NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture

This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture. The award was first presented in 2008.

Winners and nominees

For each year in the tables below, the winner is listed first and highlighted in bold.

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| Rick Famuyiwa, Michael Genet

| Talk to Me

Steven Zaillian

| American Gangster

Richard LaGravenese

| Freedom Writers

Robert Eisele

| The Great Debaters

John Sayles

| Honeydripper

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!scope="row" rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| 2009

| Jenny Lumet

| Rachel Getting Married

Darnell Martin

| Cadillac Records

Patrik-Ian Polk, John R. Gordon

| Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom

Paris Qualles

| A Raisin in the Sun

Gina Prince-Bythewood

| The Secret Life of Bees

=2010s=

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!scope="row" rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| 2010

| Geoffrey S. Fletcher

| Precious

Tyler Perry

| I Can Do Bad All by Myself

Anthony Peckham

| Invictus

Reggie Rock Bythewood, Cheo Hodari Coker

| Notorious

John Lee Hancock

| The Blind Side

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!scope="row" rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| 2011

| Michael Elliot

| Just Wright

Mary King, Jonathan Watters, Cheryl Edwards, Joe Shrapnel, Marko King, Anna Waterhouse

| Frankie and Alice

Tyler Perry

| Why Did I Get Married Too?

Michael C. Martin

| Brooklyn's Finest

Rodrigo García

| Mother and Child

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!scope="row" rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| 2012

| Kinyarwanda

| Pariah

Elizabeth Hunter, Arlene ilibbs

| Jumping The Broom

Tate Taylor

| The Help

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!scope="row" rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| 2013

| Elizabeth Hunter

| Abducted: The Carlina White Story

John Gatins

| Flight

John Ridley, Aaron McGruder

| Red Tails

Keith Merryman, David A. Newman

| Think Like A Man

Ol Parker

| The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

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!scope="row" rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| 2014

| John Ridley

| 12 Years a Slave

Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón

| Gravity

| The Butler

| 42

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!scope="row" rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| 2015

| Misan Sagay

| Belle

Chris Rock

| Top Five

Justin Simien

| Dear White People

Margaret Nagle

| The Good Lie

Richard Wenk

| The Equalizer

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!scope="row" rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 2016

| Ryan Coogler and Aaron Covington

| Creed

Andrea Berloff and Jonathan Herman and Alan Wenkus

| Straight Outta Compton

Christopher Cleveland, Bettina Gilois, and Grant Thompson

| McFarland USA

Rick Famuyiwa

| Dope

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!scope="row" rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| 2017

| Barry Jenkins

| Moonlight

Adam Mansbach

| Barry

Nate Parker

| The Birth of a Nation

Jeff Nichols

| Loving

Richard Tanne

| Southside With You

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!scope="row" rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| 2018

| Jordan Peele

| Get Out

Kenya Barris and Tracy Oliver

| Girls Trip

Mark Boal

| Detroit

Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani

| The Big Sick

Dee Rees and Virgil Williams

| Mudbound

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!scope="row" rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| 2019

| Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole

| Black Panther

Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim

| Crazy Rich Asians

Barry Jenkins

| If Beale Street Could Talk

Boots Riley

| Sorry to Bother You

Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott and Spike Lee

| BlacKkKlansman

=2020s=

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!scope="row" rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| 2020

| Jordan Peele

| Us

Doug Atchison

| Brian Banks

Chinonye Chukwu

| Clemency

Destin Daniel Cretton

| Just Mercy

Kasi Lemmons

Gregory Allen Howard{{Cite web |last=Howard |first=Katherine Schaffstall, Annie |last2=Schaffstall |first2=Katherine |last3=Howard |first3=Annie |date=2020-02-22 |title=NAACP Image Awards: Lizzo Named Entertainer of the Year; ‘Just Mercy,’ ‘Black-ish’ Among Top Winners |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/2020-naacp-image-award-winners-complete-list-updating-1276771/ |access-date=2023-05-09 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}} (screenwriter)

| Harriet

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!scope="row" rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| 2021

| Radha Blank

| The Forty-Year-Old Version

David E. Talbert

| Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey

Kemp Powers

| One Night in Miami...

Lee Isaac Chung

| Minari

Pete Docter, Kemp Powers, Mike Jones