This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Emerging Director. The award is given to the directors for their first directorial debut.
Winners and nominees 2010s Year Director Film 2017 Ezra Edelman O.J.: Made in America Steven Caple Jr. The Land Tahir Jetter How to Tell You're a Douchebag Rita Coburn Whack Maya Angelou and Still I Rise Yared Zeleke Lamb 2018Jordan PeeleGet Out Maggie Betts Novitiate Damon Davis and Sabaah Folayan Whose Streets? J.D. Dillard Sleight Malik Vitthal Imperial Dreams 2019Boots RileySorry to Bother You Idris Elba Yardie Rashida Jones Quincy Nijla Mumin Jinn Reinaldo Marcus Green Monsters and Men
2020s Year Director Film 2020Melina MatsoukasQueen & Slim Nia DaCosta Little Woods Mati Diop Atlantics Chinonye Chukwu Clemency Julius Onah Luce 2021Regina KingOne Night in Miami... Eugene Ashe Sylvie's Love Radha Blank The Forty-Year-Old Version Shaka King Judas and the Black Messiah Channing Godfrey Peoples Miss Juneteenth 2022Jeymes SamuelThe Harder They Fall Halle Berry Bruised Janicza Bravo Zola Rebecca Hall Passing Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson Summer of Soul 2023Nikyatu JusuNanny Elegance Bratton The Inspection Adamma Ebo Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. Elvis Mitchell Is That Black Enough for You?!? Carey Williams Emergency 2024Cord JeffersonAmerican Fiction Blitz the Ambassador The Color Purple Raven Jackson All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt A. V. Rockwell A Thousand and One Juel Taylor They Cloned Tyrone 2025RaMell RossNickel Boys Titus Kaphar Exhibiting Forgiveness Zoë Kravitz Blink Twice Angela Patton Daughters Malcolm Washington The Piano Lesson 2026R. T. Thorne40 Acres Akinola Davies Jr. My Father's Shadow Rachael Holder Love, Brooklyn Kahlil Joseph BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions Rungano Nyoni On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
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