Black Reel Award for Outstanding Screenplay, Adapted or Original

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

{{Infobox award

| name = Black Reel Award for Outstanding Screenplay

| image =

| image_upright = 0.7

| caption = The 2021 recipient: Radha Blank

| awarded_for = Outstanding Screenplay

| presenter = Black Reel Awards (BRAs)

| country = United States

| year = Black Reel Awards of 2000

| holder_label = Most recent winner

| holder = Rebecca Hall
Passing (Black Reel Awards of 2022)

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

}}

This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Screenplay, Adapted or Original. Geoffrey Fletcher and John Ridley are the only Black Reel Award Screenwriting winners to win Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

=2000s=

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rowspan="4" align="center"| 2000

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| Malcolm D. Lee

| The Best Man

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Todd Boyd and Rick Famuyiwa

| The Wood

Spike Lee

| Summer of Sam

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| Gregory Allen Howard

| Remember the Titans

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Kwyn Bader

| Loving Jezebel

Scott Marshall Smith

| Men of Honor

Spike Lee

| Bamboozled

Gina Prince-Bythewood

| Love & Basketball

rowspan="6" align="center"| 2002

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| Gregory Allen Howard

| Ali

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Mark Brown

| Two Can Play That Game

Peter Gaulke and Darryl Quarles

| Black Knight

Gary Hardwick

| The Brothers

John Singleton

| Baby Boy

rowspan="6" align="center"| 2003

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| Antwone Fisher

| Antwone Fisher

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Mark Brown and Don D. Scott

| Barbershop

Michael Elliot

| Brown Sugar

Michael Elliott and Jordan Moffet

| Like Mike

John Ridley

| Undercover Brother

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| B.E. Brauner, Gary Hardwick and James Iver Mattson

| Deliver Us from Eva

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Elizabeth Hunter and Saladin K. Patterson

| The Fighting Temptations

Ali LeRoi and Chris Rock

| Head of State

rowspan="6" align="center"| 2005

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| Mario Van Peebles

| BAADASSSSS!

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Michael Genet and Spike Lee

| She Hate Me

Shonda Rimes

| The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

Don D. Scott

| Barbershop 2: Back in Business

James L. White

| Ray

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| Norman Vance Jr.

| Roll Bounce

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Rob Hardy

| The Gospel

Tyler Perry

| Diary of a Mad Black Woman

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| Kriss Turner

| Something New

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Bryan Barber

| Idlewild

Chris Cleveland and Bettina Gilois

| Glory Road

Tina Gordon Chism

| ATL

Tyler Perry

| Madea's Family Reunion

rowspan="6" align="center"| 2008

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| Gina Prince-Bythewood

| The Secret Life of Bees

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Darnell Martin

| Cadillac Records

James McBride

| Miracle at St. Anna

rowspan="2"| Tyler Perry

| The Family That Preys

Meet the Browns

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| Geoffrey S. Fletcher

| Precious

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Brian Bird

| Not Easily Broken

Cheo Hodari Coker and Reggie Rock Bythewood

| Notorious

John Lee Hancock

| The Blind Side

Bryon Minms, Scott Sanders and Michael Jai White

| Black Dynamite

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| Tanya Hamilton

| Night Catches Us

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Peter Allen, Gabriel Casseus, John Luessenhop and Avery Duff

| Takers

Michael Elliot

| Just Wright

Michael C. Martin

| Brooklyn's Finest

Tyler Perry

| For Colored Girls

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| Steve McQueen and Abi Morgan

| Shame

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Qasim Basir

| Mooz-lum

Ava DuVernay

| I Will Follow

Arelene Gibbs and Elizabeth Hunter

| Jumping the Broom

Dee Rees

| Pariah

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| Ava DuVernay

| Middle of Nowhere

| rowspan="6" align="center"| {{cite web|url=http://blackreelawards.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/critics-wild-about-beasts/|title=Critics Wild About Beasts|work=Black Reel Awards|date=February 8, 2013|accessdate=August 1, 2016}}

