| Outstanding Film | Outstanding Director |
American Fiction – Ben LeClair, Nikos Karamigios, Cord Jefferson and Jermaine Johnson, producers
The Color Purple – Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Scott Sanders and Quincy Jones, producers* Origin – Ava DuVernay and Paul Garnes, producers* Rustin – Bruce Cohen, Tonia Davis and George C. Wolfe, producers* Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Amy Pascal and Avi Arad, producers | Cord Jefferson – American Fiction* Blitz Bazawule – The Color Purple* Ava DuVernay – Origin* Michael B. Jordan – Creed III* A. V. Rockwell – A Thousand and One |
| Outstanding Lead Performance | Outstanding Supporting Performance |
| Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction as Thelonious "Monk" Ellison* Fantasia Barrino – The Color Purple as Celie Harris-Johnson* John Boyega – They Cloned Tyrone as Fontaine / Tyrone* Colman Domingo – Rustin as Bayard Rustin* Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor – Origin as Isabel Wilkerson* Jamie Foxx – The Burial as Willie E. Gary* Kelvin Harrison Jr. – Chevalier as Joseph Bologne* Michael B. Jordan – Creed III as Adonis Creed* Teyana Taylor – A Thousand and One as Inez de la Paz* Sophie Wilde – Talk to Me as Mia | Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple as Sofia* Erika Alexander – American Fiction as Coraline* Sterling K. Brown – American Fiction as Clifford "Cliff" Ellison* Viola Davis – Air as Deloris Jordan* Colman Domingo – The Color Purple as Albert "Mister" Johnson* Jamie Foxx – They Cloned Tyrone as Slick Charles* Taraji P. Henson – The Color Purple as Shug Avery* Jonathan Majors – Creed III as Damian Anderson* Da'Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers as Mary Lamb* Jurnee Smollett – The Burial as Mame Downes |
| Outstanding Breakthrough Performance | Outstanding Ensemble |
| Fantasia Barrino – The Color Purple as Celie Harris-Johnson* Archie Madekwe – Gran Turismo as Jann Mardenborough* Halle Bailey – The Little Mermaid as Ariel* Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple as Sofia* Jerrod Carmichael – Poor Things as Harry Astley* Phylicia Pearl Mpasi – The Color Purple as young Celie* Tia Nomore – Earth Mama as Gia* Vivian Oparah – Rye Lane as Yas* Dewayne Perkins – The Blackening as Dewayne* Teyana Taylor – A Thousand and One as Inez de la Paz | The Color Purple – Tiffany Little Canfield, Destiny Lilly and Bernard Telsey, casting directors* American Fiction – Jennifer Euston, casting director* The Blackening – Leah Daniels Butler, casting director* Rustin – Cherelle Cargill and Avy Kaufman, casting directors* They Cloned Tyrone – Kim Coleman, casting director |
| Outstanding Short Film | Outstanding Documentary Feature |
| Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games – Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson, directors* ALIVE IN BRONZE: Huey P. Newton – A.K. Sandhu, director* Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney – Nazenet Habtezghi, director* The Dads – Luchina Fisher, director* The Last Repair Shop – Kris Bowers and Ben Proudfoot, directors | Little Richard: I Am Everything – Lisa Cortés, director* American Symphony – Matthew Heineman, director* Kokomo City – D. Smith, director* Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé – Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, director* Stamped from the Beginning – Roger Ross Williams, director |
| Outstanding International Film | Outstanding Independent Film |
| Rye Lane – Raine Allen-Miller, director* Brother – Clement Virgo, director* Our Father, the Devil – Ellie Foumbi, director | A Thousand and One – A. V. Rockwell, director* All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt – Raven Jackson, director* Earth Mama – Savanah Leaf, director* How I Learned to Fly – Simon Steuri, director* Rye Lane – Raine Allen-Miller, director |
| Outstanding Screenplay | Outstanding First Screenplay |
| American Fiction – Cord Jefferson* Origin – Ava DuVernay* Rustin – Julian Breece and Dustin Lance Black* They Cloned Tyrone – Tony Rettenmaier and Juel Taylor* A Thousand and One – A. V. Rockwell | American Fiction – Cord Jefferson* All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt – Raven Jackson* The Color Purple – Marcus Gardley* Earth Mama – Savanah Leaf* A Thousand and One – A. V. Rockwell |
| Outstanding Emerging Director | Outstanding Voice Performance |
| Cord Jefferson – American Fiction* Blitz Bazawule – The Color Purple* Raven Jackson – All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt* A. V. Rockwell – A Thousand and One* Juel Taylor – They Cloned Tyrone | Shameik Moore – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse as Miles Morales / Spider-Man* Ariana DeBose – Wish as Asha* Ayo Edebiri – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem as April O'Neil* Brian Tyree Henry – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse as Jeff Morales* Daniel Kaluuya – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse as Hobie Brown / Spider-Punk |
| Outstanding Score | Outstanding Soundtrack |
| The Color Purple – Kris Bowers* American Symphony – Jon Batiste* Chevalier – Kris Bowers* Rustin – Branford Marsalis* They Cloned Tyrone – Desmond Murray and Pierre Charles | The Color Purple* Creed III* The Little Mermaid* Rustin* Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse |
| Outstanding Original Song | Outstanding Cinematography |
| "Keep It Movin" from The Color Purple – Halle Bailey and Phylicia Pearl Mpasi, performers; Halle Bailey, Denisia Andrews, Brittany Coney and Morten Ristorp, writers* "Am I Dreaming" from Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – Metro Boomin, ASAP Rocky and Roisee, performers; Leland Tyler Wayne, Roisee, Rakim Mayers, Mike Dean, Peter Lee Johnson and Landon "Script" Wayne, writers* "It Never Went Away" from American Symphony – Jon Batiste, writer and performer* "My House" from Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé – Beyoncé, performer; Beyoncé Knowles-Carter and The-Dream, writers* "Road to Freedom" from Rustin – Lenny Kravitz, writer and performer | All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt – Jomo Fray* Earth Mama – Jody Lee Lipes* Kokomo City – D. Smith* Rye Lane – Olan Collardy* Silver Dollar Road – Henry Adebonojo and Antonio Rossi |
| Outstanding Editing | Outstanding Costume Design |
| Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – Michael Andrews* The Color Purple – Jon Poll* Kokomo City – D. Smith* Origin – Spencer Averick* They Cloned Tyrone – Saira Haider | The Color Purple – Francine Jamison-Tanchuck* Air – Charlese Antoinette Jones* Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé – Beyoncé and Shiona Turini* Rustin – Toni-Leslie James* They Cloned Tyrone – Francine Jamison-Tanchuck |
| Outstanding Production Design | Outstanding Hairstyling & Makeup |
| The Color Purple – Paul D. Austerberry* Chevalier – Karen Murphy* Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé – Hannah Beachler* Rustin – Mark Ricker* Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – Patrick O'Keefe | The Color Purple – Carol Rasheed, makeup department head and Lawrence Davis, hair department head* Air – Carla Farmer, hair department head* Bottoms – Shandrea Williams, hair department head* Rustin – Melissa Forney, hair department head and Beverly Jo Pryor, makeup department head* A Thousand and One – Craig Carter, hair department head |