Award Description
The NAMIC Vision Awards honor original programming content created for television and digital platforms that best reflects the increasingly diverse, multi-ethnic, and multicultural viewing audience.
- Submission of entries begins: November 13, 2023
- Submissions deadline: February 2, 2024
- Nominations announcement: April 2024
- Winners announcement: May 2024
Submissions for the 2024 NAMIC Vision Awards will be accepted beginning November 13, 2023.
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
The following requirements must be addressed for each program entered.
- Access. You can provide access credentials/information to access the entry online via your streaming service or you can upload your entry/entries in the following video file formats: .m4v, .mp4, .wmv, or .mov.
- Entry fee payment. Submissions that do not include payment will not be considered for judging.
- Fully completed online entry form. Be sure to list the entry exactly as you wish it to appear in promotional materials.
- Program description and running time (150-word limit).
- Network approved credit sheet/cast list.
- Submission contact, company programming contact, and company publicity contact.
Incomplete or late entries will not be judged. You will be notified if your entry is disqualified for any reason.
Those eligible to submit entries include:
- Broadcast Networks (National, Network-Owned and Operated, Affiliates)
- Cable Networks (National and Regional)
- Cable Operators (for local origination programming)
- Syndicators (First-Run Original Programs)
- VOD content for digital platforms – web or mobile
- Any production company, distributor, or syndicator (content must have aired/streamed on an eligible platform)
Programs must be original and have aired between November 1, 2022 and November 30, 2023.
The cost per entry is $375, which is payable by credit card or electronic payment via ACH. Submissions that do not include payment will not be considered for judging.
For ACH payment, address questions and requests for banking instructions to Amy Kemp, Programs Associate, at amy.kemp@namic.com.
Entry fees are not refundable.
Animation: daily, weekly, monthly, or special animated programming; could include programming geared to children as well as adults
Awards & Honors: special music or awards programming that salutes public service leaders and/or entertainment figures
Best Performance – Comedy: can be a series, special, or performance by an actor/actress in a lead, supporting or featured role in a series, special, or long-form program
Best Performance – Drama: can be a series, special, or performance by an actor/actress in a lead, supporting or featured role in a series, special, or long-form program
Children’s: daily, weekly, monthly, or special children’s programming
Comedy: daily, weekly, monthly, or special comedy programming
Digital Media – Short Form: (five minutes or less) can be of any genre; may also include interstitial content
Digital Media – Long Form: (30 minutes to one hour) can be of any genre
Documentary: can be a single fact-based program or series
Drama: daily, weekly, monthly, or special drama programming; could include soap operas
Foreign Language: daily, weekly, monthly, or special foreign language programming; could be of any genre (i.e., children’s, reality, sports, etc.); video must include English subtitles
Lifestyle: daily, weekly, monthly, or special lifestyle programming including cooking, decorating/design, fashion, fitness, etc.
News/Informational: daily, weekly, monthly, or special news programming
Original Movie or Special: a single program or mini-series of any genre (i.e., comedy, drama, etc.)
Reality: daily, weekly, monthly, or special reality programming primarily focused on entertainment
Reality – Social Issues: daily, weekly, monthly, or special reality programming primarily focused on social issues or concerns
Sports: daily, weekly, monthly, or special sports programming
Variety/Talk Show: can be a daily, weekly, monthly, or special variety talk/show; could include programming hosted by a single person, duo, or ensemble
NAMIC is pleased to announce the following nominees for the 2024 Vision Awards. Award winners will be announced in May.
Animation
- Firebuds: Bayani Cookout – Disney Junior
- Jessica’s Big Little World – Cartoon Network
- Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow – Disney+
- The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder: Juneteenth – Disney+
- Young Love – HBO | Max
Best Performance – Comedy
- Ashleigh Murray: The Other Black Girl – Hulu/Onyx
- Brittany Adebumola: The Other Black Girl – Hulu/Onyx
- Emeraude Toubia: With Love – Prime Video
- Justina Machado: The Horror of Dolores Roach – Prime Video
- Marque Richardson: UnPrisoned – Hulu/Onyx
Best Performance – Drama
- Forest Whitaker: Godfather of Harlem – MGM+
- John Leguizamo: The Power – Prime Video
- Mia Isaac: Black Cake – Hulu
- Michole Briana White: BMF – STARZ
- Russell Hornsby: BMF – STARZ
Children’s
- American Born Chinese: What Guy Are You – Disney+
