Black Reel Award for Outstanding Film
Introduction The '''Black Reel Award for Outstanding Film''' is one of the Black Reel Awards presented annually. This award goes to the producers of the film. Outstanding Film is the final award of the night at each ceremony. There have been 115 films nominated for Outstanding Film and 23 winners.
History ===Outstanding Film and Outstanding Director===The Black Reel Award for Outstanding Picture and Black Reel Award for Outstanding Director have been closely linked throughout their history. Of the 22 films that have won Outstanding Film, 10 have also been awarded for Outstanding Director. Only six films have been awarded Outstanding Film without receiving an Outstanding Director nomination: ''The Hurricane'' directed by Norman Jewison , ''Ray'' directed by Taylor Hackford (2005), ''Crash'' directed by Paul Haggis (2006), ''Dreamgirls'' directed by Bill Condon (2017), ''The Help'' directed by Tate Taylor (2012) and ''Dolemite Is My Name'' directed by Craig Brewer (2020). Note: These film directors were deemed ineligible for an Outstanding Director nomination due to not being of African-American of African descent.===Language and country of origin===Only one non-English language film has been nominated in the category: ''The Intouchables'' (French, 2013). Five films wholly financed outside of the United States has been nominated for Outstanding Film: Attack the Block (2011), Shame (2011), The Intouchables (2013), Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013) & Belle (2014).===Genres===The Princess and the Frog and Soul are the only animated films to be nominated for Outstanding Film. Black Panther remains as the only Comic Book film to be nominated and win Outstanding Film. Get Out became the first horror film to win Outstanding Film and one of three films along with From Hell and Us to be nominated in this category.Lightning in a Bottle is the only documentary film to win. It won in the first and only winner in the Outstanding Comedy/Musical film at the 5th Annual Black Reel Awards. Standing in the Shadows of Motown, Tupac: Resurrection, Fade to Black and 13th were the other documentaries to be nominated in this category.Dreamgirls is the only musical to win this category. To date, The Book of Eli and Attack the Block are the only two Sci-Fi films to be nominated for Outstanding Film.
Winners and nominees Winners are listed first and highlighted in '''bold'''.===2000s=== Year Film Distributor Producer(s) Ref 2000 '''''The Hurricane''''' '''Universal Studios''' '''Norman Jewison, John Ketchem and Armyan Bernstein'''  ''The Best Man'' Universal Pictures Bill Carraro, Sam Kitt and Spike Lee ''Life'' Universal Pictures Eddie Murphy and Brian Grazer ''The Wood'' Paramount Pictures David Gale, Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa 2001 '''''Love & Basketball''''' '''New Line Cinema''' '''Spike Lee and Sam Kitt'''  ''Bamboozled'' New Line Cinema John Kilik and Spike Lee ''Girlfight'' Screen Gems Maggie Renzi, Martha Griffin and Sarah Green ''Men of Honor'' 20th Century Fox Bill Badalato and Robert Teitel ''Remember the Titans'' Walt Disney Pictures Chad Oman and Jerry Bruckheimer 2002 '''''Training Day''''' '''Warner Bros. Pictures''' '''Bruce Berman and Davis Guggenheim'''  ''Ali'' Columbia Pictures Michael Mann, Jon Peters and James Lassiter ''Baby Boy'' Columbia Pictures John Singleton ''The Brothers'' Screen Gems Doug