LOS ANGELES – “For Colored Girls” was a big winner at the NAACP Image Awards, taking the best picture, director and supporting-actress prizes.

Based on the award-winning play “for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf,” the film earned honors for director Tyler Perry and supporting actress Kimberly Elise Friday night.

One of Perry’s TV shows, “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne,” also won outstanding comedy series, while the star of his other show, “Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns,” won best actor in a comedy series. Vanessa Williams won the TV comedy actress prize for “Desperate Housewives.”

Halle Berry won best actress in a motion picture for “Frankie & Alice” — and was surprised to have Prince hand her the award — while the movie itself won for outstanding independent picture. Denzel Washington won the movie actor prize for “The Book of Eli.”

Music winners included Usher (outstanding male artist), Mary J. Blige (outstanding female artist), Alicia Keys (outstanding music video for “Un-thinkable (I’m Ready)”) and Fantasia (outstanding song for “Bittersweet”).

Among the book winners, Terry McMillan’s “Getting to Happy” was named the outstanding fictional literary work, while Michelle Alexander won the top nonfiction prize for “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.” Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice earned the award for outstanding literary work for youth or teens with “Condoleezza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me.”

The Image Awards honor diversity in the arts and outstanding achievements in film, television, music and literature.

‘Slumdog’ star burned out of home

MUMBAI, India – “Slumdog Millionaire” child star Rubina Ali said Saturday that her home had burned down in a fire that raged through a slum in the Indian city of Mumbai.

Most of the awards that she received for her role as the poverty-stricken child in the Oscar-winning film were destroyed in the blaze that erupted in the Garib Nagar slum late Friday, the 12-year-old said.

She said that she and other relatives were watching television when they heard shouts of a fire and ran out of their tin-roofed shanty.

“We just grabbed what we could and dashed out,” said Rafiq Ali, Rubina’s father.

Rubina said she had lost all her awards and her collection of newspaper clippings and photos from the success of the 2008 film.

“It’s all gone,” a tearful-sounding Rubina said over the telephone.

The child star said the family has yet to move into a new apartment paid for by a trust set up by the film’s director, Danny Boyle.

The fire left 21 people injured and 2,000 homeless.

Fires often break out in Mumbai’s slums, usually sparked by short circuits from the many thousands of illegal power connections.