3rd Annual Black Reel for Television Awards Nominees
Comedy Categories
Peter Saji
Kenya Barris
E. Brian Dobbins
Laurence Fishburne
Helen Sugland
Corey Nickerson
Jonathan Groff
Gail Lerner
Kenny Smith Jr.
Tracee Ellis Ross
Courtney Lilly
Stacy Traub
Owen H.M. Smith
Jamie Nelsen
Heidi McGowen
“Grown-ish” (Freeform)
Kenya Barris
Anthony Anderson
Laurence Fishburne
E. Brian Dobbins
Craig Doyle
Jamie Nelson
Jenifer Rice-Genzuk
Crystal Jenkins
Yara Shahidi
Tom Ragazzo
Richard Brandon Manus
Lisa McQuillan
“Insecure” (HBO)
Deniese Davis
Prentice Penny
Issa Rae
Ben Dougan
Regina Y. Hicks
Amy Aniobi
Laura Kittrell
Arturs Rusis
Lisa Schomas
Dayna Lynne North
Jim Kieverweis
“On My Block” (Netflix)
Jamie Dooner
Eddie Gonzalez
Jeremy Haft
Lauren Iugerich
Hal Olofsson
Arlyn Richardson
“She’s Gotta Have It” (Netflix)
Spike Lee
Jason Sokoloff
Radha Black
Lemon Andersen
Tonya Lewis Lee
Don Cheadle
“Black Monday” (Showtime)
Idris Elba
“Turn Up Charlie” (Netflix)
Keegan-Michael Key
“Friends From College” (Netflix)
Tracy Morgan
“The Last O.G.” (TBS)
Regina Hall
“Black Monday” (Showtime)
Issa Rae
“Insecure” (HBO)
Tracee Ellis Ross
“Black-ish” (ABC)
DeWanda Wise
“She’s Gotta Have It” (Netflix)
Jay Ellis
“Insecure” (HBO)
Laurence Fishburne
“Black-ish” (ABC)
Anthony Ramos
“She’s Gotta Have It” (Netflix)
Kenan Thompson
“Saturday Night Live” (NBC)
Jenifer Lewis
“Black-ish” (ABC)
Marsai Martin
“Black-ish” (ABC)
Yvonne Orji
“Insecure” (HBO)
Natasha Rothwell
“Insecure” (HBO)
Tracee Ellis Ross, director
Black-ish (ABC)
“Black Like Us”
Salli Richardson, director
Black-ish (ABC)
“Purple Rain”
Charles Stone III, director
Insecure (HBO)
“Ghost-Like”
Regina King, director
Insecure (HBO)
“High-Like”
Millicent Shelton, director
Peter Saji, writer
Black-ish (ABC)
“Relatively Grown Man”
Steven White, writer
Insecure (HBO)
“Ghost-Like”
Issa Rae & Natasha Rothwell, writers
Insecure (HBO)
“Obsessed-Like”
Prentice Penny, writer
She’s Gotta Have It (Netflix)
“#NationTime”
Radha Black, writer
Idris Elba
“Saturday Night Live” (NBC)
Ernie Hudson
“Ballers” (HBO)
Kenan Thompson
“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” (Netflix)
Katt Williams
“Black-ish” (ABC)
Regina King
“The Big Bang Theory” (CBS)
Rosie Perez
“She’s Gotta Have It” (Netflix)
Maya Rudolph
“The Good Place” (NBC)
Anna Deavere Smith
“Black-ish” (ABC)
Drama Categories
Robbie Rogers
Sarah Schecter
Jon Wallace
Lori-Etta Taub
John A. Norris
Ed Tapia
April Blair
Ryan Lindenberg
Carl Ogawa
Nkechi Okoro
Spencer Paysinger
“Black Lightning” (CW)
Salim Akil
Greg Berlanti
Mara Brock Akil
Adam Giaudrone
Sarah Schechter
Oz Scott
Pat Charles
Charles Holland
Jennifer Lence
Jan Nash
Carl Ogawa
Melora Rivera
Suzanne C. Geiger
Katrin L. Goodson
Trish “The Dish” Stanard
Rob Hardy
“Claws” (TNT)
Eliot Laurence
Rashida Jones
Will McCormack
Janine Sherman Barrois
Maisha Closson
Luis Patino
Sam Forman
Rick Cleveland
Marta Cunningham
“Pose” (FX)
Alexis Martin Woodall
Ryan Murphy
Tanase Popa
Steven Canals
Lou Eyrich
Brad Falchuck
Nina Jacobson
Erica Kay
Sherry Marsh
Janet Mock
Our Lady J
Brad Simpson
Silas Howard
Todd Nenninger
Jeff Dickerson
“This Is Us” (NBC)
Steve Beers
Glenn Ficarra
Dan Fogelman
Charlie Gogolak
Cathy Mickel Gibson
John Requa
Jess Rosenthal
Isaac Aptaker
Elizabeth Berger
Bekah Burnstetter
Vera Herbert
Ken Olin
Nick Pavonetti
K.J. Steinberg
Shukree Tighman
Kevin Falls
Julia Brownell
Kay Oyegun
Brandon Micheal Hall
“God Friended Me” (CBS)
Damson Idris
“Snowfall” (FX)
Billy Porter
“Pose” (FX)
Kofi Siriboe
“Queen Sugar” (OWN)
Dawn-Lyen Gardner
“Queen Sugar” (OWN)
Niecy Nash
“Claws” (TNT)
Rutina Wesley
“Queen Sugar” (OWN)
Alfre Woodard
“Luke Cage” (Netflix)
Giancarlo Esposito
“Better Call Saul” (AMC)
Orlando Jones
“American Gods” (Starz)
Joe Morton
