STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON, CREED Top African American Film Critics Awards

Winners for the 2015 African American Film Critics Association Awards were announced today. Straight Outta Compton received the award for Best Picture as well as nods for Best Ensemble and Best Supporting Actor for Jason Mitchell.

CREED helmer Ryan Coogler won for Best Director while the film's stars Michael B Jordan, won for Breakout Performance and Tessa Thompson was named Best Supporting Actress. Best Actor was awarded to Will Smith for Concussion and Best Actress to Teyonah Parris for SPIKE Lee's Chi-Raq.

The complete list follows courtesy of Deadline:

Best Picture
Straight Outta Compton (Universal Pictures)

Best Director
Ryan Coogler - Creed (Warner Bros.)

Best Ensemble
Straight Outta Compton (Universal Pictures)

Best Actor
Will Smith - Concussion (Sony)

Best Actress
Teyonah Parris - Chi-Raq (Roadside Attractions/Amazon Studios)

Best Supporting Actor
Jason Mitchell - Straight Outta Compton (Universal Pictures)

Best Supporting Actress
Tessa Thompson - Creed (Warner Bros.)

Best Independent Film
Chi-Raq (Roadside Attractions/Amazon Studios)

Best Screenplay
Rick Famuyiwa - Dope (Open Road Films)

Breakout Performance
Michael B. Jordan - Creed (Warner Bros.)

Best Animation
The Peanuts Movie (20thCentury Fox)

Best Documentary
A Ballerina's Tale (Sundance Selects)

Best Song
"See You Again" - Furious 7 (Atlantic Records)

Best TV Comedy
Black-ish (ABC)

Best TV Drama
How to Get Away with Murder (ABC)

Best Cable/New Media TV Show
Survivor's Remorse (Starz)

ABOUT AAFCA: The African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) actively reviews cinema at-large, with a particular emphasis on films which include the Black experience. The organization creates a platform for movies with universal appeal to the African-American community, while highlighting films produced, written, directed and starring, persons from the African Diaspora. Our members are also involved in our advocacy work that includes programming for students interested in film criticism and journalism.

AAFCA members are a geographically diverse cross-section of journalists, covering all genres of the cinematic arts, while representing multiple mediums - including print, TV, radio broadcast and online. Collectively, they have reached a worldwide audience in excess of 100 million

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