12TH ANNUAL NAMIC VISION AWARD NOMINEES

BEST COMEDY: 2005 Comedy Awards - BET Comic View - BET Fatherhood (Episode: “Birds, Bees and Bindlebeep”) – Nick at Nite Mind of Mencia - Weekends at the D.L. - Comedy Central

BEST DRAMA: Into The West - TNT Lackawanna Blues - HBO Sometimes In April - HBO Sucker Free City - Showtime The Night Detective - BBC America The Reading Room - Hallmark

BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE: Howie Bell - Robert Townsend's Partners In Crime: The Next Generation - Black Family Channel Omar Gooding - Barbershop - Showtime Steve Harvey - 2005 Comedy Awards - BET Tonye Patano - Weeds - Showtime Raven Simone - That's So Raven - Disney Channel

BEST DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE: Irene Bedard - Into The West - TNT Idris Elba - Sometimes In April - HBO Malcolm David Kelley - Knights of The South Bronx - A&E Jenifer Lewis - Strong Medicine (Episode: "Dying Inside") - Lifetime S. Epatha Merkerson - Lackawanna Blues - HBO

BEST CHILDREN’S: Dora The Explorer (Episode: "Best Friends") - Nickelodeon Go, Diego, Go! (Episode: "Diego Saves Three Little Condors") - Nickelodeon Lisa Knight & The Round Table (Episode: "What is Peer Pressure To You?") - Black Family Channel Romeo - Nickelodeon That’s So Raven - Disney Channel

BEST DOCUMENTARY: Biography: Whoopi Goldberg - A&E Modern Marvels: Inventions of George Washington Carver - History Channel Save Our History: Voices of Civil Rights - History Channel Unstoppable: A Conversation with Melvin Van Peebles, Gordon Parks and Ossie Davis - Starz In Black Viva Baseball - Spike TV

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12th Annual NAMIC Vision Awards Nominees - 2

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Cinema A to Z - Zee TV Coming Full Circle - Zee TV Sa Re Ga Ma Pa - Zee TV Saat Phere - Zee TV

BEST LIFESTYLE: Sheila Bridges: Moroccan Style - Fine Living Styleyes (Episode: #204) - SiTV Embassy Chefs: Madagascar - AmericanLife TV Southern Living Presents: “Folk Artists" - Turner South Living with Soul: Episode Afro Euro - TV One

BEST MUSIC/VARIETY: Black Movie Awards - TNT Cinema AZN - AZN Face of Africa 2005 Finals - Africa Channel Monique's Fat Chance - Oxygen Popcorn Zen - AZN

BEST NEWS/INFORMATIONAL: Beats, Rhymes…And Life: Hip Hop After The Hurricane - BET ESPN SportsCenter: Ten Bears - ESPN Honoring Rosa Parks - CNN Real Sports with Bryan Gumbel - HBO Think Over Your School - MTV

BEST REAL LIFE SERIES: Dog Days – Jackson State - College Sports Television Network Random 1 - A&E Run’s House - MTV Venus & Serena: For Real - ABC Family The Turnaround: The Caterer - CNN