NAACP Image Awards Announces Nominations

Kanye West, Alicia Keys and Mariah Carey earned four nominations each, including best song and album. Terrence Howard had two acting nominations for "Hustle & Flow" and "Crash."

"Crash," led movies with six nominations, including best picture and four of the five supporting-actor slots: Terrence, Ludacris, Don Cheadle and Larenz Tate.

Thandie Newton earned a supporting-actress nomination for "Crash."

Other best-picture nominees were "Coach Carter," "Diary of a Mad Black Woman" and "Hitch."

Best-album nominees included "Alicia Keys Unplugged", "The Emancipation of Mimi" and "Late Registration". All three had best-song nominations, Alicia Keys for "Unbreakable," Mariah Carey for "We Belong Together" and Kanye West for "Diamonds From Sierra Leone."

Kimberly Elise had two nominations, for best movie actress "Diary of a Mad Black Woman" and actress in a TV drama "Close to Home".

Other television nominees included Halle Berry for best actress in a movie, miniseries or dramatic special in "Their Eyes Were Watching God", Dennis Haysbert for "24", and "The Bernie Mac Show" and "Everybody Hates Chris" for best comedy series.

The 37th annual Image Awards, will be presented Feb. 25 in Los Angeles, and air on Fox, March 3.