Mara Brock Akil

| Sparkle

Rashida Jones and Will McCormack

| Celeste and Jesse Forever

Spike Lee and James McBride

| Red Hook Summer

Aaron McGruder and John Ridley

| Red Tails

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| John Ridley

| 12 Years a Slave

| rowspan="6" align="center"| {{cite web|url=https://blackreelawards.wordpress.com/nominees/|title=2014 Black Reel Awards - Nominees|work=Black Reel Awards|date=December 11, 2014|accessdate=August 1, 2016}}

Ryan Coogler

| Fruitvale Station

Malcolm D. Lee

| The Best Man Holiday

Kasi Lemmons

| Black Nativity

Michael Starburry

| The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete

rowspan="6" align="center"| 2015

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| Chris Rock

| Top Five

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Gina Prince-Bythewood

| Beyond the Lights

John Ridley

| Jimi: All Is by My Side

Misan Sagay

| Belle

Justin Simien

| Dear White People

rowspan="4" align="center"| 2016

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| Ryan Coogler and Aaron Covington

| Creed

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Rick Famuyiwa

| Dope

Spike Lee and Kevin Willmott

| Chi-Raq

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| Barry Jenkins

| Moonlight

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Don Cheadle and Steven Baigelman

| Miles Ahead

Nate Parker

| The Birth of a Nation

Jordan Peele and Alex Rubens

| Keanu

August Wilson

| Fences

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| Jordan Peele

| Get Out

| rowspan="6" align="center"| [http://blackreelawards.com/get-out-dominate-the-black-reel-awards/ Get Out Dominates the Black Reel Awards] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171219052740/http://blackreelawards.com/get-out-dominate-the-black-reel-awards/ |date=December 19, 2017 }} Black Reel Awards. 13 December 2017.[http://blackreelawards.com/get-out-sinks-the-competition-at-the-black-reel-awards/ Get Out “Sinks” the Competition at The Black Reel Awards] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180228052857/http://blackreelawards.com/get-out-sinks-the-competition-at-the-black-reel-awards/ |date=February 28, 2018 }} Black Reel Awards. 23 February 2018.

Christine T. Berg and Gerard McMurray

| Burning Sands

Tracy Oliver and Kenya Barris

| Girls Trip

Dee Rees and Virgil Williams

| Mudbound

Maggie Betts

| Novitiate

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| Boots Riley

| Sorry to Bother You

| rowspan="6" align="center"| [https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000957/2019/1/?ref_=ev_eh 2019 Black Reel Awards].

Ryan Coogler & Joe Robert Cole

| Black Panther

Spike Lee, Kevin Willmott, David Rabinowitz and Charlie Wachtel

| BlacKkKlansman

Barry Jenkins

| If Beale Street Could Talk

Steve McQueen & Gillian Flynn

| Widows

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| Jordan Peele

| Us

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Chinonye Chukwu

| Clemency

Ladj Ly, Giordano Gederlini and Alexis Manenti

| Les Miserables

Lena Waithe

| Queen & Slim

Julius Onah and JC Lee

| Luce

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| Radha Blank

| The Forty-Year-Old Version

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Shaka King & Will Berson

| Judas and the Black Messiah

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

| Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Kemp Powers

| One Night in Miami...

Kemp Powers, Pete Docter, & Mike Jones

| Soul

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| Rebecca Hall

| Passing

| rowspan="6" align="center"| {{cite web |title=‘The Harder They Fall’ Sets Record with 20 Nominations from the Black Reel Awards |url=https://blackgirlnerds.com/the-harder-they-fall-sets-record-with-20-nominations-from-the-black-reel-awards/ |website=Black Girl Nerds |publisher=BGN Staff |access-date=2 January 2022}}

Jeymes Samuel & Boaz Yakin

| The Harder They Fall

Quiara Alegria Hudes

| In the Heights

Janicza Bravo & Jeremy O. Harris

| Zola

Nia DaCosta, Jordan Peele & Win Rosenfeld

| Candyman