This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Television Movie or Limited Series. As of the 2016 ceremony, Luther is the only television movie or limited series to receive more than one nomination. This award is presented to the producers of the production. In May 2017 the category was moved from the film awards as part of the Black Reel Awards for Television honors thus resulting in two separate winners in 2017.
Winners and nominees Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
2000s Year Film / Series Network Producer(s) Ref 2000 Introducing Dorothy Dandridge HBO Halle Berry and Joshua D. Maurer 2000 Black Reel Awards A Lesson Before Dying HBO Ted Demme and Ellen Krass Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years CBS Camille Cosby and Jeffrey Grant Funny Valentines HBO Ron Stacker Thompson and Ashley Tyler Jackie's Back Lifetime Gideon Amir Love Songs Showtime Steven Hewitt Strange Justice Showtime Jacob Epstein and Steven Haft 2001 The Corner HBO Nina Kostroff Noble 2001 Black Reel Awards Disappearing Acts HBO Lydia Dean Pilcher Freedom Song TNT Amanda DiGiulio Holiday Heart Showtime Cheryl West Sally Hemings: American Scandal PBS Marty Eli Schwartz and Gerrit van der Meer 2002 Boycott HBO Clark Johnson 2002 Black Reel Awards 3 A.M. Showtime Lee Davis A Huey P. Newton Story Starz Spike Lee Dancing in September HBO Reggie Rock Bythewood Stranger Inside HBO Cheryl Dunye 2003 The Rosa Parks Story CBS Paris Qualles 2003 Black Reel Awards Keep the Faith, Baby Showtime Art Washington Lift Showtime DeMane Davis 2004 Deacons for Defense Showtime Robert Rehme 2004 Black Reel Awards The Cheetah Girls Disney Channel Jacqueline George D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear USA Network Orly Adelson and Jonathan Eskenas Good Fences Showtime Danny Glover and Whoopi Goldberg Sounder ABC Howard Braunstein and Bill Cain 2005 Something the Lord Made HBO Robert W. Cort and Eric Hetzel 2005 Black Reel Awards Beah: A Black Woman Speaks HBO Jonathan Demme and Joe Viola Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story FX Sue Bugden and Rudy Langlais 2006 Lackawanna Blues HBO Halle Berry and Vincent Cirrincione 2006 Black Reel Awards Kojak USA Network Tom Thayer and Steve Feke Miracle's Boys TeenNick Nicole Silver and Orly Wiseman Sometimes in April HBO Daniel Delume Their Eyes Were Watching God ABC Quincy Jones and Oprah Winfrey 2007 Walkout HBO Moctesuma Esparza and Robert A. Katz 2007 Black Reel Awards 2008 colspan="4"
2010s Year Film / Series Network Producer(s)/Showrunners(s) Ref 2010–11 colspan="4" 2012 Thurgood HBO Bill Haber and George Stevens Jr. 2012 Black Reel Awards Five Lifetime Jennifer Aniston, Marta Kauffman and Paula Wagner Luther BBC America Katie Swinden The Sunset Limited HBO Barbara Hall Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story Lifetime Harvey Kahn 2013 A Beautiful Soul TV One Holly Carter and Dominique Telson Let It Shine Disney Channel Amy Gibbons and Paul Hoen Raising Izzie UP Angelique Bones Somebody's Child UP David Eubanks, Keith Neal and Eric Tomosunas Steel Magnolias Lifetime Neil Meron and Craig Zadan 2014 Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth HBO Spike Lee and Mike Tyson Being Mary Jane BET Gabrielle Union, Salim Akil and Mara Brock Akil Betty and Coretta Lifetime Polly Anthony and Jaja Johnson CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story VH1 Bill Diggins and Jill Holmes The Watsons Go to Birmingham Hallmark Tonya Lewis Lee 2015 The Trip to Bountiful Lifetime Bill Haber and Jeff Hayes 2015 Black Reel Awards A Day Late and a