Black Reel Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor

This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. Oscar-nominated or winning performances also honored with nominations or wins at the Black Reel Awards include Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips), Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby), Michael Clarke Duncan (The Green Mile), Jamie Foxx (Collateral), Djimon Hounsou (Blood Diamond, In America) and Eddie Murphy (Dreamgirls).

Black Reel Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor
The 2023 recipient: Brian Tyree Henry
Awarded for	Outstanding Supporting Actor
Country	United States
Presented by	Black Reel Awards (BRAs)
First award	2000
Final award	2023
Final winner	Brian Tyree Henry Causeway
Most awards	Don Cheadle, Jamie Foxx, Djimon Hounsou & Wesley Snipes (2)
Most nominations	Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jamie Foxx & Jeffrey Wright (5)
Website	blackreelawards.com

The award was discontinued at the 24th Black Reel Awards and merged with Outstanding Supporting Actress in favor of a single gender-neutral award, Outstanding Supporting Performance.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

2000s

Year	Actor	Film	Ref
2000
	Michael Clarke Duncan	The Green Mile	[2]
	Jamie Foxx	Any Given Sunday
	Terrence Howard	The Best Man
	Ice Cube	Three Kings
	Delroy Lindo	The Cider House Rules
2001
	Don Cheadle	Traffic	[3]
	Rob Brown	Finding Forrester
	Tommy Davidson	Bamboozled
	Chris Rock	Nurse Betty
	Marlon Wayans	Requiem of a Dream
2002
	Jamie Foxx	Ali	[4]
	Anthony Anderson	Two Can Play That Game
	Omar Epps	Brother
	Eddie Murphy	Shrek
	Ving Rhames	Baby Boy
2003
	Dennis Haysbert	Far from Heaven	[5]
	Cedric the Entertainer	Barbershop
	Morgan Freeman	Sum of All Fears
	Denzel Washington	Antwone Fisher
	Forest Whitaker	Panic Room
2004
	Djimon Hounsou	In America	[6]
	Mos Def	The Italian Job
	Morgan Freeman	Bruce Almighty
	Ving Rhames	Dark Blue
	Forest Whitaker	Phone Booth
2005
	Jamie Foxx	Collateral	[7]
	Cedric the Entertainer	Barbershop 2: Back in Business
	Morgan Freeman	Million Dollar Baby
	Clifton Powell	Ray
	Jeffrey Wright	The Manchurian Candidate
2006
	Terrence Howard	Crash	[8]
	Anthony Anderson	Hustle & Flow
	Chiwetel Ejiofor	Serenity
	Ludacris	Crash
	Jeffrey Wright	Syriana
2007
	Djimon Hounsou	Blood Diamond	[9]
	Chiwetel Ejiofor	Children of Men
	Chiwetel Ejiofor	Kinky Boots
	Laurence Fishburne	Akeelah and the Bee
	Eddie Murphy	Dreamgirls
2008
	Jeffrey Wright	Cadillac Records	[10]
	Mos Def	Cadillac Records
	Terrence Howard	Iron Man
	Brandon T. Jackson	Tropic Thunder
	Eamonn Walker	Cadillac Records

