The Black Reel Award for Television for Outstanding Directing, Drama Series is an American annual award presented to the best directing of a television drama series for a particular episode.
2010s Year Program Episode Nominee Network 20171stBlack*ish Paces the Black Reel Awards for Television Field 1st aanual black reel awards. Winners This Is Us "I Call Marriage" George Tillman Jr. NBC Empire "A Furnace for Your Foe" Sanaa Hamri FOX The Get Down "One by One, Into the Dark" Clark Johnson Netflix Luke Cage "You Know My Steez" Clark Johnson Netflix Queen Sugar "First Things First" Ava DuVernay OWN 2018(2nd)Historic night for Queen Sugar blackreelawards.com The Chi "Pilot" Rick Famuyiwa Showtime Queen Sugar "Fruit of the Flower" Cheryl Dunye OWN Scandal "People Like Me" Joe Morton ABC Scandal "The People v. Olivia Pope" Kerry Washington ABC Black Lightning "The Resurrection" Salim Akil CW 20193rdBilly Porter Makes History as First Openly Gay Black Man to Win Emmy for Outstanding Actor in Drama Series indiewire.com September 2019 This Is Us "Don't Take My Sunshine Away" George Tillman Jr. NBC Queen Sugar "A Rock, A River, A Tree" DeMane Davis OWN Pose "Love is the Message" Janet Mock FX Black Lightning "The Book of the Apocalypse: Chapter Two: The Omega" Salim Akil CW This Is Us "R&B" Kevin Hooks NBC
2020s Year Program Episode Nominee Network 20204th‘Watchmen,’ ‘Insecure’ top Black Reel Awards for Television winners awardswatch.comWatchmen & Insecure Pace the Black Reel Awards for TV Nominations blackreelawards.com Pose "In My Heels" Janet Mock FX Godfather of Harlem "By Whatever Means Necessary" John Ridley EPIX Queen Sugar "I Am" Ayoka Chenzira OWN Hunters "(Ruth 1:16)" Millicent Shelton Amazon Prime Video This Is Us "A Hell of a Week: Part One" Kevin Hooks NBC 20215th Lovecraft Country "Jig-a-Bobo" Misha Green HBO Pose "The Trunk" Tina Mabry FX This Is Us "Birth Mother" Kay Oyegun NBC The Mandalorian "Chapter 15: The Believer" Ricky Famuyiwa Disney+ Snowfall "Sleeping Dogs" Carl Seaton FX 20226th Bridgerton "The Viscount Who Loved Me" Cheryl Dunye Netflix Bel-Air "Dreams and Nightmares" Morgan Cooper Peacock Better Call Saul "Axe and Grind" Giancarlo Esposito AMC This Is Us "Our Little Island Girl: Part Two" Kevin Hooks NBC Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty "Pieces of a Man" Tanya Hamilton HBO
Programs with multiple awards
2 awards This Is Us
Programs with multiple nominations
6 nominations This Is Us
4 nominations Queen Sugar
3 nominations Pose
2 nominations Black Lightning Scandal
Total awards by network NBC – 2 FX - 1 HBO - 1 Netflix - 1 Showtime - 1
Individuals with multiple awards
2 awards George Tillman Jr.
Individuals with multiple nominations
3 nominations Kevin Hooks
2 nominations Salim Akil Rick Famuyiwa Clark Johnson Janet Mock George Tillman Jr.
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