This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Independent Motion Picture.
History This award has been given since 2005.
Winners and nominees Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
2000s Year Film Ref 2005 Woman Thou Art Loosed Baadasssss! House of Flying Daggers Maria Full of Grace Moolaadé 2006 The Boys of Baraka Cape of Good Hope The Constant Gardener Mad Hot Ballroom Syriana 2007 An Inconvenient Truth Curse of the Golden Flower Days of Glory Tsotsi Volver 2008 Honeydripper Dirty Laundry A Mighty Heart My Brother Persepolis 2009 Slumdog Millionaire Ballast Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom Rachel Getting Married The Visitor
2010s Year Film Ref 2010 Precious American Violet Amreeka Endgame Medicine for Melancholy 2011 Frankie & Alice Conviction La Mission Mother and Child Night Catches Us 2012 Pariah The First Grader I Will Follow Kinyarwanda Mooz-lum 2013 Red Tails Beasts of the Southern Wild Chico and Rita Unconditional Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day 2014 Fruitvale Station Blue Caprice Dallas Buyers Club The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete The Trials of Muhammad Ali 2015 Belle Dear White People Half of a Yellow Sun Life of a King Jimi: All Is by My Side 2016 Beasts of No Nation Brotherly Love Chi-Raq Infinitely Polar Bear Secret in Their Eyes 2017 Moonlight Lion Loving Miles Ahead The Birth of a Nation 2018 Detroit Last Flag Flying Mudbound Professor Marston and the Wonder Women Wind River 2019 If Beale Street Could Talk NAACP Image Awards Winners: 'Black Panther', 'Black-ish' Win Big ——List|IndieWire BlacKkKlansman Nappily Ever After Sorry to Bother You Traffik
2020s Year Film Ref 2020 Dolemite Is My Name Clemency Luce Queen & Slim The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2021 The Banker Emperor Farewell Amor Miss Juneteenth The 24th 2022 CODA American Skin Bruised Test Pattern The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain 2023 The Inspection Breaking Causeway Mr. Malcolm's List Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story2024BrotherAnatomy of a FallMami WataRye LaneSociety of the Snow2025Sing SingAlbany RoadExhibiting ForgivenessRob PeaceWe Grown Now2026Love, Brooklyn40 AcresMagazine DreamsOpusUnexpected Christmas
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