Denzel Washington swept the 34th annual NAACP’s Image Awards on Saturday with a trifecta for his acting and directing prowess, while the top nominee, Brown Sugar, was shut out of the awards.Washington, describing his awards as ‘‘an embarrassment of riches,’’ won statuettes for best actor for playing a desperate father in John Q and for best supporting actor for his role as a Navy psychiatrist in Antwone Fisher.Antwone Fisher, the film Washington guided from script to screen in his directing debut, yesterday captured the show’s top prize for best picture. As producer and director, Washington collected the award.The controversial Barbershop, whose digs at civil rights icons Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr, prompted an outcry from some Black groups, also failed to win any of its six nominations. Parks said that she would not attend the ceremony to protest the film’s joke about her bus ride by Cedric ‘‘the entertainer,’’ who served as master of ceremonies. (Reuters)
