NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special

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

Year	Movie / Series	Ref
1982
1982	Sister, Sister	^{[citation needed]}
1983 – 89	—

1990s

Year	Movie / Series	Ref
1990	—
1991
1991	The Women of Brewster Place	^[1]
1992
	In the Heat of the Night	^[2]
	Equal Justice
	Gabriel's Fire
	Separate but Equal
1993
1993	In the Heat of the Night	^{[citation needed]}
1994
1994	I'll Fly Away	^{[citation needed]}
1995
1995	Queen: The Story of an American Family	^{[citation needed]}
1996
	The Tuskegee Airmen	^{[citation needed]}
	Children of the Dust
	Divas
	The Piano Lesson
	Tyson
1997
	America's Dream	^{[citation needed]}
	Deadly Voyage
	Rebound: The Legend of Earl "The Goat" Manigault
	Run for the Dream: The Gail Devers Story
	Soul of the Game
1998
	Miss Evers' Boys	^{[citation needed]}
	Buffalo Soldiers
	Cinderella
	Don King: Only in America
	First Time Felon
1999
	The Temptations	^{[citation needed]}
	Always Outnumbered
	Mama Flora's Family
	Ruby Bridges
	The Wedding

2000s

Year	Movie / Series	Ref
2000
	Introducing Dorothy Dandridge	^{[citation needed]}
	A Lesson Before Dying
	Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
	Jackie's Back
	Selma, Lord, Selma
2001
	Sally Hemings: An American Scandal	^{[citation needed]}
	A House Divided
	The Corner
	Disappearing Acts
	Freedom Song
2002
	Boycott	^{[citation needed]}
	A Huey P. Newton Story
	Bojangles
	Dancing in September
	Fire and Ice
2003
	The Rosa Parks Story	^{[citation needed]}
	10,000 Black Men Named George
	Keep the Faith, Baby
	The Middle Passage
	Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story
2004
	D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear	^{[citation needed]}
	Deacons for Defense
	Good Fences
	Jasper, Texas
	Sounder
2005
	Something The Lord Made	^{[citation needed]}
	Crown Heights
	Justice
	Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
	Walking on Sunshine
2006
	Lackawanna Blues	^{[citation needed]}
	Mississippi Justice
	The Reading Room
	Sometimes in April
	Their Eyes Were Watching God
2007
	When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts	^{[citation needed]}
	Life Is Not a Fairy Tale
	Sleeper Cell
	Tsunami: The Aftermath
	The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Til
2008
	Life Support	^{[citation needed]}
	The Bronx Is Burning
	Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
	Five Days
	The List
2009
	A Raisin in the Sun	^{[citation needed]}
	24: Redemption
	Accidental Friendship
	House of Saddam
	Racing for Time

2010s

Year	Movie / Series	Ref
2010
	Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story	^{[citation needed]}
	America
	Brick City
	Georgia O'Keeffe
	Relative Stranger
2011
	Sins of the Mother	^{[citation needed]}
	America: The Story of Us (Part 4)
	Filling the Gap
	Luther
	The Wronged Man
2012
	Thurgood	^{[citation needed]}
	Five
	Have a Little Faith
	The Least Among You
	Luther
2013
	Steel Magnolias	^{[citation needed]}
	Abducted: The Carlina White Story
	Firelight
	Raising Izzie
	Sugar Mommas
2014
	Being Mary Jane	^{[citation needed]}
	Betty & Coretta
	CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story
	Luther
	Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
2015
	The Trip to Bountiful	^[3]
	A Day Late and a Dollar Short
	American Horror Story: Freak Show
	Drumline: A New Beat
	The Gabby Douglas Story
2016
	The Wiz Live!	^[4]
	American Crime
	Bessie
	The Book of Negroes
	Luther
2017
	The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story	^[5]
	American Crime
	Confirmation
	The Night Of
	Roots
2018
	The New Edition Story	^[6]
	Flint
	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
	Shots Fired
	When Love Kills: The Falicia Blakely Story
2019
	The Bobby Brown Story	^[7]
	Behind the Movement
	The Simone Biles Story: Courage to Soar
	Seven Seconds
	Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert

2020s

Year	Movie / Series	Ref
2020
	When They See Us	^[8]
	American Son
	Being Mary Jane
	Native Son
	True Detective
2021
	Self Made	^[9]
	Hamilton
	Little Fires Everywhere
	Sylvie's Love
	The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel
2022
	Colin in Black & White	^[10]
	Genius: Aretha
	Love Life
	Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia
	The Underground Railroad

Multiple wins and nominations

Wins

2 wins

In the Heat of the Night

Nominations

References

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