Dollar Short Lifetime Jeffrey M. Hayes Gun Hill BET Reggie Rock Bythewood Rosemary's Baby NBC Zoe Saldaña, Tom Patricia and Robert Bernacchi Seasons of Love Lifetime Joshua A. Green and Yaron Schwartzman 2016 Bessie HBO Ron Schmidt 2016 Black Reel Awards American Crime ABC Ed Tapla and Lori-Etta Taub The Book of Negroes BET Damon D'Oliveira and Clement Virgo Luther BBC America Marcus Wilson Show Me a Hero HBO Gail Mutrux 2017 The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story FX Chip Vucelich, Alexis Martin Woodall and John Travolta 2017 Black Reel Awards American Crime ABC Lori-Etta Taub Confirmation HBO Darren M. Demetre Love Under New Management: The Miki Howard Story TV One Carl Craig, Teyonah Parris, Ron Robinson and Eric Tomosunas Roots History Channel Ann Kindberg and Alissa M. Kantrow 2017 The New Edition Story BET Brooke Payne, Jesse Collins, Debra Lee, Ralph E. Tresvant, Ricky Bell, Johnny Gill, Bobby Brown, Ronnie DeVoe, Stephen Hill, Michael Bivins, Chris Robinson, Valerie Bleth Sharp 2017 Black Reel Awards for Television American Crime ABC John Ridley, Julie Hébert The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks HBO Kathryn Dean, Alan Ball, Oprah Winfrey, Peter Macdissi, Carla Gardini, Lydia Dean Pilcher Guerrilla Showtime John Ridley Shots Fired FOX Gina Prince-Bythewood & Reggie Rock Bythewood 2018 Seven Seconds Netflix Veena Sud 2018 Black Reel Awards for Television Black Mirror Netflix Charlie Brooker Flint Lifetime Shakim Compere, Queen Latifah, Katie Couric, John M. Eckert, Mark Nicholson, Craig Zadan Marvel's The Defenders Netflix Douglas Petrie & Marco Ramirez The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. USA Network Kyle Long 2019 When They See Us Netflix Ava DuVernay 2019 Black Reel Awards for Television Luther BBC One Neil Cross Native Son HBO Films Alex Ernst, Duccio Fabbri, Eric Hollenbeck, Matthew Perniciaro, Michael Sherman The Bobby Brown Story BET Bobby Brown, Sheyna Kathleen Smith, Carl Craig, Dionne Harmon, Jesse Collins True Detective HBO Nic Pizzolatto
2020s Year Film / Series Network Producer(s)/ Showrunners Ref 2020 Watchmen HBO Damon Lindelof 2020 Black Reel Awards The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel Lifetime Holly Davis Carter, Ronnie J. Pitre, Missy Elliott, Mary J. Blige, Queen Latifah, Shakim Compere, Loretha C. Jones, Steve Solomos Hollywood Netflix Ian Brennan Little Fires Everywhere Hulu Liz Tigelaar Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C. J. Walker Netflix Elle Johnson 2021 I May Destroy You HBO Michaela Coel Hamilton Disney+ Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail, Jeffrey Seller Sylvie's Love Amazon Studios Eugene Ashe, Nnamdi Asomugha, Jonathan T. Baker Small Axe Amazon Prime Video / BBC One Steve McQueen The Underground Railroad Amazon Prime Video Barry Jenkins 2022 The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey Apple TV+ Diane Houslin Colin in Black & White Netflix Michael Starrbury DMZ HBO Max Roberto Patino True Story Netflix Eric Newman We Own This City HBO George Pelecanos 2023 The Best Man: The Final Chapters Peacock Malcolm D. Lee Black Girl Missing Lifetime Entergalactic Netflix Michael Penketh, Mike Moon Praise This Peacock Will Packer, Tim Story, James Lopez Swarm Amazon Prime Video Janine Nabers
Programs with multiple nominations Totals include continuing series, but not sequels or revivals.
3 nominations American Crime Luther
Total awards by network
HBO - 11 Netflix - 2 BET - 1 CBS - 1 FX - 1 Lifetime - 1 Showtime - 1 TV One - 1
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