NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary

This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary.

History[edit]

This award was first given in 2008, before being discontinued after the 2009 ceremony. The award returned during the 2017 ceremony, this time honoring film and television documentaries separately.^{[citation needed]}

Winners and nominees[edit]

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

2000s[edit]

Year	Documentary	Ref
2008
	Darfur Now	^[1]
	Bastards of the Party
	Desert Bayou
	Price of Sugar
	Sicko≠
2009
	Good Hair	^[2]
	Capitalism: A Love Story
	Crips and Bloods: Made in America
	Crude
	More Than a Game

2010s[edit]

Film[edit]

Year	Documentary	Ref
2017
	13th≠	^[3]
	I Am Not Your Negro≠
	Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
	Miss Sharon Jones!
	Olympic Pride, American Prejudice
2018
	Step	^[4]
	I Called Him Morgan
	Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
	The Rape of Recy Taylor
	Whose Streets?
2019
	Amazing Grace	^[5]
	Making The Five Heartbeats
	Quincy
	RBG≠
	Whitney

Television[edit]

Year	Documentary	Ref
2017
	Roots: A New Vision	^[3]
	Major League Legends: Hank Aaron
	Policing the Police
	Roots: A History Revealed
	Streets of Compton
2018
	The 44th President: In His Own Words	^[4]
	Birth of a Movement
	Black Love
	The Defiant Ones
	What the Health
2019
	Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland	^[6]
	Hope & Fury: MLK, The Movement and the Media
	King in the Wilderness
	Shut Up & Dribble
	Time for Ilhan

2020s[edit]

Film[edit]

Year	Documentary	Ref
2020
	Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am	^[7]
	Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
	The Black Godfather
	The Apollo
	True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality
2021
	John Lewis: Good Trouble	^[8]
	All In: The Fight for Democracy
	Coded Bias
	Mr. Soul!
	On the Record
2022
	Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power	^[9]
	Attica≠
	My Name Is Pauli Murray
	Summer of Soul±
	Tina

Television[edit]

Year	Documentary	Ref
2020
	Hitsville: The Making of Motown	^[7]
	Free Meek
	Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé
	Martin: The Legacy of a King
	ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke
2021
	The Last Dance	^[8]
	And She Could Be Next
	Black Love
	Enslaved: The Lost History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
	Unsung
2022
	High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America	^[9]
	1971: The Year Music Changed Everything
	American Masters: How It Feels to Be True
	Blood Brothers: Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali
	Insecure Documentary

Footnotes[edit]

≠ indicates an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature nomination
± indicates an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature win

References[edit]

^ "2008 Image Awards". Awardsandwinners. Retrieved July 31, 2016.
^ "2009 Image Awards". Awardsandwinners. Retrieved July 31, 2016.
^ ^a ^b N'Duka, Amanda (February 11, 2017). "Image Awards: 'Hidden Figures' Wins Best Picture; 'Black-ish' & 'Queen Sugar' Nab TV Honors – Full List". Deadline. Retrieved February 18, 2017.
^ ^a ^b THR Staff (20 November 2017). "NAACP Image Awards: 'Marshall,' 'Get Out,' 'Girls Trip' Dominate Film Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
^ "NAACP | WINNERS OF 50th NAACP IMAGE AWARDS ANNOUNCED DURING LIVE BROADCAST ON TV ONE HOSTED BY ANTHONY ANDERSON". NAACP. 2019-03-31. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
^ Nakamura, Reid (March 31, 2019). "NAACP Image Awards 2019: The Complete Winners List". TheWrap. Retrieved April 3, 2021.
^ ^a ^b "NAACP Winners 2020: The Complete List". Variety. February 23, 2020. Retrieved April 3, 2021.
^ ^a ^b "2021 NAACP Image Awards: The Complete Winners List". Entertainment Tonight. March 29, 2021. Retrieved April 3, 2021.
^ ^a ^b "53rd NAACP Image Awards: The Complete Winners List". Entertainment Tonight. February 26, 2022. Retrieved March 13, 2022.

[1] "2008 Image Awards". Awardsandwinners. Retrieved July 31, 2016.

[2] "2009 Image Awards". Awardsandwinners. Retrieved July 31, 2016.

[2017_Image_Award_Winners-3] N'Duka, Amanda (February 11, 2017). "Image Awards: 'Hidden Figures' Wins Best Picture; 'Black-ish' & 'Queen Sugar' Nab TV Honors – Full List". Deadline. Retrieved February 18, 2017.

[2018_Image_Award_Winners-4] THR Staff (20 November 2017). "NAACP Image Awards: 'Marshall,' 'Get Out,' 'Girls Trip' Dominate Film Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 28 January 2018.

[5] "NAACP | WINNERS OF 50th NAACP IMAGE AWARDS ANNOUNCED DURING LIVE BROADCAST ON TV ONE HOSTED BY ANTHONY ANDERSON". NAACP. 2019-03-31. Retrieved 2021-02-05.

[2019_Image_Award_Winners-6] Nakamura, Reid (March 31, 2019). "NAACP Image Awards 2019: The Complete Winners List". TheWrap. Retrieved April 3, 2021.

[2020_Image_Award_Winners-7] "NAACP Winners 2020: The Complete List". Variety. February 23, 2020. Retrieved April 3, 2021.

[2021_Image_Award_Winners-8] "2021 NAACP Image Awards: The Complete Winners List". Entertainment Tonight. March 29, 2021. Retrieved April 3, 2021.

[2022_Image_Award_Winners-9] "53rd NAACP Image Awards: The Complete Winners List". Entertainment Tonight. February 26, 2022. Retrieved March 13, 2022.

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v t e NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary
Film (2008–2009, 2017–present)	Darfur Now (2007) Good Hair (2008) 13th (2016) Step (2017) Amazing Grace (2018) Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (2019) John Lewis: Good Trouble (2020) Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power (2021) Civil (2022) Invisible Beauty (2023)
Television (2017–present)	Roots: A New Vision (2016) The 44th President: In His Own Words (2017) Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland (2018) Hitsville: The Making of Motown (2019) The Last Dance (2020) High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America (2021) Everything's Gonna Be All White (2022) High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America (2023)