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 20171stBlack Reel Awards for television blackreelawards.comWinners blackreelawards.com 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)Historic night for Queen Sugar blackreelawards.com 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 20193rdBilly Porter Makes History as First Openly Gay Black Man to Win Emmy for Outstanding Actor in Drama Series indiewire.com September 2019 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 20204th‘Watchmen,’ ‘Insecure’ top Black Reel Awards for Television winners awardswatch.comWatchmen & Insecure Pace the Black Reel Awards for TV Nominations blackreelawards.com 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 20215th 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
4 awards This Is Us
2 awards Paradise
Programs with multiple nominations
7 nominations This Is Us
4 nominations Queen Sugar
2 nominations Paradise Pose
Total awards by network NBC – 4 Hulu - 2 Netflix - 1
Individuals with multiple awards
2 wins Eboni Freeman Kay Oyegun Jason Wilborn
Individuals with multiple nominations
3 nominations Kay Oyegun
2 nominations Ava DuVernay Eboni Freeman Janet Mock Ryan Murphy Jason Wilborn
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