This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Original Score. This award is given to the film composers and was first awarded during the 2005 ceremony. Michael Abels & Nicholas Britell currently holds the record for most wins in this category.
Winners and nominees Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
2000s Year Composer Film Ref 2005 Ray Charles and Stephen Altman Ray 2005 Black Reel Awards Terence Blanchard She Hate Me RZA Kill Bill: Volume 2 2006 colspan="3" 2007 Harvey Mason Jr. and Damon Thomas Dreamgirls 2007 Black Reel Awards Big Boi Idlewild Terence Blanchard Inside Man Lisa Coleman and Wendy Melvoin Something New Aaron Zigman Akeelah and the Bee 2008 A. R. Rahman Slumdog Millionaire 2008 Black Reel Awards Terence Blanchard and Steve Jordan Cadillac Records Stanley Clarke Soul Men Mason Daring Honeydripper Steve Isles RocknRolla
2010s Year Composer Film Ref 2010 colspan="3" 2011 The Roots Night Catches Us 2011 Black Reel Awards James Horner The Karate Kid Atticus Ross and Leopold Ross The Book of Eli Marcelo Zarvos Brooklyn's Finest Aaron Zigman For Colored Girls 2012 Thomas Newman The Help 2012 Black Reel Awards Harry Escott Shame Alex Heffes The First Grader Steven Price Attack the Block Misha Segal Mooz-lum 2013 Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin Beasts of the Southern Wild Terence Blanchard Red Tails Kathryn Bostic Middle of Nowhere Bruce Hornsby Red Hook Summer Salaam Remi Sparkle 2014 Hans Zimmer 12 Years a Slave Stanley Clarke The Best Man Holiday Ludwig Göransson Fruitvale Station Mark Isham 42 Rodrigo Leao The Butler 2015 Jason Moran Selma 2015 Black Reel Awards Terence Blanchard Black or White Kathryn Bostic Dear White People Danny Bramson and Waddy Wachtel Jimi: All Is by My Side Mark Isham Beyond the Lights 2016 Joseph Trapanese Straight Outta Compton 2016 Black Reel Awards Terence Blanchard Chi-Raq Germaine Franco Dope Ludwig Göransson Creed Dan Romer Beast of No Nation 2017 Nicholas Britell Moonlight 2017 Black Reel Awards Robert Glasper Miles Ahead Henry Jackman The Birth of a Nation Benjamin Wallfisch, Pharrell Williams and Hans Zimmer Hidden Figures Marcelo Zarvos Fences 2018 Michael Abels Get Out 2018 Black Reel Awards James Newton Howard Detroit David Newman Girls Trip Roger Suen Gook Marcus Miller Marshall 2019 Nicholas Britell If Beale Street Could Talk 2019 Black Reel Awards Terence Blanchard BlacKkKlansman Ludwig Göransson Black Panther Ludwig Göransson Creed II Dustin O'Halloran The Hate U Give
2020s Year Composer Film Ref 2020 Michael Abels Us 2020 Black Reel Awards Scott Bomar Dolemite Is My Name Emile Mosseri The Last Black Man in San Francisco Devonté Hynes Queen & Slim Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor Waves 2021 Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste Soul Guy C. Routte The Forty-Year-Old Version John Debney Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey Robert Glasper The Photograph Fabrice Lecomte Sylvie's Love 2022 Jeymes Samuel The Harder They Fall Robert Akiki Aubrey Lowe Candyman Alex Lacamoire, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Bill Sherman In the Heights Devonté Hynes Passing Kris Bowers Respect 2023 Terence Blanchard The Woman King Common Alice Craig DeLeon End of the Road Tanerélle and Bartek Gliniak Nanny Michael Abels Nope 2024 Kris Bowers The Color Purple Jon Batiste American Symphony Kris Bowers Chevalier Branford Marsalis Rustin Desmond Murray and Pierre Charles They Cloned Tyrone 2025 Kris Bowers The Wild Robot 2025 Black Reel Awards Chanda Dancy Blink Twice Kris Bowers Bob Marley: One Love Tamar-kali The Fire Inside Jon Batiste Saturday Night 2026 Ludwig Göransson Sinners Kris Bowers The Eyes of Ghana Howard Drossin Highest 2 Lowest Hildur Guðnadóttir Hedda Raphael Saadiq Freaky Tales
Multiple nominations and wins Multiple wins 2 wins Michael Abels Kris Bowers Nicholas Britell
Multiple nominations 8 nominations Terence Blanchard
6 nominations Kris Bowers
5 nominations Ludwig Göransson
3 nominations Michael Abels Atticus Ross
2 nominations Jon Batiste Kathryn Bostic Stanley Clarke Nicholas Britell Robert Glasper Devonté Hynes Mark Isham Trent Reznor Dan Romer Marcelo Zarvos Aaron Zigman Hans Zimmer
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