This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. The award was introduced in 1970 and was awarded sporadically until its permanent feature from 1995 onwards. Morgan Freeman and Denzel Washington currently hold the record for most wins in this category, with four each.
Winners and nominees For each year in the tables below, the winner is listed first and highlighted in bold.
1970s Year Actor Film 1970 Redd Foxx Cotton Comes to Harlem 1971 colspan="3" 1972 Roscoe Lee Browne The Cowboys 1973–1976 colspan="3" 1977 DeWayne Jessie The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings 1978–1979 colspan="3"
1980s Year Actor Film 1980–1981 colspan="3" 1982 Moses Gunn Ragtime 1983 Scatman Crothers Twilight Zone: The Movie 1984 colspan="3" 1985 Denzel Washington A Soldier's Story 1986 Denzel Washington Power 1987 Mario Van Peebles Heartbreak Ridge William Allen Young Wisdom Alex English Amazing Grace and Chuck Bill Duke Predator Michael Winslow Police Academy 4 1988 Arsenio Hall Coming to America 1989 Ossie Davis Do the Right Thing Sammy Davis Jr. Tap Robert Guillaume Lean on Me Robert Townsend The Mighty Quinn Carl Lumbly Everybody's All-American James Earl Jones Field of Dreams
1990s Year Actor Film 1990 Denzel Washington Glory 1991–1993 colspan="3" 1994 Al Freeman Jr. Malcolm X Wolfgang Bodison A Few Good Men Delroy Lindo Malcolm X Denzel Washington Much Ado About Nothing Forest Whitaker The Crying Game 1995 colspan="3" 1996 Laurence Fishburne Higher Learning Don Cheadle Devil in a Blue Dress Charles S. Dutton Cry, the Beloved Country Cuba Gooding Jr. Outbreak Ice Cube Higher Learning 1997 Samuel L. Jackson A Time to Kill Charles S. Dutton A Time to Kill Delroy Lindo Ransom Blair Underwood Set It Off Forest Whitaker Phenomenon 1998 Morgan Freeman Amistad Don Cheadle Rosewood Vondie Curtis-Hall Eve's Bayou Danny Glover The Rainmaker Clarence Williams III Hoodlum 1999 Morgan Freeman Deep Impact Andre Braugher City of Angels Don Cheadle Bulworth Cuba Gooding Jr. What Dreams May Come Chris Rock Lethal Weapon 4
2000s Year Actor Film 2000 Terrence Howard The Best Man Charles S. Dutton Cookie's Fortune LL Cool J Deep Blue Sea Harold Perrineau The Best Man Clarence Williams III The General's Daughter 2001 Blair Underwood Rules of Engagement Morgan Freeman Nurse Betty Wood Harris Remember the Titans Ving Rhames Mission: Impossible 2 Billy Dee Williams The Visit 2002 Jamie Foxx Ali Anthony Anderson Two Can Play That Game Cedric the Entertainer Kingdom Come Ving Rhames Baby Boy Mario Van Peebles Ali 2003 Denzel Washington Antwone Fisher Anthony Anderson Barbershop Cedric the Entertainer Mos Def Brown Sugar Boris Kodjoe 2004 Morgan Freeman Bruce Almighty Charles S. Dutton Gothika Djimon Hounsou In America Bernie Mac Head of State Forest Whitaker Phone Booth 2005 Morgan Freeman Million Dollar Baby Don Cheadle Ocean's Twelve Jamie Foxx Collateral Clifton Powell Ray C.J. Sanders 2006 Terrence Howard Crash Anthony Anderson Hustle & Flow Don Cheadle Crash Ludacris Larenz Tate 2007 Djimon Hounsou Blood Diamond Harry Belafonte Bobby Danny Glover Dreamgirls Eddie Murphy Dreamgirls Jaden Smith The Pursuit of Happyness 2008 Denzel Whitaker The Great Debaters Chiwetel Ejiofor Talk to Me Nate Parker The Great Debaters Tyler Perry Why Did I Get Married? Forest Whitaker The Great Debaters 2009 Columbus Short Cadillac Records Cedric the Entertainer Cadillac Records Mos Def Nate Parker The Secret Life of Bees Dev Patel Slumdog Millionaire
