# Black Reel Award for Outstanding Director, TV Movie or Limited Series

This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Director of a Television Movie or Limited Series. The category was retired during the 2008 ceremony, and then later returned in 2013. 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 | Director | Film | Network | Ref |
| 2000 |
| 2000 | Louis Gossett Jr. | Love Songs | Showtime | |
| 2000 | Charles Burnett | Selma, Lord, Selma | ABC | |
| 2000 | Julie Dash | Funny Valentines | HBO | |
| 2000 | Ernest R. Dickerson | Strange Justice | Showtime | |
| 2000 | Robert Townsend | Jackie's Back | Lifetime | |
| 2001 | | | | |
| 2001 | Charles S. Dutton | The Corner | HBO | |
| 2001 | Jeffrey W. Byrd | Seventeen Again | Showtime | |
| 2001 | Julie Dash | Love Song | MTV | |
| 2001 | Gina Prince-Bythewood | Disappearing Acts | HBO | |
| 2001 | Robert Townsend | Holiday Heart | Showtime | |
| 2002 | | | | |
| 2002 | Reggie Rock Bythewood | Dancing in September | HBO | |
| 2002 | Lee Davis | 3 A.M. | Showtime | |
| 2002 | Cheryl Dunye | Stranger Inside | HBO | |
| 2002 | Spike Lee | A Huey P. Newton Story | Starz' | |
| 2002 | Euzhan Palcy | The Killing Yard | Showtime | |
| 2003 | | | | |
| 2003 | Robert Townsend | 10,000 Black Men Named George | Showtime | |
| 2003 | Julie Dash | The Rosa Parks Story | CBS | |
| 2003 | Doug McHenry | Keep the Faith, Baby | Showtime | |
| 2004 | | | | |
| 2004 | Bill Duke | Deacons for Defense | Showtime | |
| 2004 | Ernest R. Dickerson | Good Fences | Showtime | |
| 2004 | Kevin Hooks | Sounder | ABC | |
| 2005 | | | | |
| 2005 | Vondie Curtis-Hall | Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story | FX | |
| 2005 | Lisa Gay Hamilton | Beah: A Black Woman Speaks | HBO | |
| 2005 | Joseph Sargent | Something the Lord Made | HBO | |
| 2006 | | | | |
| 2006 | George C. Wolfe | Lackawanna Blues | HBO | |
| 2006 | Kevin Arkadie, Neema Barnette, Levar Burton, Ernest R. Dickerson, Bill Duke and Spike Lee | Miracle's Boys | TeenNick | |
| 2006 | Spike Lee | Sucker Free City | Showtime | |
| 2006 | Darnell Martin | Their Eyes Were Watching God | ABC | |
| 2006 | Raoul Peck | Sometimes in April | HBO | |
| 2007 | | | | |
| 2007 | Edward James Olmos | Walkout | HBO | |
| 2008 | — | — | — | — |

### 2010s

| Year | Director | Film | Network | Ref |
| 2010–12 | — | — | — | — |
| 2013 |
| 2013 | Vondie Curtis-Hall | Abducted: The Carlina White Story | Lifetime | |
| 2013 | Roger M. Bobb | Raising Izzie | UP | |
| 2013 | Kenny Leon | Steel Magnolias | Lifetime | |
| 2013 | Darnell Martin | Firelight | ABC | |
| 2013 | Billie Woodruff | Rags | Nickelodeon | |
| 2014 | | | | |
| 2014 | Spike Lee | Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth | HBO | |
| 2014 | Salim Akil | Being Mary Jane | HBO | |
| 2014 | Rockmond Dunbar | Pastor Brown | Lifetime | |
| 2014 | Kenny Leon | The Watsons Go to Birmingham | Hallmark | |
| 2014 | Charles Stone III | CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story | VH1 | |
| 2015 | | | | |
| 2015 | Reggie Rock Bythewood | Gun Hill | BET | |
| 2015 | Sharon Brathwaite-Sanders and Peres Owino | Seasons of Love | Lifetime | |
| 2015 | Shernold Edwards | A Day Late and a Dollar Short | Lifetime | |
| 2015 | Dayna Lynne North | An En Vogue Christmas | Lifetime | |
| 2015 | Kimberly Walker | Comeback Dad | UP | |
| 2016 | | | | |
| 2016 | Dee Rees | Bessie | HBO | |
| 2016 | Angela Bassett | Whitney | Lifetime | |
| 2016 | Regina King | Let the Church Say Amen | BET | |
| 2016 | John Ridley | American Crime | ABC | |
| 2016 | Clement Virgo | The Book of Negroes | BET | |
| 2017 | | | | |
| 2017 | John Singleton | The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story | FX | |
| 2017 | Angela Bassett | American Horror Story: Roanoke | FX | |
| 2017 | Thomas Carter | Roots | History Channel | |
| 2017 | Anthony Hemingway | The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story | FX | |
| 2017 | John Ridley | American Crime | ABC | |
| 2017 | | | | |
| 2017 | Chris Robinson | The New Edition Story | BET | |
| 2017 | Victoria Mahoney | American Crime - Episode "Season Three: Episode Three" | ABC | |
| 2017 | Kevin Hooks | Madiba | BET | |
| 2017 | Tanya Hamilton | American Crime - Episode "Season Three: Episode, Five" | ABC | |
| 2017 | George C. Wolfe | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | HBO | |
| 2018 | | | | |
| 2018 | Anthony Hemingway | The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G.- Episode "Wherever It Leads" | USA Network | |
| 2018 | Angela Bassett | American Horror Story: Cult- Episode "Drink the Kool Aid" | FX | |
| 2018 | Ernest R. Dickerson | Seven Seconds- Episode "Until It Do" | Netflix | |
| 2018 | Dee Rees | Electric Dreams- Episode "Kill All Others" | Amazon Prime Video | |
| 2018 | Victoria Mahoney | Seven Seconds- Episode "Witnesses for the Prosecution" | Netflix | |
| 2019 | | | | |
| 2019 | Ava DuVernay | When They See Us | Netflix | |
| 2019 | Clark Johnson | Juanita | Netflix | |
| 2019 | Rashid Johnson | Native Son | HBO | |
| 2019 | Kiel Adrian Scott | The Bobby Brown Story | BET | |
| 2019 | Victoria Mahoney | The Red Line- Episode "We Must All Care" | CBS | |

### 2020s

| Year | Director(s) | Film | Network |
| 2020 |
| 2020 | Stephen Williams | Watchmen Episode "This Extraordinary Being" | HBO |
| 2020 | Christine Swanson | The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel | Lifetime |
| 2020 | Nzingha Stewart | Little Fires Everywhere - Episode "Picture Perfect" | HULU |
| 2020 | Janet Mock | Hollywood- Episode "(Screen) Test" | Netflix |
| 2020 | Stephen Williams | Watchmen- Episode "She Was Killed by Space Junk" | HBO |
| 2021 | | | |
| 2021 | Steve McQueen | Small Axe- Film: Lovers Rock | Amazon Prime Video |
| 2021 | Michaela Coel & Sam Miller | I May Destroy You - Episode "Ego Death" | HBO |
| 2021 | Steve McQueen | Small Axe- Film: Mangrove | Amazon Prime Video |
| 2021 | Eugene Ashe | Sylvie's Love | Amazon Studios |
| 2021 | Barry Jenkins | The Underground Railroad" | Amazon Prime Video |

## Total awards by network

* HBO – 7
* Showtime – 3
* BET - 2
* FX - 2
* Amazon Prime Video - 1
* Lifetime - 1
* Netflix - 1
* USA Network - 1