This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Screenplay, Adapted or Original. Geoffrey Fletcher and John Ridley are the only Black Reel Award Screenwriting winners to win Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Winners and nominees Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
2000s Year Writer Film Ref 2000 Malcolm D. Lee The Best Man Todd Boyd and Rick Famuyiwa The Wood Spike Lee Summer of Sam 2001 Gregory Allen Howard Remember the Titans Kwyn Bader Loving Jezebel Scott Marshall Smith Men of Honor Spike Lee Bamboozled Gina Prince-Bythewood Love & Basketball 2002 Gregory Allen Howard Ali Mark Brown Two Can Play That Game Peter Gaulke and Darryl Quarles Black Knight Gary Hardwick The Brothers John Singleton Baby Boy 2003 Antwone Fisher Antwone Fisher Mark Brown and Don D. Scott Barbershop Michael Elliot Brown Sugar Michael Elliott and Jordan Moffet Like Mike John Ridley Undercover Brother 2004 B.E. Brauner, Gary Hardwick and James Iver Mattson Deliver Us from Eva Elizabeth Hunter and Saladin K. Patterson The Fighting Temptations Ali LeRoi and Chris Rock Head of State 2005 Mario Van Peebles BAADASSSSS! Michael Genet and Spike Lee She Hate Me Shonda Rimes The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement Don D. Scott Barbershop 2: Back in Business James L. White Ray 2006 Norman Vance Jr. Roll Bounce Rob Hardy The Gospel Tyler Perry Diary of a Mad Black Woman 2007 Kriss Turner Something New Bryan Barber Idlewild Chris Cleveland and Bettina Gilois Glory Road Tina Gordon Chism ATL Tyler Perry Madea's Family Reunion 2008 Gina Prince-Bythewood The Secret Life of Bees Darnell Martin Cadillac Records James McBride Miracle at St. Anna Tyler Perry The Family That Preys Meet the Browns
2010s Year Writer Film Ref 2010 Geoffrey S. Fletcher Precious Brian Bird Not Easily Broken Cheo Hodari Coker and Reggie Rock Bythewood Notorious John Lee Hancock The Blind Side Bryon Minms, Scott Sanders and Michael Jai White Black Dynamite 2011 Tanya Hamilton Night Catches Us Peter Allen, Gabriel Casseus, John Luessenhop and Avery Duff Takers Michael Elliot Just Wright Michael C. Martin Brooklyn's Finest Tyler Perry For Colored Girls 2012 Steve McQueen and Abi Morgan Shame Qasim Basir Mooz-lum Ava DuVernay I Will Follow Arelene Gibbs and Elizabeth Hunter Jumping the Broom Dee Rees Pariah 2013 Ava DuVernay Middle of Nowhere Mara Brock Akil Sparkle Rashida Jones and Will McCormack Celeste and Jesse Forever Spike Lee and James McBride Red Hook Summer Aaron McGruder and John Ridley Red Tails 2014 John Ridley 12 Years a Slave Ryan Coogler Fruitvale Station Malcolm D. Lee The Best Man Holiday Kasi Lemmons Black Nativity Michael Starburry The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete 2015 Chris Rock Top Five Gina Prince-Bythewood Beyond the Lights John Ridley Jimi: All Is by My Side Misan Sagay Belle Justin Simien Dear White People 2016 Ryan Coogler and Aaron Covington Creed Rick Famuyiwa Dope Spike Lee and Kevin Willmott Chi-Raq 2017 Barry Jenkins Moonlight Don Cheadle and Steven Baigelman Miles Ahead Nate Parker The Birth of a Nation Jordan Peele and Alex Rubens Keanu August Wilson Fences 2018 Jordan Peele Get Out Get Out Dominates the Black Reel Awards Black Reel Awards. 13 December 2017.Get Out “Sinks” the Competition at The Black Reel Awards Black Reel Awards. 23 February 2018. Christine T. Berg and Gerard McMurray Burning Sands Tracy Oliver and Kenya Barris Girls Trip Dee Rees and Virgil Williams Mudbound Maggie Betts Novitiate 2019 Boots Riley Sorry to Bother You 2019 Black Reel Awards. Ryan Coogler & Joe Robert Cole Black Panther Spike Lee, Kevin Willmott, David Rabinowitz and Charlie Wachtel BlacKkKlansman Barry Jenkins If Beale Street Could Talk Steve McQueen & Gillian Flynn Widows
2020s Year Writer Film Ref 2020 Jordan Peele Us Chinonye Chukwu Clemency Ladj Ly, Giordano Gederlini and Alexis Manenti Les Miserables Lena Waithe Queen & Slim Julius Onah and JC Lee Luce 2021 Radha Blank The Forty-Year-Old Version Shaka King & Will Berson Judas and the Black Messiah Ruben Santiago-Hudson Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Kemp Powers One Night in Miami... Kemp Powers, Pete Docter, & Mike Jones Soul 2022 Rebecca Hall Passing Jeymes Samuel & Boaz Yakin The Harder They Fall Quiara Alegria Hudes In the Heights Janicza Bravo & Jeremy O. Harris Zola Nia DaCosta, Jordan Peele & Win Rosenfeld Candyman
Multiple nominations and wins Multiple wins 2 Wins Gregory Allen Howard Jordan Peele
Multiple nominations
6 Nominations Spike Lee
5 Nominations Tyler Perry
4 Nominations Jordan Peele John Ridley
3 Nominations Ryan Coogler Michael Elliot Steve McQueen Gina Prince-Bythewood
2 Nominations Mark Brown Ava DuVernay Rick Famuyiwa Gregory Allen Howard Elizabeth Hunter Barry Jenkins Malcolm D. Lee James McBride Kemp Powers Dee Rees Chris Rock Don D. Scott Kevin Willmott
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