NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary

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

History

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

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

2000s

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

Film

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

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

Film

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

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

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

References

^ "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)