Awarded by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Image Awards started in 1962.

Muppet-related nominations and wins

1996

• Sesame Street, "Outstanding Educational/Informational Youth or Children's Series/Special"

1998

• "Two of the Greatest African-Americans I Know - My Grandparents", Sesame Street, "Outstanding Youth or Children's Series/Special"

1999 Savion Glover presented an award that year, and 2001.[1]

• Sesame Street, "Outstanding Youth or Children's Series/Special"

2000

• Kevin Clash, Sesame Street, nominated for "Outstanding Performance in a Youth or Children's Series/Special"

2002

• Sesame Street, "Outstanding Youth or Children's Series/Special"
• The Alvin Ailey Dancers, Sesame Street, nominated for "Outstanding Performance in a Youth or Children's Series/Special"
• B.B. King, Sesame Street

2006

• Kevin Clash, Sesame Street, nominated for "Outstanding Performance in a Youth or Children's Series/Special" for Sesame Street

Connections

Hosts

• 1980: James Earl Jones and Louis Gossett Jr.
• 1997: Arsenio Hall and Patti LaBelle
• 1998: Vanessa Williams and Gregory Hines
• 1999: Blair Underwood and Mariah Carey
• 2000: Diana Ross
• 2006: Cuba Gooding Jr.

Nominees and winners

• Ruby Dee in 2008, for American Gangster
• Alicia Keys in 2002, for her performance on MTV Video Music Awards 2001

1970s through 1990s

• Tatyana Ali, 1996 win for The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
• Debbie Allen, 1995 win for choreography in the The 65th Annual Academy Awards
• Maya Angelou, 1996 nomination for How to Make an American Quilt
• Halle Berry, 1995 win for Queen; 1996 nomination for Losing Isaiah; 1996 nomination for Solomon & Sheba
• LeVar Burton, 1995 win for Reading Rainbow; 1996 win for "LeVar Burton Presents - A Reading Rainbow Special: Act Against Violence"
• Roscoe Lee Browne, 1988 win for The Cosby Show
• Rosalind Cash, 1982 nomination for Wrong Is Right
• Bill Cosby, 1993 win for The Cosby Show
• Ossie Davis, 1991 win for Do the Right Thing; 1996 nomination for The Client
• Ruby Dee, 1991 win for Do the Right Thing
• Morgan Freeman, 1991 win for Lean on Me; 1992 win for Driving Miss Daisy; 1996 nomination for Se7en
• Danny Glover, 1989 for Lethal Weapon; 1990 win for Mandela; 1995 win for Queen; 1996 nomination for Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child episode "The Frog Prince"
• Whoopi Goldberg, 1988 win for The Color Purple; 1990 win for Fatal Beauty; 1992 win for Ghost; 1992 Entertainer of the Year; 1993 win for The Long Walk Home; 1994 win for Sister Act; 1996 nomination for Boys on the Side; 1996 nomination for Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child episode "Rapunzel"
• Cuba Gooding, Jr., 1996 nomination for Outbreak; 1996 nomination for The Tuskegee Airmen
• Arsenio Hall, 1990 win for Coming to America; 1995 win for The Arsenio Hall Show
• Kadeem Hardison, 1991 win for A Different World; 1992 win for A Different World; 2007 win for Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story
• Sherman Hemsley, 1982 win for The Jeffersons
• Gregory Hines, 1988 win for Running Scared; 1996 nomination for Waiting to Exhale
• Ice-T, 1996 win for New York Undercover; 2002 win for Law and Order: Special Victims Unit; 2004 nomination for Law and Order: SVU; 2006 nomination for Law and Order: SVU
• Jesse Jackson, 1996 nomination for Both Sides with Jesse Jackson episode "The Million Man March"
• Michael Jackson, 1994 Entertainer of the Year
• James Earl Jones, 1996 nomination for Cry, the Beloved Country; 1996 nomination for Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child episode "The Little Valiant Tailor"
• Patti LaBelle, 1987 Entertainer of the Year; 1993 Entertainer of the Year
• Queen Latifah, 1996 nomination for Living Single
• Wynton Marsalis, 1996 nomination for Marsalis on Music
• Eddie Murphy, 1990 Entertainer of the Year
• Keshia Knight Pulliam, 1988 win for The Cosby Show
• Richard Pryor, 1996 nomination for Chicago Hope; 1996 Lifetime Achievement Award
• Raven, 1996 nomination for Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
• Alfonso Ribeiro, 1996 win for Fresh Prince of Bel Air
• Cree Summer, 1996 nomination for Sweet Justice
• Lynne Thigpen, 1996 nomination for Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?
• Tina Turner, 1985 win for Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome,
• Blair Underwood, 1992 win for Murder in Mississippi; 1995 win for L.A. Law
• Malcolm-Jamal Warner, 1996 nomination for Touched by an Angel
• Dionne Warwick, 1988 Entertainer of the Year
• Denzel Washington, 1988 win for Power; 1992 win for Glory; 1994 win for Mississippi Masala; 1995 win for Malcolm X; 1996 win for Crimson Tide; 1996 win for Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child episode "Rumpelstiltskin"
• Vanessa Williams, 1996 nomination for Murder One; 1996 nomination for Bye Bye Birdie
• Oprah Winfrey, 1991 Entertainer of the Year; 1995 win for The Oprah Winfrey Show; 1996 nomination for Oprah Hangs at Q's Jook Joint; 1996 win for The Oprah Winfrey Show episode "Black For A Day"
• Alfre Woodard, 1989 win for Unnatural Causes; 1990 win for Mandela; 1992 win for A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story; 1996 nomination for How to Make an American Quilt; 1996 win for The Piano Lesson

2006

• Ashanti, for Coach Carter
• Donald Faison, for Scrubs
• Samuel L. Jackson, for Coach Carter
• Queen Latifah, for Beauty Shop
• Holly Robinson Peete, for Love, Inc.
• Kyla Pratt, for The Proud Family Movie
• Raven, for That's So Raven
• Tyler James Williams, for Everybody Hates Chris

2007

• Harry Belafonte, for Bobby
• Bill Cosby, entering their Hall of Fame
• Donald Faison, for Scrubs
• Jamie Foxx, for Dreamgirls
• Danny Glover, for Dreamgirls
• Whoopi Goldberg, for Everybody Hates Chris
• Jennifer Hudson, for Dreamgirls
• Beyoncé Knowles, for Dreamgirls
• Eddie Murphy, for Dreamgirls
• Raven, for That's So Raven
• Denzel Washington, for Inside Man
• Isaiah Washington, for Grey's Anatomy
• Tyler James Williams, for Everybody Hates Chris
• Vanessa Williams, for Ugly Betty'

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