# Black Reel Award for Outstanding Breakthrough Performance, Male

This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Breakthrough Performance, Male. Prior to 2014 the category was not gender specific, and was just called Outstanding Breakthrough Performance. Derek Luke was the first recipient (male or female) to win the Outstanding Breakthrough Performance category. Luke was also the first performer to win a Black Reel Awards in a Lead or Supporting performance and the Breakthrough performance in the same year.
Currently, Daniel Kaluuya is the only male actor to win the BRA "Triple Crown" acting award with wins in the Lead, Supporting and Breakthrough categories. Kaluuya took home the award for Outstanding Actor & Outstanding Breakthrough Performance, Male for Get Out and won the award for Outstanding Supporting Actor for Judas and the Black Messiah.
At age 14, Abraham Attah became the youngest actor to win this award for Beasts of No Nation and at age 34, Kingsley Ben-Adir became the oldest winner in this category for One Night in Miami....

## Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

### 2010s

| Year | Actor | Film |
| Outstanding Breakthrough Performance, Male ||||
| 2014 |
| 2014 | Barkhad Abdi | Captain Phillips (Outstanding Supporting Actor Winner) |
| 2014 | Chadwick Boseman | 42 |
| 2014 | Skylan Brooks | The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete |
| 2014 | Tequan Richmond | Blue Caprice (Outstanding Supporting Actor Nominee) |
| 2014 | Keith Stanfield | Short Term 12 (Outstanding Supporting Actor Nominee) |
| 2015 | | |
| 2015 | Tyler James Williams | Dear White People |
| 2015 | Brandon P. Bell | Dear White People |
| 2015 | David Gyasi | Interstellar |
| 2015 | Andre Holland | Selma |
| 2015 | Stephan James | Selma |
| 2016 | | |
| 2016 | Abraham Attah | Beasts of No Nation (Outstanding Actor Nominee) |
| 2016 | RJ Cyler | Me and Earl and the Dying Girl |
| 2016 | O'Shea Jackson Jr. | Straight Outta Compton |
| 2016 | Jason Mitchell (Outstanding Supporting Actor Nominee) | Straight Outta Compton |
| 2016 | Shameik Moore | Dope |
| 2017 | | |
| 2017 | Trevante Rhodes | Moonlight |
| 2017 | Alex Hibbert | Moonlight |
| 2017 | Ashton Sanders | Moonlight (Outstanding Supporting Actor Nominee) |
| 2017 | Markees Christmas | Morris From America |
| 2017 | Jovan Adepo | Fences (Outstanding Supporting Actor Nominee) |
| 2018 | | |
| 2018 | Daniel Kaluuya | Get Out (Outstanding Actor Winner) |
| 2018 | Lil Rel Howery | Get Out (Outstanding Supporting Actor Nominee) |
| 2018 | Sterling K. Brown | Marshall |
| 2018 | Nnamdi Asomugha | Crown Heights |
| 2018 | J. Quinton Johnson | Last Flag Flying |
| 2019 | | |
| 2019 | Winston Duke | Black Panther |
| 2019 | John David Washington | BlacKkKlansman (Outstanding Actor Nominee) |
| 2019 | Daveed Diggs | Blindspotting |
| 2019 | Brian Tyree Henry | If Beale Street Could Talk (Outstanding Supporting Actor Nominee) |
| 2019 | Donald Glover | Solo: A Star Wars Story |

### 2020s

| Year | Actor | Film |
| 2020 |
| 2020 | Kelvin Harrison Jr. | Waves (Outstanding Actor Nominee) |
| 2020 | Tituss Burgess | Dolemite Is My Name |
| 2020 | Jonathan Majors | The Last Black Man in San Francisco (Outstanding Supporting Actor Nominee) |
| 2020 | Aldis Hodge | Clemency (Outstanding Supporting Actor Nominee) |
| 2020 | Jimmie Fails | The Last Black Man in San Francisco (Outstanding Actor Nominee) |
| 2021 | | |
| 2021 | Kingsley Ben-Adir | One Night in Miami... (Outstanding Actor Nominee) |
| 2021 | Yahya Abdul-Mateen II | The Trial of the Chicago 7 |
| 2021 | Dusan Brown | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom |
| 2021 | Eli Goree | One Night in Miami... |
| 2021 | Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine | Farewell Amor |
| 2022 | | |
| 2022 | Anthony Ramos | In the Heights |
| 2022 | Deon Cole | The Harder They Fall |
| 2022 | Edi Gathegi | The Harder They Fall |
| 2022 | Joshua Henry | Tick, Tick...Boom! |
| 2022 | Caleb McLaughlin | Concrete Cowboy |
| 2023 | | |
| 2023 | Jeremy Pope | The Inspection (Outstanding Actor Winner) |
| 2023 | Jalyn Hall | Till |
| 2023 | Daryl McCormack | Good Luck to You, Leo Grande |
| 2023 | Quintessa Swindell | Black Adam |
| 2023 | Micheal Ward | Empire of Light (Outstanding Supporting Actor Nominee) |

## Multiple nominations from the same film

* Tyler James Williams (winner) and Brandon P. Bell in Dear White People (2015)
* Andre Holland and Stephan James in Selma (2015)
* Jason Mitchell and O'Shea Jackson Jr. in Straight Outta Compton (2016)
* Trevante Rhodes (winner), Alex Hibbert, and Ashton Sanders in Moonlight (2017)
* Daniel Kaluuya (winner) and Lil Rel Howery in Get Out (2018)
* Jonathan Majors and Jimmie Fails in The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2020)
* Kingsley Ben-Adir (winner) and Eli Goree in One Night in Miami... (2021)
* Deon Cole & Edi Gathegi in The Harder They Fall (2022)

## Age superlatives

| Record | Actor | Film | Age (in years) |
| Oldest winner | Kingsley Ben-Adir | One Night in Miami... | 34 |
| Oldest nominee | Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine | Farewell Amor | 53 |
| Youngest winner | Abraham Attah | Beasts of No Nation | 14 |
| Youngest nominee | C.J. Sanders | Ray | 8 |