McHenry and Paddy Cullen ''From Hell'' 20th Century Fox Don Murphy, Amy Robinson and Jane Hamsher 2003 '''''Antwone Fisher''''' '''Fox Searchlight Pictures''' '''Denzel Washington, Randa Haines and Todd Black'''  ''25th Hour'' Touchstone Pictures John Kilik, Spike Lee and Julia Chasman ''Barbershop'' Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer George Tillman Jr., Mark Brown and Robert Teitel ''Drumline'' 20th Century Fox Timothy M. Bourne, Wendy Finerman and Jody Gerson ''Standing in the Shadows of Motown'' Artisan Entertainment Paul Justman and Alan Slutsky 2004 '''''Out of Time''''' '''Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer''' '''Neal H. Moritz, Damien Saccani and Jesse Beaton'''  ''The Fighting Temptations'' Paramount Pictures Loretha C. Jones, Benny Medina and Jeff Pollack ''The Italian Job'' Paramount Pictures Donald De Line ''S.W.A.T.'' Columbia Pictures Neal H. Moritz, Chris Lee and Dan Halsted ''Tupac: Resurrection'' Paramount Pictures Preston Holmes, Karoyln Ali and Lauren Lazin  2005 Drama '''''Ray''''' '''Universal Pictures''' '''Howard Baldwin, Taylor Hackford and Bob Yari'''  ''BAADASSSSS!'' Sony Pictures Classics Mario Van Peebles ''I, Robot'' 20th Century Fox '''Topher Dow, Laurence Mark and Wyck Godfrey''' Comedy / Musical '''''Lightning in a Bottle''''' '''Sony Pictures''' '''Alex Gibney, Margaret Bodde and Jack Gulick''' ''Barbershop 2: Back in Business'' Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer George Tillman Jr., Robert Teitel and Alex Gartner ''Fade to Black'' Paramount Vantage Bob Ezrin, Rich Kleiman and Justin Wilkes 2006 '''''Crash''''' '''Lionsgate''' '''Paul Haggis, Cathy Schulman and Bob Yari'''  ''Coach Carter'' Touchstone Pictures David Gale, Brian Robbins and Michael Tollin ''Four Brothers'' Columbia Pictures Lorenzo di Bonaventura ''Hitch'' Columbia Pictures James Lassiter, Will Smith and Teddy Zee ''Hustle & Flow'' Paramount Classics John Singleton and Stephanie Allain 2007 '''''Dreamgirls''''' '''DreamWorks''' '''Laurence Mark'''  ''Akeelah and the Bee'' Warner Bros. Sid Ganis, Laurence Fishburne and Michael Romersa ''Inside Man'' Universal Pictures Brian Grazer and Jonathan Filley ''The Pursuit of Happyness'' Columbia Pictures James Lassiter, Todd Black and Steve Tisch ''Something New'' Focus Features Stephanie Allain 2008 '''''Cadillac Records''''' '''TriStar Pictures''' '''Andrew Lack and Sofia Sondervan'''  ''Miracle at St. Anna'' Touchstone Pictures Spike Lee, Luigi Musini and Roberto Cicutto ''The Secret Life of Bees'' Fox Searchlight Pictures James Lassiter, Will Smith and Lauren Shuler Donner ''Seven Pounds'' Columbia Pictures James Lassiter, Will Smith and Steve Tisch ''Traitor'' Overture Films Don Cheadle, David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman===2010s=== Year Film Distributor Producer(s) Ref 2010 '''''Precious''''' '''Lionsgate''' '''Lee Daniels, Gary Magness and Sarah Siegel-Magness'''  ''American Violet'' Samuel Goldwyn Films Bill Haney ''The Blind Side'' Warner Bros. Broderick Johnson, Andrew Kosove and Gil Netter ''Invictus'' Warner Bros. Clint Eastwood, Mace Neufeld and Robert Lorenz ''The Princess and the Frog'' Walt Disney Pictures Peter Del Vecho 2011 '''''Night Catches Us''''' '''Magnolia Pictures''' '''Jason Orans, Ron Simons and Sean Costello'''  ''The Book of Eli'' Warner Bros. Pictures Denzel Washington, Joel Silver and Andrew Kosove ''Brooklyn's Finest'' Overture