NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture

NAACP Image Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
NAACP Image Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
	The 2025 recipient Denzel Washington
Awarded for	Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Location	Pasadena, California
Presented by	NAACP
First award	Redd Foxx for Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
Currently held by	Denzel Washington for Gladiator II (2024)

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	Ref
1970	Redd Foxx	Cotton Comes to Harlem	^{[citation needed]}
1971	—
1972	Roscoe Lee Browne	The Cowboys	^{[citation needed]}
1973–1976	—
1977	DeWayne Jessie	The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings	^{[citation needed]}
1978–1979	—

1980s

Year	Actor	Film	Ref
1980–1981	—
1982	Moses Gunn	Ragtime	^{[citation needed]}
1983	Scatman Crothers	Twilight Zone: The Movie	^{[citation needed]}
1984	—
1985	Denzel Washington	A Soldier's Story	^{[citation needed]}
1986	Denzel Washington	Power	^{[citation needed]}
1987	Mario Van Peebles	Heartbreak Ridge	^[1]
	William Allen Young	Wisdom
	Alex English	Amazing Grace and Chuck
	Bill Duke	Predator
	Michael Winslow	Police Academy 4
1988	Arsenio Hall	Coming to America	^[2]
1989	Ossie Davis	Do the Right Thing	^[3]
	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	Ref
1990	Denzel Washington	Glory	^{[citation needed]}
1991–1993	—
1994	Al Freeman Jr.	Malcolm X	^[4]
	Wolfgang Bodison	A Few Good Men
	Delroy Lindo	Malcolm X
	Denzel Washington	Much Ado About Nothing
	Forest Whitaker	The Crying Game
1995	—
1996	Laurence Fishburne	Higher Learning	^[5]
	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	^[6]
	Charles S. Dutton	A Time to Kill
	Delroy Lindo	Ransom
	Blair Underwood	Set It Off
	Forest Whitaker	Phenomenon
1998	Morgan Freeman	Amistad	^{[citation needed]}
	Don Cheadle	Rosewood
	Vondie Curtis-Hall	Eve's Bayou
	Danny Glover	The Rainmaker
	Clarence Williams III	Hoodlum
1999	Morgan Freeman	Deep Impact	^[7]
	Andre Braugher	City of Angels
	Don Cheadle	Bulworth
	Cuba Gooding Jr.	What Dreams May Come
	Chris Rock	Lethal Weapon 4

2000s

Year	Actor	Film	Ref
2000	Terrence Howard	The Best Man	^{[citation needed]}
	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	^{[citation needed]}
	Morgan Freeman	Nurse Betty
	Wood Harris	Remember the Titans
	Ving Rhames	Mission: Impossible 2
	Billy Dee Williams	The Visit
2002	Jamie Foxx	Ali	^{[citation needed]}
	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	^{[citation needed]}
	Anthony Anderson	Barbershop
	Cedric the Entertainer	Barbershop
	Mos Def	Brown Sugar
	Boris Kodjoe	Brown Sugar
2004	Morgan Freeman	Bruce Almighty	^[8]
	Charles S. Dutton	Gothika
	Djimon Hounsou	In America
	Bernie Mac	Head of State
	Forest Whitaker	Phone Booth
2005	Morgan Freeman	Million Dollar Baby	^{[citation needed]}
	Don Cheadle	Ocean's Twelve
	Jamie Foxx	Collateral
	Clifton Powell	Ray
	C.J. Sanders	Ray
2006	Terrence Howard	Crash	^{[citation needed]}
	Anthony Anderson	Hustle & Flow
	Don Cheadle	Crash
	Ludacris
	Larenz Tate
2007	Djimon Hounsou	Blood Diamond	^{[citation needed]}
	Harry Belafonte	Bobby
	Danny Glover	Dreamgirls
	Eddie Murphy	Dreamgirls
	Jaden Smith	The Pursuit of Happyness
2008	Denzel Whitaker	The Great Debaters	^{[citation needed]}
	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	^{[citation needed]}
	Cedric the Entertainer	Cadillac Records
	Mos Def	Cadillac Records
	Nate Parker	The Secret Life of Bees
	Dev Patel	Slumdog Millionaire

