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 Ref
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 Ref
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

Multiple wins and nominations

Wins

2 wins

Nominations