NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture

NAACP Image Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
NAACP Image Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
	The 2025 recipient: Ebony Obsidian
Awarded for	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Location	Pasadena, California
Presented by	NAACP
First award	Beah Richards for The Great White Hope (1970)
Currently held by	Ebony Obsidian for The Six Triple Eight (2024)

This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture. The award was introduced in 1970 and was awarded sporadically until its permanent feature from 1995 onwards. Angela Bassett currently holds the record for most wins in this category, with four.

Quick Facts Awarded for, Location ...

Year	Actress	Film	Ref
1970	Beah Richards	The Great White Hope	^{[citation needed]}
1971–1979	—

Year	Actress	Film	Ref
1980–1985	—
1986	Oprah Winfrey	The Color Purple	^{[citation needed]}
1987	Traci Wolfe	Lethal Weapon	^[1]^[2]
	Helen Martin	Hollywood Shuffle
	Nichelle Nichols	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
	Kelly Minter	Summer School
	Sandra Reaves-Phillips	Round Midnight
1988	Juanita Waterman	Cry Freedom	^[3]
1989	Suzzanne Douglas	Tap	^[4]^[5]
	Nichelle Nichols	Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
	Rosie Perez	Do the Right Thing
	Tichina Arnold	How I Got into College

Year	Actress	Film	Ref
1990	Whoopi Goldberg	Ghost	^{[citation needed]}
1991–1993	—
1994	Angela Bassett	Malcolm X	^[6]
	Vanessa Bell Calloway	What's Love Got to Do with It
	Whoopi Goldberg	Sarafina!
	Jenifer Lewis	What's Love Got to Do with It
	Alfre Woodard	Passion Fish
1995	—
1996	Loretta Devine	Waiting to Exhale	^[7]
	Maya Angelou	How to Make an American Quilt
	Lela Rochon	Waiting to Exhale
	Regina Taylor	Clockers
	Alfre Woodard	How to Make an American Quilt
1997	Loretta Devine	The Preacher's Wife	^[8]
	Jenifer Lewis	The Preacher's Wife
	Tonea Stewart	A Time to Kill
	Regina Taylor	Courage Under Fire
	Alfre Woodard	Star Trek: First Contact
1998	Irma P. Hall	Soul Food	^{[citation needed]}
	Angela Bassett	Contact
	Debbi Morgan	Eve's Bayou
	Esther Rolle	Rosewood
	Cicely Tyson	Hoodlum
1999	Whoopi Goldberg	How Stella Got Her Groove Back	^[9]
	Kimberly Elise	Beloved
	Queen Latifah	Living Out Loud
	Thandiwe Newton	Beloved
	Beah Richards	Beloved

Year	Actress	Film	Ref
2000	Angela Bassett	Music of the Heart	^{[citation needed]}
	Melissa De Sousa	The Best Man
	Sanaa Lathan	The Best Man
	Queen Latifah	The Bone Collector
	Vanessa L. Williams	Light It Up
2001	Alfre Woodard	Love and Basketball	^{[citation needed]}
	Nicole Ari Parker	Remember the Titans
	Aunjanue Ellis	Men of Honor
	Marla Gibbs	The Visit
	Thandiwe Newton	Mission: Impossible 2
2002	Angela Bassett	The Score	^{[citation needed]}
	Loretta Devine	Kingdom Come
	Vivica A. Fox	Kingdom Come
	Mo'Nique	Two Can Play That Game
	Jada Pinkett Smith	Ali
2003	Halle Berry	Die Another Day	^{[citation needed]}
	Nicole Ari Parker	Brown Sugar
	Kimberly Elise	John Q
	Eve	Barbershop
	Queen Latifah	Brown Sugar
2004	Alfre Woodard	Radio	^[10]
	Nona Gaye	The Matrix Revolutions
	Sanaa Lathan	Out of Time
	Jada Pinkett Smith	The Matrix Revolutions
	Gabrielle Union	Bad Boys II
2005	Regina King	Ray	^{[citation needed]}
	Loretta Devine	Woman Thou Art Loosed
	Sophie Okonedo	Hotel Rwanda
	Jada Pinkett Smith	Collateral
	Sharon Warren	Ray
2006	Cicely Tyson	Diary of a Mad Black Woman	^{[citation needed]}
	Ashanti	Coach Carter
	Taraji P. Henson	Hustle & Flow
	Elise Neal	Hustle & Flow
	Thandiwe Newton	Crash
2007	Jennifer Hudson	Dreamgirls	^{[citation needed]}
	Angela Bassett	Akeelah and the Bee
	Thandiwe Newton	The Pursuit of Happyness
	Anika Noni Rose	Dreamgirls
	Kerry Washington	The Last King of Scotland
2008	Janet Jackson	Why Did I Get Married?	^{[citation needed]}
	Ruby Dee	American Gangster
	Loretta Devine	This Christmas
	Meagan Good	Stomp the Yard
	Queen Latifah	Hairspray
2009	Taraji P. Henson	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	^{[citation needed]}
	Beyoncé	Cadillac Records
	Jennifer Hudson	The Secret Life of Bees
	Alicia Keys
	Sophie Okonedo

Year	Actress	Film	Ref
2010	Mo'Nique	Precious	^{[citation needed]}
	Mariah Carey	Precious
	Paula Patton	Precious
	Zoe Saldana	Avatar
	Alfre Woodard	American Violet
2011	Kimberly Elise	For Colored Girls	^{[citation needed]}
	Whoopi Goldberg	For Colored Girls
	Phylicia Rashad
	Anika Noni Rose
	Jill Scott	Why Did I Get Married Too?
2012	Octavia Spencer	The Help	^{[citation needed]}
	Bryce Dallas Howard	The Help
	Maya Rudolph	Bridesmaids
	Cicely Tyson	The Help
	Kim Wayans	Pariah
2013	Kerry Washington	Django Unchained	^[11]
	Taraji P. Henson	Think Like a Man
	Phylicia Rashad	Good Deeds
	Gloria Reuben	Lincoln
	Amandla Stenberg	The Hunger Games
2014	Lupita Nyong'o	12 Years a Slave	^[12]
	Naomie Harris	Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
	Octavia Spencer	Fruitvale Station
	Oprah Winfrey	Lee Daniels' The Butler
	Alfre Woodard	12 Years a Slave
2015	Carmen Ejogo	Selma	^[13]
	Viola Davis	Get On Up
	Jill Scott
	Octavia Spencer
	Oprah Winfrey	Selma
2016	Phylicia Rashad	Creed	^[14]
	Angela Bassett	Chi-Raq
	Jennifer Hudson	Chi-Raq
	Gugu Mbatha-Raw	Concussion
	Tessa Thompson	Creed
2017	Viola Davis	Fences	^[15]
	Aja Naomi King	The Birth of a Nation
	Mo'Nique	Almost Christmas
	Lupita Nyong'o	Queen of Katwe
	Octavia Spencer	Hidden Figures
2018	Tiffany Haddish	Girls Trip
	Regina Hall	Girls Trip
	Audra McDonald	Beauty and the Beast
	Keesha Sharp	Marshall
	Tessa Thompson	Thor: Ragnarok
2019	Danai Gurira	Black Panther	^[16]
	Letitia Wright	Black Panther
	Lupita Nyong'o	Black Panther
	Regina Hall	The Hate U Give
	Regina King	If Beale Street Could Talk

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture

Winners and nominees

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2000s

2010s

2020s

Multiple wins and nominations

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