The Color Purple comes out on top at NAACP Image Awards

Danielle Brooks was joined onstage by fellow cast members from the film (Chris Pizzello/AP)

Blitz Bazawule’s remake of The Color Purple has come out on top at the NAACP Image Awards.

The film, which is a reimagining of Alice Walker’s 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, won best motion picture at the ceremony which took place at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Saturday.