Films John Thompson, John Langley and Elle Cohn ''For Colored Girls'' Lionsgate Tyler Perry, Roger M. Bobb and Paul Hall ''Just Wright'' Fox Searchlight Pictures Debra Martin Chase, Queen Latifah and Shakim Compere 2012 '''''The Help''''' '''DreamWorks''' '''Chris Columbus, Brunson Green and Michael Baranthan'''  ''Attack the Block'' Screen Gems Nira Park and James Wilson ''Jumping the Broom'' TriStar Pictures Elizabeth Hunter, Tracy Edmonds and T.D. Jakes ''Pariah'' Focus Features Nekisha Cooper ''Shame'' Fox Searchlight Pictures Emile Sherman and Iain Canning 2013 '''''Beasts of the Southern Wild''''' '''Fox Searchlight Pictures''' '''Josh Penn, Dan Javey and Michael Gottwald'''  ''Django Unchained'' The Weinstein Company Reginald Hudlin, Stacey Shear and Pilar Savone ''Flight'' Paramount Pictures Robert Zemeckis, Steve Starkey and Laurie MacDonald ''The Intouchables'' The Weinstein Company Nicolas Duval-Adassovsky, Yann Zenou and Laurent Zeitoun ''Middle of Nowhere'' AAFRM Paul Garnes, Ava DuVernay and Howard Barish 2014 '''''12 Years a Slave''''' '''Fox Searchlight Pictures''' '''Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner'''  ''42'' Warner Bros. Pictures Thomas Tull ''The Butler'' The Weinstein Company Pamela Oas Williams, Laura Ziskin and Lee Daniels ''Fruitvale Station'' The Weinstein Company Nina Yang Bongiovi and Forest Whitaker ''Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom'' 20th Century Fox David M. Thompson and Anant Singh 2015 '''''Selma''''' '''Paramount Pictures''' '''Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey and Dede Gardner'''  ''Belle'' Fox Searchlight Pictures Damian Jones ''Beyond the Lights'' Relativity Media Stephanie Allain, Reggie Rock Bythewood and Ryan Kavanaugh ''Dear White People'' Lionsgate Effie Brown, Ann Le and Julia Lebedev ''Top Five'' Paramount Pictures Scott Rudin and Eli Bush 2016 '''''Creed''''' '''Warner Bros. Pictures''' '''Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff and Charles Winkler'''  ''Beasts of No Nation'' Bleecker Street Amy Kaufman, Cary Joji Fukunaga and Daniela Taplin Lundberg ''Chi-Raq'' Roadside Attractions Spike Lee ''Concussion'' Columbia Pictures Ridley Scott, Giannina Facio and David Woltroff ''Straight Outta Compton'' Universal Pictures Ice Cube, Tomica Woods-Wright and Matt Alvarez 2017 '''''Moonlight''''' '''A24''' '''Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Adele Romanski'''  ''13th'' Netflix Spencer Averick, Howard Barish and Ava DuVernay ''Fences'' Paramount Pictures Todd Black, Scott Rudin and Denzel Washington ''Loving'' Focus Features Nancy Buirski, Ged Doherty, Colin Firth, Sarah Green, Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub ''Manchester by the Sea'' Roadside Attractions Lauren Beck, Matt Damon, Chris Moore, Kimberly Steward and Kevin J. Walsh 2018 '''''Get Out''''' '''Universal Pictures''' '''Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Edward H. Hamm Jr. and Jordan Peele'''  ''Detroit'' Annapurna Pictures Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Matthew Budman, Megan Ellison and Colin Wilson ''Girls Trip'' Universal Pictures Malcolm D. Lee and Will Packer ''Marshall'' Open Road Films Reginald Hudlin, Jonathan Sanger and Paula Wagner ''Mudbound'' Netflix Carl Effenson, Sally Jo Effenson, Cassian Elwes, Charles King, Christopher Lemole, Kim Roth and Tim Zajaros 2019 '''''Black