| Outstanding Drama Series | Outstanding Actor, Drama Series |
This Is Us
| Billy Porter – Pose* Sterling K. Brown – This Is Us* Brandon Micheal Hall – God Friended Me* Damson Idris – Snowfall* Kofi Siriboe – Queen Sugar |
| Outstanding Actress, Drama Series | Outstanding Supporting Actor, Drama Series |
| Rutina Wesley – Queen Sugar* Dawn-Lyen Gardner – Queen Sugar* Niecy Nash – Claws* Angela Bassett –9-1-1 (TV series)* Alfre Woodard – Luke Cage | Joe Morton – God Friended Me* Nicholas L. Ashe – Queen Sugar* Orlando Jones – American Gods* Giancarlo Esposito – Better Call Saul* Mustafa Shakir – Luke Cage |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Drama Series | Outstanding Directing, Drama Series |
| Susan Kelechi Watson – This Is Us* Tina Lifford – Queen Sugar* Lynn Whitfield – Greenleaf* Karimah Westbrook – All American* Indya Moore – Pose | "Don't Take My Sunshine Away" from This Is Us - George Tillman Jr. * "The Book of Apocalypse: Chapter Two: The Omega" from Black Lightning – Salim Akil '* "A Rock, A River, A Tree" from Queen Sugar – DeMane Davis '* "Love is the Message" from Pose – Janet Mock '* "R&B" from This Is Us – Kevin Hooks ' |
| Outstanding Writing, Drama Series | Outstanding Guest Actor, Drama Series |
| "Our Little Island Girl" from This Is Us - Eboni Freeman * "Scream" from Claws – Maisha Closson '* "Unfriended" from God Friended Me – Safia M. Dirie '* "Love is the Message" from Pose – Janet Mock & Ryan Murphy '* "R&B" from This Is Us – Kay Oyegun ' | Rob Morgan – This Is Us* Carl Lumbly – This Is Us* Mahershala Ali – Room 104* Ron Cephas Jones – Luke Cage* Common – The Chi |
| Outstanding Guest Actress, Drama Series | Outstanding Comedy Series |
| Phylicia Rashad – This Is Us* Erika Alexander – Black Lightning* Rutina Wesley – The Walking Dead* Marla Gibbs – NCIS* Cicely Tyson – How to Get Away With Murder | Insecure* Black-ish* Grown-ish* On My Block* She's Gotta Have It |
| Outstanding Actor, Comedy Series | Outstanding Actress, Comedy Series |
| Don Cheadle – Black Monday* Anthony Anderson – Black-ish* Tracy Morgan – The Last O.G.* Idris Elba –Turn Up Charlie* Keegan-Michael Key – Friends from College | Issa Rae – Insecure* Tracee Ellis Ross – Black-ish* Tiffany Haddish – The Last O.G.* DeWanda Wise – She's Gotta Have It* Regina Hall – Black Monday |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Comedy Series | Outstanding Supporting Actress, Comedy Series |
| Tituss Burgess – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt* Kenan Thompson – Saturday Night Live* Laurence Fishburne – Black-ish* Jay Ellis – Insecure* Anthony Ramos – She's Gotta Have It | Jenifer Lewis – Black-ish* Leslie Jones – Saturday Night Live* Yvonne Orji – Insecure* Natasha Rothwell - Insecure* Marsai Martin - Black-ish |
| Outstanding Directing, Comedy Series | Outstanding Writing, Comedy Series |
| "Black Like Us" from Black-ish - Salli Richardson * "High-Like" from Insecure – Millicent Shelton '* "Ghost-Like" from Insecure – Regina King '* "Purple Rain" from Black-ish – Charles Stone III '* "Black History Month" from Black-ish – Tracee Ellis Ross ' | "Black Like Us" from Black-ish - Peter Saji * "Relatively Grown Man" from Black-ish – Steven White '* "Ghost-Like" from Insecure – Issa Rae & Natasha Rothwell '* "Obsessed-Like" from Insecure – Prentice Penny '* "#NationTime" from She's Gotta Have It – Radha Blank ' |
| Outstanding Guest Actor, Comedy Series | Outstanding Guest Actress, Comedy Series |
| Katt Williams – Black-ish* Idris Elba – Saturday Night Live* Ernie Hudson – Ballers* Kenan Thompson – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt* RuPaul – Grace and Frankie | Anna Deavere Smith – Black-ish* Rosie Perez – She's Gotta Have It* Marla Gibbs – Rel* Maya Rudolph – The Good Place* Regina King – The Big Bang Theory |
| Outstanding TV Movie or Limited Series | Outstanding Actor, TV Movie or Limited Series |
| When They See Us* Native Son* "The Bobby Brown Story"* Luther* True Detective | Jharrel Jerome – When They See Us* Ashton Sanders – Native Son* Mahershala Ali – True Detective* Woody McClain – "The Bobby Brown Story"* Idris Elba – Luther |
| Outstanding Actress, TV Movie/Limited Series | Outstanding Supporting Actor, TV Movie/Limited Series |
| Niecy Nash – When They See Us* Aunjanue Ellis – When They See Us* Michaela Coel – Black Earth Rising* Emayatzy Corinealdi – The Red Line* Alfre Woodard – Juanita | Michael K. Williams – When They See Us* Asante Blackk – When They See Us* Caleel Harris – When They See Us* Marquis Rodriguez – When They See Us* Michael Ealy – "Being Mary Jane: Becoming Pauletta" |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, TV Movie/Limited Series | Outstanding Directing, TV Movie/Limited Series |
| Marsha Stephanie Blake – When They See Us* Kylie Bunbury – When They See Us* Isis King – When They See Us* Carmen Ejogo – True Detective* Marla Gibbs – Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's All in the Family and The Jeffersons | When They See Us - Ava DuVernay * Juanita – Clark Johnson '* Native Son – Rashid Johnson '* "We All Must Care" from The Red Line – Victoria Mahoney '* "The Bobby Brown Story" – Kiel Adrian Scott ' |
| Outstanding Writing, TV Movie/Limited Series | Outstanding TV Special or Documentary |
| "Part 1" from When They See Us - Ava DuVernay, Julian Breece & Attica Locke * "Part 2" from When They See Us – Ava DuVernay, Julian Breece & Attica Locke'* "Part 3" from When They See Us – Ava DuVernay & Robin Swicord'* "Part 4" from When They See Us – Ava DuVernay & Michael Starrbury'* "The Bobby Brown Story" – Abdul Williams' | Surviving R. Kelly* Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men* HΘMΣCΘMING* Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland* Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story |
| Outstanding Music | - |
| Pose* Insecure* When They See Us* Greenleaf* Empire | - |