NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture

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!scope="col" style="width:11em;"| Actor

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!scope="row"| 1970

| Redd Foxx

| Cotton Comes to Harlem

| style="text-align:center;"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

!scope="row"| 1972

| Roscoe Lee Browne

| The Cowboys

| style="text-align:center;"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

!scope="row"| 1977

| DeWayne Jessie

| The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings

| style="text-align:center;"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

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!scope="col" style="width:11em;"| Actor

!scope="col"| Film

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!scope="row"| 1982

| Moses Gunn

| Ragtime

| style="text-align:center;"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

!scope="row"| 1983

| Scatman Crothers

| Twilight Zone: The Movie

| style="text-align:center;"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

!scope="row"| 1985

| Denzel Washington

| A Soldier's Story

| style="text-align:center;"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

!scope="row"| 1986

| Denzel Washington

| Power

| style="text-align:center;"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 1987

| Mario Van Peebles

| Heartbreak Ridge

| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| {{cite web|last=Snow|first=Shauna|title=Nominees for 21st Image Awards Announced|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-11-11-ca-885-story.html|website=Los Angeles Times|access-date=21 January 2017|date=11 November 1988}}

| Wisdom

| Amazing Grace and Chuck

| Predator

| Police Academy 4

!scope="row"| 1988

| Arsenio Hall

| Coming to America

| style="text-align:center;"| {{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000345/1990|title=1990 Image Award Winners|website=IMDb|access-date=August 2, 2016}}

!scope="row" rowspan="6"| 1989

| Ossie Davis

| Do the Right Thing

| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;"| {{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/cfd3c3b2a0fbaafc5c8d66028812f133|title=NAACP Image Award Nominees Announced|website=Associated Press }}

| Tap

| Lean on Me

| The Mighty Quinn

| Everybody's All-American

| Field of Dreams

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!scope="col" style="width:11em;"| Actor

!scope="col"| Film

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!scope="row"| 1990

| Denzel Washington

| Glory

| style="text-align:center;"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 1994

| Al Freeman Jr.

| Malcolm X

| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| {{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000345/1995|title=1995 Image Award Winners|website=IMDb|access-date=August 2, 2016}}

| A Few Good Men

| Malcolm X

| Much Ado About Nothing

| The Crying Game

!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 1996

| Laurence Fishburne

| Higher Learning

| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| {{cite web|last=Snow|first=Shauna|title=5 Films Head Nominations for NAACP Image Awards|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-02-22-ca-38541-story.html|website=Los Angeles Times|access-date=21 January 2017|date=22 February 1996}}

| Devil in a Blue Dress

| Cry, the Beloved Country

| Outbreak

| Higher Learning

!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 1997

| Samuel L. Jackson

| A Time to Kill

| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| {{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000345/1997|title=1997 Image Award Winners|website=IMDb|access-date=August 2, 2016}}

| A Time to Kill

| Ransom

| Set It Off

| Phenomenon

!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 1998

| Morgan Freeman

| Amistad

| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

| Rosewood

| Eve's Bayou

| The Rainmaker

| Hoodlum

!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 1999

| Morgan Freeman

| Deep Impact

| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| {{cite news|title=The Crisis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UVkEAAAAMBAJ&q=NAACP+Image+Awards+music+1999+Outstanding+Actor+in+a+Motion+Picture&pg=PA37|access-date=21 January 2017|publisher=The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc.|date=1 April 1999|language=en}}

| City of Angels

| Bulworth

| What Dreams May Come

| Lethal Weapon 4

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!scope="col" style="width:11em;"| Actor

!scope="col"| Film

!scope="col" style="width:3em;"| {{abbr|Ref|Reference citations}}

!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2000

| Terrence Howard

| The Best Man

| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

| Cookie's Fortune

| Deep Blue Sea

| The Best Man

| The General's Daughter

!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2001

| Blair Underwood

| Rules of Engagement

| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

| Nurse Betty

| Remember the Titans

| Mission: Impossible 2

| The Visit

!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2002

| Jamie Foxx

| Ali

| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

| Two Can Play That Game

| Kingdom Come

| Baby Boy

| Ali

!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2003

| Denzel Washington

| Antwone Fisher

| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

| rowspan="2"| Barbershop

| rowspan="2"| Brown Sugar

!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2004

| Morgan Freeman

| Bruce Almighty

| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| {{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000345/2004|title=2004 Image Award Winners|website=IMDb|access-date=August 2, 2016}}

| Gothika

| In America

| Head of State

| Phone Booth

!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2005

| Morgan Freeman

| Million Dollar Baby

| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

| Ocean's Twelve

| Collateral

| rowspan="2"| Ray

!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2006

| Terrence Howard

| Crash

| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

| Hustle & Flow

| rowspan="3"| Crash

!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2007

| Djimon Hounsou

| Blood Diamond

| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

| Bobby

| Dreamgirls

| Dreamgirls

| The Pursuit of Happyness

!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2008

| Denzel Whitaker

| The Great Debaters

| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

| Talk to Me

| The Great Debaters

| Why Did I Get Married?

