Black Reel Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor explained

Black Reel Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor
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Awarded For:	Outstanding Supporting Actor
Presenter:	Black Reel Awards (BRAs)
Country:	United States
Year:	2000
Holder Label:	Final winner
Holder:	Brian Tyree Henry Causeway
Most Awards:	Don Cheadle, Jamie Foxx, Djimon Hounsou & Wesley Snipes (2)
Most Nominations:	Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jamie Foxx & Jeffrey Wright (5)

This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. Oscar-nominated or winning performances also honored with nominations or wins at the Black Reel Awards include Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips), Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby), Michael Clarke Duncan (The Green Mile), Jamie Foxx (Collateral), Djimon Hounsou (Blood Diamond, In America) and Eddie Murphy (Dreamgirls).

The award was discontinued at the 24th Black Reel Awards and merged with Outstanding Supporting Actress in favor of a single gender-neutral award, Outstanding Supporting Performance.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

2000s

Year	Actor	Film	Ref
2000
	Michael Clarke Duncan	*The Green Mile*	^[2]
	Jamie Foxx	Any Given Sunday
	Terrence Howard	The Best Man
	Ice Cube	Three Kings
	Delroy Lindo	The Cider House Rules
2001
	Don Cheadle	*Traffic*	^[3]
	Rob Brown	Finding Forrester
	Tommy Davidson	Bamboozled
	Chris Rock	Nurse Betty
	Marlon Wayans	Requiem of a Dream
2002
	Jamie Foxx	*Ali*	^[4]
	Anthony Anderson	Two Can Play That Game
	Omar Epps	Brother
	Eddie Murphy	Shrek
	Ving Rhames	Baby Boy
2003
	Dennis Haysbert	*Far from Heaven*	^[5]
	Cedric the Entertainer	Barbershop
	Morgan Freeman	Sum of All Fears
	Denzel Washington	Antwone Fisher
	Forest Whitaker	Panic Room
2004
	Djimon Hounsou	*In America*	^[6]
	Mos Def	The Italian Job
	Morgan Freeman	Bruce Almighty
	Ving Rhames	Dark Blue
	Forest Whitaker	Phone Booth
2005
	Jamie Foxx	*Collateral*	^[7]
	Cedric the Entertainer
	Morgan Freeman	Million Dollar Baby
	Clifton Powell	Ray
	Jeffrey Wright	The Manchurian Candidate
2006
	Terrence Howard	*Crash*	^[8]
	Anthony Anderson	Hustle & Flow
	Chiwetel Ejiofor	Serenity
	Ludacris	Crash
	Jeffrey Wright	Syriana
2007
	Djimon Hounsou	*Blood Diamond*	^[9]
	Chiwetel Ejiofor	Children of Men
	Chiwetel Ejiofor	Kinky Boots
	Laurence Fishburne	Akeelah and the Bee
	Eddie Murphy	Dreamgirls
2008
	Jeffrey Wright	*Cadillac Records*	^[10]
	Mos Def	Cadillac Records
	Terrence Howard	Iron Man
	Brandon T. Jackson	Tropic Thunder
	Eamonn Walker	Cadillac Records

2010s

Year	Actor	Film	Ref
2010
	Anthony Mackie	*The Hurt Locker*	^[11]
	Charles S. Dutton	American Violet
	Chiwetel Ejiofor	2012
	Lenny Kravitz	Precious
	Derek Luke	Madea Goes to Jail
2011
	Wesley Snipes	*Brooklyn's Finest*	^[12]
	Sean Combs	Get Him to the Greek
	Laurence Fishburne	Predator
	Brandon T. Jackson
	Samuel L. Jackson	Mother and Child
2012
	Don Cheadle	*The Guard*	^[13]
	Mike Epps	Jumping the Broom
	Laurence Fishburne	Contagion
	Anthony Mackie	The Adjustment Bureau
	Isiah Whitlock Jr.	Cedar Rapids
2013
	Samuel L. Jackson	*Django Unchained*	^[14]
	Mike Epps	Sparkle
	Dwight Henry	Beasts of the Southern Wild
	David Oyelowo	Middle of Nowhere
	Nate Parker	Arbitrage
2014
	Barkhad Abdi	*Captain Phillips*	^[15]
	David Oyelowo	The Butler
	Nate Parker	Ain't Them Bodies Saints
	Tequan Richmond	Blue Caprice
	Keith Stanfield	Short Term 12
2015
	Wendell Pierce	*Selma*	^[16]
	Nelsan Ellis	Get On Up
	David Oyelowo	A Most Violent Year
	Tyler Perry	Gone Girl
	Michael K. Williams	The Gambler
2016
	Idris Elba	*Beasts of No Nation*	^[17]
	Chiwetel Ejiofor	The Martian
	Corey Hawkins	Straight Outta Compton
	Jason Mitchell	Straight Outta Compton
	Forest Whitaker	Southpaw
2017
	Mahershala Ali	*Moonlight*	^[18]
	Jovan Adepo	Fences
	Stephen Henderson	Fences
	André Holland	Moonlight
	Ashton Sanders	Moonlight
2018
	Jason Mitchell	*Mudbound*	^[19] ^[20]
	Idris Elba	Molly's Game
	Jamie Foxx	Baby Driver
	Laurence Fishburne	Last Flag Flying
	Lil Rel Howery	Get Out

