The 41st NAACP Image Awards were announced on January 6th at a press conference at the SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills.

Over 1,200 entries were received this year. From those entries, a special committee of 300 industry professionals and NAACP leaders from across the country selected five nominees in each of the 53 categories.

So lets see which Caribbean talents made the list

TELEVISION CATEGORIES

Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series
Daryl “Chill” Mitchell – “Brothers” (FOX)
Donald Faison – “Scrubs” (NBC)
Dulé Hill – “Psych” (USA Network) ---JAMAICA
LaVan Davis – “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne” (TBS)
Tyler James Williams – “Everybody Hates Chris” (CW)

Dule Hill from "Psych"

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Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Corey Reynolds – “The Closer” (TNT)
Delroy Lindo – “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” (NBC)---JAMAICA
James Pickens, Jr. – “Grey’s Anatomy” (ABC)
Mekhi Phifer – “Lie To Me” (FOX)
Rocky Carroll – “NCIS” (CBS)

Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special
Aunjanue Ellis – “Gifted Hands” (TNT)
Cicely Tyson – “Relative Stranger” (Hallmark)---ST. KITTS NEVIS
Kimberly Elise – “Gifted Hands” (TNT)
Rosie O’Donnell – “America” (Lifetime)
Ruby Dee – “America” (Lifetime)

Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series
Daphne Duplaix – “One Life to Live” (ABC)
Debbi Morgan – “All My Children” (ABC)
Eva Marcelle – “The Young and the Restless” (CBS)
Tatyana Ali – “The Young and The Restless” (CBS)---PANAMA/TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
Tonya Lee Williams – “The Young and the Restless” (CBS)---JAMAICA

RECORDING CATEGORIES

Outstanding New Artist
Jeremih (Def Jam)
Keri Hilson (Mosley Music Group/Zone 4 Inc/Interscope Records)
K’Jon (Universal Republic Records)
Kristinia DeBarge (Def Jam)
Melanie Fiona (SRC/Universal/Motown)---GUYANA

Outstanding Male Artist
Anthony Hamilton (SoSo Def/Jive Records)
Charlie Wilson (Jive Label Group)
Jay-Z (Atlantic Records)
Maxwell (Columbia Records)---HAITI/PUERTO RICO
Ne-Yo (Def Jam)

Outstanding Female Artist
Alicia Keys (Columbia Records)---JAMAICA
India.Arie (Universal Republic Records)
Mary J. Blige (Matriarch/Geffen)
Rihanna (Def Jam)---BARBADOS
Whitney Houston (Artista Records)

Rihanna who is nominated for Outstanding Female Artist

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Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration
3 Mo’ Divas (MariMo’ Music Inc.)
The Black Eyed Peas (Interscope Records)
Day26 (Bad Boy Records)
Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys (Atlantic Records)---JAMAICA
Jay-Z ft. Rihanna & Kanye West (Atlantic Records)---BARBADOS

Columbia Recording artist Maxwell

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Outstanding Music Video
“Blame It” – Jamie Foxx ft. T-Pain (J Records/MBK Entertainment)
“Boom Boom Pow” – The Black Eyed Peas (Interscope Records)
“I Look To You” – Whitney Houston (Arista)
“Pretty Wings” – Maxwell (Columbia Records)---HAITI/PUERTO RICO

“Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart” – Alicia Keys (J Records/MBK Entertainment)---JAMAICA

Outstanding Song
“Bad Habits” – Maxwell (Columbia Records)---HAITI PUERTO RICO
“Blame It” – Jamie Foxx ft. T-Pain (J Records/MBK Entertainment)
“Empire State of Mind” – Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys (Atlantic Records)---JAMAICA
“God In Me” – Mary Mary (Columbia Records)
“Pretty Wings” – Maxwell (Columbia Records)---HAITI/PUERTO RICO (YES TWICE IN THE SAME CATEGORY)

Outstanding Album
“The Blueprint 3” – Jay-Z (Atlantic Records)
“BLACKsummers’night” – Maxwell (Columbia Records)---HAITI/PUERTO RICO
“The Element of Freedom” – Alicia Keys (J Records/MBK Entertainment)---JAMAICA
“Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel” – Mariah Carey (Def Jam)
“Stronger With Each Tear” – Mary J. Blige (Matriarch/Geffen)

MOTION PICTURE CATEGORIES

Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
Denzel Washington – “The Taking of Pelham 123” (Columbia Pictures)
Idris Elba – “Obsessed” (Screen Gems)---JAMAICA
Jamie Foxx – “Law Abiding Citizen” (Overture Films)
Morgan Freeman – “Invictus” (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Quinton Aaron – “The Blind Side” (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
Adam Rodriguez – “Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself” (Lionsgate)---CUBA/PUERTO RICO
Anthony Mackie – “The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment) (He plays the role of a Rasta in the upcoming movie Babylon-Can't wait to see if he pulls off the accent)

Chiwetel Ejiofor – “2012” (Columbia Pictures)
Danny Glover – “2012” (Columbia Pictures)
Lenny Kravitz – “Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire” (Lionsgate)---THE BAHAMAS

Lenny Kravitz as Nurse John in the movie "Precious"
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Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Alfre Woodard – “American Violet” (Universal Pictures)
Mariah Carey – “Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire” (Lionsgate)
Mo’Nique – “Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire” (Lionsgate)
Paula Patton – “Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire” (Lionsgate)---JAMAICA
Zoe Saldana – “Avatar” (Paramount Pictures)---DOMINICAN REPUBLIC/PUERTO RICO




To see all the nominees click HERE.