Panther''''' '''Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures''' '''Kevin Feige'''  ''BlacKkKlansman'' Focus Features Jason Blum, Spike Lee, Raymond Mansfield, Sean McKittrick, Jordan Peele, and Shaun Redick ''Green Book'' Universal Pictures Jim Burke, Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga, and Charles B. Wessler ''If Beale Street Could Talk'' Annapurna Pictures Megan Ellison, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adele Romanski, Sara Murphy, and Barry Jenkins ''Widows'' 20th Century Fox Steve McQueen, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, and Arnon Milchan===2020s=== Year Film Distributor Producer(s) Ref 2020 '''''Dolemite Is My Name''''' '''Netflix''' '''Eddie Murphy''', '''John Davis''' and '''John Fox'''  ''Just Mercy'' Warner Bros. Pictures Asher Goldstein and Gil Netter ''Queen & Slim'' Universal Pictures Melina Matsoukas, Lena Waithe, Pamela Addy, Michelle Knudsen, Brad Weston and James Frey ''Us'' Universal Pictures Jordan Peele, Sean McKittrick, Ian Cooper and Jason Blum ''Waves'' A24 Trey Edward Schults, Kevin Turen and James Wilson  2021 '''''Judas and the Black Messiah''''' '''Warner Bros. Pictures''' '''Shaka King''', '''Charles D. King''' and '''Shaka King'''  ''Da 5 Bloods'' Netflix Spike Lee, Lloyd Levin, Jon Kilik and Beatriz Levin ''Ma Rainey's Black Bottom'' Netflix Denzel Washington, Todd Black and Dany Wolf  ''One Night in Miami...'' Amazon Studios Keith Calder, Jess Wu Calder & Jody Klein  ''Soul'' Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Dana Murray 2022 '''''King Richard''''' '''Warner Bros.''' '''Will Smith''', '''Tim White''' & '''Trevor White'''   ''The Harder They Fall'' Netflix Lawrence Bender, Jay-Z, James Lassiter and Jeymes Samuel ''Passing'' Netflix Nina Yang Bongiovi, Forest Whitaker, Rebecca Hall & Margot Hand  ''The Tragedy of Macbeth'' A24 Joel Coen, Frances McDormand, Robert Graf ''West Side Story'' 20th Century Studios Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger, Kevin McCollum
Multiple nominations and wins ===Multiple wins===; 3 Wins* Dede Gardner* Jeremy Kleiner===Multiple nominations===; 8 nominations* Spike Lee;6 Nominations * James Lassiter; 5 Nominations* Todd Black* Will Smith; 4 Nominations* Dede Gardner* Jeremy Kleiner* Denzel Washington; 3 Nominations* Stephanie Allain* Jason Blum* David Gale * Jon Kilik * Sean McKittrick* Jordan Peele* Robert Teitel; 2 Nominations* Howard Barish * Nina Yang Bongiovi* Jason Blumenthal* Iain Canning * Don Cheadle* Lee Daniels* John Davis * Ava DuVernay* Megan Ellison * Brian Grazer* Reginald Hudlin* Broderick Johnson* Charles D. King * Andrew A. Kosove* Laurence Mark* Steve McQueen* Arnon Milchan* Neal H. Moritz * Eddie Murphy* Gil Netter* Adele Romanski* Scott Rudin* Emile Sherman * John Singleton* Jeffrey Silver * George Tillman Jr. * Steve Tisch * Lena Waithe* James Wilson * Forest Whitaker
Production companies with multiple nominations and wins  Production Company Nominations WinsParamount Pictures 11 1Universal Pictures 10 3Warner Bros. Pictures 9 3Netflix 8 1Searchlight Pictures 6 3Columbia Pictures 6 0Walt Disney Pictures52The Weinstein Company50Lionsgate52Focus Features 4 020th Century Fox / 20th Century Studios50Screen Gems 3 0Overture Films 2 0New Line Cinema21MGM31Annapurna Pictures20A24 3 1TriStar Pictures20Sony Pictures Releasing21Roadside Attractions 3 0New Line Cinema 3 1 Amazon Studios 2 0
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