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| NAACP Image Award for Best Motion Picture | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture |
| Date | February 22, 2025 |
| Presented by | NAACP |
| First award | "Lady Sings the Blues" (1972) |
| Currently held by | "The Six Triple Eight" (2024) |
| Most awards | 5 |
| Most nominations | 5 |
This article lists the winners and nominees for theNAACP 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 theAcademy Award for Best Picture:Crash and12 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 inbold. Year refers to year of ceremony, not year of release.
| Year | Film | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| 1972 | ||
| Lady Sings the Blues | [citation needed] | |
| 1973 – 1975 | — | |
| 1976 | ||
| Let's Do It Again | [1] | |
| 1977 | — | |
| 1978 | ||
| The Greatest | — | |
| 1979 | — | |
Below are the films that garnered multiple nominations and wins in the category ofOutstanding Motion Picture.
| Rank | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Film | |||||
| Total wins | 11 wins | 6 wins | 5 wins | 4 wins | 3 wins |
| Rank | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Film | |||||||
| Total Nominations | 16 nominations | 13 nominations | 10 nominations | 9 nominations | 8 nominations | 7 nominations | 6 nominations |