Black Reel Award for Outstanding Breakthrough Screenwriter

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Black Reel Award for Outstanding First Screenplay
Awarded forOutstanding First Screenplay
CountryUnited States
Presented byBlack Reel Awards (BRAs)
First awardedBlack Reel Awards of 2017
Most recent winnerRadha Blank
The Forty-Year-Old Version (Black Reel Awards of 2021)
Websiteblackreelawards.com

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 Ref.
2017 Steven Caple Jr. The Land [1]
Hermon Hailay Price of Love
Yared Zeleke Lamb
2018 Maggie Betts Novitiate [2]
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
2019 Boots Riley Sorry to Bother You [3]
Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal Blindspotting
Reinaldo Marcus Green Monsters and Men
Michael Larnell Roxanne Roxanne
Nijla Mumin Jinn

2020s

Year Writer Film Ref.
2020 Lena Waithe Queen & Slim [4][5]
Chiwetel Ejiofor The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Phillip Youmans Burning Cane
Chinonye Chukwu Clemency
Mati Diop and Oliver Demangel Atlantics
2021 Radha Blank The Forty-Year-Old Version [6]
Eugene Ashe Sylvie's Love
Kemp Powers One Night in Miami...
Ruben Santiago-Hudson Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Channing Godfrey Peoples Miss Juneteenth

References

  1. ^ 2017 Black Reel Awards
  2. ^ 2018 Black Reel Awards
  3. ^ 2019 Black Reel Awards
  4. ^ Morales, Wilson (December 11, 2019). "20th Annual Black Reel Awards - Nominees Announced". Black Film. Archived from the original on December 13, 2019. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
  5. ^ 2020 Black Reel Awards
  6. ^ "A Special "Night in Miami!" โ€“ the Black Reel Awards". Archived from the original on February 22, 2021. Retrieved February 22, 2021.