This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special. Originally entitled Outstanding Drama Series, Mini-Series or Television Movie, the award was retitled to its current name in 1995.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

1980s

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| rowspan="2" align="center"| 1982

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| Sister, Sister

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| align="center"| 1983 – 89

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1990s

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| align="center"| 1990

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| rowspan="2" align="center"| 1991

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| The Women of Brewster Place

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| rowspan="5" align="center"| 1992

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| In the Heat of the Night

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| Equal Justice

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| Gabriel's Fire

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| Separate but Equal

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| rowspan="2" align="center"| 1993

|- style="background:#B0C4DE"

| In the Heat of the Night

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| rowspan="2" align="center"| 1994

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| I'll Fly Away

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| rowspan="2" align="center"| 1995

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| Queen: The Story of an American Family

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| rowspan="6" align="center"| 1996

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| The Tuskegee Airmen

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| Children of the Dust

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| Divas

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| The Piano Lesson

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| Tyson

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| rowspan="6" align="center"| 1997

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| America's Dream

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| Deadly Voyage

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| Rebound: The Legend of Earl "The Goat" Manigault

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| Run for the Dream: The Gail Devers Story

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| Soul of the Game

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| rowspan="6" align="center"| 1998

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| Miss Evers' Boys

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| Buffalo Soldiers

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| Cinderella

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| Don King: Only in America

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| First Time Felon

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| rowspan="6" align="center"| 1999

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| The Temptations

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| Always Outnumbered

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| Mama Flora's Family

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| Ruby Bridges

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| The Wedding

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2000s

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| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2000

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| Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

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| A Lesson Before Dying

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| Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

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| Jackie's Back

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| Selma, Lord, Selma

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| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2001

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| Sally Hemings: An American Scandal

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| A House Divided

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| The Corner

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| Disappearing Acts

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| Freedom Song

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| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2002

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| Boycott

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| A Huey P. Newton Story

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| Bojangles

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| Dancing in September

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| Fire and Ice

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| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2003

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| The Rosa Parks Story

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| 10,000 Black Men Named George

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| Keep the Faith, Baby

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| The Middle Passage

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| Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story

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| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2004

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| D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear

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| Deacons for Defense

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| Good Fences

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| Jasper, Texas

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| Sounder

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| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2005

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| Something The Lord Made

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| Crown Heights

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| Justice

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| Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story

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| Walking on Sunshine

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| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2006

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| Lackawanna Blues

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| Mississippi Justice

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| The Reading Room

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| Sometimes in April

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| Their Eyes Were Watching God

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| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2007

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| When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

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| Life Is Not a Fairy Tale

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| Sleeper Cell

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| Tsunami: The Aftermath

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| The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Til

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| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2008

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| Life Support

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| The Bronx Is Burning

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| Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

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| Five Days

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| The List

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| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2009

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| A Raisin in the Sun

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| 24: Redemption

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| Accidental Friendship

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| House of Saddam

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| Racing for Time

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2010s

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| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2010

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| Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

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| America

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| Brick City

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| Georgia O'Keeffe

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| Relative Stranger

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| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2011

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| Sins of the Mother

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| America: The Story of Us

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| Filling the Gap

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| Luther

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| The Wronged Man

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| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2012

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| Thurgood

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| Five

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| Have a Little Faith

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| The Least Among You

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| Luther

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| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2013

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| Steel Magnolias

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| Abducted: The Carlina White Story

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| Firelight

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| Raising Izzie

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| Sugar Mommas

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| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2014

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| Being Mary Jane

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| Betty & Coretta

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| CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story

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| Luther

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| Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

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| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2015

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| The Trip to Bountiful

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| A Day Late and a Dollar Short

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| American Horror Story: Freak Show

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| Drumline: A New Beat

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| The Gabby Douglas Story

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| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2016

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| The Wiz Live!

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| American Crime

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| Bessie

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| The Book of Negroes

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| Luther

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| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2017

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| The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story

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| American Crime

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| Confirmation

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| The Night Of

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| Roots

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| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2018

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| The New Edition Story

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| Flint

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| The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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| Shots Fired

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| When Love Kills: The Falicia Blakely Story

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| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2019

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| The Bobby Brown Story

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| Behind the Movement

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| The Simone Biles Story: Courage to Soar

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| Seven Seconds

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| Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert

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2020s

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| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2020

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| When They See Us

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| American Son

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| Being Mary Jane

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| Native Son

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| True Detective

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| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2021

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| Self Made

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| Hamilton

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| Little Fires Everywhere

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| Sylvie's Love

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| The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel

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| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2022

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| Colin in Black & White

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| Genius: Aretha

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| Love Life

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| Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia

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| The Underground Railroad

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| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2023

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| The Best Man: The Final Chapters

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| Carl Weber's The Black Hamptons

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| From Scratch

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| The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

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| Women of the Movement

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| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2024

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| Swarm

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| Black Girl Missing

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| First Lady of BMF: The Tonesa Welch Story

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| Heist 88

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| Lawmen: Bass Reeves

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| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2025

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| Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist

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| Genius: MLK/X

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| Griselda

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| Rebel Ridge

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| The Madness

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| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2026

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| Straw

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| G20

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| Ironheart

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| Ruth & Boaz

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| Washington Black

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Multiple wins and nominations

Wins

; 2 wins

  • In the Heat of the Night

Nominations

; 4 nominations

  • Luther

; 2 nominations

  • American Crime
  • Genius
  • In the Heat of the Night

References