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

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

2000s

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Year Director(s) Film Ref
2008 Rick Famuyiwa, Michael Genet Talk to Me
Steven Zaillian American Gangster
Richard LaGravenese Freedom Writers
Robert Eisele The Great Debaters
John Sayles Honeydripper
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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Year Director(s) Film Ref
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
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
2012 Ann Peacock The First Grader
Alrick Brown Kinyarwanda
Dee Rees Pariah
Elizabeth Hunter, Arlene ilibbs Jumping The Broom
Tate Taylor The Help
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
2014 John Ridley 12 Years a Slave
Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón Gravity
Ryan Coogler Fruitvale Station
Danny Strong The Butler
Brian Helgeland 42
2015 Misan Sagay Belle
Chris Rock Top Five
Justin Simien Dear White People
Margaret Nagle The Good Lie
Richard Wenk The Equalizer
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
2017 Barry Jenkins Moonlight
Adam Mansbach Barry
Nate Parker The Birth of a Nation
Jeff Nichols Loving
Richard Tanne Southside With You
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
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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Year Director(s) Film Ref
2020 Jordan Peele Us
Doug Atchison Brian Banks
Chinonye Chukwu Clemency
Destin Daniel Cretton Just Mercy
Kasi Lemmons

Gregory Allen Howard[1] (screenwriter)

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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 Soul
2022 Shaka King, Will Berson, Kenny Lucas, Keith Lucas Judas and the Black Messiah
Janicza Bravo and Jeremy O. Harris Zola
Jeymes Samuel and Boaz Yakin The Harder They Fall
Virgil Williams A Journal for Jordan
Win Rosenfeld, Nia DaCosta, and Jordan Peele Candyman

Multiple wins and nominations

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Wins

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3 wins
2 wins

Nominations

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References

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  1. ^ Howard, Katherine Schaffstall, Annie; Schaffstall, Katherine; Howard, Annie (2020-02-22). "NAACP Image Awards: Lizzo Named Entertainer of the Year; 'Just Mercy,' 'Black-ish' Among Top Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2023-05-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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