California's Pasadena Convention Center will welcome the best African-American talent on the planet this week at the 55th annual NAACP Image Awards, honoring excellence in film, television, music, and literature The 2024 awards ceremony will take place this Sunday on BET and CBS in the United States. If you're away, here's how to watch the NAACP Image Awards 2024 online from anywhere with a VPN.

Actress Davine Joy Randolph of "The Holdovers" and screenwriter Cord Jefferson of "American Fiction" won Oscars at last Sunday's Academy Awards, and recently Victoria Monet and Coco Jones won Grammys and Abbott Elementary's Kinta Branson and The Bear's Ayo Edebiri won Emmys, there will be many glamorous creators and performers in the audience seeking more trophies.

And leading the merry dance will be Queen Latifah, herself a black icon. The rapper, actress, singer, talk show host, and producer is hosting the Image Awards for the second year in a row and has won two awards herself.

Along with big movie stars like Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx, and Hal Bailey, and music royalty like Janelle Monae, Usher, and Meghan Seastarion, podcasting, fiction and non-fiction writing, and gospel, stunt work, among other categories.

Ready to celebrate black excellence, read on to find out where to see the 2024 NAACP Image Awards in the U.S. and abroad.

BET (Black Entertainment Television ) is airing the 2024 NAACP Image Awards in the United States, and the awards ceremony will be simulcast on CBS. The broadcast will air on Saturday, March 16 at 8 p.m. ET / 8 p.m. PT.

There are several ways to access these channels, but the most obvious is to pull down CBS using one of the best TV antennas. Additionally, they are both common to many cable plans.

Alternatively, they are included in the channel lineups of quite a few of our picks for best streaming services. These include Fubo, YouTube TV, and Hulu with Live TV.

What if you are usually based in the U.S., but are abroad at the moment? Perhaps you are on vacation and notice that there is not much global coverage of this awards ceremony.

Don't worry - you can watch it via VPN instead. We'll show you how to do that below. Right now, our favorite VPN service is NordVPN, but you can find others on our best VPN services list.

Using a VPN is surprisingly easy.

1. Install your preferred VPN. As we have mentioned, NordVPN is our favorite.

2. select the location you want to connect to with the VPN app. For example, if you are out of the US and want to watch Fubo, select a US-based server from the list.

3. Sit back and enjoy the action. Access a regular streaming service and watch the NAACP Image Awards 2024 stream as if you were at home.

The NAACP Image Awards 2024 will be shown at 7 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT in Canada and will air on the BET channel as well as VH1, MTV, and POP.

This year's NAACP Image Awards are not listed in the UK and Australian TV schedules.

For this reason, it is recommended that viewers use a VPN, which will allow their smartphones, tablets, laptops, and streaming devices to think they are in the country where the awards ceremony is being streamed.

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Best Actor Award Colman DOMINGO "Rustin Denzel Washington "The Equalizer 3 Jamie Foxx "Burial Jeffrey WRIGHT "American Fiction John Boyega "The Men Who Cloned Tyrone"

Best Actress Award Anjanew Ellis-Taylor "Origin Fantasia BARINO "The Color Purple Halle Bailey - "The Little Mermaid Teyana Taylor - "Spirited Away Yara Shahidi - "Sitting in Bars with Cake"

Outstanding Drama Series Bel Air Black Cake. "The Found" - "Queen Charlotte" - "Queen Charlotte" - "Queen Charlotte" - "Queen Charlotte" Queen Charlotte: The Bridgerton Story

Best Actor in a Drama Series "Anna Snow Damson Idris "Anna Snow Forest Whitaker "The Godfather of Harlem Idris Elba "Hijack Jabari BANKS "Bel Air Jesse L. MARTIN "Irrational"

Best Actress in a Drama Series Angela Bassett "9-1-1 India Amarteifio - "Queen Charlotte: The Bridgerton Story Octavia Spencer - Truth Be Told Queen Latifah The Equalizer Zoe Saldaña - "Special Ops: Lioness"

Outstanding Comedy Series Abbott Elementary. "Harlem". "Thighs of Survival" "The Neighborhood. Unprisoned"

Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Comedy Series Cedric the Entertainer "The Neighborhood Delroy Lindo - "Un Prisoned Dulé Hill - "The Wonder Years Mike Epps - "The Upshaws" Tone Bell - "Extreme Survival"

Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series Kerry Washington - "UnPrisoned Meagan Goode - "Harlem Michelle Buteau - "Thighs of Survival Quinta Brunson - "Abbott Elementary Tichina Arnold - "The Neighborhood"

Outstanding Album Award Clear 2: Soft Life EP - Summer Walker For All the Dogs" - Drake "I Told Them" - Bruna Boy Jaguar II" - Victoria Monet "The Age of Pleasure" - Janelle Monay

Outstanding Male Artist Bruna Boy Chris Brown Davido John Baptiste Usher

Outstanding Female Artist Ali Lennox H.E.R. Janelle Monay Thames Victoria Monet

For a complete list of nominees for the NAACP Image Awards 2024, see the official awards website