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
2010s
| Year
|
Director(s)
|
Film
|
Ref
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| 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
| 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)
|
Harriet
|
|
| 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
|
|
| 2023
|
Ryan Coogler
|
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
|
|
| Charles Murray
|
The Devil You Know
|
|
| Dana Stevens, Maria Bello
|
The Woman King
|
|
| Jordan Peele
|
Nope
|
|
| Krystin Ver Linden
|
Alice
|
|
| 2024
|
Cord Jefferson
|
American Fiction
|
|
| A.V. Rockwell
|
A Thousand and One
|
|
| Juel Taylor, Tony Rettenmaier
|
They Cloned Tyrone
|
|
| Maggie Betts, Doug Wright
|
The Burial
|
|
| Marcus Gardley
|
The Color Purple
|
|
| 2025
|
RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes
|
Nickel Boys
|
|
| Barry Jenkins
|
The Fire Inside
|
|
| Steve McQueen
|
Blitz
|
|
| Titus Kaphar
|
Exhibiting Forgiveness
|
|
| Virgil Williams, Malcolm Washington
|
The Piano Lesson
|
|
Multiple wins and nominations
Wins
- 3 wins
- 2 wins
Nominations
- 3 nominations
|
- 2 nominations
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