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22nd annual NAMIC Vision Awards celebrates the best in original and digital programming content depicting the lives, spirit and contributions of people of color and best reflecting the ethnic and cultural diversity of television viewers.
This year’s winners comprise content from 14 different networks or studios across 18 categories, with OWN, HBO, National Geographic Channel and BET Networks garnering multiple awards. Winning programs will be showcased in an online event, “The 2016 NAMIC Vision Awards Winners Gallery,” which will feature 60-second clips of the winning entries in all 18 categories. To visit it, click through at multichannel.com/May2.
The complete list of NAMIC Vision Awards winners is as follows:
Animation
Doc McStuffins
Disney Junior
Awards & Honors
Oprah Winfrey Presents: Legends Who Paved the Way
OWN
Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards
OWN
Best Performance — Comedy
Danía Ramirez, Devious Maids
Lifetime
Best Performance — Drama
Queen Latifah, Bessie
HBO
Omari Hardwick, Power
Starz
Children’s
Talia in the Kitchen
Nickelodeon
Comedy
Master of None
Universal Television
Daytime
Super Soul Sunday
OWN
Digital Media — Short Form
Wise Words with DJ Khaled
Music Choice
Documentary
Breakthrough: “Water Apocalypse”
National Geographic Channel
Fault Lines: Baltimore Rising
Al Jazeera America
Drama
Being Mary Jane
BET
Foreign Language
Mexicánicos
Discovery Networks Latin America
Lifestyle
Rev Run’s Sunday Suppers
Cooking Channel
News/Informational
Katrina 10 Years Later: Through Hell and High Water
BET
Katrina: 10 Years After the Storm with Robin Roberts
ABC News and Rock’n Robin Productions
Original Movie or Special
Saints & Strangers
National Geographic Channel
Book of Negroes
BET
Reality
SC Featured: Life on the Streets
ESPN
Reality — Social Issues
Vice Special Report: Fixing the System
HBO
This Is Life with Lisa Ling
CNN
Sports
Mayweather/Pacquiao: At Last
HBO
Variety/Talk Show
Oprah Prime
OWN
