# Black Reel Award for Outstanding Television Movie or Limited Series

This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Television Movie or Limited Series. As of the 2016 ceremony, Luther is the only television movie or limited series to receive more than one nomination. This award is presented to the producers of the production. 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 | Film / Series | Network | Producer(s) | Ref |
| 2000 |
| 2000 | Introducing Dorothy Dandridge | HBO | Halle Berry and Joshua D. Maurer | |
| 2000 | A Lesson Before Dying | HBO | Ted Demme and Ellen Krass | |
| 2000 | Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years | CBS | Camille Cosby and Jeffrey Grant | |
| 2000 | Funny Valentines | HBO | Ron Stacker Thompson and Ashley Tyler | |
| 2000 | Jackie's Back | Lifetime | Gideon Amir | |
| 2000 | Love Songs | Showtime | Steven Hewitt | |
| 2000 | Strange Justice | Showtime | Jacob Epstein and Steven Haft | |
| 2001 |
| 2001 | The Corner | HBO | Nina Kostroff Noble | |
| 2001 | Disappearing Acts | HBO | Lydia Dean Pilcher | |
| 2001 | Freedom Song | TNT | Amanda DiGiulio | |
| 2001 | Holiday Heart | Showtime | Cheryl West | |
| 2001 | Sally Hemings: American Scandal | PBS | Marty Eli Schwartz and Gerrit van der Meer | |
| 2002 | | | | |
| 2002 | Boycott | HBO | Clark Johnson | |
| 2002 | 3 A.M. | Showtime | Lee Davis | |
| 2002 | A Huey P. Newton Story | Starz | Spike Lee | |
| 2002 | Dancing in September | HBO | Reggie Rock Bythewood | |
| 2002 | Stranger Inside | HBO | Cheryl Dunye | |
| 2003 | | | | |
| 2003 | The Rosa Parks Story | CBS | Paris Qualles | |
| 2003 | Keep the Faith, Baby | Showtime | Art Washington | |
| 2003 | Lift | Showtime | DeMane Davis | |
| 2004 | | | | |
| 2004 | Deacons for Defense | Showtime | Robert Rehme | |
| 2004 | The Cheetah Girls | Disney Channel | Jacqueline George | |
| 2004 | D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear | USA Network | Orly Adelson and Jonathan Eskenas | |
| 2004 | Good Fences | Showtime | Danny Glover and Whoopi Goldberg | |
| 2004 | Sounder | ABC | Howard Braunstein and Bill Cain | |
| 2005 | | | | |
| 2005 | Something the Lord Made | HBO | Robert W. Cort and Eric Hetzel | |
| 2005 | Beah: A Black Woman Speaks | HBO | Jonathan Demme and Joe Viola | |
| 2005 | Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story | FX | Sue Bugden and Rudy Langlais | |
| 2006 | | | | |
| 2006 | Lackawanna Blues | HBO | Halle Berry and Vincent Cirrincione | |
| 2006 | Kojak | USA Network | Tom Thayer and Steve Feke | |
| 2006 | Miracle's Boys | TeenNick | Nicole Silver and Orly Wiseman | |
| 2006 | Sometimes in April | HBO | Daniel Delume | |
| 2006 | Their Eyes Were Watching God | ABC | Quincy Jones and Oprah Winfrey | |
| 2007 | | | | |
| 2007 | Walkout | HBO | Moctesuma Esparza and Robert A. Katz | |
| 2008 | — | — | — | — |

