This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series. The category was retired during the 2008 ceremony, but later returned in 2013. In May 2017 the category was moved from the film awards as part of the Black Reel Awards for Television honors thus resulting in two separate winners in 2017.
Winners and nominees Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
2000s Year Actor Film Network Ref 2000 Mekhi Phifer A Lesson Before Dying HBO 2000 Black Reel Awards Obba Babatunde Introducing Dorothy Dandridge HBO Carl Gordon Love Songs Showtime Brent Jennings Introducing Dorothy Dandridge HBO James Earl Jones Santa and Pete CBS 2001 Glenn Plummer The Corner HBO 2001 Black Reel Awards Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble Showtime Vondie Curtis-Hall Freedom Song TNT Vicellous Reon Shannon Mykelti Williamson Holiday Heart Showtime 2002 Terrence Howard Boycott HBO 2002 Black Reel Awards Reg E. Cathey Boycott HBO Erik Dellums Mekhi Phifer Carmen: A Hip Hopera MTV Vicellous Reon Shannon Dancing in September HBO 2003 Charles S. Dutton 10,000 Black Men Named George Showtime 2003 Black Reel Awards Peter Francis James The Rosa Parks Story CBS Russell Hornsby Keep the Faith, Baby Showtime 2004 Jeffrey Wright Angels in America HBO 2004 Black Reel Awards Ossie Davis Deacons for Defense Showtime Paul Winfield Sounder ABC 2005 Clayton LeBouef Something the Lord Made HBO 2005 Black Reel Awards Reg E. Cathey Everyday People HBO Stephen McKinley Henderson 2006 Jeffrey Wright Lackawanna Blues HBO 2006 Black Reel Awards Oris Erhuero Sometimes in April HBO Terrence Howard Lackawanna Blues HBO Sean Nelson Miracle's Boys TeenNick Ruben Santiago-Hudson Their Eyes Were Watching God ABC 2007 Michael Peña Walkout HBO 2007 Black Reel Awards 2008 colspan="4"
2010s Year Actor Film Network Ref 2010–12 colspan="4" 2013 Courtney B. Vance Let It Shine Disney Channel Danny Glover Hannah's Law Hallmark Louis Gossett Jr. Smitty UP Boris Kodjoe A Killer Amongst Us Lifetime Harry Lennix A Beautiful Soul TV One 2014 Omari Hardwick Being Mary Jane BET Richard Brooks Being Mary Jane BET Danny Glover Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight HBO Wood Harris The Watsons Go to Birmingham Hallmark Ernie Hudson Call Me Crazy: A Five Film Lifetime 2015 Blair Underwood The Trip to Bountiful Lifetime 2015 Black Reel Awards Richard T. Jones Lyfe's Journey UP Harry Lennix The Fright Night Files TV One Mekhi Phifer A Day Late and a Dollar Short Lifetime Bokeem Woodbine The Fright Night Files TV One 2016 Bokeem Woodbine Fargo FX 2016 Black Reel Awards Charles S. Dutton Bessie HBO Cuba Gooding Jr. The Book of Negroes BET David Alan Grier The Wiz Live! NBC Michael K. Williams Bessie HBO 2017 Sterling K. Brown The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story FX 2017 Black Reel Awards Andre Benjamin American Crime ABC Curtis Hamilton Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge & Michel'le Lifetime Tip "T.I." Harris Roots History Channel Michael K. Williams The Night Of HBO 2017 Wood Harris The New Edition Story BET 2017 Black Reel Awards for Television Caleb McLaughlin The New Edition Story BET Reg E. Cathey The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks HBO Orlando Jones Madiba BET Idris Elba Guerrilla Showtime 2018 Russell Hornsby Seven Seconds Netflix 2018 Black Reel Awards Corey Champagne Seven Seconds Netflix Brandon Victor Dixon Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert NBC Babs Olusanmokun Black Mirror Netflix Bokeem Woodbine Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G USA 2019 Michael K. Williams When They See Us Netflix 2019 Black Reel Awards for Television Asante Blackk When They See Us Netflix Caleel Harris When They See Us Netflix Marquis Rodriguez When They See Us Netflix Michael Ealy Being Mary Jane: Becoming Pauletta BET
2020s Year Actor Film Network Ref 2020 Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Watchmen HBO 2020 Black Reel Awards for Television Jovan Adepo Watchmen HBO Bill Bellamy Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C. J. Walker Netflix Louis Gossett Jr. Watchmen HBO Tituss Burgess Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs the Reverend Netflix 2021 John Boyega Small Axe Amazon Prime Video Paapa Essiedu I May Destroy You HBO Courtney B. Vance Genius National Geographic Daveed Diggs Hamilton Disney+ William Jackson Harper The Underground Railroad Amazon Prime Video
Superlatives Superlative Outstanding Supporting Actor, TV Movie/Limited Series Actor with most awards Jeffrey Wright (2) Actor with most nominationsReg E. CatheyMekhi PhiferMichael K. WilliamsBokeem Woodbine (3) Actor with most nominations without ever winningReg E. Cathey (3)
Programs with multiple awards
Performers with multiple awards
2 wins Jeffrey Wright
Programs with multiple nominations
4 nominations When They See Us
3 nominations Being Mary Jane Boycott Watchmen
2 nominations Bessie Everyday People Freedom Song Introducing Dorothy Dandridge Lackawanna Blues The New Edition Story Seven Seconds
Performers with multiple nominations
3 Nominations Reg E. Cathey Mekhi Phifer Michael K. Williams Bokeem Woodbine
2 Nominations Charles S. Dutton Danny Glover Louis Gossett Jr. Wood Harris Russell Hornsby Terrence Howard Harry Lennix Vicellous Reon Shannon Courtney B. Vance Jeffrey Wright
Total awards by network HBO - 8 BET - 2 FX - 2 Netflix - 2 Amazon Prime Video - 1 Disney Channel - 1 Lifetime - 1 Showtime - 1
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