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
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For each year in the tables below, the winner is listed first and highlighted in bold.
Year
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Director(s)
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Film
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2010
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Geoffrey S. Fletcher
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Precious
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Tyler Perry
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I Can Do Bad All by Myself
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Anthony Peckham
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Invictus
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Reggie Rock Bythewood, Cheo Hodari Coker
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Notorious
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John Lee Hancock
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The Blind Side
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2011
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Michael Elliot
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Just Wright
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Mary King, Jonathan Watters, Cheryl Edwards, Joe Shrapnel, Marko King, Anna Waterhouse
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Frankie and Alice
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Tyler Perry
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Why Did I Get Married Too?
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Michael C. Martin
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Brooklyn's Finest
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Rodrigo García
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Mother and Child
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2012
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Ann Peacock
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The First Grader
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Alrick Brown
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Kinyarwanda
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Dee Rees
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Pariah
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Elizabeth Hunter, Arlene ilibbs
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Jumping The Broom
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Tate Taylor
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The Help
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2013
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Elizabeth Hunter
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Abducted: The Carlina White Story
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John Gatins
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Flight
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John Ridley, Aaron McGruder
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Red Tails
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Keith Merryman, David A. Newman
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Think Like A Man
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Ol Parker
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
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2014
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John Ridley
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12 Years a Slave
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Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón
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Gravity
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Ryan Coogler
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Fruitvale Station
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Danny Strong
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The Butler
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Brian Helgeland
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42
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2015
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Misan Sagay
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Belle
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Chris Rock
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Top Five
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Justin Simien
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Dear White People
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Margaret Nagle
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The Good Lie
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Richard Wenk
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The Equalizer
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2016
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Ryan Coogler and Aaron Covington
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Creed
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Andrea Berloff and Jonathan Herman and Alan Wenkus
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Straight Outta Compton
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Christopher Cleveland, Bettina Gilois, and Grant Thompson
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McFarland USA
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Rick Famuyiwa
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Dope
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2017
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Barry Jenkins
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Moonlight
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Adam Mansbach
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Barry
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Nate Parker
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The Birth of a Nation
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Jeff Nichols
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Loving
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Richard Tanne
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Southside With You
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2018
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Jordan Peele
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Get Out
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Kenya Barris and Tracy Oliver
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Girls Trip
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Mark Boal
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Detroit
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Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani
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The Big Sick
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Dee Rees and Virgil Williams
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Mudbound
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2019
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Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole
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Black Panther
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Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim
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Crazy Rich Asians
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Barry Jenkins
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If Beale Street Could Talk
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Boots Riley
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Sorry to Bother You
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Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott and Spike Lee
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BlacKkKlansman
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Multiple wins and nominations
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- 3 wins
- 2 wins
- 3 nominations
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- 2 nominations
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