56th NAACP Image Awards

56th NAACP Image Awards
DateFebruary 22, 2025
SitePasadena Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, California
Hosted byDeon Cole
Official websiteNAACPImageAwards.net
Highlights
Best PictureThe Six Triple Eight
Best Drama SeriesCross
Best Musical or Comedy SeriesAbbott Elementary
Most nominationsThe Piano Lesson
  • 14 Nominations
Television coverage
NetworkBET
CBS
BET Her
MTV
MTV2
CMT
Comedy Central
Logo TV
Paramount Network
Smithsonian Channel
TV Land
VH1 (simulcast)

The 56th NAACP Image Awards, presented by the NAACP, honored outstanding representations and achievements of people of color in motion pictures, television, music, and literature during the 2024 calendar year. The ceremony aired on February 22, 2025, on BET and simulcasted on CBS. Untelevised Image Awards categories were livestreamed February 21 on the Image Awards website.

Submissions were received online from August 26 to November 8, 2024, and public online voting on the shortlisted nominations for performance categories ran from January 7 to February 7, 2025, on the Image Awards website.