NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture
American film award
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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.
| NAACP Image Award for Best Motion Picture | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture |
| Date | February 22, 2025 |
| Presented by | NAACP |
| First award | Lady Sings the Blues (1972) |
| Currently held by | Sinners (2026) |
| Most awards | 13 |
| Most nominations | 18 |
Sinners holds the record of the most nominations and wins for a Motion Picture, with 18 nominations and 13 wins, a record previously held for 2 years by The Color Purple (2023), who had the most nominations at 13 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
| Year | Film | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| 1972 | ||
| Lady Sings the Blues | [citation needed] | |
| 1973 – 1975 | N/a | |
| 1976 | ||
| Let's Do It Again | [1] | |
| 1977 | N/a | |
| 1978 | ||
| The Greatest | N/a | |
| 1979 | N/a | |
1980s
| Year | Film | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | ||
| Fame | [2] | |
| 1981 | ||
| Bustin' Loose | [citation needed] | |
| 1982 | ||
| An Officer and a Gentleman | [citation needed] | |
| Diva | ||
| Ragtime | ||
| Rocky III | ||
| 1983 – 1984 | N/a | |
| 1985 | ||
| A Soldier's Story | [citation needed] | |
| 1986 | ||
| The Color Purple | [3] | |
| 1987 | ||
| Lethal Weapon | [4] | |
| Beverly Hills Cop II | ||
| Hollywood Shuffle | ||
| Round Midnight | ||
| 1988 | ||
| Coming to America | [citation needed] | |
| School Daze | ||
| Cry Freedom | ||
| Shoot to Kill | ||
| 1989 | ||
| Lean on Me | [5] | |
| Do the Right Thing | ||
| Tap | ||
| Lethal Weapon 2 | ||
| I'm Gonna Git You Sucka | ||
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Stats and facts
Below are the films that garnered multiple nominations and wins in the category of Outstanding Motion Picture.
Most wins
| Rank | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Film | ||||||
| Total wins | 13 wins | 11 wins | 6 wins | 5 wins | 4 wins | 3 wins |
Most nominations
| Rank | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Film | ||||||||
| Total Nominations | 18 nominations | 16 nominations | 13 nominations | 10 nominations | 9 nominations | 8 nominations | 7 nominations | 6 nominations |