Black Reel Award for Outstanding Film
This page lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Film. This award is presented to the producers of the film. For Colored Girls holds the record with the most nominations with 14, while 12 Years a Slave has the most wins in a single year with 8.
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
2000s
Year |
Film |
Distributor |
Producer(s) |
Ref |
2000 |
The Hurricane |
Universal Studios |
Norman Jewison, John Ketchem and Armyan Bernstein |
[1] |
The Best Man |
Universal Pictures |
Bill Carraro, Sam Kitt and Spike Lee |
Life |
Universal Pictures |
Eddie Murphy and Brian Grazer |
The Wood |
Paramount Pictures |
David Gale, Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa |
2001 |
Love & Basketball |
New Line Cinema |
Spike Lee and Sam Kitt |
[2] |
Bamboozled |
New Line Cinema |
John Kilik and Spike Lee |
Girlfight |
Screen Gems |
Maggie Renzi, Martha Griffin and Sarah Green |
Men of Honor |
20th Century Fox |
Bill Badalato and Robert Teitel |
Remember the Titans |
Walt Disney Pictures |
Chad Oman and Jerry Bruckheimer |
2002 |
Training Day |
Warner Bros. Pictures |
Bruce Berman and Davis Guggenheim |
[3] |
Ali |
Columbia Pictures |
Michael Mann, Jon Peters and James Lassiter |
Baby Boy |
Columbia Pictures |
John Singleton |
The Brothers |
Screen Gems |
Doug McHenry and Paddy Cullen |
From Hell |
20th Century Fox |
Don Murphy, Amy Robinson and Jane Hamsher |
2003 |
Antwone Fisher |
Fox Searchlight Pictures |
Denzel Washington, Randa Haines and Todd Black |
[4] |
25th Hour |
Touchstone Pictures |
John Kilik, Spike Lee and Julia Chasman |
Barbershop |
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
George Tillman Jr., Mark Brown and Robert Teitel |
Drumline |
20th Century Fox |
Timothy M. Bourne, Wendy Finerman and Jody Gerson |
Standing in the Shadows of Motown |
Artisan Entertainment |
Paul Justman and Alan Slutsky |
2004 |
Out of Time |
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Neal H. Moritz, Damien Saccani and Jesse Beaton |
[5] |
The Fighting Temptations |
Paramount Pictures |
Loretha C. Jones, Benny Medina and Jeff Pollack |
The Italian Job |
Paramount Pictures |
Donald De Line |
S.W.A.T. |
Columbia Pictures |
Neal H. Moritz, Chris Lee and Dan Halsted |
Tupac: Resurrection |
Paramount Pictures |
Preston Holmes, Karoyln Ali and Lauren Lazin |
2005 |
Drama |
Ray |
Universal Pictures |
Howard Baldwin, Taylor Hackford and Bob Yari |
[6] |
BAADASSSSS! |
Sony Pictures Classics |
Mario Van Peebles |
I, Robot |
20th Century Fox |
Topher Dow, Laurence Mark and Wyck Godfrey |
Comedy / Musical |
Lightning in a Bottle |
Sony Pictures |
Alex Gibney, Margaret Bodde and Jack Gulick |
Barbershop 2: Back in Business |
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
George Tillman Jr., Robert Teitel and Alex Gartner |
Fade to Black |
Paramount Vantage |
Bob Ezrin, Rich Kleiman and Justin Wilkes |
2006 |
Crash |
Lionsgate |
Paul Haggis, Cathy Schulman and Bob Yari |
[7] |
Coach Carter |
Touchstone Pictures |
David Gale, Brian Robbins and Michael Tollin |
Four Brothers |
Columbia Pictures |
Lorenzo di Bonaventura |
Hitch |
Columbia Pictures |
James Lassiter, Will Smith and Teddy Zee |
Hustle & Flow |
Paramount Classics |
John Singleton and Stephanie Allain |
2007 |
Dreamgirls |
DreamWorks |
Laurence Mark |
[8] |
Akeelah and the Bee |
Warner Bros. |
Sid Ganis, Laurence Fishburne and Michael Romersa |
Inside Man |
Universal Pictures |
Brian Grazer and Jonathan Filley |
The Pursuit of Happyness |
Columbia Pictures |
James Lassiter, Todd Black and Steve Tisch |
