LOS ANGELES (AP):

Perry earned 19 nods Wednesday, including best director for For Coloured Girls and best screenplay for Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too? The films will compete for movie honours alongside Just Wright, The Book of Eli and The Kids Are All Right. His TBS television series, Tyler Perry's House of Payne, was nominated for best comedy series.

Janet Jackson (Why Did I Get Married Too?) is up for best actress with Halle Berry (Frankie & Alice), Kerry Washington (Night Catches Us), Queen Latifah (Just Wright) and Zoe Saldana (The Losers), while her co-star Jill Scott will compete in the best supporting actress category with For Coloured Girls actresses Anika Noni Rose, Kimberly Elise, Phylicia Rashad and Whoopi Goldberg.

Denzel Washington (The Book of Eli) is nominated for best actor with Anthony Mackie (Night Catches Us), Common (Just Wright), Jaden Smith (The Karate Kid) and Morgan Freeman (Red). Best supporting actor nominees are Don Cheadle (Brooklyn's Finest), Idris Elba (Takers), Justin Timberlake (The Social Network), Michael Ealy (For Coloured Girls), and Samuel L. Jackson (Mother and Child).

House of Payne is nominated for best comedy series against NBC's 30 Rock, Fox's Glee, ABC's Modern Family and TBS' Are We There Yet? The best-drama-series contenders are TNT's HawthoRNe, NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, HBO's Treme and ABC's Detroit 1-8-7 and Grey's Anatomy.

Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Smokey Robinson's Now and Then, Usher's Raymond vs. Raymond, Sade's Soldier of Love and Wake Up! by John Legend and the Roots, are best album nominees.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's Image Awards honour diversity in the arts, and will be presented March 4.