Black Reel Award for Outstanding Writing, Drama Series

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Black Reel Award for Outstanding Writing, Drama Series
Awarded forOutstanding Writing, Drama Series
CountryUnited States
Presented byBlack Reel Awards for Television
First awarded2017; 7 years ago (2017)
Currently held byKay Oyegun & Eboni FreemanThis Is Us (2021)
Websiteblackreelawards.com

The Black Reel Award for Television for Outstanding Writing, Drama Series is an annual award given in honor of a writer or writers who produced an outstanding story or screenplay for an episode of a television drama series during the primetime network season episode of the year.

2010s

Year Program Episode Nominee Network
2017
1st
[1][2]
Luke Cage "Moment of Truth" Cheo Hodari Coker Netflix
Empire "Toil and Trouble, Part 1" Eric Haywood & Diane Ademu-John FOX
How to Get Away With Murder "There Are Worse Things Than Murder" Angela Robinson ABC
This Is Us "The Right Thing to Do" Aurin Squire NBC
Queen Sugar "First Things First" Ava DuVernay OWN
2018
(2nd)
[3]
This Is Us "This Big, Amazing Beautiful Life" Kay Oyegun NBC
Queen Sugar "Dream Variations" Ava DuVernay OWN
The Chi "Pilot" Lena Waithe Showtime
Queen Sugar "Heritage" Monica Macer & Davita Scarlett OWN
This Is Us "Number Three" Shukree Tilghman NBC
2019
3rd
[4]
This Is Us "Our Little Island Girl" Eboni Freeman NBC
Claws "Scream" Maisha Closson TNT
Pose "Love is the Message" Janet Mock & Ryan Murphy FX
God Friended Me "Unfriended" Safia M. Dirie CBS
This Is Us "R&B" Kay Oyegun NBC

2020s

Year Program Episode Nominee Network
2020
4th
[5][6]
This Is Us "A Hell of a Week: Part One" Jon Dorsey NBC
Pose "Never Knew Love Like This Before" Janet Mock & Ryan Murphy FX
Queen Sugar "Where My Body Stops or Begins" Mike Flynn OWN
Hunters "(Ruth 1:16)" Zakiyyah Alexander Amazon Prime Video
Black Lightning "The Book of Markova: Chapter Four: Grab the Strap" Charles D. Holland & Asheleigh O. Conley CW
2021
5th
[7][8]
This Is Us "Birth Mother" Kay Oyegun & Eboni Freeman NBC
Lovecraft Country "Jig-a-Bobo" Misha Green HBO
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier "New World Order" Malcolm Spellman Disney+
The Mandalorian "Chapter 15: The Believer" Ricky Famuyiwa Disney+
Snowfall "Sleeping Dogs" Justin Hillian FX

Programs with multiple awards

Programs with multiple nominations

Total awards by network

  • NBC – 4
  • Netflix - 1

Individuals with multiple awards

Individuals with multiple nominations

References

  1. ^ Black Reel Awards for television Archived 2017-08-12 at the Wayback Machine blackreelawards.com
  2. ^ Winners Archived 2022-05-15 at the Wayback Machine blackreelawards.com
  3. ^ Historic night for Queen Sugar blackreelawards.com Archived 2018-06-24 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Billy Porter Makes History as First Openly Gay Black Man to Win Emmy for Outstanding Actor in Drama Series indiewire.com September 2019
  5. ^ ‘Watchmen,’ ‘Insecure’ top Black Reel Awards for Television winners awardswatch.com
  6. ^ Watchmen & Insecure Pace the Black Reel Awards for TV Nominations blackreelawards.com Archived 2020-07-04 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Gordon, Tim. "Plenty of "Love" in the Heart of the Country!". blackreelawards.com. Archived from the original on June 28, 2021. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
  8. ^ Gordon, Tim. ""Love" Reigns Supreme!". blackreelawards.com. Archived from the original on October 5, 2021. Retrieved August 16, 2021.