This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding First Screenplay. The award is given to the writers for their first screenplay debut.
Winners and nominees 2010s Year Writer Film 2017 Steven Caple Jr. The Land 2017 Black Reel Awards Hermon Hailay Price of Love Yared Zeleke Lamb 2018Maggie BettsNovitiate 2018 Black Reel Awards Gerald McMurray and Christine T. Berg Burning Sands Malik Vitthal and Ismet Prcic Sleight J.D. Dillard and Alex Theurer Lamb Caroline Jules Tourments d'amour 2019Boots RileySorry to Bother You 2019 Black Reel Awards Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal Blindspotting Reinaldo Marcus Green Monsters and Men Michael Larnell Roxanne Roxanne Nijla Mumin Jinn
2020s Year Writer Film 2020Lena WaitheQueen & Slim2020 Black Reel Awards Chiwetel Ejiofor The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Phillip Youmans Burning Cane Chinonye Chukwu Clemency Mati Diop and Oliver Demangel Atlantics 2021Radha BlankThe Forty-Year-Old Version Eugene Ashe Sylvie's Love Kemp Powers One Night in Miami... Ruben Santiago-Hudson Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Channing Godfrey Peoples Miss Juneteenth
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