Image Award / Best Film
Image Award : Best Film (Outstanding Motion Picture)
1970s
1972
Lady Sings the Blues - Director: Sidney J. Furie
1980s
1982
An Officer and a Gentleman ( An Officer and a Gentleman ) - Director: Taylor Hackford
1985
Sergeant Waters - A Soldier's Story ( A Soldier's Story ) - Director: Norman Jewison
1988
The Color Purple ( The Color Purple ) - Director: Steven Spielberg
1989
Lethal Weapon - Two steel-hard professionals ( Lethal Weapon ) - Director: Richard Donner
1990s
1990
The Prince from Zamunda ( Coming to America ) - Director: John Landis
1991
The hard-hitting principal ( Lean on Me ) - Director: John G. Avildsen
1993
Boyz n the Hood - Boys in the quarter ( Boyz n the Hood ) - Director: John Singleton
1994
Sister Act - A Heavenly Career ( Sister Act ) - Director: Emile Ardolino
1995
Malcolm X - Director: Spike Lee
Waiting to Exhale ( Waiting to Exhale ) - Director: Forest Whitaker
- Crimson Tide - In the lowest risk ( Crimson Tide ) - Director: Tony Scott
- Cry, the Beloved Country - Director: Darrell Roodt
- Devil in a Blue ( Devil in a Blue Dress ) - Director: Carl Franklin
- Othello - Director: Oliver Parker
The Jury ( A Time to Kill ) - Director: Joel Schumacher
- Courage to Truth ( Courage Under Fire ) - Director: Edward Zwick
- In a confined space ( Get on the Bus ) - Director: Spike Lee
- Once Upon a Time… When We Were Colored - Director: Tim Reid
- Rendezvous with an Angel ( The Preacher's Wife ) - Director: Penny Marshall
Soul Food - Director: George Tillman Jr.
- Love Jones - Director: Theodore Witcher
- Rosewood Burning ( Rosewood ) - Director: John Singleton
- Eve's Bayou - Director: Kasi Lemmons
- Amistad - Director: Steven Spielberg
Stella's Groove - Men are half the battle ( How Stella Got Her Groove Back ) - Director: Kevin Rodney Sullivan
- Game of Life ( He Got Game ) - Director: Spike Lee
- The Summer That Changed Everything ( Down in the Delta ) - Director: Maya Angelou
- Menschenkind ( Beloved ) - Director: Jonathan Demme
- Public enemy no. 1 ( Enemy of the State ) - Director: Tony Scott
2000s
The Best Man - wedding with obstacles ( The Best Man ) - Director: Malcolm D. Lee
- Life imprisonment ( Life ) - Director: Ted Demme
- Matrix ( The Matrix ) - Director: Wachowski Brothers
- Yes and No, I Will ( The Wood ) - Director: Rick Famuyiwa
- Hurricane ( The Hurricane ) - Director: Norman Jewison
Against Any Rule ( Remember the Titans ) - Directed by Boaz Yakin
- Love & Basketball - Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
- Shaft - Any questions? ( Shaft ) - Director: John Singleton
- The Original Kings of Comedy - Directed by Spike Lee
- Men of Honor - Director: George Tillman Jr.
Ali - Director: Michael Mann
- Rush Hour 2 - Director: Brett Ratner
- Training Day - Director: Antoine Fuqua
- The Brothers - In Search of the Woman of Life ( The Brothers ) - Director: Gary Hardwick
- Baby Boy - Director: John Singleton
Antwone Fisher - Director: Denzel Washington
- Barbershop - Directed by Tim Story
- Brown Sugar - Director: Rick Famuyiwa
- Drumline - Directed by Charles Stone
- John Q Desperate Anger ( John Q ) - Director: Nick Cassavetes
Fighting Temptations - Director: Jonathan Lynn
- Bad Boys II - Director: Michael Bay
- Whale Rider - Director: Niki Caro
- Deliver Us From Eva - Director: Gary Hardwick
- Kick it like Beckham ( Bend It Like Beckham ) - Director: Gurinder Chadha
Ray - Directed by Taylor Hackford
- Collateral - Director: Michael Mann
- Fahrenheit 9/11 - Director: Michael Moore
- Man on Fire ( Man on Fire ) - Director: Tony Scott
- Hotel Rwanda ( Hotel Rwanda ) - Director: Terry George
LA Crash ( Crash ) - Director: Paul Haggis
- Coach Carter - Directed by Thomas Carter
- Hitch - The Date Doctor ( Hitch ) - Director: Andy Tennant
- Hustle & Flow - Director: Craig Brewer
- The Crazy Diary ( Diary of a Mad Black Woman ) - Director: Darren Grant
The pursuit of happiness ( The Pursuit of Happyness ) - Director: Gabriele Muccino
- Dreamgirls - Director: Bill Condon
- Catch a Fire - Director: Phillip Noyce
- Akeelah is the Great ( Akeelah and the Bee ) - Director: Doug Atchison
- Blood Diamond - Director: Edward Zwick
The Great Debaters - Directed by Denzel Washington
- I Am Legend - Director: Francis Lawrence
- Pride - Director: Sunu Gonera
- Stomp the Yard - Director: Sylvain White
- Talk to Me - Director: Kasi Lemmons
The Secret Life of Bees ( The Secret Life of Bees ) - Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood
- Seven Lives ( Seven Pounds ) - Director: Gabriele Muccino
- Cadillac Records - Director: Darnell Martin
- The Family That Preys - Director: Tyler Perry
- Miracle at St. Anna - Director: Spike Lee
2010s
Precious - The life is precious (Precious) - Director: Lee Daniels
- Blind Side - The Blind Side - Director: John Lee Hancock
- Invictus - Unconquered (Invictus) - Director: Clint Eastwood
- Michael Jackson's This Is It - Director: Kenny Ortega
- Kiss the Frog (The Princess and the Frog) - Directed by: John Musker , Ron Clements
For Colored Girls - Director: Tyler Perry
- The Kids Are All Right - Director: Lisa Cholodenko
- Love is on vacation too 2 (Why Did I Get Married Too?) - Director: Tyler Perry
- Just Wright - Every Hit Counts (Just Wright) - Director:
- The Book of Eli - Directed by the Hughes Brothers
The Help - Directed by Tate Taylor
- Pariah - Director: Dee Rees
- Jumping the Broom - Director: Salim Akil
- The First Grader - Director: Justin Chadwick
- Temporary gangster - Director: Brett Ratner
Red Tails - Director: Anthony Hemingway
- Beasts of the Southern Wild - Director: Benh Zeitlin
- Good Deeds - Director: Tyler Perry
- Flight - Director: Robert Zemeckis
- Django Unchained - Director: Quentin Tarantino
12 Years a Slave - Director: Steve McQueen
- The Butler - Director: Lee Daniels
- Mandela : Long Walk to Freedom - Director: Justin Chadwick
- Fruitvale Station - Director: Ryan Coogler
- The Best Man Holiday - Director: Malcolm D. Lee
Individual evidence
- ^ The Full List of Winners for the 2016 NAACP Image Awards In. deadline.com. Retrieved February 18, 2016.