Image Award 1996

The 1996 Image Award was presented for the 27th time by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in early 1996 .

Film winners and nominees

Best movie

Waiting for Mr. Right

• Crimson Tide - In deepest danger
• Cry, the Beloved Country
• Devil in blue
• Othello

Best Actor

Denzel Washington - Crimson Tide - In deepest danger

• James Earl Jones - Cry, the Beloved Country
• Laurence Fishburne - Othello
• Morgan Freeman - Seven
• Gregory Hines - Waiting for Mr. Right

Best main actress

Angela Bassett - Waiting for Mr. Right

• Whoopi Goldberg - coffee, milk and sugar
• Jennifer Beals - Devil in Blue
• Halle Berry - The other mother
• Whitney Houston - Waiting for Mr. Right

Best supporting actor

Laurence Fishburne - Higher Learning - The Rebels

• Charles S. Dutton - Cry, the Beloved Country
• Don Cheadle - Devil in Blue
• Ice Cube - Higher Learning - The Rebels
• Cuba Gooding junior - Outbreak - Silent Killer

The best supporting actress

Loretta Devine - Waiting for Mr. Right

• Regina Taylor - Clockers
• Alfre Woodard - An American quilt
• Maya Angelou - An American quilt
• Lela Rochon - Waiting for Mr. Right

Television winners and nominees

Best series - comedy

Living single

• A terribly nice house
• Martin
• Sister, Sister
• The Prince of Bel-Air

Best Actor in a Series - Comedy

Martin Lawrence - Martin

• Jaleel White - all under one roof
• LL Cool J - An awfully nice house
• John Henton - Living Single
• Will Smith - The Prince of Bel-Air

Best Actress in a Series - Comedy

Erika Alexander - Living Single

• Kim Coles - Living Single
• Kim Fields - Living Single
• Queen Latifah - Living Single
• Tisha Campbell-Martin - Martin

Best Supporting Actor in a Series - Comedy

Alfonso Ribeiro - The Prince of Bel-Air

• John Amos - A terribly nice house
• Thomas Mikal Ford - Martin
• Carl Anthony Payne - Martin
• Daryl Mitchell - The John Larroquette Show

Best Supporting Actress in a Series - Comedy

Tichina Arnold - Martin

• Eartha Kitt - Living Single
• Marla Gibbs - Martin
• Nia Long - The Prince of Bel-Air
• Daphne Reid - The Prince of Bel-Air

Best series - drama

New York undercover

• Chicago Hope - end of the line hope
• Emergency Room - The emergency room
• Homicide
• Under one roof

Best Actor in a Series - Drama

Malik Yoba - New York Undercover

• Eriq La Salle - Emergency Room - The emergency room
• Andre Braugher - Homicide
• Yaphet Kotto - Homicide
• Avery Brooks - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Best Actress in a Series - Drama

Della Reese - A touch of heaven

• Cree Summer - Sweet Justice
• Cicely Tyson - Sweet Justice
• Victoria Rowell - Diagnosis: Murder
• Vanessa Bell Calloway - Under One Roof

Best Supporting Actor in a Series - Drama

Ice-T - New York Undercover

• Richard Pryor - Chicago Hope - Hope terminus
• Bill Nunn - New York Undercover
• Ossie Davis - The Client
• Malcolm-Jamal Warner - A touch of heaven

Best Supporting Actress in a Series - Drama

Fatima Faloye - New York Undercover

• CCH Pounder - Emergency Room - The emergency room
• Gloria Reuben - Emergency Room - The emergency room
• Jasmine Guy - Melrose Place
• Vanessa A. Williams - Murder One

Best TV movie or mini-series

The honor of flying

• Children of the Dust
• Divas
• The piano lesson
• Tyson

Best Actor - TV Movie / Miniseries

Laurence Fishburne - The Honor to Fly

• Sidney Poitier - Children of the Dust
• Charles S. Dutton - The Piano Lesson
• Andre Braugher - The honor to fly
• Cuba Gooding junior - The honor to fly

Best Actress - TV Movie / Miniseries

Alfre Woodard - The Piano Lesson

• Vanessa Lynn Williams - Bye Bye Birdie
• Regina Taylor - Children of the Dust
• Halle Berry - Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
• CCH Pounder - Zooman

Best Actor - Soap Opera

Kristoff St. John - Shadow of Passion

• Keith Hamilton Cobb - All My Children
• Darnell Williams - The City
• Shemar Moore - Shadow of Passion
• Adam Lazarre-White - Shadow of Passion

Best Actress - Soap Opera

Victoria Rowell - Shadow of Passion

• Kelli Taylor - All My Children
• Rosalind Cash - General Hospital
• Debbi Morgan - The City
• Tonya Lee Williams - Shadow of Passion