NAACP announces film nominations

Beasts of No Nation, Concussion, Creed, Dope and Straight Outta Compton were nominated Tuesday morning for the NAACP Image Award for outstanding motion picture of 2015.

Nominated for the lead actor in a motion picture category are Abraham Attah for Beasts of No Nation, Chiwetel Ejiofor for Secret in Their Eyes, Michael B. Jordan for Creed, Michael Ealy for The Perfect Guy and Will Smith for Concussion.

Nominees in the lead actress in a motion picture category are Lauren (Keke) Palmer for Brotherly Love, Sanaa Lathan for The Perfect Guy, Teyonah Parris for Chi-Raq, Viola Davis for Lila and Eve and Zoe Saldana for Infinitely Polar Bear.

Nominated in the directing catego- ry are Alfonso Gomez-Rejon for Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Charles Stone III for Lila and Eve, F. Gary Gray for Straight Outta Compton, Rick Famuyiwa for Dope and Ryan Coogler for Creed.

Nominees for supporting actor are Ejiofor for The Martian, Corey Hawkins for Straight Outta Compton, Forest Whitaker for Southpaw, Idris Elba for Beasts of No Nation and O’Shea Jackson Jr. for Straight Outta Compton. Los Angeles Times