Something New |
Focus Features |
Stephanie Allain |
2008 |
Cadillac Records |
TriStar Pictures |
Andrew Lack and Sofia Sondervan |
[9] |
Miracle at St. Anna |
Touchstone Pictures |
Spike Lee, Luigi Musini and Roberto Cicutto |
The Secret Life of Bees |
Fox Searchlight Pictures |
James Lassiter, Will Smith and Lauren Shuler Donner |
Seven Pounds |
Columbia Pictures |
James Lassiter, Will Smith and Steve Tisch |
Traitor |
Overture Films |
Don Cheadle, David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman |
2010s
Year |
Film |
Distributor |
Producer(s) |
Ref |
2010 |
Precious |
Lionsgate |
Lee Daniels, Gary Magness and Sarah Siegel-Magness |
[10] |
American Violet |
Samuel Goldwyn Films |
Bill Haney |
The Blind Side |
Warner Bros. |
Broderick Johnson, Andrew Kosove and Gil Netter |
Invictus |
Warner Bros. |
Clint Eastwood, Mace Neufeld and Robert Lorenz |
The Princess and the Frog |
Walt Disney Pictures |
Peter Del Vecho |
2011 |
Night Catches Us |
Magnolia Pictures |
Jason Orans, Ron Simons and Sean Costello |
[11] |
The Book of Eli |
Warner Bros. Pictures |
Denzel Washington, Joel Silver and Andrew Kosove |
Brooklyn's Finest |
Overture Films |
John Thompson, John Langley and Elle Cohn |
For Colored Girls |
Lionsgate |
Tyler Perry, Roger M. Bobb and Paul Hall |
Just Wright |
Fox Searchlight Pictures |
Debra Martin Chase, Queen Latifah and Shakim Compere |
2012 |
The Help |
DreamWorks |
Chris Columbus, Brunson Green and Michael Baranthan |
[12] |
Attack the Block |
Screen Gems |
Nira Park and James Wilson |
Jumping the Broom |
TriStar Pictures |
Elizabeth Hunter, Tracy Edmonds and T.D. Jakes |
Pariah |
Focus Features |
Nekisha Cooper |
Shame |
Fox Searchlight Pictures |
Emile Sherman and Iain Canning |
2013 |
Beasts of the Southern Wild |
Fox Searchlight Pictures |
Josh Penn, Dan Javey and Michael Gottwald |
[13] |
Django Unchained |
The Weinstein Company |
Reginald Hudlin, Stacey Shear and Pilar Savone |
Flight |
Paramount Pictures |
Robert Zemeckis, Steve Starkey and Laurie MacDonald |
The Intouchables |
The Weinstein Company |
Nicolas Duval-Adassovsky, Yann Zenou and Laurent Zeitoun |
Middle of Nowhere |
AAFRM |
Paul Garnes, Ava DuVernay and Howard Barish |
2014 |
12 Years a Slave |
Fox Searchlight Pictures |
Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner |
[14] |
42 |
Warner Bros. Pictures |
Thomas Tull |
The Butler |
The Weinstein Company |
Pamela Oas Williams, Laura Ziskin and Lee Daniels |
Fruitvale Station |
The Weinstein Company |
Nina Yang Bongiovi and Forest Whitaker |
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom |
20th Century Fox |
David M. Thompson and Anant Singh |
2015 |
Selma |
Paramount Pictures |
Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey and Dede Gardner |
[15] |
Belle |
Fox Searchlight Pictures |
Damian Jones |
Beyond the Lights |
Relativity Media |
Stephanie Allain, Reggie Rock Bythewood and Ryan Kavanaugh |
Dear White People |
Lionsgate |
Effie Brown, Ann Le and Julia Lebedev |
Top Five |
Paramount Pictures |
Scott Rudin and Eli Bush |
2016 |
Creed |
Warner Bros. Pictures |
Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff and Charles Winkler |
[16] |
Beasts of No Nation |
Bleecker Street |
Amy Kaufman, Cary Joji Fukunaga and Daniela Taplin Lundberg |
Chi-Raq |
Roadside Attractions |
Spike Lee |
Concussion |
Columbia Pictures |
Ridley Scott, Giannina Facio and David Woltroff |
Straight Outta Compton |
Universal Pictures |
Ice Cube, Tomica Woods-Wright and Matt Alvarez |
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