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.
Winners and nominees
For each year in the tables below, the winner is listed first and highlighted in bold.
1970s
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|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row"| 1970
| Beah Richards
| The Great White Hope
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!scope="row"| 1971–1979
| colspan="3"
|}
1980s
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!scope="col" style="width:11em;"| Actress
!scope="col"| Film
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!scope="row"| 1980–1985
| colspan="3"
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row"| 1986
| Oprah Winfrey
| The Color Purple
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|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 1987
| Traci Wolfe
| Lethal Weapon
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|
|-
| Helen Martin
| Hollywood Shuffle
|-
| Nichelle Nichols
| Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
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| Kelly Minter
| Summer School
|-
| Sandra Reaves-Phillips
| Round Midnight
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row"| 1988
| Juanita Waterman
| Cry Freedom
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|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row" rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 1989
| Suzzanne Douglas
| Tap
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|
|-
| Nichelle Nichols
| Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
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| Rosie Perez
| Do the Right Thing
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| Tichina Arnold
| How I Got into College
|}
1990s
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!scope="col" style="width:5em;"| Year
!scope="col" style="width:11em;"| Actress
!scope="col"| Film
!scope="col" style="width:3em;"|
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row"| 1990
| Whoopi Goldberg
| Ghost
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|-
!scope="row"| 1991–1993
| colspan="3"
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 1994
| Angela Bassett
| Malcolm X
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|
|-
| Vanessa Bell Calloway
| What's Love Got to Do with It
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| Whoopi Goldberg
| Sarafina!
|-
| Jenifer Lewis
| What's Love Got to Do with It
|-
| Alfre Woodard
| Passion Fish
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!scope="row"| 1995
| colspan="3"
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 1996
| Loretta Devine
| Waiting to Exhale
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|
|-
| Maya Angelou
| How to Make an American Quilt
|-
| Lela Rochon
| Waiting to Exhale
|-
| Regina Taylor
| Clockers
|-
| Alfre Woodard
| How to Make an American Quilt
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 1997
| Loretta Devine
| The Preacher's Wife
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|
|-
| Jenifer Lewis
| The Preacher's Wife
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| Tonea Stewart
| A Time to Kill
|-
| Regina Taylor
| Courage Under Fire
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| Alfre Woodard
| Star Trek: First Contact
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 1998
| Irma P. Hall
| Soul Food
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|
|-
| Angela Bassett
| Contact
|-
| Debbi Morgan
| Eve's Bayou
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| Esther Rolle
| Rosewood
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| Cicely Tyson
| Hoodlum
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 1999
| Whoopi Goldberg
| How Stella Got Her Groove Back
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|
|-
| Kimberly Elise
| Beloved
|-
| Queen Latifah
| Living Out Loud
|-
| Thandiwe Newton
| Beloved
|-
| Beah Richards
| Beloved
|}
2000s
{| class="wikitable" style="width:70%;"
|- style="background:#bebebe;"
!scope="col" style="width:5em;"| Year
!scope="col" style="width:11em;"| Actress
!scope="col"| Film
!scope="col" style="width:3em;"|
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2000
| Angela Bassett
| Music of the Heart
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|
|-
| Melissa De Sousa
| rowspan="2"| The Best Man
|-
| Sanaa Lathan
|-
| Queen Latifah
| The Bone Collector
|-
| Vanessa L. Williams
| Light It Up
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2001
| Alfre Woodard
| Love and Basketball
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|
