This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series. The category was retired during the 2008 ceremony, but later returned in 2012. 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 Don Cheadle A Lesson Before Dying HBO 2000 Black Reel Awards Andre Braugher Love Songs Showtime Louis Gossett Jr. Delroy Lindo Strange Justice Showtime Sidney Poitier The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn CBS 2001 T. K. Carter The Corner HBO 2001 Black Reel Awards Leon Little Richard NBC Sean Nelson The Corner HBO Ving Rhames Holiday Heart Showtime Wesley Snipes Disappearing Acts HBO 2002 Roger Guenveur Smith A Huey P. Newton Story Starz 2002 Black Reel Awards Morris Chestnut The Killing Yard Showtime Danny Glover 3 A.M. Showtime Gregory Hines Bojangles Showtime Jeffrey Wright Boycott HBO 2003 Harry J. Lennix Keep the Faith, Baby Showtime 2003 Black Reel Awards Andre Braugher 10,000 Black Men Named George Showtime Ving Rhames Sins of the Father FX 2004 Forest Whitaker Deacons for Defense Showtime 2004 Black Reel Awards Danny Glover Good Fences Showtime Carl Lumbly Sounder ABC 2005 Jamie Foxx Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story FX 2005 Black Reel Awards Mos Def Something the Lord Made HBO Roger Guenveur Smith Justice Starz 2006 Michael Ealy Their Eyes Were Watching God ABC 2006 Black Reel Awards Idris Elba Sometimes in April HBO Delroy Lindo The Exonerated truTV Anthony Mackie Sucker Free City Showtime Ving Rhames Kojak USA Network 2007 Andre Braugher Thief FX 2007 Black Reel Awards 2008 colspan="4"
2010s Year Actor Film Network Ref 2010–11 colspan="4" 2012 Idris Elba Luther BBC America 2012 Black Reel Awards Eric Benét Trinity Goodheart UP Laurence Fishburne Thurgood HBO Samuel L. Jackson The Sunset Limited HBO Mykelti Williamson Have a Little Faith ABC 2013 Sean Patrick Thomas Murder on the 13th Floor Lifetime Rockmond Dunbar Raising Izzie UP Cuba Gooding Jr. Firelight ABC Trevor Jackson Let It Shine Disney Channel Michael Jai White Somebody's Child UP 2014 Chiwetel Ejiofor Dancing on the Edge Starz Keith David Pastor Brown Lifetime Omari Hardwick A Christmas Blessing TV One Ernie Hudson Pastor Brown Lifetime Mike Tyson Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth HBO 2015 Larenz Tate Gun Hill BET 2015 Black Reel Awards Charles S. Dutton Comeback Dad UP David Alan Grier An En Vogue Christmas Lifetime Ving Rhames A Day Late and a Dollar Short Lifetime Keith Robinson Lyfe's Journey UP 2016 David Oyelowo Nightingale HBO 2016 Black Reel Awards Steve Harris Let the Church Say Amen BET James Earl Jones Great Performances: "Driving Miss Daisy" PBS Amin Joseph Stock Option TV One Michael K. Williams The Spoils Before Dying IFC 2017 Courtney B. Vance The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story FX 2017 Black Reel Awards Michael Ealy Secrets and Lies ABC Cuba Gooding Jr. The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story FX Malachi Kirby Roots History Channel Wendell Pierce Confirmation HBO 2017 Woody McClain The New Edition Story BET 2017 Black Reel Awards for Television Bryshere Y. Gray The New Edition Story BET Luke James The New Edition Story BET Laurence Fishburne Madiba BET Stephan James Shots Fired FOX 2018 Michael B. Jordan Fahrenheit 451 HBO 2018 Black Reel Awards for Television Mike Colter Marvel's the Defenders Netflix Dulé Hill Psych: The Movie USA Network Terrence Howard Electric Dreams Amazon Prime Video John Legend Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert NBC 2019 Jharrel Jerome When They See Us Netflix 2019 Black Reel Awards for Television Mahershala Ali True Detective (season 3) HBO Idris Elba Luther BBC One Woody McClain The Bobby Brown Story BET Ashton Sanders Native Son HBO Films
2020s Year Actor Film Network Ref 2020 Blair Underwood Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C. J. Walker Netflix 2020 Black Reel Awards for Television Andre Braugher Live in Front of a Studio Audience: 'All in the Family' and 'Good Times' ABC Andre Holland The Eddy Netflix Alano Miller Cherish the Day OWN Jeremy Pope Hollywood Netflix 2021 Leslie Odom Jr. Hamilton Disney+ Chris Rock Fargo FX Nnamdi Asomugha Sylvie's Love Amazon Studios Dulé Hill Psych 2: Lassie Come Home Peacock Mamoudou Athie Black Box Amazon Studios
Superlatives Superlative Outstanding Actor, TV Movie/Limited Series Actor with most awards Multiple (1) Actor with most nominationsAndre BraugherVing Rhames (4) Actor with most nominations without ever winningVing Rhames (4)
Programs with multiple awards
Performers with multiple awards
Programs with multiple nominations
3 nominations The New Edition Story
2 nominations American Crime Story The Corner Love Songs Luther
Performers with multiple nominations
4 nominations Andre Braugher Ving Rhames
3 nominations Idris Elba
2 nominations Laurence Fishburne Danny Glover Cuba Gooding Jr. Dulé Hill Roger Guenveur Smith Delroy Lindo Woody McClain
Total awards by network HBO - 4 FX - 3 BET - 2 Netflix - 2 Showtime - 2 Starz - 2 ABC - 1 BBC America - 1 Disney+ - 1 Lifetime - 1
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