NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture
{{short description|American film award}}
{{More citations needed|date=October 2021}}
{{Infobox award
| name = NAACP Image Award for Best Motion Picture
| image =
| image_upright = 0.7
| caption = The 2025 recipient The Six Triple Eight
| awarded_for = NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture
| date = February 22, 2025
| presenter = NAACP
| holder = "The Six Triple Eight" (2024)
| most_awards = 5
| most_nominations = 5
| year = "Lady Sings the Blues" (1972)
}}
This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture, awarded by the U.S.-based National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). This award has been given since 1972 and as of 2017, only two of the winning films have also won the Academy Award for Best Picture: Crash and 12 Years a Slave.
To date, The Color Purple (2023) holds the record of the most nominations and wins for a Motion Picture, with 16 nominations and 11 wins.
Nominees and winners
Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold. Year refers to year of ceremony, not year of release.
=1970s=
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! style="width:11%;"| Year ! style="width:84%;"| Film ! style="width:5%;"| Ref |
| rowspan="2" align="center"| 1972 |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| align="center"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}} |
| align="center"| 1973 – 1975
| colspan="2" {{n/a}} |
| rowspan="2" align="center"| 1976 |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| align="center"| [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073282/awards?ref_=tt_awd IMDB.com] |
| align="center"| 1977
| colspan="2" {{n/a}} |
| rowspan="2" align="center"| 1978 |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| {{n/a}} |
| align="center"| 1979
| colspan="2" {{n/a}} |
=1980s=
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| style="background:#bebebe;"
! style="width:11%;"| Year ! style="width:84%;"| Film ! style="width:5%;"| Ref |
| rowspan="2" align="center"| 1980 |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| Fame |
| rowspan="2" align="center"| 1981 |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| align="center"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}} |
| rowspan="5" align="center"| 1982 |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| rowspan="5" align="center"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}} |
| Diva |
| Ragtime |
| Rocky III |
| align="center"| 1983 – 1984
| colspan="2" {{n/a}} |
| rowspan="2" align="center"| 1985 |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| align="center"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}} |
| rowspan="2" align="center"| 1986 |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| align="center"| {{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-12-16-vw-3506-story.html |title=Spielberg wins multiple awards at 1986 Image Awards |last=Stein |first=Jeannine |date=December 16, 1986 |newspaper=LA Times|access-date=July 31, 2016}} |
| rowspan="5" align="center"| 1987 |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| rowspan="5" align="center"| {{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/473d4d07f84031fd13e8f748966070e7|title = NAACP Announces Nominees for Show Business Honors|website = Associated Press}} |
| Beverly Hills Cop II |
| Hollywood Shuffle |
| Round Midnight |
| rowspan="5" align="center"| 1988 |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| rowspan="5" align="center"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}} |
| School Daze |
| Cry Freedom |
| Shoot to Kill |
| rowspan="6" align="center"| 1989 |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| rowspan="5" align="center"| {{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/cfd3c3b2a0fbaafc5c8d66028812f133|title=NAACP Image Award Nominees Announced|website=Associated Press}} |
| Do the Right Thing |
| Tap |
| Lethal Weapon 2 |
| I'm Gonna Git You Sucka |
=1990s=
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! style="width:11%;"| Year ! style="width:84%;"| Film ! style="width:5%;"| Ref |
| rowspan="2" align="center"| 1990 |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| Glory | align="center"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}} |
| align="center"| 1991
| colspan="2" {{n/a}} |
| rowspan="6" align="center"| 1992 |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| rowspan="5" align="center"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}} |
| The Five Heartbeats |
| Jungle Fever |
| To Sleep with Anger |
| New Jack City |
| rowspan="6" align="center"| 1993 |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| rowspan="5" align="center"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}} |
| Mississippi Masala |
| Boomerang |
| Daughters of the Dust |
| Grand Canyon |
| rowspan="6" align="center"| 1994 |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| rowspan="5" align="center"| {{Cite web|url=https://newspapers.library.in.gov/?a=d&d=INR19940101-01.1.11&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------|title = Indianapolis Recorder 1 January 1994 — Hoosier State Chronicles: Indiana's Digital Historic Newspaper Program}} |
| Bopha! |
| Menace II Society |
| Posse |
| What's Love Got to Do with It |
| align="center"| 1995
| colspan="2" {{n/a}} |
| rowspan="6" align="center"| 1996 |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| rowspan="6" align="center"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}} |
| Crimson Tide |
| Cry, the Beloved Country |
| Devil in a Blue Dress |
| Othello |
| rowspan="6" align="center"| 1997 |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| rowspan="6" align="center"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}} |
| Courage Under Fire |
| Get on the Bus |
| Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored |
| The Preacher's Wife |
| rowspan="6" align="center"| 1998 |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| rowspan="6" align="center"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}} |
| Amistad |
| Eve's Bayou |
| Love Jones |
| Rosewood |
| rowspan="6" align="center"| 1999 |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| How Stella Got Her Groove Back | rowspan="6" align="center"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}} |
| Beloved |
| Down in the Delta |
| Enemy of the State |
| He Got Game |
=2000s=
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! style="width:11%;"| Year ! style="width:84%;"| Film ! style="width:5%;"| Ref |
| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2000 |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| rowspan="6" align="center"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}} |
| The Hurricane |
| Life |
| The Matrix |
| The Wood |
| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2001 |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| rowspan="6" align="center"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}} |
| Love & Basketball |
| Men of Honor |
| The Original Kings of Comedy |
| Shaft |
| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2002 |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| Ali | rowspan="6" align="center"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}} |
| Baby Boy |
| The Brothers |
| Rush Hour 2 |
| Training Day |
| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2003 |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| rowspan="6" align="center"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}} |
| BarberShop |
| Brown Sugar |
| Drumline |
| John Q |
| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2004 |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| rowspan="6" align="center"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}} |
| Bad Boys II |
| Bend It Like Beckham |
| Deliver Us from Eva |
| Whale Rider |
| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2005 |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| Ray | rowspan="6" align="center"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}} |
| Collateral |
| Fahrenheit 9/11 |
| Hotel Rwanda |
| Man on Fire |
| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2006 |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| Crash | rowspan="6" align="center"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}} |
| Coach Carter |
| Diary of a Mad Black Woman |
| Hitch |
| Hustle & Flow |
| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2007 |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| rowspan="6" align="center"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}} |
| Akeelah and the Bee |
| Blood Diamond |
| Catch a Fire |
| Dreamgirls |
| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2008 |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| rowspan="6" align="center"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}} |
| American Gangster |
| I Am Legend |
| Talk to Me |
| Why Did I Get Married? |
| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2009 |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| rowspan="6" align="center"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}} |
| Cadillac Records |
| The Family That Preys |
| Miracle at St. Anna |
| Seven Pounds |
=2010s=
=2020s=
Stats and facts
Below are the films that garnered multiple nominations and wins in the category of Outstanding Motion Picture.
=Most wins=
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| Total Wins
! 11 wins ! 6 wins ! 5 wins ! 4 wins ! 3 wins |
=Most nominations=
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| Total Nominations
! 16 nominations ! 13 nominations ! 10 nominations ! 9 nominations ! 8 nominations ! 7 nominations ! 6 nominations |
References
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