2010s Year Actor Film 2010 Adam Rodriguez I Can Do Bad All By Myself Chiwetel Ejiofor 2012 Danny Glover Lenny Kravitz Precious Anthony Mackie The Hurt Locker 2011 Samuel L. Jackson Mother and Child Don Cheadle Brooklyn's Finest Michael Ealy For Colored Girls Idris Elba Takers Justin Timberlake The Social Network 2012 Mike Epps Jumping the Broom Don Cheadle The Guard Anthony Mackie The Adjustment Bureau Charles Parnell Pariah Jeffrey Wright The Ides of March 2013 Samuel L. Jackson Django Unchained Don Cheadle Flight Dwight Henry Beasts of the Southern Wild Lenny Kravitz The Hunger Games David Oyelowo Middle of Nowhere 2014 David Oyelowo Lee Daniels' The Butler Morris Chestnut The Best Man Holiday Terrence Howard Lee Daniels' The Butler Cuba Gooding Jr. 2015 Common Selma Cedric the Entertainer Top Five Danny Glover Beyond the Lights André Holland Selma Wendell Pierce 2016 O'Shea Jackson Jr. Straight Outta Compton Chiwetel Ejiofor The Martian Idris Elba Beasts of No Nation Corey Hawkins Straight Outta Compton Forest Whitaker Southpaw 2017 Mahershala Ali Moonlight Chadwick Boseman Captain America: Civil War Alano Miller Loving David Oyelowo Queen of Katwe Trevante Rhodes Moonlight 2018 Idris Elba Thor: Ragnarok Nnamdi Asomugha Crown Heights Sterling K. Brown Marshall Laurence Fishburne Last Flag Flying Lil Rel Howery Get Out 2019 Michael B. Jordan Black Panther Mahershala Ali Green Book Winston Duke Black Panther Brian Tyree Henry If Beale Street Could Talk Russell Hornsby The Hate U Give
2020s Year Actor Film 2020 Jamie Foxx Just Mercy Sterling K. Brown Waves Tituss Burgess Dolemite Is My Name Leslie Odom Jr. Harriet Wesley Snipes Dolemite Is My Name 2021 Chadwick Boseman Da 5 Bloods Aldis Hodge One Night in Miami... Clarke Peters Da 5 Bloods Colman DomingoMa Rainey's Black Bottom Glynn Turman 2022 Daniel Kaluuya Judas and the Black Messiah Algee Smith Judas and the Black Messiah Delroy Lindo The Harder They Fall Idris Elba Lakeith Stanfield 2023Tenoch HuertaBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever John Boyega The Woman King Jalyn Hall Till Aldis Hodge Black Adam Cliff Smith On the Come Up 2024Colman DomingoThe Color Purple Sterling K. Brown American Fiction Jamie Foxx They Cloned Tyrone Corey Hawkins The Color Purple Glynn Turman Rustin 2025Denzel WashingtonGladiator II Brian Tyree Henry The Fire Inside David Alan Grier The American Society of Magical Negroes Corey Hawkins The Piano Lesson Samuel L. Jackson The Piano Lesson 2026Delroy Lindo SinnersASAP Rocky Highest 2 LowestDamson Idris F1Jeffrey Wright Highest 2 LowestMiles Caton Sinners
Multiple wins and nominations Wins
4 wins Morgan Freeman Denzel Washington
3 wins Samuel L. Jackson
2 wins Terrence Howard
Nominations
8 nominations Don Cheadle
5 nominations Morgan Freeman Denzel Washington Forest Whitaker
4 nominations Cedric the Entertainer Charles S. Dutton Idris Elba Danny Glover Terrence Howard Samuel L. Jackson Delroy Lindo
3 nominations Anthony Anderson Chiwetel Ejiofor Cuba Gooding Jr. Corey Hawkins David Oyelowo
2 nominations Mahershala Ali Chadwick Boseman Sterling K. Brown Mos Def Colman Domingo Jamie Foxx Aldis Hodge Djimon Hounsou Lenny Kravitz Anthony Mackie Brian Tyree Henry Blair Underwood Nate Parker Mario Van Peebles Ving Rhames Clarence Williams III Jeffrey Wright
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