# Black Reel Award for Best Director

This page lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Best Director. Lee Daniels and Steve McQueen are the only directors nominated for Academy Awards. Daniels earned a nomination for Precious and McQueen for 12 Years a Slave.

## Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

### 2000s

| Year | Director | Film |
| 2000 |
| 2000 | Malcolm D. Lee | The Best Man |
| 2000 | Rick Famuyiwa | The Wood |
| 2000 | Spike Lee | Summer of Sam |
| 2001 | | |
| 2001 | Gina Prince-Bythewood | Love & Basketball |
| 2001 | Kwyn Bader | Loving Jezebel |
| 2001 | Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes | American Pimp |
| 2001 | Spike Lee | Bamboozled |
| 2001 | John Singleton | Shaft |
| 2002 | | |
| 2002 | Antoine Fuqua | Training Day |
| 2002 | Thomas Carter | Save the Last Dance |
| 2002 | Gary Hardwick | The Brothers |
| 2002 | Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes | From Hell |
| 2002 | John Singleton | Baby Boy |
| 2003 | | |
| 2003 | Denzel Washington | Antwone Fisher |
| 2003 | Malcolm D. Lee | Undercover Brother |
| 2003 | Spike Lee | 25th Hour |
| 2003 | Charles Stone III | Drumline |
| 2003 | Tim Story | Barbershop |
| 2004 | | |
| 2004 | F. Gary Gray | The Italian Job |
| 2004 | Carl Franklin | Out of Time |
| 2004 | Antoine Fuqua | Tears of the Sun |
| 2004 | Gary Hardwick | Deliver Us From Eva |
| 2004 | John Singleton | 2 Fast 2 Furious |
| 2005 | | |
| 2005 | Mario Van Peebles | BAADASSSSS! |
| 2005 | Ernest Dickerson | Never Die Alone |
| 2005 | Antoine Fuqua | Lighting in a Bottle |
| 2005 | Spike Lee | She Hate Me |
| 2005 | Charles Stone III | Mr. 3000 |
| 2006 | | |
| 2006 | Thomas Carter | Coach Carter |
| 2006 | Malcolm D. Lee | Roll Bounce |
| 2006 | John Singleton | Four Brothers |
| 2006 | Tim Story | Fantastic Four |
| 2007 | | |
| 2007 | Spike Lee | Inside Man |
| 2007 | Bryan Barber | Idlewild |
| 2007 | Sanaa Hamri | Something New |
| 2007 | Clark Johnson | The Sentinel |
| 2007 | Chris Robinson | ATL |
| 2008 | | |
| 2008 | Gina Prince-Bythewood | The Secret Life of Bees |
| 2008 | Malcolm D. Lee | Soul Men |
| 2008 | Spike Lee | Miracle at St. Anna |
| 2008 | Darnell Martin | Cadillac Records |
| 2008 | Gabriele Muccino | Seven Pounds |

### 2010s

| Year | Director | Film |
| 2010 |
| 2010 | Lee Daniels | Precious |
| 2010 | Bill Duke | Not Easily Broken |
| 2010 | Spike Lee | Passing Strange |
| 2010 | Scott Sanders | Black Dynamite |
| 2010 | George Tillman, Jr. | Notorious |
| 2011 | | |
| 2011 | Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes | The Book of Eli |
| 2011 | Antoine Fuqua | Brooklyn's Finest |
| 2011 | Tanya Hamilton | Night Catches Us |
| 2011 | Sanaa Hamri | Just Wright |
| 2011 | Tyler Perry | For Colored Girls |
| 2012 | | |
| 2012 | Steve McQueen | Shame |
| 2012 | Salim Akil | Jumping the Broom |
| 2012 | Qasim Basir | Mooz-lum |
| 2012 | Ava DuVernay | I Will Follow |
| 2012 | Dee Rees | Pariah |
| 2013 | | |
| 2013 | Ava DuVernay | Middle of Nowhere |
| 2013 | Salim Akil | Sparkle |
| 2013 | Spike Lee | Red Hook Summer |
| 2013 | Peter Ramsey | Rise of the Guardians |
| 2013 | Tim Story | Think Like a Man |
| 2014 | | |
| 2014 | Steve McQueen | 12 Years a Slave |
| 2014 | Ryan Coogler | Fruitvale Station |
| 2014 | Lee Daniels | The Butler |
| 2014 | Malcolm D. Lee | The Best Man Holiday |
| 2014 | George Tillman, Jr. | The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete |
| 2015 | | |
| 2015 | Ava DuVernay | Selma |
| 2015 | Amma Asante | Belle |
| 2015 | Gina Prince-Bythewood | Beyond the Lights |
| 2015 | Chris Rock | Top Five |
| 2015 | Justin Simien | Dear White People |
| 2016 | | |
| 2016 | Ryan Coogler | Creed |
| 2016 | Rick Famuyiwa | Dope |
| 2016 | Antoine Fuqua | Southpaw |
| 2016 | F Gary Gray | Straight Outta Compton |
| 2016 | Spike Lee | Chi-Raq |
| 2017 | | |
| 2017 | Barry Jenkins | Moonlight |
| 2017 | Don Cheadle | Miles Ahead |
| 2017 | Antoine Fuqua | The Magnificent Seven |
| 2017 | Nate Parker | The Birth of a Nation |
| 2017 | Denzel Washington | Fences |
| 2018 | | |
| 2018 | Jordan Peele | Get Out |
| 2018 | Maggie Betts | Novitiate |
| 2018 | Reginald Hudlin | Marshall |
| 2018 | Malcolm D. Lee | Girls Trip |
| 2018 | Dee Rees | Mudbound |
| 2017 | | |
| 2017 | Ryan Coogler | Black Panther |
| 2017 | Spike Lee | BlacKkKlansman |
| 2017 | Barry Jenkins | If Beale Street Could Talk |
| 2017 | Boots Riley | Sorry to Bother You |
| 2017 | Steve McQueen | Widows |

## Multiple nominations and wins
### Multiple wins
#### 2 Wins

* Ava DuVernay
* Steve McQueen
* Gina Prince-Bythewood