Black Reel Award for Outstanding Actress

This page lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture. Quvenzhané Wallis is currently the youngest winner in this category. Oscar-nominated or winning performances also honored with nominations or wins at the Black Reel Awards include Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild), Viola Davis (The Help), Gabourey Sidibe (Precious), Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda) and Halle Berry (Monster's Ball).

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

2000s

Year	Actress	Film	Ref
2000
	Nia Long	The Best Man	[1]
	Rosario Dawson	Light It Up
	Thandie Newton	Besieged
	Rosie Perez	The 24 Hour Woman
	Malinda Williams	The Wood
2001
	Sanaa Lathan	Love & Basketball	[2]
	Angela Bassett	Boesman and Lena
	Jada Pinkett Smith	Bamboozled
	Michelle Rodriguez	Girlfight
	Alfre Woodard	What's Cooking
2002
	Halle Berry	Monster's Ball	[3]
	Vivica A. Fox	Two Can Play That Game
	Pam Grier	Bones
	Taraji P. Henson	Baby Boy
	Regina King	Down to Earth
2003
	Angela Bassett	Sunshine State	[4]
	Kimberly Elise	John Q
	Aunjanue Ellis	Undercover Brother
	Sanaa Lathan	Brown Sugar
	Thandie Newton	The Truth About Charlie
2004
	Sanaa Lathan	Out of Time	[5]
	Halle Berry	Gothika
	Beyoncé	The Fighting Temptations
	Queen Latifah	Bringing Down the House
	Gabrielle Union	Deliver Us from Eva
2005	Drama		[6]
	Sophie Okonedo	Hotel Rwanda
	Regina King	Ray
	Kerry Washington
	Comedy / Musical
	Irma P. Hall	The Ladykillers
	Angela Bassett	Mr. 3000
	Gabrielle Union	Breakin' All the Rules
2006
	Kimberly Elise	Diary of a Mad Black Woman	[7]
	Rosario Dawson	Rent
	Nona Gaye	The Gospel
	Queen Latifah	Last Holiday
	Zoe Saldana	Guess Who
2007
	Keke Palmer	Akeelah and the Bee	[8]
	Beyoncé	Dreamgirls
	Sanaa Lathan	Something New
2008
	Queen Latifah	The Secret Life of Bees	[9]
	Jennifer Hudson	The Secret Life of Bees
	Sanaa Lathan	The Family That Preys
	Keke Palmer	The Longshots
	Alfre Woodard	The Family That Preys

2010s

Year	Actress	Film	Ref
2010
	Gabourey Sidibe	Precious	[10]
	Nicole Beharie	American Violet
	Taraji P. Henson	I Can Do Bad All By Myself
	Sophie Okonedo	Skin
	Maya Rudolph	Away We Go
2011
	Kerry Washington	Night Catches Us	[11]
	Kimberly Elise	For Colored Girls
	Queen Latifah	Just Wright
	Thandie Newton	For Colored Girls
	Anika Noni Rose
2012
	Viola Davis	The Help	[12]
	Naomie Harris	The First Grader
	Nia Long	Mooz-lum
	Adepero Oduye	Pariah
	Zoe Saldana	Colombiana
2013
	Quvenzhané Wallis	Beasts of the Southern Wild	[13]
	Halle Berry	Cloud Atlas
	Emayatzy Corinealdi	Middle of Nowhere
	Viola Davis	Won't Back Down
	Rashida Jones	Celeste and Jesse Forever
2014
	Danai Gurira	Mother of George	[14]
	Halle Berry	The Call
	Rosario Dawson	Trance
	Lisagay Hamilton	Go for Sisters
	Nia Long	The Best Man Holiday
2015
	Gugu Mbatha-Raw	Belle	[15]
	Rosario Dawson	Top Five
	Gugu Mbatha-Raw	Beyond the Lights
	Tessa Thompson	Dear White People
	Quvenzhané Wallis	Annie
2016
	Teyonah Parris	Chi-Raq	[16]
	Viola Davis	Lila & Eve
	Kitana Kiki Rodriguez	Tangerine
	Zoe Saldana	Infinitely Polar Bear
	Karidja Touré	Girlhood
2017
	Ruth Negga	Loving	[17]
	Taraji P. Henson	Hidden Figures
	Royalty Hightower	The Fits
	Sasha Lane	American Honey
	Madina Nwalanga	Queen of Katwe
2018
	Natalie Paul	Crown Heights	[18][19]
	Amandla Stenberg	Everything, Everything
	Carmen Ejogo	It Comes at Night
	Jessica Williams	The Incredible Jessica James
	Simone Baker	Gook
2019
	KiKi Layne	If Beale Street Could Talk	[20][21]
	Viola Davis	Widows
	Regina Hall	Support the Girls
	Amandla Stenberg	The Hate U Give
	Zoe Renee	Jinn

2020s

Year	Actress	Film	Ref
2020
	Lupita Nyong’o	Us	[22]
	Cynthia Erivo	Harriet
	Jodie Turner-Smith	Queen & Slim
	Gugu Mbatha-Raw	Fast Color
	Alfre Woodard	Clemency

Multiple nominations and wins

Multiple wins

2 Wins

• Sanaa Lathan

Multiple nominations

5 Nominations Sanaa Lathan 4 Nominations Halle Berry Viola Davis Rosario Dawson Queen Latifah 3 Nominations Angela Bassett Kimberly Elise Taraji P. Henson Nia Long Gugu Mbatha-Raw Thandie Newton Zoe Saldana Alfre Woodard

2 Nominations Beyoncé Regina King Sophie Okonedo Keke Palmer Amandla Stenberg Gabrielle Union Quvenzhané Wallis Kerry Washington

References

1. 2000 Black Reel Awards
2. 2001 Black Reel Awards
3. 2002 Black Reel Awards
4. 2003 Black Reel Awards
5. 2004 Black Reel Awards
6. 2005 Black Reel Awards
7. 2006 Black Reel Awards
8. 2007 Black Reel Awards
9. 2008 Black Reel Awards
10. 2010 Black Reel Awards
11. 2011 Black Reel Awards
12. 2012 Black Reel Awards
13. "Critics Wild About Beasts". Black Reel Awards. February 8, 2013. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
14. "2014 Black Reel Awards - Nominees". Black Reel Awards. December 11, 2014. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
15. 2015 Black Reel Awards
17. 2017 Black Reel Awards
18. Get Out Dominates the Black Reel Awards Black Reel Awards. 13 December 2017.
19. Get Out “Sinks” the Competition at The Black Reel Awards Black Reel Awards. 23 February 2018.
20. Black Reel Awards. 13 December 2017.
21. Black Reel Awards. 9 February 2019.