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

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

2020s Year Director(s) Film 2020 Chiwetel Ejiofor The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Mati Diop Atlantics Reginald Hudlin The Black Godfather Kasi Lemmons Harriet Jordan Peele Us 2021 Gina Prince-Bythewood The Old Guard David E. Talbert Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey George C. Wolfe Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Radha Blank The Forty-Year-Old Version Regina King One Night in Miami... 2022 Shaka King Judas and the Black Messiah Denzel Washington A Journal for Jordan Jeymes Samuel The Harder They Fall Lin-Manuel Miranda Tick, Tick... Boom! Reinaldo Marcus Green King Richard 2023 Gina Prince-Bythewood The Woman King Antoine Fuqua Emancipation Chinonye Chukwu Till Kasi Lemmons Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody Ryan Coogler Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 2024 Ava DuVernay Origin Antoine Fuqua The Equalizer 3 George C. Wolfe Rustin Juel Taylor  They Cloned Tyrone Michael B. Jordan Creed III 2025 RaMell Ross Nickel Boys Jeymes Samuel The Book of Clarence Malcolm Washington The Piano Lesson Reinaldo Marcus Green Bob Marley: One Love Steve McQueen Blitz 2026 Ryan Coogler Sinners Elijah Bynum Magazine Dreams Guillermo Del Toro Frankenstein Lawrence Lamont One of Them Days R.T. Thorne 40 Acres

Multiple wins and nominations Wins 3 wins Ryan Coogler

2 wins Gina Prince-Bythewood

Nominations

4 nominations Ryan Coogler Spike Lee

3 nominations Malcolm D. Lee Tyler Perry Gina Prince-Bythewood

2 nominations Kasi Lemmons George C. Wolfe Tim Story Lee Daniels F. Gary Gray George Tillman, Jr. Dee Rees Steve McQueen Ryan Coogler Barry Jenkins Reginald Hudlin Jordan Peele Denzel Washington

References

External links NAACP Image Awards official site