Black Reel Award for Outstanding Breakthrough Screenwriter
Award presented annually by the Black Reel Awards
Black Reel Award for Outstanding First Screenplay | |
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Awarded for | Outstanding First Screenplay |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Black Reel Awards (BRAs) |
First awarded | Black Reel Awards of 2017 |
Most recent winner | Radha Blank 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 First Screenplay. The award is given to the writers for their first screenplay debut.
Winners and nominees
2010s
Year | Writer | Film | Ref. |
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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. |
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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
- ^ 2017 Black Reel Awards
- ^ 2018 Black Reel Awards
- ^ 2019 Black Reel Awards
- ^ 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.
- ^ 2020 Black Reel Awards
- ^ "A Special "Night in Miami!" – the Black Reel Awards". Archived from the original on February 22, 2021. Retrieved February 22, 2021.
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Black Reel Award for Outstanding Breakthrough Screenwriter
- Steven Caple Jr. (2017)
- Maggie Betts (2018)
- Boots Riley (2019)
- Lena Waithe (2020)
- Radha Blank (2021)
- Rebecca Hall (2022)
- Elegance Bratton (2023)
- Cord Jefferson (2024)