|-
| Nicole Ari Parker
| Remember the Titans
|-
| Aunjanue Ellis
| Men of Honor
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| Marla Gibbs
| The Visit
|-
| Thandiwe Newton
| Mission: Impossible 2
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2002
| Angela Bassett
| The Score
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|
|-
| Loretta Devine
| rowspan="2"| Kingdom Come
|-
| Vivica A. Fox
|-
| Mo'Nique
| Two Can Play That Game
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| Jada Pinkett Smith
| Ali
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2003
| Halle Berry
| Die Another Day
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|
|-
| Nicole Ari Parker
| Brown Sugar
|-
| Kimberly Elise
| John Q
|-
| Eve
| Barbershop
|-
| Queen Latifah
| Brown Sugar
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2004
| Alfre Woodard
| Radio
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|
|-
| Nona Gaye
| The Matrix Revolutions
|-
| Sanaa Lathan
| Out of Time
|-
| Jada Pinkett Smith
| The Matrix Revolutions
|-
| Gabrielle Union
| Bad Boys II
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2005
| Regina King
| Ray
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|
|-
| Loretta Devine
| Woman Thou Art Loosed
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| Sophie Okonedo
| Hotel Rwanda
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| Jada Pinkett Smith
| Collateral
|-
| Sharon Warren
| Ray
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2006
| Cicely Tyson
| Diary of a Mad Black Woman
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|
|-
| Ashanti
| Coach Carter
|-
| Taraji P. Henson
| rowspan="2"| Hustle & Flow
|-
| Elise Neal
|-
| Thandiwe Newton
| Crash
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2007
| Jennifer Hudson
| Dreamgirls
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|
|-
| Angela Bassett
| Akeelah and the Bee
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| Thandiwe Newton
| The Pursuit of Happyness
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| Anika Noni Rose
| Dreamgirls
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| Kerry Washington
| The Last King of Scotland
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2008
| Janet Jackson
| Why Did I Get Married?
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|
|-
| Ruby Dee
| American Gangster
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| Loretta Devine
| This Christmas
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| Meagan Good
| Stomp the Yard
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| Queen Latifah
| Hairspray
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2009
| Taraji P. Henson
| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|
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| Beyoncé
| Cadillac Records
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| Jennifer Hudson
| rowspan="3"| The Secret Life of Bees
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| Alicia Keys
|-
| Sophie Okonedo
|}
2010s
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!scope="col" style="width:5em;"| Year
!scope="col" style="width:11em;"| Actress
!scope="col"| Film
!scope="col" style="width:3em;"|
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2010
| Mo'Nique
| Precious
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|
|-
| Mariah Carey
| rowspan="2"| Precious
|-
| Paula Patton
|-
| Zoe Saldaña
| Avatar
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| Alfre Woodard
| American Violet
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2011
| Kimberly Elise
| For Colored Girls
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|
|-
| Whoopi Goldberg
| rowspan="3"| For Colored Girls
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| Phylicia Rashad
|-
| Anika Noni Rose
|-
| Jill Scott
| Why Did I Get Married Too?
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2012
| Octavia Spencer
| The Help
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|
|-
| Bryce Dallas Howard
| The Help
|-
| Maya Rudolph
| Bridesmaids
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| Cicely Tyson
| The Help
|-
| Kim Wayans
| Pariah
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2013
| Kerry Washington
| Django Unchained
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|
|-
| Taraji P. Henson
| Think Like a Man
|-
| Phylicia Rashad
| Good Deeds
|-
| Gloria Reuben
| Lincoln
|-
| Amandla Stenberg
| The Hunger Games
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2014
| Lupita Nyong'o
| 12 Years a Slave