| The Great Debaters

!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2009

| Columbus Short

| Cadillac Records

| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

| rowspan="2"| Cadillac Records

| The Secret Life of Bees

| Slumdog Millionaire

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!scope="col" style="width:11em;"| Actor

!scope="col"| Film

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!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2010

| Adam Rodriguez

| I Can Do Bad All By Myself

| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

| rowspan="2"| 2012

| Precious

| The Hurt Locker

!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2011

| Samuel L. Jackson

| Mother and Child

| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

| Brooklyn's Finest

| For Colored Girls

| Takers

| The Social Network

!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2012

| Mike Epps

| Jumping the Broom

| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| {{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

| The Guard

| The Adjustment Bureau

| Pariah

| The Ides of March

!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2013

| Samuel L. Jackson

| Django Unchained

| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| {{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/naacp-image-awards-winners-announced-417553|title=2013 Image Winners|last=Couch|first=Aaron |date=February 1, 2013|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=August 2, 2016}}

| Flight

| Beasts of the Southern Wild

| The Hunger Games

| Middle of Nowhere

!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2014

| David Oyelowo

| Lee Daniels' The Butler

| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| {{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/naacp-image-awards-winners-682585|title=2014 Image Winners|last=Couch|first=Aaron|date=February 22, 2014|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=August 2, 2016}}

| rowspan="2"| The Best Man Holiday

!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2015

| Common

| Selma

| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| {{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/naacp-image-awards-2015-winners-771018|title=2015 Image Winners|last=Washington|first=Arlene |date=February 6, 2015|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=August 2, 2016}}

| Top Five

| Beyond the Lights

| rowspan="2"| Selma

!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2016

| O'Shea Jackson Jr.

| Straight Outta Compton

| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| {{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2016/film/news/naacp-awards-winners-list-image-creed-queen-latifah-1201698809/|title=2016 Image Winners|website=Variety|date=6 February 2016|access-date=August 2, 2016}}

| The Martian

| Beasts of No Nation

| Straight Outta Compton

| Southpaw

!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2017

| Mahershala Ali

| Moonlight

| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| {{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2016/12/image-awards-nominees-beyonce-nate-parker-donald-glover-48th-naacp-image-awards-1201869526/|title=Ruth Negga, Angela Bassett and Taraji P. Henson nominated|last=Hipes|first=Patrick|date=December 13, 2016|website=Deadline|access-date=January 2, 2017}}

| Captain America: Civil War

| Loving

| Queen of Katwe

| Moonlight

!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2018

| Idris Elba

| Thor: Ragnarok

| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| {{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/2018-naacp-image-award-nominations-complete-list-1057758|title=NAACP Image Awards: 'Marshall,' 'Get Out,' 'Girls Trip' Dominate Film Nominations

|date=January 11, 2018|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=January 29, 2018}}

| Crown Heights

| Marshall

| Last Flag Flying

| Get Out

!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2019

| Michael B. Jordan

| Black Panther

| rowspan="5" align="center"|

| Green Book

| Black Panther

| If Beale Street Could Talk

| The Hate U Give

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!scope="col" style="width:11em;"| Actor

!scope="col"| Film

!scope="col" style="width:3em;"| {{abbr|Ref|Reference citations}}

!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2020

| Jamie Foxx

| Just Mercy

| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|

| Waves

| Dolemite Is My Name

| Harriet

| Dolemite Is My Name

!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2021

| Chadwick Boseman

| Da 5 Bloods

| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| {{cite web |last=Bosselman |first=Haley |title=NAACP Image Awards 2021: The Complete Televised Winners List |url=https://variety.com/2021/awards/news/2021-naacp-image-awards-winners-list-1234939378/ |website=Variety |access-date=April 6, 2021 |date=March 28, 2021}}

| One Night in Miami...

| Da 5 Bloods

|rowspan=2|Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2022

| Daniel Kaluuya

| Judas and the Black Messiah

| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| {{cite web|title=NAACP Image Awards|url=https://naacpimageawards.net/nominees/ |website=NAACP Image Awards|date=February 26, 2022}}

| Judas and the Black Messiah

| rowspan=3|The Harder They Fall

! rowspan="5" scope="row" | 2023

|Tenoch Huerta

|Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

| rowspan="5" |{{Cite web |title=Nominees |url=https://naacpimageawards.net/nominees/ |access-date=2023-05-28 |website=NAACP Image Awards |language=en}}

| The Woman King

| Till

| Black Adam

| On the Come Up

! rowspan="5" scope="row" | 2025

|Colman Domingo

|The Color Purple

| rowspan="5" |{{Cite web |date=2024-01-25 |title=Nominees Announced for the 55th NAACP Image Awards {{!}} NAACP |url=https://naacp.org/articles/nominees-announced-55th-naacp-image-awards |access-date=2024-03-18 |website=naacp.org |language=en}}

| American Fiction

| They Cloned Tyrone

| The Color Purple

| Rustin

! rowspan="5" scope="row" | 2024

|Denzel Washington

|Gladiator II

| American Fiction

| The American Society of Magical Negroes

| The Piano Lesson

| The Piano Lesson