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 2002 The Visit Jordan Walker-Pearlman 2002 Black Reel Awards 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 2003 Black Reel Awards Biggie & Tupac Nick Broomfield Crazy as Hell Eriq La Salle 2004 Anne B. Real Lisa France 2004 Black Reel Awards All About You Christine Swanson G Shonie De La Rosa and Larry Blackhorse Lowe 2005 The Woodsman Nicole Kassell 2005 Black Reel Awards Motives Craig Ross Jr. Woman Thou Art Loosed Michael Schultz 2006 Constellation Jordan Walker-Pearlman 2006 Black Reel Awards 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. 2007 Black Reel Awards No. 2 Toa Fraser Premium Pete Chatmon 2008 colspan="3"
2010s Year Film Director(s) Ref 2010 Mississippi Damned Tina Mabry 2010 Black Reel Awards Sugar Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck This is the Life Ava DuVernay 2011 Preacher's Kid Stan Foster 2011 Black Reel Awards 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 2012 Black Reel Awards Besouro João Daniel Tikhomiroff Billy Peter Burger Mamitas Nicholas Ozeki The Tested Russell Costanzo 2013 LUV Sheldon Candis Elza Mariette Monpierre Four Joshua Sanchez The Last Fall Matthew A. Cherry Yelling to the Sky Victoria Mahoney 2014 Blue Caprice Alexandre Moors 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 2015 Black Reel Awards 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 2016 Black Reel Awards Blackbird Patrik-Ian Polk Knucklehead Ben Bowman The Man in 3B Trey Haley Somewhere in the Middle Lanre Olabisi 2017 American Honey Andrea Arnold 2017 Black Reel Awards 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 2018 Black Reel Awards Burning Sands Gerard McMurray Gook Justin Chon Imperial Dreams Malik Vitthal The Incredible Jessica James James C. Strouse 2019 Jinn Nijla Mumin 2019 Black Reel Awards 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 2020 The Last Black Man in San Francisco Joe Talbot 2020 Black Reel Awards Burning Cane Phillip Youmans Clemency Chinonye Chukwu Guava Island Hiro Murai Luce Julius Onah 2021 The Forty-Year-Old Version Radha Blank American Skin Nate Parker Farewell Amor Ekwa Msangi Miss Juneteenth Channing Godfrey Peoples Sylvie's Love Eugene Ashe 2022 Zola Janicza Bravo Concrete Cowboy Ricky Staub Nine Days Edson Oda Test Pattern Shatara Michelle Ford The Water Man David Oyelowo 2023 The Inspection Elegance Bratton Emergency Carey Williams Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. Adamma Ebo Master Mariama Diallo Nanny Nikyatu Jusu 2024 A Thousand and One A. V. Rockwell All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt Raven Jackson Earth Mama Savanah Leaf How I Learned to Fly Simon Steuri Rye Lane Raine Allen-Miller 2025 We Grown Now Minhal Baig Albany Road Christine Swanson Blink Twice Zoë Kravitz Hard Truths Mike Leigh I Saw the TV Glow Jane Schoenbrun
Multiple wins 2 wins Jordan Walker-Pearlman
Multiple nominations 3 nominations Craig Ross Jr.
2 nominations Christine Swanson Jordan Walker-Pearlman
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