NAMIC Announces Nominees for the 2022 Vision Awards
Now in its 28th year, NAMIC’s annual Vision Awards honors programming that reflects the lives, spirit, and contributions of people of color that mirror the diverse composition of the viewing audience.
Each year, submissions for the Vision Awards are reviewed by an esteemed panel of judges comprised of media and entertainment industry executives. Broadcast and cable networks, cable operators, and syndicators of this content were eligible to apply. Video on Demand content produced by cable and/or broadcast companies for web or mobile digital platforms were also eligible.
Today, NAMIC announced its 2022 nominees, with winners to be announced live on April 27, 2022 during the Walter Kaitz Foundation Hollywood Creative Forum at the London Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
Nominees are:
Animation
- Craig of the Creek – Cartoon Network
- How CeCé Telfer and Trans Athletes Are Fighting Anti-Trans Legislation in Sports – Bleacher Report
- Molly of Denali – GBH Kids | PBS KIDS
- Star Trek: Lower Decks – Paramount+
- Ultra City Smiths – AMC+
Best Performance – Comedy
- Andrea Bordeaux: Run the World - STARZ
- Issa Rae: Insecure – HBO/HBO Max
- Jasmine Cephas Jones: Blindspotting – STARZ
- Kendrick Sampson: Insecure – HBO/HBO Max
- Tracy Morgan: The Last O.G. – TBS
Best Performance – Drama
- Aldis Hodge: City on a Hill – SHOWTIME
- Danielle Brooks: Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia – Lifetime
- Mike Colter: Evil – Paramount+
- Uzo Aduba: In Treatment – HBO/HBO Max
- Zendaya: Euphoria – HBO/HBO Max
Children’s
- Mira, Royal Detective – Disney Junior
- Molly of Denali – GBH Kids | PBS KIDS
- See Us Coming Together: A Sesame Street Special – Sesame Workshop
- Spin – Disney Channel
- Through Our Eyes – HBO/HBO Max
Comedy
- Bob Hearts Abishola – Warner Bros. Television | CBS
- Insecure – HBO/HBO Max
- Love, Victor – Hulu
- The Last O.G. – TBS
- United States of AI – Warner Bros. Television | CBS
Digital Media – Long Form
- Afro-Latinx Revolution: Puerto Rico – TheGrio
- Black History Always Special: Sole Survivor – ESPN
- Equality, Identity & Hope: America’s Indigenous Peoples – Comcast
- Equality, Identity & Hope: The Asian American Experience – Comcast
- Genocide in the Heartland – TheGrio
Digital Media – Short Form
- Black History Always Special: A Love Letter to Black Women – ESPN
- Running As Equals – CNN
- This 15-Year Old Was the Original Rosa Parks – CNN
- Transnational: Love Us in the Light – VICE News
- Voices of the Civil Rights Movement – Elaine Brown: Creating the Conditions for Revolutionary Change – Comcast NBCUniversal
Documentary
- Breakaway – ESPN
- Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street – CNN
- Exterminate All the Brutes – HBO/HBO Max
- Homeroom – Hulu
- The People v. The Klan – CNN
Drama
- In Treatment – HBO/HBO Max
- It’s a Sin – HBO/HBO Max
- Power Book II: Ghost – STARZ
- The Chi – SHOWTIME
- Wild Indian – Vertical Entertainment
Foreign Language
- Greenland “New York” – ESPN
- In Her Shoes: Alexa Moreno – ESPN
- Somos Afro-Latinos – ESPN
Lifestyle
- Chef Boot Camp – Food Network
- Counter Space – VICE News
- Delicious Miss Brown – Food Network
- Luda Can’t Cook – Discovery+
- Somos Latinas – ESPN
News/Informational
- Cancer Alley – VICE News
- Comcast Newsmakers – Christopher Wilson: The Origins of Juneteenth: Celebrating Black Freedom and Achievement – Comcast
- Comcast Newsmakers – Dr. James Zogby: The Arab American Experience – Comcast
- Taste the Nation Holiday Edition – Hulu
- VICE News’s Black Lives Matter: A Global Reckoning – VICE News
Original Movie or Special
- List of a Lifetime - Lifetime
- Plan B – Hulu
- Ricky Velez – Here’s Everything – HBO/HBO Max
- Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia – Lifetime
- The MisEducation of Bindu – Fuse
Reality
- Home Sweet Home – Warner Bros. TV | NBC/Peacock
- Made From Scratch - Fuse
- Reno My Rental – Discovery+
- Two Steps Home – HGTV
- We’re Here – HBO/HBO Max
Reality – Social Issues
- Darren Waller: Gratitude – ESPN
- Sneakin’ In with Druski - REVOLT
- Through Our Eyes – HBO/HBO Max
Sports
- A Love Story – ESPN
- Biography: Booker T – A&E
- Bubba Wallace: Fistful of Steel – ESPN
- Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel – HBO/HBO Max
- TIGER – HBO/HBO Max
Variety/Talk Show
- A Black Lady Sketch Show – HBO/HBO Max
- Aida Rodriguez: Fighting Words – HBO/HBO Max
- Bottomless Brunch at Colman’s – AMC Networks
- PAUSE with Sam Jay – HBO/HBO Max
- That Damn Michael Che – HBO/HBO Max
For more information on the 2022 Vision Awards, please contact Sandra Girado at Sandra.Girado@namic.com.
