NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture

This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture.

Winners and nominees

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

2000s

Year	Director(s)	Film
2006	John Singleton	Four Brothers
	Thomas Carter	Coach Carter
	George C. Wolfe	Lackawanna Blues
	Malcolm D. Lee	Roll Bounce
	Tim Story	Fantastic Four
2007	Spike Lee	Inside Man
	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Babel
	Chris Robinson	ATL
	Sanaa Hamri	Something New
	Tyler Perry	Madea's Family Reunion
2008	Kasi Lemmons	Talk to Me
	Denzel Washington	The Great Debaters
	Preston A. Whitmore II	This Christmas
	Sunu Gonera	Pride
	Sylvain White	Stomp the Yard
2009	Gina Prince-Bythewood	The Secret Life of Bees
	Darnell Martin	Cadillac Records
	Tyler Perry	The Family That Preys
	Patrik-Ian Polk	Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom
	Spike Lee	Miracle at St. Anna

2010s

Year	Director(s)	Film
2010	Lee Daniels	Precious
	Scott Sanders	Black Dynamite
	F. Gary Gray	Law Abiding Citizen
	George Tillman, Jr.	Notorious
	Spike Lee	Passing Strange
2011	Tyler Perry	For Colored Girls
	George Tillman, Jr.	Faster
	Albert and Allen Hughes	The Book of Eli
	Tanya Hamilton	Night Catches Us
	Geoffrey Sax	Frankie and Alice
2012	Salim Akil	Jumping the Broom
	Alrick Brown	Kinyarwanda
	Angelina Jolie	In the Land of Blood and Honey
	Dee Rees	Pariah
	Tate Taylor	The Help
2013	Benh Zeitlin	Beasts of the Southern Wild
	Vondie Curtis-Hall	Abducted: The Carlina White Story
	Tim Story	Think Like A Man
	Peter Ramsey	Rise of the Guardians
	Anthony Hemingway	Red Tails
2014	Steve McQueen	12 Years a Slave
	Jono Oliver	Home
	Justin Chadwick	Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
	Lee Daniels	Lee Daniels' The Butler
	Malcolm D. Lee	The Best Man Holiday
2015	Antoine Fuqua	The Equalizer
	Amma Asante	Belle
	Ava DuVernay	Selma
	John Ridley	Jimi: All Is by My Side
	Gina Prince-Bythewood	Beyond the Lights
2016	Ryan Coogler	Creed
	Rick Famuyiwa	Dope
	Alfonso Gomez-Rejon	Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
	Charles Stone III	Lila and Eve
	F. Gary Gray	Straight Outta Compton
2017	Barry Jenkins	Moonlight
	Nate Parker	The Birth of a Nation
	Anthony and Joe Russo	Captain America: Civil War
	Garth Davis	Lion
	Mira Nair	Queen of Katwe
2018	Jordan Peele	Get Out
	Reginald Hudlin	Marshall
	Malcolm D. Lee	Girls Trip
	Stella Meghie	Everything, Everything
	Dee Rees	Mudbound
2019	Ryan Coogler	Black Panther
	Alan Hicks and Rashida Jones	Quincy
	Barry Jenkins	If Beale Street Could Talk
	Spike Lee	BlacKkKlansman
	Steve McQueen	Widows

2020s

Year	Director(s)	Film	Ref
2020	Chiwetel Ejiofor	The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
	Mati Diop	Atlantics
	Reginald Hudlin	The Black Godfather
	Kasi Lemmons	Harriet
	Jordan Peele	Us
2021	Gina Prince-Bythewood	The Old Guard
	David E. Talbert	Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
	George C. Wolfe	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
	Radha Blank	The Forty-Year-Old Version
	Regina King	One Night in Miami...
2022	Shaka King	Judas and the Black Messiah
	Denzel Washington	A Journal for Jordan
	Jeymes Samuel	The Harder They Fall
	Lin-Manuel Miranda	Tick, Tick... Boom!
	Reinaldo Marcus Green	King Richard
2023	Gina Prince-Bythewood	The Woman King
	Antoine Fuqua	Emancipation
	Chinonye Chukwu	Till
	Kasi Lemmons	Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
	Ryan Coogler	Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2024	Ava DuVernay	Origin
	Antoine Fuqua	The Equalizer 3
	George C. Wolfe	Rustin
	Juel Taylor	They Cloned Tyrone
	Michael B. Jordan	Creed III
2025	RaMell Ross	Nickel Boys
	Jeymes Samuel	The Book of Clarence
	Malcolm Washington	The Piano Lesson
	Reinaldo Marcus Green	Bob Marley: One Love
	Steve McQueen	Blitz
2026	Ryan Coogler	Sinners	^[1]
	Elijah Bynum	Magazine Dreams
	Guillermo Del Toro	Frankenstein
	Lawrence Lamont	One of Them Days
	R.T. Thorne	40 Acres

Multiple wins and nominations

Wins

3 wins

Ryan Coogler

2 wins

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Nominations

4 nominations

3 nominations

2 nominations

References

^ Lewis, Hilary (2026-03-01). "2026 NAACP Image Awards: 'Sinners' Dominates With 13 Wins, Including Best Motion Picture". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2026-03-03.

External links

NAACP Image Awards official site

[1] Lewis, Hilary (2026-03-01). "2026 NAACP Image Awards: 'Sinners' Dominates With 13 Wins, Including Best Motion Picture". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2026-03-03.

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