“God Friended Me” (CBS)
Mustafa Shakir
“Luke Cage” (Netflix)
Indya Moore
“Pose” (FX)
Susan Kelechi Watson
“This Is Us” (NBC)
Karimah Westbrook
“All American” (CW)
Lynn Whitfield
“Greenleaf” (OWN)
Salim Akil, director
Pose (FX)
“Love Is the Message”
Janet Mock, director
Queen Sugar (OWN)
“A Rock, a River, a Tree”
DeMane Davis, director
This Is Us (NBC)
“Don’t Take My Sunshine Away”
George Tillman, Jr., director
This Is Us (NBC)
“R&B”
Kevin Hooks, director
Maisha Closson, writer
God Friended Me (CBS)
“Unfriended”
Sofia M. Dirie, writer
Pose (FX)
“Love Is the Message”
Ryan Murphy & Janet Mock, writers
This Is Us (NBC)
“Our Little Island Girl”
Eboni Freeman, writer
This Is Us (NBC)
“R&B”
Kay Oyegun, writer
Common
“The Chi” (Showtime)
Ron Cephas Jones
“Luke Cage” (Netflix)
Carl Lumbly
“This Is Us” (NBC)
Rob Morgan
“This Is Us” (NBC)
Marla Gibbs
“NCIS” (CBS)
Phylicia Rashad
“This Is Us” (NBC)
Cicely Tyson
“How to Get Away With Murder” (ABC)
Rutina Wesley
“The Walking Dead” (AMC)
TV Movie/Limited Series Categories
“Luther” (BBC One)
Marcus Wilson
Elizabeth Kilgarriff
Derek Ritchie
Native Son (HBO)
Alex Ernst
Duccio Fabri
Eric Hollenbeck
Stephanie Meurer
Matthew Libatique
Matthew Perniciaro
Michael Sherman
“True Detective” (HBO)
Richard Brown
Lee Caplin
Cary Joji Fukunaga
Steve Golin
Woody Harrelson
Matthew McConaughey
Nic Pizzolatto
Scott Stephens
Brad Dorros
Lori Slomka
Daniel Sackheim
Jeremy Saulnier
“When They See Us” (Netflix)
Ava DuVernay
Robert De Niro
Christina Hooks
Amy J. Kaufman
Jonathan King
Jane Rosenthal
Jeff Skoll
Berry Welsh
Oprah Winfrey
Idris Elba
“Luther” (BBC One)
Jharrel Jerome
“When They See Us” (Netflix)
Woody McClain
“The Bobby Brown Story” (BET)
Ashton Sanders
Native Son (HBO)
Emayatzy Corinealdi
“The Red Line” (CBS)
Aunjanue Ellis
“When They See Us” (Netflix)
Niecy Nash
“When They See Us” (Netflix)
Alfre Woodard
Juanita (Netflix)
Michael Ealy
“Being Mary Jane: Becoming Pauletta” (BET)
Caleel Harris
“When They See Us” (Netflix)
Marquis Rodriguez
“When They See Us” (Netflix)
Michael K. Williams
“When They See Us” (Netflix)
Kylie Bunbury
“When They See Us” (Netflix)
Carmen Ejogo
“True Detective” (HBO)
Marla Gibbs
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: “All in the Family/ “The Jeffersons” (ABC)
Isis King
“When They See Us” (Netflix)
Kiel Adrian Scott, director
Juanita (Netflix)
Clark Johnson, director
Native Son (HBO)
Rashid Johnson, director
“The Red Line” (CBS)
“We All Must Care”
Victoria Mahoney, director
“When They See Us” (Netflix)
Ava DuVernay, director
Abdul Williams, writer
“When They See Us” (Netflix)
“Part 1”
Ava DuVernay, Julian Breece & Attica Locke, writers
“When They See Us” (Netflix)
“Part 2”
Ava DuVernay, Julian Breece & Attica Locke, writers
“When They See Us” (Netflix)
“Part 3”
Ava DuVernay & Robin Swicord, writers
“When They See Us” (Netflix)
“Part 4”
Ava DuVernay & Michael Starburry, writers
“Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story” (Paramount)
Jenner Furst & Julia Willoughby Nason, directors
Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland (HBO)
Kate Davis & David Heilbroner, directors
“Surviving R. Kelly” (Lifetime)
Nigel Bellis & Astral Finnie, directors
“Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men” (Showtime)
Sacha Jenkins, director
Greenleaf (OWN)
Nathan Barr & Todd Haberman, composers
Insecure (HBO)
Raphael Saadiq, composer
Kier Lehman, music supervisor
Pose (FX)
Mac Quayle, composer
Amanda Krieg Thomas & Alexis Martin Woodall, music supervisors
When They See Us (Netflix)
Kris Bowers, composer
Aaron Byrd, music supervisor
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All-Time Nominations - Series
All Time Nominations - Network
3rd Annual Black Reel for Television Awards Nominees