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

### 2010s

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

### 2020s

| Year | Director(s) | Film |
| 2020 | Chiwetel Ejiofor | The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind |
| 2020 | Mati Diop | Atlantics |
| 2020 | Reginald Hudlin | The Black Godfather |
| 2020 | Kasi Lemmons | Harriet |
| 2020 | Jordan Peele | Us |
| 2021 | Gina Prince-Bythewood | The Old Guard |
| 2021 | David E. Talbert | Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey |
| 2021 | George C. Wolfe | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom |
| 2021 | Radha Blank | The Forty-Year-Old Version |
| 2021 | Regina King | One Night in Miami... |
| 2022 | Shaka King | Judas and the Black Messiah |
| 2022 | Denzel Washington | A Journal for Jordan |
| 2022 | Jeymes Samuel | The Harder They Fall |
| 2022 | Lin-Manuel Miranda | Tick, Tick... Boom! |
| 2022 | Reinaldo Marcus Green | King Richard |
| 2023 | Gina Prince-Bythewood | The Woman King |
| 2023 | Antoine Fuqua | Emancipation |
| 2023 | Chinonye Chukwu | Till |
| 2023 | Kasi Lemmons | Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody |
| 2023 | Ryan Coogler | Black Panther: Wakanda Forever |
| 2024 | Ava DuVernay | Origin |
| 2024 | Antoine Fuqua | The Equalizer 3 |
| 2024 | George C. Wolfe | Rustin |
| 2024 | Juel Taylor | They Cloned Tyrone |
| 2024 | Michael B. Jordan | Creed III |
| 2025 | RaMell Ross | Nickel Boys |
| 2025 | Jeymes Samuel | The Book of Clarence |
| 2025 | Malcolm Washington | The Piano Lesson |
| 2025 | Reinaldo Marcus Green | Bob Marley: One Love |
| 2025 | Steve McQueen | Blitz |

## Multiple wins and nominations
### Wins
#### 2 wins

* Gina Prince-Bythewood
* Ryan Coogler