Black Reel Award for Outstanding Actor, TV Movie or Limited Series

Black Reel Award for Outstanding Actor, TV Movie or Limited Series
Awarded for	Outstanding Actor, TV Movie or Limited Series
Country	United States
Presented by	Black Reel Awards
First awarded	2000
Currently held by	Leslie Odom Jr., Hamilton (2021)
Website	blackreelawards.com1

This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series. The category was retired during the 2008 ceremony, but later returned in 2012. 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	Actor	Film	Network	Ref
2000
	Don Cheadle	A Lesson Before Dying	HBO
	Andre Braugher	Love Songs	Showtime
	Louis Gossett Jr.
	Delroy Lindo	Strange Justice	Showtime
	Sidney Poitier	The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn	CBS
2001
	T. K. Carter	The Corner	HBO
	Leon	Little Richard	NBC
	Sean Nelson	The Corner	HBO
	Ving Rhames	Holiday Heart	Showtime
	Wesley Snipes	Disappearing Acts	HBO
2002
	Roger Guenveur Smith	A Huey P. Newton Story	Starz
	Morris Chestnut	The Killing Yard	Showtime
	Danny Glover	3 A.M.	Showtime
	Gregory Hines	Bojangles	Showtime
	Jeffrey Wright	Boycott	HBO
2003
	Harry J. Lennix	Keep the Faith, Baby	Showtime
	Andre Braugher	10,000 Black Men Named George	Showtime
	Ving Rhames	Sins of the Father	FX
2004
	Forest Whitaker	Deacons for Defense	Showtime
	Danny Glover	Good Fences	Showtime
	Carl Lumbly	Sounder	ABC
2005
	Jamie Foxx	Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story	FX
	Mos Def	Something the Lord Made	HBO
	Roger Guenveur Smith	Justice	Starz
2006
	Michael Ealy	Their Eyes Were Watching God	ABC
	Idris Elba	Sometimes in April	HBO
	Delroy Lindo	The Exonerated	truTV
	Anthony Mackie	Sucker Free City	Showtime
	Ving Rhames	Kojak	USA Network
2007
	Andre Braugher	Thief	FX
2008	—

2010s

Year	Actor	Film	Network	Ref
2010–11	—
2012
	Idris Elba	Luther	BBC America
	Eric Benét	Trinity Goodheart	UP
	Laurence Fishburne	Thurgood	HBO
	Samuel L. Jackson	The Sunset Limited	HBO
	Mykelti Williamson	Have a Little Faith	ABC
2013
	Sean Patrick Thomas	Murder on the 13th Floor	Lifetime
	Rockmond Dunbar	Raising Izzie	UP
	Cuba Gooding Jr.	Firelight	ABC
	Trevor Jackson	Let It Shine	Disney Channel
	Michael Jai White	Somebody's Child	UP
2014
	Chiwetel Ejiofor	Dancing on the Edge	Starz
	Keith David	Pastor Brown	Lifetime
	Omari Hardwick	A Christmas Blessing	TV One
	Ernie Hudson	Pastor Brown	Lifetime
	Mike Tyson	Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth	HBO
2015
	Larenz Tate	Gun Hill	BET
	Charles S. Dutton	Comeback Dad	UP
	David Alan Grier	An En Vogue Christmas	Lifetime
	Ving Rhames	A Day Late and a Dollar Short	Lifetime
	Keith Robinson	Lyfe's Journey	UP
2016
	David Oyelowo	Nightingale	HBO
	Steve Harris	Let the Church Say Amen	BET
	James Earl Jones	Great Performances: "Driving Miss Daisy"	PBS
	Amin Joseph	Stock Option	TV One
	Michael K. Williams	The Spoils Before Dying	IFC
2017
	Courtney B. Vance	The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story	FX
	Michael Ealy	Secrets and Lies	ABC
	Cuba Gooding Jr.	The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story	FX
	Malachi Kirby	Roots	History Channel
	Wendell Pierce	Confirmation	HBO
2017
	Woody McClain	The New Edition Story	BET
	Bryshere Y. Gray	The New Edition Story	BET
	Luke James	The New Edition Story	BET
	Laurence Fishburne	Madiba	BET
	Stephan James	Shots Fired	FOX
2018
	Michael B. Jordan	Fahrenheit 451	HBO
	Mike Colter	Marvel's the Defenders	Netflix
	Dulé Hill	Psych: The Movie	USA Network
	Terrence Howard	Electric Dreams	Amazon Prime Video
	John Legend	Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert	NBC
2019
	Jharrel Jerome	When They See Us	Netflix
	Mahershala Ali	True Detective (season 3)	HBO
	Idris Elba	Luther	BBC One
	Woody McClain	The Bobby Brown Story	BET
	Ashton Sanders	Native Son	HBO Films

2020s

Year	Actor	Film	Network	Ref
2020
	Blair Underwood	Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C. J. Walker	Netflix
	Andre Braugher	Live in Front of a Studio Audience: 'All in the Family' and 'Good Times'	ABC
	Andre Holland	The Eddy	Netflix
	Alano Miller	Cherish the Day	OWN
	Jeremy Pope	Hollywood	Netflix
2021
	Leslie Odom Jr.	Hamilton	Disney+
	Chris Rock	Fargo	FX
	Nnamdi Asomugha	Sylvie's Love	Amazon Studios
	Dulé Hill	Psych 2: Lassie Come Home	Peacock
	Mamoudou Athie	Black Box	Amazon Studios

Superlatives

Superlative	Outstanding Actor, TV Movie/Limited Series
Actor with most awards	Multiple (1)
Actor with most nominations	Andre Braugher Ving Rhames (4)
Actor with most nominations without ever winning	Ving Rhames (4)

Programs with multiple nominations

3 nominations

• The New Edition Story

2 nominations

• American Crime Story
• The Corner
• Love Songs
• Luther

Performers with multiple nominations

4 nominations

• Andre Braugher
• Ving Rhames

3 nominations

• Idris Elba

2 nominations

• Laurence Fishburne
• Danny Glover
• Cuba Gooding Jr.
• Dulé Hill
• Roger Guenveur Smith
• Delroy Lindo
• Woody McClain

Total awards by network

• HBO - 4
• FX - 3
• BET - 2
• Netflix - 2
• Showtime - 2
• Starz - 2
• ABC - 1
• BBC America - 1
• Disney+ - 1
• Lifetime - 1