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NAACP Image Award for Best Motion Picture | |
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Awarded for | NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture |
Date | March 16, 2024 |
Presented by | NAACP |
First awarded | " Lady Sings the Blues" (1972) |
Last awarded | " Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" (2023) |
Currently held by | " The Color Purple" (2024) |
Most awards | 11 |
Most nominations | 16 |
This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture, awarded by the U.S.-based National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP). This award has been given since 1972 and as of 2017, only two of the winning films have also won the Academy Award for Best Picture: Crash and 12 Years a Slave.
To date, The Color Purple (2023) holds the record of the most nominations and wins for a Motion Picture, with 16 nominations and 11 wins.
Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold. Year refers to year of ceremony, not year of release.
Year | Film | Ref |
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1972 | ||
Lady Sings the Blues | [ citation needed] | |
1973 – 1975 | — | |
1976 | ||
Let's Do It Again | [1] | |
1977 | — | |
1978 | ||
The Greatest | — | |
1979 | — |
Year | Film | Ref |
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1980 | ||
Fame | [2] | |
1981 | ||
Bustin' Loose | [ citation needed] | |
1982 | ||
An Officer and a Gentleman | [ citation needed] | |
Diva | ||
Ragtime | ||
Rocky III | ||
1983 – 1984 | — | |
1985 | ||
A Soldier's Story | [ citation needed] | |
1986 | ||
The Color Purple | [3] | |
1987 | ||
Lethal Weapon | [4] | |
Beverly Hills Cop II | ||
Hollywood Shuffle | ||
Round Midnight | ||
1988 | ||
Coming to America | [ citation needed] | |
School Daze | ||
Cry Freedom | ||
Shoot to Kill | ||
1989 | ||
Lean on Me | [5] | |
Do the Right Thing | ||
Tap | ||
Lethal Weapon 2 | ||
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka |
Below are the films that garnered multiple nominations and wins in the category of Outstanding Motion Picture.
Rank | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th |
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Film | The Color Purple | |||
Total Wins | 11 wins | 6 wins | 4 wins | 3 wins |
Rank | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th |
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Film | ||||||
Total Nominations | 16 Nominations | 10 nominations | 9 nominations | 8 nominations | 7 nominations | 6 nominations |