	Michael B. Jordan	*Black Panther*	^[21] ^[22]
	Daniel Kaluuya	Widows
	Mahershala Ali	Green Book
	Russell Hornsby	The Hate U Give
	Brian Tyree Henry	If Beale Street Could Talk

2020s

Year	Actor	Film	Ref
2020
	Wesley Snipes	*Dolemite Is My Name*	^[23]
	Jonathan Majors	The Last Black Man in San Francisco
	Aldis Hodge	Clemency
	Sterling K. Brown	Waves
	Jamie Foxx	Just Mercy
2021
	Daniel Kaluuya	*Judas and the Black Messiah*	^[24]
	Chadwick Boseman (posthumous)	Da 5 Bloods
		Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
	Aldis Hodge	One Night in Miami...
	Leslie Odom Jr.	One Night in Miami...
2022
	Colman Domingo	*Zola*	^[25]
	Idris Elba	The Harder They Fall
	Andre Holland	Passing
		The Harder They Fall
	Jeffrey Wright	The French Dispatch
2022
	Brian Tyree Henry	*Causeway*	^[26]
	Micheal Ward	Empire of Light
		Breaking
	Bokeem Woodbine	The Inspection
	Jeffrey Wright	The Batman

Multiple nominations and wins

Multiple wins

2 Wins

Multiple nominations

5 nominations

4 nominations

Laurence Fishburne

3 nominations

2 nominations

Multiple nominations from the same film

Terrence Howard (winner) and Ludacris in Crash (2006)
Jeffrey Wright (winner), Mos Def and Eamonn Walker in Cadillac Records (2008)
Corey Hawkins and Jason Mitchell in Straight Outta Compton (2016)
Mahershala Ali (winner), Andre Holland & Ashton Sanders in Moonlight (2017)
Jovan Adepo & Stephen Henderson in Fences (2017)
Aldis Hodge & Leslie Odom Jr. in One Night in Miami... (2021)
Idris Elba & LaKeith Stanfield in The Harder They Fall (2022)

Age superlatives

Record	Actor	Film	Age (in years)
Oldest winner	Samuel L. Jackson	Django Unchained	63
Oldest nominee	Morgan Freeman	Million Dollar Baby	67
Youngest winner	Barkhad Abdi	Captain Phillips	28
Youngest nominee	Rob Brown	Finding Forrester	16

Notes and References

News: ‘The Color Purple’ at the Top in 2024 Black Reel Awards . Brenda C. . Siler . . January 23, 2024 . March 12, 2024 .
https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000957/2000 2000 Black Reel Awards
https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000957/2001 2001 Black Reel Awards
https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000957/2002 2002 Black Reel Awards
https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000957/2003 2003 Black Reel Awards
https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000957/2004 2004 Black Reel Awards
https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000957/2005 2005 Black Reel Awards
https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000957/2006 2006 Black Reel Awards
https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000957/2007 2007 Black Reel Awards
https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000957/2008 2008 Black Reel Awards
https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000957/2010 2010 Black Reel Awards
https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000957/2011 2011 Black Reel Awards
https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000957/2012 2012 Black Reel Awards
Web site: Critics Wild About Beasts. Black Reel Awards. February 8, 2013. August 1, 2016.
Web site: 2014 Black Reel Awards - Nominees. Black Reel Awards. December 11, 2014. August 1, 2016.
https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000957/2015 2015 Black Reel Awards
https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000957/2016 2016 Black Reel Awards
https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000957/2017 2017 Black Reel Awards
http://blackreelawards.com/get-out-dominate-the-black-reel-awards/ Get Out Dominates the Black Reel Awards
http://blackreelawards.com/get-out-sinks-the-competition-at-the-black-reel-awards/ Get Out “Sinks” the Competition at The Black Reel Awards
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Web site: Black Reel Awards (2020). IMDb.
Web site: A Special "Night in Miami!" – the Black Reel Awards . February 22, 2021 . February 22, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210222074540/http://blackreelawards.com/a-special-night-in-miami/ . dead .
Web site: 'The Harder They Fall' Sets Record with 20 Nominations from the Black Reel Awards . Black Girl Nerds . December 16, 2021 . BGN Staff . 2 January 2022.
Web site: Black Reel Awards Reveals Winners of Film and Television Categories; 'American Fiction' and 'The Color Purple' Take Home Top Honors . Valerie . Complex . . January 16, 2024 . January 17, 2024.