55th NAACP Image Awards
The 55th NAACP Image Awards, presented by the NAACP, will honor outstanding representations and achievements of people of color in motion pictures, television, music, and literature during the 2023 calendar year. The ceremony will be hosted and aired on March 16, 2024 on BET and simulcast on CBS. Non–televised Image Awards categories will be livestreamed March 11–14th on the Image Awards website.
| 55th NAACP Image Awards | |
|---|---|
| Date | March 16, 2024 |
| Site | Pasadena Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, California |
| Hosted by | TBA |
| Official website | NAACPImageAwards.net |
| Television coverage | |
| Network | BET CBS(simulcast) |
Submissions were received online from July 31 to November 3, 2023, and public online voting on the shortlisted nominations for performance categories are set to run from January 25 to February 24, 2024 on the Image Awards website.
The nominations were announced on January 25, 2024 with the film The Color Purple and actor Colman Domingo leading the motion picture categories with 16 and 3 nominations, respectively, and Ayo Edebiri leading the nominations for television and streaming categories with two for Abbott Elementary and The Bear. In the recording categories, Victoria Monét and Usher led the nominations with six and five nominations, respectively. RCA Records collectively led the nominations in the recording categories with 20 nominations, while HarperCollins Publisher and Penguin Random House led the literary categories with seven and four nods, respectively.