NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Short Form

The NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Short Form are three awards presented by the NAACP for short films:

  • live action works (since 2021)
  • animated works (since 2021)
  • documentary motion picture (since 2024)

List

Year Film Director(s) Ref
2021 Animated
Canvas Frank E. Abney III
Cops and Robbers Arnon Manor, Timothy Ware-Hill
Loop
The Power of Hope Kalia Love Jones
Windup
Live Action
Black Boy Joy Martina Mossell Lee
Baldwin Beauty Thembi Banks
Gets Good Light Alejandra Parody
Home Franka Potente
Mr. & Mrs. Ellis Alan M. Brooks
2022 Animated
Us Again Zach Parrish
Blush
Robin Robin Dan Ojari,

Mikey Please

She Dreams at Sunrise Camrus Johnson
Twenty Something Aphton Corbin
Live Action
When The Sun Sets (Lakutshon’ Ilanga) Phumi Morare
Aurinko in Adagio Elisee Junior St Preux
Blackout
The Ice Cream Stop Raul Perez
These Final Hours Lionel Coleman
2023 Animated
More Than I Want To Remember Amy Bench
I Knew Superman Dana Crypto
Supercilious Cedric L. Williams
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Peter Baynton
We Are Here Constanza Castro, Domenica Castro
Live Action
Dear Mama... Winter Dunn
Fannie Christine Swanson
Fathead C. Craig Patterson
Incomplete
Pens & Pencils Gia-Rayne Harris
2024 Animated
Lil' Ruby Bartek Kik
Blueberry
Bridges
Burning Rubber Chris Fequiere
Ego' Curse
Live Action
The After Misan Harriman
Flower
Gaps
Lucille
Rocky Road on Channel Three James Rogers III
Documentary Motion Picture
Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson
Alive in Bronze: Huey P. Newton A.K. Sandhu
Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney Nazenet Habtezghi
Freshwater
Ifine: Beauty Ebony Gilbert, Adisa Jones
2025 Animated
Peanut Headz: Black History Toonz “Jackie Robinson” Jason Fleurant
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Nate & John Jumai Yusuf
Self
Walk in the Light Princella Smith
Live Action
Superman Doesn't Steal Tamika Lamison
Chocolate with Sprinkles Huriyyah Muhammad
Definitely Not a Monster Brea Angelo
If They Took Us Back Holly Charles
My Brother & Me Ryan DeForeest
Documentary Motion Picture
How to Sue the Klan John Beder
Camille A. Brown: Giant Steps Shellee Haynesworth and Michelle Parkerson
Danielle Scott: Ancestral Call Tetiana Anderson, Sonia Kennebeck
Judging Juries Abby Ginzberg
Silent Killer
2026 Animated
ASALI: Power of the Pollinators Maya S. Penn
Black Man, Black Man Frank E. Abney III
Captain Zero: Into the Abyss Part II Z Cher-Aimé
Jazzy Bells Dara Frazier
Wednesdays with Gramps Chris and Justin Copeland
Live Action
ADO
Before You Let Go Jalen Blot
Best Eyes Kira Powell
Ella
Food for the Soul Chisom Chieke
Documentary Motion Picture
Black Longevity Geneva Peschka
CIRILO, A Legacy Untold Justin O. Cooper
Freeman Vines Tim Kirkman, Andre Robert Lee
Masaka Kids, a Rhythm Within Moses Bwayo and David Vieira Lopez
The Ebony Canal: A Story of Black Infant Health Emmai Alaquiva

References