Black Reel Award for Outstanding Television Movie or Limited Series

Black Reel Award for Outstanding Television Movie or Limited Series
Black Reel Award for Outstanding Television Movie or Limited Series
Awarded for	Outstanding Television Movie or Limited Series
Country	United States
Presented by	Black Reel Awards
First awarded	2000
Currently held by	The Best Man: The Final Chapters (2023)
Website	blackreelawards.com

This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Television Movie or Limited Series. As of the 2016 ceremony, Luther is the only television movie or limited series to receive more than one nomination. This award is presented to the producers of the production. In May 2017 the category was moved from the film awards as part of the Black Reel Awards for Television honors thus resulting in two separate winners in 2017.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

2000s

Year	Film / Series	Network	Producer(s)	Ref
2000
	Introducing Dorothy Dandridge	HBO	Halle Berry and Joshua D. Maurer	^[1]
	A Lesson Before Dying	HBO	Ted Demme and Ellen Krass
	Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years	CBS	Camille Cosby and Jeffrey Grant
	Funny Valentines	HBO	Ron Stacker Thompson and Ashley Tyler
	Jackie's Back	Lifetime	Gideon Amir
	Love Songs	Showtime	Steven Hewitt
	Strange Justice	Showtime	Jacob Epstein and Steven Haft
2001
	The Corner	HBO	Nina Kostroff Noble	^[2]
	Disappearing Acts	HBO	Lydia Dean Pilcher
	Freedom Song	TNT	Amanda DiGiulio
	Holiday Heart	Showtime	Cheryl West
	Sally Hemings: American Scandal	PBS	Marty Eli Schwartz and Gerrit van der Meer
2002
	Boycott	HBO	Clark Johnson	^[3]
	3 A.M.	Showtime	Lee Davis
	A Huey P. Newton Story	Starz	Spike Lee
	Dancing in September	HBO	Reggie Rock Bythewood
	Stranger Inside	HBO	Cheryl Dunye
2003
	The Rosa Parks Story	CBS	Paris Qualles	^[4]
	Keep the Faith, Baby	Showtime	Art Washington
	Lift	Showtime	DeMane Davis
2004
	Deacons for Defense	Showtime	Robert Rehme	^[5]
	The Cheetah Girls	Disney Channel	Jacqueline George
	D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear	USA Network	Orly Adelson and Jonathan Eskenas
	Good Fences	Showtime	Danny Glover and Whoopi Goldberg
	Sounder	ABC	Howard Braunstein and Bill Cain
2005
	Something the Lord Made	HBO	Robert W. Cort and Eric Hetzel	^[6]
	Beah: A Black Woman Speaks	HBO	Jonathan Demme and Joe Viola
	Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story	FX	Sue Bugden and Rudy Langlais
2006
	Lackawanna Blues	HBO	Halle Berry and Vincent Cirrincione	^[7]
	Kojak	USA Network	Tom Thayer and Steve Feke
	Miracle's Boys	TeenNick	Nicole Silver and Orly Wiseman
	Sometimes in April	HBO	Daniel Delume
	Their Eyes Were Watching God	ABC	Quincy Jones and Oprah Winfrey
2007
2007	Walkout	HBO	Moctesuma Esparza and Robert A. Katz	^[8]
2008	—

