Black Reel Award for Outstanding Breakthrough Screenwriter

{{short description|Award presented annually by the Black Reel Awards}}

{{Infobox award

| name = Black Reel Award for Outstanding First Screenplay

| image =

| image_upright = 0.7

| caption = The 2020 recipient: Lena Waithe

| awarded_for = Outstanding First Screenplay

| presenter = Black Reel Awards (BRAs)

| country = United States

| year = Black Reel Awards of 2017

| holder_label = Most recent winner

| holder = Radha Blank
The Forty-Year-Old Version (Black Reel Awards of 2021)

| website = {{url|http://blackreelawards.com/}}

}}

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

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rowspan="3" align="center"| 2017

|style="background:#B0C4DE"| Steven Caple Jr.

|style="background:#B0C4DE"| The Land

| rowspan="3" align="center"| [https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000957/2017 2017 Black Reel Awards]

Hermon Hailay

| Price of Love

Yared Zeleke

| Lamb

rowspan="5" align="center"| 2018

| style="background:#B0C4DE"|Maggie Betts

| style="background:#B0C4DE"|Novitiate

| rowspan="5" align="center"| [https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000957/2018/1?ref_=ttawd_ev_19 2018 Black Reel Awards]

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

rowspan="5" align="center"| 2019

| style="background:#B0C4DE"|Boots Riley

| style="background:#B0C4DE"|Sorry to Bother You

| rowspan="5" align="center"| [https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000957/2019?ref_=nmawd_awd_13 2019 Black Reel Awards]

Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal

| Blindspotting

Reinaldo Marcus Green

| Monsters and Men

Michael Larnell

| Roxanne Roxanne

Nijla Mumin

| Jinn

=2020s=

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rowspan="5" align="center"| 2020

| style="background:#B0C4DE"|Lena Waithe

| style="background:#B0C4DE"|Queen & Slim

| rowspan="5" align="center"|{{cite web|url=https://www.blackfilm.com/read/2019/12/20th-annual-black-reel-awards-nominees-announced/|title=20th Annual Black Reel Awards - Nominees Announced|date=December 11, 2019|accessdate=January 9, 2020|work=Black Film|first=Wilson|last=Morales|archive-date=December 13, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191213062404/https://www.blackfilm.com/read/2019/12/20th-annual-black-reel-awards-nominees-announced/|url-status=dead}}[https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000957/2020/1/?ref_=ev_eh 2020 Black Reel Awards]

Chiwetel Ejiofor

| The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

Phillip Youmans

| Burning Cane

Chinonye Chukwu

| Clemency

Mati Diop and Oliver Demangel

| Atlantics

rowspan="6" align="center"| 2021

| style="background:#B0C4DE"|Radha Blank

| style="background:#B0C4DE"|The Forty-Year-Old Version

| rowspan="6" align="center"| {{Cite web |url=http://blackreelawards.com/a-special-night-in-miami/ |title=A Special "Night in Miami!" – the Black Reel Awards |access-date=February 22, 2021 |archive-date=February 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210222074540/http://blackreelawards.com/a-special-night-in-miami/ |url-status=dead }}

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

Breakthrough Screenwriter

Category:Screenwriting awards for film

Category:Awards established in 2017