Gary Dourdan Scoops NAACP Image Award

[CSI Files]

<font color=yellow>Gary Dourdan</font> (Warrick Brown) Saturday night walked home with an NAACP Image Award for his role on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

Dourdan was recognised by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, the Associated Press reported.

To win the gong, the actor beat off competition from <font color=yellow>Charles S. Dutton</font>, of CSI lead-out series Without a Trace, ER's <font color=yellow>Mekhi Phifer</font> and Soul Food cast members <font color=yellow>Boris Kodjoe</font> and <font color=yellow>Aaron Meeks</font>.

While Dourdan emerged victorious on Saturday night, the CSI cast went home empty-handed at Sunday's Screen Actors Guild Awards. <font color=yellow>William Petersen</font> (Gil Grissom), <font color=yellow>Marg Helgenberger</font> (Catherine Willows), <font color=yellow>Jorja Fox</font> (Sara Sidle), <font color=yellow>George Eads</font> (Nick Stokes), <font>Paul Guilfoyle</font> (Jim Brass), <font color=yellow>Eric Szmanda</font> (Greg Sanders), <font color=yellow>Robert David Hall</font> (David Robbins) and Dourdan were nominated in the category of Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series, but were beaten by HBO's funeral home saga, Six Feet Under. This was the second year in a row the CSI team were up for the gong - in 2001 SAG voters elected NBC's The West Wing instead.

The Sopranos took out the other two drama series categories, while Will & Grace scooped two out of three comedy awards. Razzle-dazzle musical Chicago was the big winner in the motion picture section, taking home three out of five awards.

The Fox network will air the NAACP Image Awards at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 13. The original NAACP article, as well as a bigger version of the above photo of Gary Dourdan, can be found at Yahoo! News, while a full list of SAG winners is available here. Further photos from the red carpet at the SAG Awards are up at Zap2it.<center></center>

 

[Colonel Worf]

Advancement of Colored People in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series?

What a category! I think he's a very good actor. I haven't seen Six Feet Under in a while, but I'm sure it's still a great show. You can't win them all.