- Monster High 2 – Nickelodeon
- Saturdays: Going For Gold! – Disney Channel
- Sesame Street – Max
- The Crossover: Huddle Up – Disney+
Comedy
- Abbott Elementary – ABC
- Bob Hearts Abishola – CBS
- Harlem – Prime Video
- The Wonder Years – ABC
- UnPrisoned – Hulu/Onyx
Digital Media – Short Form
- Brave Spaces – PBS
- Ritual – PBS
- Stories from the Stage: Living with Cancer – WORLD
- “Voices of the Civil Rights Movement” — Interview with Gwendolyn Harris Middlebrooks: “Power of Unity: The Atlanta Student Movement” – Comcast NBCUniversal
- Women of the Earth – PBS
Documentary
- 761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers – History
- Black + Iconic: Style Gods – BET
- Dear Mama – FX
- See it Loud: The History of Black Television – CNN Original Series and The SpringHill Company
- Sound of the Police – Hulu/ABC News Studios
Drama
- Found – NBC
- Grey’s Anatomy – ABC
- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Paramount+
- Swagger – Apple TV+
- The Rookie – ABC
Lifestyle
- Bargain Block – HGTV
- City Eats: Atlanta – aspireTV
- Married to Real Estate – HGTV
- Searching for Soul Food – Hulu/Onyx
- Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi – Hulu
News/Informational
- ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis – Shiloh: Our Inheritance is Washing Away – ABC News
- America in Black – BET
- “Going Home: The War in Sudan” from The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper – CNN Worldwide
- “Homebirth Journey: Saving Black Moms” from The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper – CNN Worldwide
- National Day of Racial Healing Town Halls – MSNBC, Telemundo
Original Movie or Special
- Black Girl Missing – Lifetime
- Lawmen: Bass Reeves – Paramount+
- Mary J. Blige’s Real Love – Lifetime
- Shooting Stars – Peacock
- Quiz Lady – 20th Century Studios / Hulu
Reality
- CritterFixers: Country Vets: Ready, Vet, Go! – Nat Geo WILD
- Doubling Down with the Derricos – TLC
- Project Greenlight – HBO | Max
- Bet on Black (Season 3) – REVOLT x Target
- The Parent Test – ABC
Reality – Social Issues
- Like A Girl – Fuse TV
- OWN Spotlight: Oprah, Courtney B. Vance & Dr. Robin – OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network
- RapCaviar Presents – Hulu
- The 1619 Project – Hulu
- Un Cafecito Sin Nervios – Vme Media Inc.
Sports
- E60 Mayra – ESPN
- Generations – NBC Sports
- In Her Shoes: Wang Shuang – ESPN/ESPN+
- SportsCenter: Bigger Than Us – ESPN
- SC Featured: The Lone Wolves – ESPN
Variety/Talk Show
- Hart to Heart – Peacock
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! – ABC
- OWN Spotlight: Oprah & Kerry Washington – OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network
- The View – ABC News
- Turning the Tables with Robin Roberts: Community – Disney+
NAMIC would like to acknowledge the 2024 Vision Award judges. Our sincerest thanks for their time, effort, thought, and objectivity.
- Portia Badham, BadWyn Communications
- Robert Baltazar, Comcast
- Jamie Balthazar, Ruby Red Inc.
- Josie Batsikas, A+E Networks
- Abigail Bazile, Urban One
- Vivian Bernett, TV One
- Dottie Bess, Comcast
- Fredonia Brown, Comcast
- Kyle Brown, Comcast
- Chelsye Burrows, 22 West PR
- Khary Campbell, Comcast
- Joe Castagnino, Comcast
- Sean Charles, AMC
- Jessica Cofield, Comcast
- Marcus Cook, TV One
- Brandy Crawford-Uriu, A+E Networks
- Jacqueline Cruz, A+E Networks
- Natalia Desrosiers, NBCUniversal
- Cheryl Dorsey
- Kim Ford, BRND Marketing Group
- Felix Garcia, Comcast
- Stephanie Gayden, WBD
- Shelia Gilmore, Gilmore Group
- Nicole Granston, Sunshine Enterprise Consulting LLC
- Djuan Green, Comcast
- Chantell Greene, WBD
- Terri Heard, Comcast
- Nina Henderson Moore, Griot Productions
- Jacqueline Hernandez, Majority Ready
- Lindsay Hinkle, Comcast
- Shana Hooks, TV One
- TJ Jackson, Comcast
- Amarilis Johnson, Comcast
- Timika Johnson, Comcast
- Carl Jones Jr, Comcast
- Ariel Joseph, Paramount
- Brian Kamelhar, Comcast
- Margaret (Peggy) Kim, iSTAND TV
- Annamaria Kolar, Comcast
- Maria Medina, Comcast
- Jeff Meza, Urban One
- Erin Monroe, Cox
- Alex Mosley, Paramount
- Julie Nebres, Comcast
- Wanita Niehaus, PowerHaus Consultants
- Anita Ortiz, Lainclusionista, LLC
- Lolita Owens, Comcast
- Rose-Catherine Pinkney, BET
- Jacky Politoske, Comcast
- Katherine Reyes-Butkowski, Paramount
- Rayna Robinson, Comcast
- Vernessa Robinson, Comcast
- Freddy Rolon, ESPN
- Nayeli Salinas, Comcast
- Khan Shahrukh, Comcast
- Meera Sharma, Paramount
- Stevie Sharpe Surmon, Paramount
- Jessica Shelly, Comcast
- Daria Shelton, Tegna
Marketing Solutions - Prasad Ramanahally Siddalinga, Comcast
- Jaunice Sills, Comcast
- Kimberly Solomon, A+E Networks
- Sharee Stephens, ESPN
- Joann Taylor, Comcast
- Ron Telemarque, Paramount
- Jessica Thomas, Snap, Inc.
- Brandii Toby-Leon, Bullseye Communications
- Terese Walker, Comcast
- Malaika Walls
- Kyle Washington, Paramount
- Adriana Waterston, Horowitz Research
- Marco Williams, EndemolShine North America
- Anna Yoon, AyoonDesign
- Raquelle Zuzarte, Equity for All Project