The awards ceremony will air from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Friday Feb. 26th, at 8PM/7C on FOX.

The 2009 Bahamas International Film Festival runs from December 10th -17th and will open with the movie Children of God

Set against the backdrop of a nation grappling with violent homophobia, this film tells the story of Jon, a white Bahamian artist who faces losing his scholarship at a local University and Lena a conservative religious woman who is struggling with a crumbling marriage. Both escape city life in Nassau to the island of Eleuthera, where their worlds collide.

Directed by: Kareem Mortimer,
Produced by: Trevite Willis, Richard Lemay, Jay Gotlieb
Starring: Van Brown, Johnny Ferro Mark Ford, Margaret Kemp, Stephen Tyrone
Movie website: http://www.childrenofgodthemovie.com/

**Sidenote** Mortimer also had a film called FLOAT which won the audience award at the 2006 BIFF and is now being aired on a Viacom/MTV run station called Logo. It is up for Best Romance film of this season on the channels website so vote for them at
http://www.logoonline.com/shows/events/short_films/top_ranked.jhtml


And closing off the festival will be PRECIOUS

Introducing Gabourey Sidibe who stars in the movie

Winner of three awards at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, including the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition, Lee Daniels’s PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL “PUSH” BY SAPPHIRE is a vibrant, honest and resoundingly hopeful film about the human capacity to grow and overcome. Set in Harlem in 1987, it is the story of Claireece “Precious” Jones (Gabourey Sidibe), a sixteen-year-old African-American girl born into a life no one would want. She’s pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother (Mo’Nique), a poisonously angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is a place of chaos, and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and an awful secret: she can neither read nor write. Precious may sometimes be down, but she is never out. Beneath her impassive expression is a watchful, curious young woman with an inchoate but unshakeable sense that other possibilities exist for her. Threatened with expulsion, Precious is offered the chance to transfer to an alternative school, Each One/Teach One. Precious doesn’t know the meaning of “alternative,” but her instincts tell her this is the chance she has been waiting for. In the literacy workshop taught by the patient yet firm Ms. Rain (Paula Patton), Precious begins a journey that will lead her from darkness, pain and powerlessness to light, love and self determination.

Lionsgate in association with Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry present A Lee Daniels Entertainment / Smokewood Entertainment Group Production of PRECIOUS: BASEDON THE NOVEL ‘PUSH’ BY SAPPHIRE.
Starring:Mo’Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd, Lenny Kravitz and introducing Gabourey Sidibe,
Directed by: Lee Daniels
Written by: Geoffrey Fletcher
Movie Website: http://www.weareallprecious.com/

Lee Daniels and Cast Members in attendance.

FOR TICKETS PLEASE CALL 356-5939 or
Visit BIFF Box office NOVEMBER 17TH At the Bahamas International Film Festival Box Office4th Terrace East Collins Ave, Building 101st Floor.


Look out also for the movie Bottleworld!

'Bottleworld' is a comedy that revolves around a liquor store of the same name and is the story of Wilson, a new employee at Bottleworld, who enters a seemingly utopian environment and is welcomed by his co-workers and the store manager, Murray.
Wilson falls in love with Murray's daughter Chrissy and couldn't be happier with his new life. But when he overhears an employee plan to terrorize the store on a holiday, he warns Chrissy and Murray who downplay the threat but can't convince Wilson to do the same.
As holidays pass without incident, Wilson's priorities begin to appear misplaced but protecting the store is the challenge Wilson thinks he must meet if he's going preserve the comfortable life he has found in Bottleworld.

Directed by: Alexander Smith
Written by: Alexander Smith
Produced by: Nathaniel Kohn, Pamela Kohn
Starring: Anna Camp, Christopher Denham, Mya Harrison, Josh Caras, Lauren Karl, Peter Appel, Ptolemy Slocum, Scott Wilson, Shane McRae
Movie website: http://bottleworldmovie.com/index.html

The Queen of Comedy got her space in the growing talk-show industry when The Mo'Nique Show, premiered on October 5 at 11pm, as part of BET's new fall lineup. On Tuesday Nov,. 10th The Grammy-award winning, Billboard Chart topping, platinum selling dancehall superstar Sean Paul will be a guest and will also be performing on the show.

PHOTO CREDIT: GERRARD NEEDHAM

Also on the show is Bahamian-American Lenny Kravitz.

Two sexy Caribbean men! Wow! Mo'Nique should be in heaven!!!

Monique Show Official Website

More stars out and about:

Rihanna channels her inner Ertha Kitt in this Derek Lam number.
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Well she's back on US soil, hopefully with beefed up security. Here is Leona Lewis at Herve Leger event in California.
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Actor/musician/photographer Lenny Kravitz doing some promo in Madrid Spain
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Former First Lady of Turks and Caicos,Lisa Raye supporting her friend Wendy Raquel Robinson, who runs an after-school arts program in LA
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Etana and DJ Halo Boy of Kairi FM Dominica right before her performance at Mayfest '09



Here's Barbee at the IRAWMA on Sunday night May 3rd.
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Lenny Kravitz covers this months Vogue Russia (along with model Carmen Kass (but who's really looking at her, no offence) ...

He shows of his photography skills in the mag. See below. For more pics click HERE




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