NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture

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The NAACP Image Award winners for Outstanding African-American Actors in a Motion Picture:

of Performances that have won or been nominated for an Academy Award (Bold= Oscar winning performances)

• 1. Louis Gossett Jr.- An Officer and a Gentleman
• 2. Morgan Freeman- Driving Miss Daisy
• 3. Denzel Washington- Malcolm X
• 4. Cuba Gooding Jr.- Jerry Maguire
• 5. Denzel Washington- The Hurricane
• 6. Michael Clarke Duncan- The Green Mile
• 7. Denzel Washington- Training Day
• 8. Will Smith- Ali
• 9. Jamie Foxx- Ray
• 10. Don Cheadle- Hotel Rwanda
• 11. Terrence Howard- Hustle & Flow
• 12. Forest Whitaker- The Last King of Scotland
• 13. Will Smith- The Pursuit of Happyness
• 14. Morgan Freeman - Invictus

Stats

• Most Wins:
  • Denzel Washington with 10 wins

• Multiple Nominations

• 2 nominations
  • Chris Tucker- (Rush Hour, Rush Hour 2)
  • Danny Glover- (Lethal Weapon, Beloved) 2 wins
  • Eddie Murphy-(The Nutty Professor, Tower Heist)
  • Gregory Hines-(Running Scared, Waiting to Exhale) 1 win
  • Taye Diggs-(Brown Sugar, The Best Man)
  • Terrence Howard-(Hustle & Flow, Pride)

• 3 nominations
  • Cuba Gooding Jr.-(Jerry Maguire, Men of Honor, Radio) 1 win
  • Don Cheadle-(Talk to Me, Hotel Rwanda, Traitor)
  • Jamie Foxx-(Dreamgirls, Ray, Law Abiding Citizen) 1 win

• 6 nominations
  • Morgan Freeman-(Along Came a Spider, Driving Miss Daisy, High Crimes, Invictus, Lean on Me, RED, Se7en) 3 wins

• 7 nominations
  • Laurence Fishburne- (Akeelah and the Bee, Assault on Precinct 13, Contagion, Hoodlum, Othello, The Matrix, The Matrix: Revolutions)
  • Samuel L. Jackson- (Changing Lanes, Coach Carter, Eve's Bayou, S.W.A.T., Shaft, The Long Kiss Goodnight, The Negotiator) 1 win

• 9 nominations
  • Will Smith-(Bad Boys II, The Legend Baggar Vance, Seven Pounds, Ali, The Pursuit of Happyness, I, Robot, I Am Legend, Hitch, Enemy of the State) 1 win

• 15 nominations
  • Denzel Washington-(Courage Under Fire, Crimson Tide, He Got Game, Inside Man, John Q, Malcolm X, Man on Fire, Mississippi Mala, Out of Time, Remember the Titans, The Taking of Pelham 123, The Book of Eli, The Great Debaters, The Hurricane, Training Day) 10 wins

Winners and nominees

References