Black Reel Award for Outstanding Independent Film
Motion picture award for independent feature
Black Reel Award for Outstanding Independent Feature | |
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Country | United States |
Presented by | The Black Reel Awards (BRAs) |
First awarded | Black Reel Awards of 2002 |
Most recent winner | The Forty-Year-Old Version (Black Reel Awards of 2021) |
Website | blackreelawards |
This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Independent Film. This award is presented to the directors of the film.
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
2000s
Year | Film | Director(s) | Ref |
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2002 | |||
The Visit | Jordan Walker-Pearlman | [1] | |
30 Years to Life | Vanessa Middleton | ||
Blue Hill Avenue | Craig Ross Jr. | ||
Lift | DeMane Davis and Khari Streeter | ||
Lumumba | Raoul Peck | ||
One Week | Carl Seaton | ||
2003 | |||
Standing in the Shadows of Motown | Paul Justman | [2] | |
Biggie & Tupac | Nick Broomfield | ||
Crazy as Hell | Eriq La Salle | ||
2004 | |||
Anne B. Real | Lisa France | [3] | |
All About You | Christine Swanson | ||
G | Shonie De La Rosa and Larry Blackhorse Lowe | ||
2005 | |||
The Woodsman | Nicole Kassell | [4] | |
Motives | Craig Ross Jr. | ||
Woman Thou Art Loosed | Michael Schultz | ||
2006 | |||
Constellation | Jordan Walker-Pearlman | [5] | |
Love Trap | Frank B. Goodin II | ||
On the One | Charles Randolph-Wright | ||
On the Verge of a Fever | John L'Ecuyer | ||
Proud | Mary Pat Kelly | ||
2007 | |||
Traci Townsend | Craig Ross Jr. | [6] | |
No. 2 | Toa Fraser | ||
Premium | Pete Chatmon | ||
2008 | — |
2010s
Year | Film | Director(s) | Ref |
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2010 | |||
Mississippi Damned | Tina Mabry | [7] | |
Sugar | Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck | ||
This is the Life | Ava DuVernay | ||
2011 | |||
Preacher's Kid | Stan Foster | [8] | |
Black Venus | Abdellatif Kechiche | ||
Finding God in the City of Angels | Jennifer Jessum | ||
Kings of the Evening | Andrew P. Jones | ||
Toe to Toe | Emily Abt | ||
2012 | |||
My Last Day Without You | Stefan Schaefer | [9] | |
Besouro | João Daniel Tikhomiroff | ||
Billy | Peter Burger | ||
Mamitas | Nicholas Ozeki | ||
The Tested | Russell Costanzo | ||
2013 | |||
LUV | Sheldon Candis | [10] | |
Elza | Mariette Monpierre | ||
Four | Joshua Sanchez | ||
The Last Fall | Matthew A. Cherry | ||
Yelling to the Sky | Victoria Mahoney | ||
2014 | |||
Blue Caprice | Alexandre Moors | [11] | |
Mother of George | Andrew Dosunmu | ||
Things Never Said | Charles Murray | ||
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty | Terence Nance | ||
Go for Sisters | John Sayles | ||
2015 | |||
The Retrieval | Chris Eska | [12] | |
1982 | Tommy Oliver | ||
Christmas Wedding Baby | Kiara C. Jones | ||
CRU | Alton Glass | ||
Una Vida: A Fable of Music and the Mind | Richie Adams | ||
2016 | |||
Tangerine | Sean S. Baker | [13] | |
Blackbird | Patrik-Ian Polk | ||
Knucklehead | Ben Bowman | ||
The Man in 3B | Trey Haley | ||
Somewhere in the Middle | Lanre Olabisi | ||
2017 | |||
American Honey | Andrea Arnold | [14] | |
How to Tell You’re a Douchebag | Tahir Jetter | ||
Hunter Gatherer | Joshua Locy | ||
The Land | Steven Caple Jr. | ||
Morris from America | Chad Hartigan | ||
2018 | |||
Crown Heights | Matt Ruskin | [15] | |
Burning Sands | Gerard McMurray | ||
Gook | Justin Chon | ||
Imperial Dreams | Malik Vitthal | ||
The Incredible Jessica James | James C. Strouse | ||
2019 | |||
Jinn | Nijla Mumin | [16] | |
A Boy. A Girl. A Dream. | Qasim Basir | ||
Roxanne Roxanne | Michael Larnell | ||
Monsters and Men | Reinaldo Marcus Green | ||
Yardie | Idris Elba |
2020s
Year | Film | Director(s) | Ref |
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2020 | |||
The Last Black Man in San Francisco | Joe Talbot | [17] | |
Burning Cane | Phillip Youmans | ||
Clemency | Chinonye Chukwu | ||
Guava Island | Hiro Murai | ||
Luce | Julius Onah | ||
2021 | |||
The Forty-Year-Old Version | Radha Blank | [18] | |
American Skin | Nate Parker | ||
Farewell Amor | Ekwa Msangi | ||
Miss Juneteenth | Channing Godfrey Peoples | ||
Sylvie's Love | Eugene Ashe | ||
2022 | |||
Concrete Cowboy | Ricky Staub | [19] | |
Nine Days | Edson Oda | ||
Test Pattern | Shatara Michelle Ford | ||
The Water Man | David Oyelowo | ||
Zola | Janicza Bravo |
Multiple nominations and wins
Multiple wins
- 2 Wins
Multiple nominations
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References
- ^ 2002 Black Reel Awards
- ^ 2003 Black Reel Awards
- ^ 2004 Black Reel Awards
- ^ 2005 Black Reel Awards
- ^ 2006 Black Reel Awards
- ^ 2007 Black Reel Awards
- ^ 2010 Black Reel Awards
- ^ 2011 Black Reel Awards
- ^ 2012 Black Reel Awards
- ^ "Critics Wild About Beasts". Black Reel Awards. February 8, 2013. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
- ^ "2014 Black Reel Awards - Nominees". Black Reel Awards. December 11, 2014. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
- ^ 2015 Black Reel Awards
- ^ 2016 Black Reel Awards
- ^ 2017 Black Reel Awards
- ^ 2018 Black Reel Awards
- ^ 2019 Black Reel Awards
- ^ 2020 Black Reel Awards
- ^ "A Special "Night in Miami!" – the Black Reel Awards". Archived from the original on 2021-02-22. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
- ^ "'The Harder They Fall' Sets Record with 20 Nominations from the Black Reel Awards". Black Girl Nerds. BGN Staff. 16 December 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
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Black Reel Award for Outstanding Independent Film
- The Visit (2002)
- Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2003)
- Anne B. Real (2004)
- The Woodsman (2005)
- Constellation (2006)
- Traci Townsend (2007)
- No Award (2008)
- No Award (2009)
- Mississippi Damned (2010)
- Preacher's Kid (2011)
- My Last Day Without You (2012)
- LUV (2013)
- Blue Caprice (2014)
- The Retrieval (2015)
- Tangerine (2016)
- American Honey (2017)
- Crown Heights (2018)
- Jinn (2019)
- The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2020)
- The Forty-Year-Old Version (2021)
- Zola (2022)
- The Inspection (2023)
- A Thousand and One (2024)