Awards & Winners

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture

NAACP Image Award

The NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture is an award category for the annual NAACP Image awards.

Check all the winners of NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture presented under NAACP Image Award since 2006 .


Steve McQueen

Honored for : 12 Years a Slave

Nominations 2014 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Jono Oliver Home
Malcolm D. Lee The Best Man Holiday
Steve McQueen 12 Years a Slave
Justin Chadwick Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Lee Daniels The Butler

Benh Zeitlin

Honored for : Beasts of the Southern Wild

Nominations 2013 »

Nominee Nominated Work
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

Salim Akil

Honored for : Jumping the Broom

Nominations 2012 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Salim Akil Jumping the Broom
Alrick Brown Kinyarwanda
Angelina Jolie In the Land of Blood and Honey
Dee Rees Pariah
Tate Taylor The Help

Tyler Perry

Honored for : For Colored Girls
(Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture (Theatrical or Television))

Nominations 2011 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Tyler Perry For Colored Girls
Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture (Theatrical or Television)
Albert Hughes The Book of Eli
Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture (Theatrical or Television)
Allen Hughes The Book of Eli
Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture (Theatrical or Television)
Tanya Hamilton Night Catches Us
Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture (Theatrical or Television)
Geoffrey Sax Frankie and Alice
Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture (Theatrical or Television)
George Tillman, Jr. Faster
Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture (Theatrical or Television)

Lee Daniels

Honored for : Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

Nominations 2010 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Lee Daniels Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Scott Sanders Black Dynamite
F. Gary Gray Law Abiding Citizen
George Tillman, Jr. Notorious
Spike Lee Passing Strange

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Honored for : The Secret Life of Bees

Nominations 2009 »

Nominee Nominated Work
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
Gina Prince-Bythewood The Secret Life of Bees

Kasi Lemmons

Honored for : Talk to Me

Nominations 2008 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Kasi Lemmons Talk to Me
Denzel Washington The Great Debaters
Preston A. Whitmore II This Christmas
Sunu Gonera Pride
Sylvain White Stomp the Yard

Spike Lee

Honored for : Inside Man

Nominations 2007 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Spike Lee Inside Man
Alejandro González Iñárritu Babel
Chris Robinson ATL
Sanaa Hamri Something New
Tyler Perry Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion

John Singleton

Honored for : Four Brothers

Nominations 2006 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Thomas Carter Coach Carter
George C. Wolfe Lackawanna Blues
John Singleton Four Brothers
Malcolm D. Lee Roll Bounce
Thomas Carter Coach Carter
Tim Story Fantastic Four