NAACP Announces Nominees The 42nd Annual Image Awards (Motion Picture)*

Writing and Directing

Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series

Aaron McGruder "The Boondocks" - The Fund-RaiserCartoon Network

Daniel Chun "The Office" - Nepotism NBC

Kenny Smith "Pair of Kings" - Where the Wild Kings Are Disney XD

Myra J. "Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns" - Meet the Racist TBS

Vali Chandrasekaran "30 Rock" - Khonani NBC

Outstanding Writing in a Dramatic Series

Alexander Woo "True Blood" - It Hurts Me Too HBO

Janine Sherman Barrois "Criminal Minds" - Rememberance of Things Past CBS

Judith McCreary "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" - Disabled NBC

Leyani Diaz, Venessa Rojas "The Event" - Loyalty NBC

Shonda Rhimes "Private Practice" - Did You Hear What Happened to Charlotte King? ABC

Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture (Theatrical or Television)

Cheryl Edwards, Marko King, Mary King, Jonathan Watters, Joe Shrapnel, Anna Waterhouse

"Frankie & Alice" Freestyle Releasing

Michael C. Martin "Brooklyn's Finest" Overture Films

Michael Elliot "Just Wright" Fox Searchlight Pictures

Rodrigo Garcia "Mother and Child" Sony Pictures Classics

Tyler Perry "Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too?" Lionsgate

Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series

Joe Morton "Eureka" - Stoned Syfy

Justin Lin "Community" - Modern Warfare NBC

Ken Whittingham "30 Rock" - Anna Howard Shaw Day NBC

Kevin Rodney Sullivan "Modern Family" - Game Changer ABC

Michael Schultz "Chuck" - Chuck vs. "The Couch Lock" NBC

Outstanding Directing in a Dramatic Series

Felix Alcala "Southland" - What Makes Sammy Run TNT

Millicent Shelton "Men of a Certain Age" - Go with the Flow TNT

Paris Barclay "In Treatment" - Sunil: Week 6 HBO

Seith Mann "Friday Night Lights" - Injury List DirecTV/NBC

Stephen L. Williams "Undercovers" - Instructions NBC

Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture (Theatrical or Television)

Geoffrey Sax "Frankie & Alice" Freestyle Releasing

George Tillman, Jr. "Faster" CBS Films

Tanya Hamilton "Night Catches Us" Magnolia Pictures

The Hughes Brothers "The Book of Eli" Warner Bros. Pictures

Tyler Perry "For Colored Girls" Lionsgate/34th Street Films

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