NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture

This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture.

Winners and nominees

For each year in the tables below, the winner is listed first and highlighted in bold.

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Multiple wins and nominations

Wins

13 wins

• Denzel Washington

3 wins

• Morgan Freeman
• Michael B. Jordan
• Will Smith

2 wins

• Chadwick Boseman
• Danny Glover
• Forest Whitaker
• Billy Dee Williams

Nominations

24 nominations

• Denzel Washington

14 nominations

• Will Smith

10 nominations

• Laurence Fishburne

9 nominations

• Morgan Freeman

7 nominations

• Danny Glover
• Samuel L. Jackson
• Eddie Murphy

6 nominations

• Chadwick Boseman

5 nominations

• Michael B. Jordan

4 nominations

• Don Cheadle
• Idris Elba
• Jamie Foxx
• Cuba Gooding, Jr.
• Gregory Hines
• Sidney Poitier

3 nominations

• Bill Cosby
• Daniel Kaluuya
• Forest Whitaker
• Billy Dee Williams

2 nominations

• Ice Cube
• Taye Diggs
• Chiwetel Ejiofor
• Louis Gossett Jr.
• André Holland
• Terrence Howard
• Stephan James
• James Earl Jones
• Anthony Mackie
• Jonathan Majors
• Nate Parker
• Wesley Snipes
• Chris Tucker
• Colman Domingo
• John David Washington

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