2010s

Year	Actor	Film	Ref
2010
	Anthony Mackie	The Hurt Locker	[11]
	Charles S. Dutton	American Violet
	Chiwetel Ejiofor	2012
	Lenny Kravitz	Precious
	Derek Luke	Madea Goes to Jail
2011
	Wesley Snipes	Brooklyn's Finest	[12]
	Sean Combs	Get Him to the Greek
	Laurence Fishburne	Predator
	Brandon T. Jackson	Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
	Samuel L. Jackson	Mother and Child
2012
	Don Cheadle	The Guard	[13]
	Mike Epps	Jumping the Broom
	Laurence Fishburne	Contagion
	Anthony Mackie	The Adjustment Bureau
	Isiah Whitlock Jr.	Cedar Rapids
2013
	Samuel L. Jackson	Django Unchained	[14]
	Mike Epps	Sparkle
	Dwight Henry	Beasts of the Southern Wild
	David Oyelowo	Middle of Nowhere
	Nate Parker	Arbitrage
2014
	Barkhad Abdi	Captain Phillips	[15]
	David Oyelowo	The Butler
	Nate Parker	Ain't Them Bodies Saints
	Tequan Richmond	Blue Caprice
	Keith Stanfield	Short Term 12
2015
	Wendell Pierce	Selma	[16]
	Nelsan Ellis	Get On Up
	David Oyelowo	A Most Violent Year
	Tyler Perry	Gone Girl
	Michael K. Williams	The Gambler
2016
	Idris Elba	Beasts of No Nation	[17]
	Chiwetel Ejiofor	The Martian
	Corey Hawkins	Straight Outta Compton
	Jason Mitchell
	Forest Whitaker	Southpaw
2017
	Mahershala Ali	Moonlight	[18]
	Jovan Adepo	Fences
	Stephen Henderson
	André Holland	Moonlight
	Ashton Sanders
2018
	Jason Mitchell	Mudbound	[19][20]
	Idris Elba	Molly's Game
	Jamie Foxx	Baby Driver
	Laurence Fishburne	Last Flag Flying
	Lil Rel Howery	Get Out
2019
	Michael B. Jordan	Black Panther	[21][22]
	Daniel Kaluuya	Widows
	Mahershala Ali	Green Book
	Russell Hornsby	The Hate U Give
	Brian Tyree Henry	If Beale Street Could Talk

2020s

Year	Actor	Film	Ref
2020
	Wesley Snipes	Dolemite Is My Name	[23]
	Jonathan Majors	The Last Black Man in San Francisco
	Aldis Hodge	Clemency
	Sterling K. Brown	Waves
	Jamie Foxx	Just Mercy
2021
	Daniel Kaluuya	Judas and the Black Messiah	[24]
	Chadwick Boseman (posthumous)	Da 5 Bloods
	Colman Domingo	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
	Aldis Hodge	One Night in Miami...
	Leslie Odom Jr.	One Night in Miami...
2022
	Colman Domingo	Zola	[25]
	Idris Elba	The Harder They Fall
	Andre Holland	Passing
	LaKeith Stanfield	The Harder They Fall
	Jeffrey Wright	The French Dispatch
2022
	Brian Tyree Henry	Causeway	[26]
	Micheal Ward	Empire of Light
	Michael K. Williams (posthumous)	Breaking
	Bokeem Woodbine	The Inspection
	Jeffrey Wright	The Batman

Multiple nominations and wins

Multiple wins

2 Wins

• Don Cheadle
• Jamie Foxx
• Djimon Hounsou
• Wesley Snipes

Multiple nominations

5 nominations Chiwetel Ejiofor Jamie Foxx Jeffrey Wright 4 nominations Laurence Fishburne 3 nominations Idris Elba Morgan Freeman Terrence Howard David Oyelowo Forest Whitaker

2 nominations Mahershala Ali Anthony Anderson Cedric the Entertainer Don Cheadle Mos Def Colman Domingo Mike Epps Brian Tyree Henry Aldis Hodge Andre Holland Djimon Hounsou Brandon T. Jackson Samuel L. Jackson Daniel Kaluuya Anthony Mackie Jason Mitchell Eddie Murphy Nate Parker Ving Rhames Wesley Snipes LaKeith Stanfield Michael K. Williams

Multiple nominations from the same film

• Terrence Howard (winner) and Ludacris in Crash (2006)
• Jeffrey Wright (winner), Mos Def and Eamonn Walker in Cadillac Records (2008)
• Corey Hawkins and Jason Mitchell in Straight Outta Compton (2016)
• Mahershala Ali (winner), Andre Holland & Ashton Sanders in Moonlight (2017)
• Jovan Adepo & Stephen Henderson in Fences (2017)
• Aldis Hodge & Leslie Odom Jr. in One Night in Miami... (2021)
• Idris Elba & LaKeith Stanfield in The Harder They Fall (2022)

Age superlatives

Record	Actor	Film	Age (in years)
Oldest winner	Samuel L. Jackson	Django Unchained	63
Oldest nominee	Morgan Freeman	Million Dollar Baby	67
Youngest winner	Barkhad Abdi	Captain Phillips	28
Youngest nominee	Rob Brown	Finding Forrester	16