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 |
| 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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References
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