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|
|-
| Naomie Harris
| Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
|-
| Octavia Spencer
| Fruitvale Station
|-
| Oprah Winfrey
| Lee Daniels' The Butler
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| Alfre Woodard
| 12 Years a Slave
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2015
| Carmen Ejogo
| Selma
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|
|-
| Viola Davis
| rowspan="3"| Get On Up
|-
| Jill Scott
|-
| Octavia Spencer
|-
| Oprah Winfrey
| Selma
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2016
| Phylicia Rashad
| Creed
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|
|-
| Angela Bassett
| rowspan="2"| Chi-Raq
|-
| Jennifer Hudson
|-
| Gugu Mbatha-Raw
| Concussion
|-
| Tessa Thompson
| Creed
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2017
| Viola Davis
| Fences
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|
|-
| Aja Naomi King
| The Birth of a Nation
|-
| Mo'Nique
| Almost Christmas
|-
| Lupita Nyong'o
| Queen of Katwe
|-
| Octavia Spencer
| Hidden Figures
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2018
| Tiffany Haddish
| Girls Trip
|-
| Regina Hall
| Girls Trip
|-
| Audra McDonald
| Beauty and the Beast
|-
| Keesha Sharp
| Marshall
|-
| Tessa Thompson
| Thor: Ragnarok
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2019
| Danai Gurira
| Black Panther
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|
|-
| Letitia Wright
| rowspan="2"| Black Panther
|-
| Lupita Nyong'o
|-
| Regina Hall
| The Hate U Give
|-
| Regina King
| If Beale Street Could Talk
|-
|}
2020s
{| class="wikitable" style="width:70%;"
|- style="background:#bebebe;"
!scope="col" style="width:5em;"| Year
!scope="col" style="width:11em;"| Actress
!scope="col"| Film
!scope="col" style="width:3em;"|
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2020
| Marsai Martin
| Little
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|
|-
| Jennifer Lopez
| Hustlers
|-
| Janelle Monáe
| Harriet
|-
| Da’Vine Joy Randolph
| Dolemite Is My Name
|-
| Octavia Spencer
| Luce
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2021
| Phylicia Rashad
| Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|
|-
| Anika Noni Rose
| Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
|-
| Gabourey Sidibe
| Antebellum
|-
| Nia Long
| The Banker
|-
| Taylour Paige
| Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
!scope="row" rowspan="5"| 2022
| Regina King
| | The Harder They Fall
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|
|-
| Aunjanue Ellis
| King Richard
|-
| Audra McDonald
| Respect
|-
| Danielle Deadwyler
| The Harder They Fall
|-
| Dominique Fishback
| Judas and the Black Messiah
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
! rowspan="5" |2023
| Angela Bassett
|Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
|-
| Danai Gurira
|rowspan="2" | Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
|-
| Lupita Nyong'o
|-
| Lashana Lynch
| The Woman King
|-
| Janelle Monáe
| Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
! rowspan="5" |2024
| Taraji P. Henson
|The Color Purple
|-
| Danielle Brooks
|The Color Purple
|-
| Da'Vine Joy Randolph
|The Holdovers
|-
| Erika Alexander
| American Fiction
|-
| Halle Bailey
| The Color Purple
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
! rowspan="5" |2025
| Ebony Obsidian
|The Six Triple Eight
|-
| rowspan="2" | Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
|Exhibiting Forgiveness
|-
|Nickel Boys
|-
| Danielle Deadwyler
| The Piano Lesson
|-
| Lynn Whitfield
| Albany Road
|- style="background:#B0C4DE; font-weight:bold;"
! rowspan="5" |2026
|Wunmi Mosaku
|Sinners
|-
|Janelle James
|One of Them Days
|-
|Jayme Lawson
|Sinners
|-
|Regina Hall
|rowspan="2" |One Battle After Another
|-
|Teyana Taylor
|}
Multiple wins and nominations
Wins
; 4 wins
- Angela Bassett
; 2 wins
- Loretta Devine
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Taraji P. Henson
- Regina King
- Alfre Woodard
Nominations
; 7 nominations
- Alfre Woodard
- Angela Bassett
; 5 nominations
- Loretta Devine
- Octavia Spencer
; 4 nominations
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Taraji P. Henson
- Queen Latifah
- Thandiwe Newton
- Lupita Nyong'o
- Phylicia Rashad
- Aunjanue Ellis
; 3 nominations
- Kimberly Elise
- Regina Hall
- Jennifer Hudson
- Regina King
- Mo'Nique
- Jada Pinkett Smith
- Anika Noni Rose
- Cicely Tyson
; 2 nominations
- Nicole Ari Parker
- Viola Davis
- Danai Gurira
- Sanaa Lathan
- Jenifer Lewis
- Janelle Monáe
- Sophie Okonedo
- Jill Scott
- Regina Taylor
- Kerry Washington
- Oprah Winfrey
- Danielle Deadwyler