NAACP Image Awards 2023: List of winners
Rachel Acosta
Updated on December 30, 2025
NAACP represents Public Relationship for the Progression of Minorities Individuals. Starting around 1967, the honor service held by the affiliation has held significant eminence in regarding the best exhibitions by ethnic minorities in film, TV, theater, music, and writing.
The most recent version of the NAACP Picture Grants 2023, was held in Pasadena, California. The service was facilitated by rapper, entertainer, and artist Sovereign Latifah. Selections were reported on January 12, 2023, with the film Dark Puma: Wakanda Always driving with twelve assignments, trailed by Abbott Rudimentary, which drove the television classifications with nine designations.
In the mean time, Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar were additionally named in a few classifications at the current year’s NAACP Picture Grants.
NAACP Picture Grants 2023: Minorities celebrated at the renowned service
Extremist of the Year: Dr. Derrick Lee Foward
Director’s Honor: Representative Bennie G. Thompson
Jackie Robinson Sports Grant: Serena Williams
President’s Honor: Dwyane Swim and Gabrielle Association Swim
Civil rights Effect Grant: Lawyer Ben Crump
Vanguard Grant: Bethann Hardison
Youth Extremist of the Year: Bradley Ross Jackson
Performer of the Year: Angela Bassett Exceptional Movie – Dark Puma: Wakanda Perpetually (Wonder Studios)
Exceptional Entertainer in a Movie – Will Smith for Liberation (Apple)
Exceptional Entertainer in a Movie – Viola Davis for The Lady Ruler (Sony Pictures Delivering)
Exceptional Supporting Entertainer in a Movie – Tenoch Huerta for Dark Jaguar: Wakanda Perpetually (Wonder Studios)
Exceptional Supporting Entertainer in a Movie – Angela Bassett for Dark Jaguar: Wakanda Perpetually (Wonder Studios)
Exceptional Free Movie – The Investigation (A24)
Exceptional Global Movie – Bantú Mom (Cluster)
Exceptional TV Film, Restricted Series or Emotional Extraordinary – The Best Man: The Last Parts (Peacock)
Exceptional Satire Series – Abbott Rudimentary (ABC)
Exceptional Entertainer in a Satire Series – Cedric The Performer – The Area (CBS)
Exceptional Entertainer in a Satire Series – Quinta Brunson – Abbott Rudimentary (ABC)
Remarkable Supporting Entertainer in a Satire Series – Tyler James Williams – Abbott Rudimentary (ABC)
Exceptional Show Series – P-Valley (Starz)
Exceptional Entertainer in a Show Series – Nicco Annan – P-Valley (Starz)
Exceptional Entertainer in a Show Series – Angela Bassett – 9-1-1 (FOX)
Exceptional Supporting Entertainer in a Show Series – Precipice “Technique Man” Smith – Power Book II: Phantom (Starz)
Exceptional Supporting Entertainer in a Show Series – Loretta Devine – P-Valley (Starz)
Exceptional New Craftsman – Coco Jones – “ICU” (Def Jam Accounts)
Exceptional Male Craftsman – Chris Brown – Windy (Luxurious) (RCA Records/Chris Earthy colored Diversion)
Exceptional Female Craftsman – Beyoncé – Renaissance (Columbia Records/Parkwood Diversion)
The NAACP Picture Grants 2023 circulated on February 25, 2023, on BET and a few Vital Worldwide Organizations including Paramount+.