineering Spark - Allen R. Wells; Illustrated by DeAndra Hodge (Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers/Macmillan)
Outstanding literary work – youth/teens
Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Book of Anansi - Angie Thomas (HarperCollins/Clarion Books)
Outstanding literary work - graphic vovel
Parable of the Talents: A Graphic Novel Adaptation - Octavia E. Butler, adapted by Damien Duffy, Illustrated by John Jennings and David Brame (Abrams ComicArts)
Outstanding short-form series or special - reality/nonfiction/documentary
The Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show Starring Kendrick Lamar - (FOX)
Outstanding digital content creator - gaming/tech
Berlin Edmond Jr. - @Berleezy
Outstanding digital content creator - fitness/wellness/food
Keith Lee - @keith_lee125
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