45th NAACP Image Awards | Photo booth

The cast of “Scandal” won outstanding drama series.  (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

China Anne McClain won for performance in a youth/children’s program for “A.N.T. Farm.”  (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

Rickey Similey  (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

David Oyelowo won for outstanding supporting actor in a motion picture in “Lee Daniels’ The Butler.”  (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

Gary Owen  (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

Forest Whitaker won a total of three Image awards.  (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

John Ridley wrote, and won an award for, the screenplay for “12 Years a Slave.”  (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

Kevin Hart won entertainer of the year.  (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

Tyreese Gibson  (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

Aaron Sears  (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

Director Paris Barclay was a hall of fame award recipient.  (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

Cheryl Boone Isaccs, the first African American female president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, was a hall of fame award recipient.  (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

Tim Gibbons, Jesse Collins, Chris Spencer, Stan Lathan and Ralph Farquhar are the producers of the winner for outstanding original comedy series, “Real Husbands of Beverly Hills.”  (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

Talk show host Arsenio Hall  (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

Talk show host Sherri Shepherd  (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)