2010s

Year	Actor	Film	Ref
2010	Adam Rodriguez	I Can Do Bad All By Myself	^{[citation needed]}
	Chiwetel Ejiofor	2012
	Danny Glover	2012
	Lenny Kravitz	Precious
	Anthony Mackie	The Hurt Locker
2011	Samuel L. Jackson	Mother and Child	^{[citation needed]}
	Don Cheadle	Brooklyn's Finest
	Michael Ealy	For Colored Girls
	Idris Elba	Takers
	Justin Timberlake	The Social Network
2012	Mike Epps	Jumping the Broom	^{[citation needed]}
	Don Cheadle	The Guard
	Anthony Mackie	The Adjustment Bureau
	Charles Parnell	Pariah
	Jeffrey Wright	The Ides of March
2013	Samuel L. Jackson	Django Unchained	^[9]
	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	^[10]
	Morris Chestnut	The Best Man Holiday
	Terrence Howard	The Best Man Holiday
	Terrence Howard	Lee Daniels' The Butler
	Cuba Gooding Jr.	Lee Daniels' The Butler
2015	Common	Selma	^[11]
	Cedric the Entertainer	Top Five
	Danny Glover	Beyond the Lights
	André Holland	Selma
	Wendell Pierce	Selma
2016	O'Shea Jackson Jr.	Straight Outta Compton	^[12]
	Chiwetel Ejiofor	The Martian
	Idris Elba	Beasts of No Nation
	Corey Hawkins	Straight Outta Compton
	Forest Whitaker	Southpaw
2017	Mahershala Ali	Moonlight	^[13]
	Chadwick Boseman	Captain America: Civil War
	Alano Miller	Loving
	David Oyelowo	Queen of Katwe
	Trevante Rhodes	Moonlight
2018	Idris Elba	Thor: Ragnarok	^[14]
	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	Ref
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	^[15]
	Aldis Hodge	One Night in Miami...
	Clarke Peters	Da 5 Bloods
	Colman Domingo	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
	Glynn Turman	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
2022	Daniel Kaluuya	Judas and the Black Messiah	^[16]
	Algee Smith	Judas and the Black Messiah
	Delroy Lindo	The Harder They Fall
	Idris Elba
	Lakeith Stanfield
2023	Tenoch Huerta	Black Panther: Wakanda Forever	^[17]
	John Boyega	The Woman King
	Jalyn Hall	Till
	Aldis Hodge	Black Adam
	Cliff Smith	On the Come Up
2025	Colman Domingo	The Color Purple	^[18]
	Sterling K. Brown	American Fiction
	Jamie Foxx	They Cloned Tyrone
	Corey Hawkins	The Color Purple
	Glynn Turman	Rustin
2024	Denzel Washington	Gladiator II
	Brian Tyree Henry	American Fiction
	David Alan Grier	The American Society of Magical Negroes
	Corey Hawkins	The Piano Lesson
	Samuel L. Jackson	The Piano Lesson

Multiple wins and nominations

Wins

4 wins

3 wins

Samuel L. Jackson

2 wins

Terrence Howard

Nominations

8 nominations

Don Cheadle

5 nominations

4 nominations

3 nominations

2 nominations

References

^ Snow, Shauna (11 November 1988). "Nominees for 21st Image Awards Announced". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
^ "1990 Image Award Winners". IMDb. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
^ "NAACP Image Award Nominees Announced". Associated Press.
^ "1995 Image Award Winners". IMDb. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
^ Snow, Shauna (22 February 1996). "5 Films Head Nominations for NAACP Image Awards". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
^ "1997 Image Award Winners". IMDb. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
^ "The Crisis". The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc. 1 April 1999. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
^ "2004 Image Award Winners". IMDb. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
^ Couch, Aaron (February 1, 2013). "2013 Image Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
^ Couch, Aaron (February 22, 2014). "2014 Image Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
^ Washington, Arlene (February 6, 2015). "2015 Image Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
^ "2016 Image Winners". Variety. 6 February 2016. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
^ Hipes, Patrick (December 13, 2016). "Ruth Negga, Angela Bassett and Taraji P. Henson nominated". Deadline. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
^ "NAACP Image Awards: 'Marshall,' 'Get Out,' 'Girls Trip' Dominate Film Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. January 11, 2018. Retrieved January 29, 2018.
^ Bosselman, Haley (March 28, 2021). "NAACP Image Awards 2021: The Complete Televised Winners List". Variety. Retrieved April 6, 2021.
^ "NAACP Image Awards". NAACP Image Awards. February 26, 2022. Archived from the original on December 6, 2017. Retrieved May 20, 2022.
^ "Nominees". NAACP Image Awards. Archived from the original on 2017-12-06. Retrieved 2023-05-28.
^ "Nominees Announced for the 55th NAACP Image Awards | NAACP". naacp.org. 2024-01-25. Retrieved 2024-03-18.

[1] Snow, Shauna (11 November 1988). "Nominees for 21st Image Awards Announced". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 21 January 2017.

[2] "1990 Image Award Winners". IMDb. Retrieved August 2, 2016.

[3] "NAACP Image Award Nominees Announced". Associated Press.

[4] "1995 Image Award Winners". IMDb. Retrieved August 2, 2016.

[5] Snow, Shauna (22 February 1996). "5 Films Head Nominations for NAACP Image Awards". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 21 January 2017.

[6] "1997 Image Award Winners". IMDb. Retrieved August 2, 2016.

[7] "The Crisis". The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc. 1 April 1999. Retrieved 21 January 2017.

[8] "2004 Image Award Winners". IMDb. Retrieved August 2, 2016.

[9] Couch, Aaron (February 1, 2013). "2013 Image Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 2, 2016.

[10] Couch, Aaron (February 22, 2014). "2014 Image Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 2, 2016.

[11] Washington, Arlene (February 6, 2015). "2015 Image Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 2, 2016.

[12] "2016 Image Winners". Variety. 6 February 2016. Retrieved August 2, 2016.

[13] Hipes, Patrick (December 13, 2016). "Ruth Negga, Angela Bassett and Taraji P. Henson nominated". Deadline. Retrieved January 2, 2017.

[14] "NAACP Image Awards: 'Marshall,' 'Get Out,' 'Girls Trip' Dominate Film Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. January 11, 2018. Retrieved January 29, 2018.

[15] Bosselman, Haley (March 28, 2021). "NAACP Image Awards 2021: The Complete Televised Winners List". Variety. Retrieved April 6, 2021.

[16] "NAACP Image Awards". NAACP Image Awards. February 26, 2022. Archived from the original on December 6, 2017. Retrieved May 20, 2022.

[17] "Nominees". NAACP Image Awards. Archived from the original on 2017-12-06. Retrieved 2023-05-28.

[18] "Nominees Announced for the 55th NAACP Image Awards | NAACP". naacp.org. 2024-01-25. Retrieved 2024-03-18.

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NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture

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NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture

Winners and nominees

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1990s

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2010s

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Wins

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