2010s

Year	Film / Series	Network	Producer(s)/Showrunners(s)	Ref
2010–11	—
2012
	Thurgood	HBO	Bill Haber and George Stevens Jr.	^[9]
	Five	Lifetime	Jennifer Aniston, Marta Kauffman and Paula Wagner
	Luther	BBC America	Katie Swinden
	The Sunset Limited	HBO	Barbara Hall
	Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story	Lifetime	Harvey Kahn
2013
	A Beautiful Soul	TV One	Holly Carter and Dominique Telson	^[10]
	Let It Shine	Disney Channel	Amy Gibbons and Paul Hoen
	Raising Izzie	UP	Angelique Bones
	Somebody's Child	UP	David Eubanks, Keith Neal and Eric Tomosunas
	Steel Magnolias	Lifetime	Neil Meron and Craig Zadan
2014
	Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth	HBO	Spike Lee and Mike Tyson	^[11]
	Being Mary Jane	BET	Gabrielle Union, Salim Akil and Mara Brock Akil
	Betty and Coretta	Lifetime	Polly Anthony and Jaja Johnson
	CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story	VH1	Bill Diggins and Jill Holmes
	The Watsons Go to Birmingham	Hallmark	Tonya Lewis Lee
2015
	The Trip to Bountiful	Lifetime	Bill Haber and Jeff Hayes	^[12]
	A Day Late and a Dollar Short	Lifetime	Jeffrey M. Hayes
	Gun Hill	BET	Reggie Rock Bythewood
	Rosemary's Baby	NBC	Zoe Saldana, Tom Patricia and Robert Bernacchi
	Seasons of Love	Lifetime	Joshua A. Green and Yaron Schwartzman
2016
	Bessie	HBO	Ron Schmidt	^[13]
	American Crime	ABC	Ed Tapla and Lori-Etta Taub
	The Book of Negroes	BET	Damon D'Oliveira and Clement Virgo
	Luther	BBC America	Marcus Wilson
	Show Me a Hero	HBO	Gail Mutrux
2017
	The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story	FX	Chip Vucelich, Alexis Martin Woodall and John Travolta	^[14]
	American Crime	ABC	Lori-Etta Taub
	Confirmation	HBO	Darren M. Demetre
	Love Under New Management: The Miki Howard Story	TV One	Carl Craig, Teyonah Parris, Ron Robinson and Eric Tomosunas
	Roots	History Channel	Ann Kindberg and Alissa M. Kantrow
2017
	The New Edition Story	BET	Brooke Payne, Jesse Collins, Debra Lee, Ralph E. Tresvant, Ricky Bell, Johnny Gill, Bobby Brown, Ronnie DeVoe, Stephen Hill, Michael Bivins, Chris Robinson, Valerie Bleth Sharp	^[15]
	American Crime	ABC	John Ridley, Julie Hébert
	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	HBO	Kathryn Dean, Alan Ball, Oprah Winfrey, Peter Macdissi, Carla Gardini, Lydia Dean Pilcher
	Guerrilla	Showtime	John Ridley
	Shots Fired	FOX	Gina Prince-Bythewood & Reggie Rock Bythewood
2018
	Seven Seconds	Netflix	Veena Sud	^[16]
	Black Mirror	Netflix	Charlie Brooker
	Flint	Lifetime	Shakim Compere, Queen Latifah, Katie Couric, John M. Eckert, Mark Nicholson, Craig Zadan
	Marvel's The Defenders	Netflix	Douglas Petrie & Marco Ramirez
	The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G.	USA Network	Kyle Long
2019
	When They See Us	Netflix	Ava DuVernay	^[17]
	Luther	BBC One	Neil Cross
	Native Son	HBO Films	Alex Ernst, Duccio Fabbri, Eric Hollenbeck, Matthew Perniciaro, Michael Sherman
	The Bobby Brown Story	BET	Bobby Brown, Sheyna Kathleen Smith, Carl Craig, Dionne Harmon, Jesse Collins
	True Detective	HBO	Nic Pizzolatto

2020s

Year	Film / Series	Network	Producer(s)/ Showrunners	Ref
2020
	Watchmen	HBO	Damon Lindelof	^[18]
	The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel	Lifetime	Holly Davis Carter, Ronnie J. Pitre, Missy Elliott, Mary J. Blige, Queen Latifah, Shakim Compere, Loretha C. Jones, Steve Solomos
	Hollywood	Netflix	Ian Brennan
	Little Fires Everywhere	Hulu	Liz Tigelaar
	Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C. J. Walker	Netflix	Elle Johnson
2021
	I May Destroy You	HBO	Michaela Coel	^[19]^[20]
	Hamilton	Disney+	Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail, Jeffrey Seller
	Sylvie's Love	Amazon Studios	Eugene Ashe, Nnamdi Asomugha, Jonathan T. Baker
	Small Axe	Amazon Prime Video / BBC One	Steve McQueen
	The Underground Railroad	Amazon Prime Video	Barry Jenkins
2022
	The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey	Apple TV+	Diane Houslin	^[21]
	Colin in Black & White	Netflix	Michael Starrbury
	DMZ	HBO Max	Roberto Patino
	True Story	Netflix	Eric Newman
	We Own This City	HBO	George Pelecanos
2023
	The Best Man: The Final Chapters	Peacock	Malcolm D. Lee	^[22]
	Black Girl Missing	Lifetime	[data missing]
	Entergalactic	Netflix	Michael Penketh, Mike Moon
	Praise This	Peacock	Will Packer, Tim Story, James Lopez
	Swarm	Amazon Prime Video	Janine Nabers

Programs with multiple nominations

Totals include continuing series, but not sequels or revivals.

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