This article lists the winners and nominees for the

NAACP Image Award The NAACP Image Awards is an annual awards ceremony presented by the U.S.-based National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to honor outstanding performances in film, television, theatre, music, and literature. Similar to ...

for Outstanding Documentary.

History

This award was first given in 2008, before being discontinued after the 2009 ceremony. The award returned during the 2017 ceremony, this time honoring film and television documentaries separately.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

2000s

2010s

Film

Television

2020s

Film

Television

Footnotes

*≠ indicates an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature nomination *± indicates an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature win

References

{{NAACP Image Awards NAACP Image Awards American documentary film awards