NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture

This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture.

Winners and nominees
For each year in the tables below, the winner is listed first and highlighted in bold.

Wins

 * 13 wins
 * Denzel Washington


 * 3 wins
 * Morgan Freeman
 * Will Smith


 * 2 wins
 * Chadwick Boseman
 * Danny Glover
 * Michael B. Jordan
 * Forest Whitaker
 * Billy Dee Williams

Nominations

 * 23 nominations
 * Denzel Washington


 * 14 nominations
 * Will Smith


 * 10 nominations
 * Laurence Fishburne


 * 9 nominations
 * Morgan Freeman


 * 7 nominations
 * Danny Glover
 * Samuel L. Jackson
 * Eddie Murphy


 * 6 nominations
 * Chadwick Boseman


 * 4 nominations
 * Don Cheadle
 * Idris Elba
 * Jamie Foxx
 * Cuba Gooding, Jr.
 * Gregory Hines
 * Michael B. Jordan
 * Sidney Poitier


 * 3 nominations
 * Bill Cosby
 * Daniel Kaluuya
 * Forest Whitaker
 * Billy Dee Williams


 * 2 nominations
 * Ice Cube
 * Taye Diggs
 * Chiwetel Ejiofor
 * Louis Gossett Jr.
 * Terrence Howard
 * Stephan James
 * James Earl Jones
 * Anthony Mackie
 * Jonathan Majors
 * Nate Parker
 * Wesley Snipes
 * Chris Tucker