# 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.

### 2000s

| Year | Director(s) | Film |
| 2008 | Rick Famuyiwa, Michael Genet | Talk to Me |
| 2008 | Steven Zaillian | American Gangster |
| 2008 | Richard LaGravenese | Freedom Writers |
| 2008 | Robert Eisele | The Great Debaters |
| 2008 | John Sayles | Honeydripper |
| 2009 | Jenny Lumet | Rachel Getting Married |
| 2009 | Darnell Martin | Cadillac Records |
| 2009 | Patrik-Ian Polk, John R. Gordon | Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom |
| 2009 | Paris Qualles | A Raisin in the Sun |
| 2009 | Gina Prince-Bythewood | The Secret Life of Bees |

### 2010s

| Year | Director(s) | Film |
| 2010 | Geoffrey S. Fletcher | Precious |
| 2010 | Tyler Perry | I Can Do Bad All by Myself |
| 2010 | Anthony Peckham | Invictus |
| 2010 | Reggie Rock Bythewood, Cheo Hodari Coker | Notorious |
| 2010 | John Lee Hancock | The Blind Side |
| 2011 | Michael Elliot | Just Wright |
| 2011 | Mary King, Jonathan Watters, Cheryl Edwards, Joe Shrapnel, Marko King, Anna Waterhouse | Frankie and Alice |
| 2011 | Tyler Perry | Why Did I Get Married Too? |
| 2011 | Michael C. Martin | Brooklyn's Finest |
| 2011 | Rodrigo García | Mother and Child |
| 2012 | Ann Peacock | The First Grader |
| 2012 | Alrick Brown | Kinyarwanda |
| 2012 | Dee Rees | Pariah |
| 2012 | Elizabeth Hunter, Arlene ilibbs | Jumping The Broom |
| 2012 | Tate Taylor | The Help |
| 2013 | Elizabeth Hunter | Abducted: The Carlina White Story |
| 2013 | John Gatins | Flight |
| 2013 | John Ridley, Aaron McGruder | Red Tails |
| 2013 | Keith Merryman, David A. Newman | Think Like A Man |
| 2013 | Ol Parker | The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel |
| 2014 | John Ridley | 12 Years a Slave |
| 2014 | Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón | Gravity |
| 2014 | Ryan Coogler | Fruitvale Station |
| 2014 | Danny Strong | The Butler |
| 2014 | Brian Helgeland | 42 |
| 2015 | Misan Sagay | Belle |
| 2015 | Chris Rock | Top Five |
| 2015 | Justin Simien | Dear White People |
| 2015 | Margaret Nagle | The Good Lie |
| 2015 | Richard Wenk | The Equalizer |
| 2016 | Ryan Coogler and Aaron Covington | Creed |
| 2016 | Andrea Berloff and Jonathan Herman and Alan Wenkus | Straight Outta Compton |
| 2016 | Christopher Cleveland, Bettina Gilois, and Grant Thompson | McFarland USA |
| 2016 | Rick Famuyiwa | Dope |
| 2017 | Barry Jenkins | Moonlight |
| 2017 | Adam Mansbach | Barry |
| 2017 | Nate Parker | The Birth of a Nation |
| 2017 | Jeff Nichols | Loving |
| 2017 | Richard Tanne | Southside With You |
| 2018 | Jordan Peele | Get Out |
| 2018 | Kenya Barris and Tracy Oliver | Girls Trip |
| 2018 | Mark Boal | Detroit |
| 2018 | Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani | The Big Sick |
| 2018 | Dee Rees and Virgil Williams | Mudbound |
| 2019 | Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole | Black Panther |
| 2019 | Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim | Crazy Rich Asians |
| 2019 | Barry Jenkins | If Beale Street Could Talk |
| 2019 | Boots Riley | Sorry to Bother You |
| 2019 | Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott and Spike Lee | BlacKkKlansman |

### 2020s

| Year | Director(s) | Film |
| 2020 | Jordan Peele | Us |
| 2020 | Doug Atchison | Brian Banks |
| 2020 | Chinonye Chukwu | Clemency |
| 2020 | Destin Daniel Cretton | Just Mercy |
| 2020 | Kasi Lemmons Gregory Allen Howard (screenwriter) | Harriet |
| 2021 | Radha Blank | The Forty-Year-Old Version |
| 2021 | David E. Talbert | Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey |
| 2021 | Kemp Powers | One Night in Miami... |
| 2021 | Lee Isaac Chung | Minari |
| 2021 | Pete Docter, Kemp Powers, Mike Jones | Soul |
| 2022 | Shaka King, Will Berson, Kenny Lucas, Keith Lucas | Judas and the Black Messiah |
| 2022 | Janicza Bravo and Jeremy O. Harris | Zola |
| 2022 | Jeymes Samuel and Boaz Yakin | The Harder They Fall |
| 2022 | Virgil Williams | A Journal for Jordan |
| 2022 | Win Rosenfeld, Nia DaCosta, and Jordan Peele | Candyman |
| 2023 | Ryan Coogler | Black Panther: Wakanda Forever |
| 2023 | Charles Murray | The Devil You Know |
| 2023 | Dana Stevens, Maria Bello | The Woman King |
| 2023 | Jordan Peele | Nope |
| 2023 | Krystin Ver Linden | Alice |
| 2024 | Cord Jefferson | American Fiction |
| 2024 | A.V. Rockwell | A Thousand and One |
| 2024 | Juel Taylor, Tony Rettenmaier | They Cloned Tyrone |
| 2024 | Maggie Betts, Doug Wright | The Burial |
| 2024 | Marcus Gardley | The Color Purple |
| 2025 | RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes | Nickel Boys |
| 2025 | Barry Jenkins | The Fire Inside |
| 2025 | Steve McQueen | Blitz |
| 2025 | Titus Kaphar | Exhibiting Forgiveness |
| 2025 | Virgil Williams, Malcolm Washington | The Piano Lesson |

## Multiple wins and nominations
### Wins
#### 3 wins

* Ryan Coogler

#### 2 wins

* Jordan Peele