### 2010s

| Year | Film / Series | Network | Producer(s)/Showrunners(s) | Ref |
| 2010–11 | — | — | — | — |
| 2012 |
| 2012 | Thurgood | HBO | Bill Haber and George Stevens Jr. | |
| 2012 | Five | Lifetime | Jennifer Aniston, Marta Kauffman and Paula Wagner | |
| 2012 | Luther | BBC America | Katie Swinden | |
| 2012 | The Sunset Limited | HBO | Barbara Hall | |
| 2012 | Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story | Lifetime | Harvey Kahn | |
| 2013 | | | | |
| 2013 | A Beautiful Soul | TV One | Holly Carter and Dominique Telson | |
| 2013 | Let It Shine | Disney Channel | Amy Gibbons and Paul Hoen | |
| 2013 | Raising Izzie | UP | Angelique Bones | |
| 2013 | Somebody's Child | UP | David Eubanks, Keith Neal and Eric Tomosunas | |
| 2013 | Steel Magnolias | Lifetime | Neil Meron and Craig Zadan | |
| 2014 | | | | |
| 2014 | Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth | HBO | Spike Lee and Mike Tyson | |
| 2014 | Being Mary Jane | BET | Gabrielle Union, Salim Akil and Mara Brock Akil | |
| 2014 | Betty and Coretta | Lifetime | Polly Anthony and Jaja Johnson | |
| 2014 | CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story | VH1 | Bill Diggins and Jill Holmes | |
| 2014 | The Watsons Go to Birmingham | Hallmark | Tonya Lewis Lee | |
| 2015 | | | | |
| 2015 | The Trip to Bountiful | Lifetime | Bill Haber and Jeff Hayes | |
| 2015 | A Day Late and a Dollar Short | Lifetime | Jeffrey M. Hayes | |
| 2015 | Gun Hill | BET | Reggie Rock Bythewood | |
| 2015 | Rosemary's Baby | NBC | Zoe Saldana, Tom Patricia and Robert Bernacchi | |
| 2015 | Seasons of Love | Lifetime | Joshua A. Green and Yaron Schwartzman | |
| 2016 | | | | |
| 2016 | Bessie | HBO | Ron Schmidt | |
| 2016 | American Crime | ABC | Ed Tapla and Lori-Etta Taub | |
| 2016 | The Book of Negroes | BET | Damon D'Oliveira and Clement Virgo | |
| 2016 | Luther | BBC America | Marcus Wilson | |
| 2016 | Show Me a Hero | HBO | Gail Mutrux | |
| 2017 | | | | |
| 2017 | The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story | FX | Chip Vucelich, Alexis Martin Woodall and John Travolta | |
| 2017 | American Crime | ABC | Lori-Etta Taub | |
| 2017 | Confirmation | HBO | Darren M. Demetre | |
| 2017 | Love Under New Management: The Miki Howard Story | TV One | Carl Craig, Teyonah Parris, Ron Robinson and Eric Tomosunas | |
| 2017 | Roots | History Channel | Ann Kindberg and Alissa M. Kantrow | |
| 2017 | | | | |
| 2017 | The New Edition Story | BET | Brooke Payne, Jesse Collins, Debra Lee, Ralph E. Tresvant, Ricky Bell, Johnny Gill, Bobby Brown, Ronnie DeVoe, Stephen Hill, Michael Bivins, Chris Robinson, Valerie Bleth Sharp | |
| 2017 | American Crime | ABC | John Ridley, Julie Hébert | |
| 2017 | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | HBO | Kathryn Dean, Alan Ball, Oprah Winfrey, Peter Macdissi, Carla Gardini, Lydia Dean Pilcher | |
| 2017 | Guerrilla | Showtime | John Ridley | |
| 2017 | Shots Fired | FOX | Gina Prince-Bythewood & Reggie Rock Bythewood | |
| 2018 | | | | |
| 2018 | Seven Seconds | Netflix | Veena Sud | |
| 2018 | Black Mirror | Netflix | Charlie Brooker | |
| 2018 | Flint | Lifetime | Shakim Compere, Queen Latifah, Katie Couric, John M. Eckert, Mark Nicholson, Craig Zadan | |
| 2018 | Marvel's The Defenders | Netflix | Douglas Petrie & Marco Ramirez | |
| 2018 | The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. | USA Network | Kyle Long | |
| 2019 | | | | |
| 2019 | When They See Us | Netflix | Ava DuVernay | |
| 2019 | Luther | BBC One | Neil Cross | |
| 2019 | Native Son | HBO Films | Alex Ernst, Duccio Fabbri, Eric Hollenbeck, Matthew Perniciaro, Michael Sherman | |
| 2019 | The Bobby Brown Story | BET | Bobby Brown, Sheyna Kathleen Smith, Carl Craig, Dionne Harmon, Jesse Collins | |
| 2019 | True Detective | HBO | Nic Pizzolatto | |

### 2020s

| Year | Film / Series | Network | Producer(s)/ Showrunners |
| 2020 |
| 2020 | Watchmen | HBO | Damon Lindelof |
| 2020 | The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel | Lifetime | Holly Davis Carter, Ronnie J. Pitre, Missy Elliott, Mary J. Blige, Queen Latifah, Shakim Compere, Loretha C. Jones, Steve Solomos |
| 2020 | Hollywood | Netflix | Ian Brennan |
| 2020 | Little Fires Everywhere | Hulu | Liz Tigelaar |
| 2020 | Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C. J. Walker | Netflix | Elle Johnson |
| 2021 | | | |
| 2021 | I May Destroy You | HBO | Michaela Coel |
| 2021 | Hamilton | Disney+ | Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail, Jeffrey Seller |
| 2021 | Sylvie's Love | Amazon Studios | Eugene Ashe, Nnamdi Asomugha, Jonathan T. Baker |
| 2021 | Small Axe | Amazon Prime Video / BBC One | Steve McQueen |
| 2021 | The Underground Railroad | Amazon Prime Video | Barry Jenkins |
| 2022 | | | |
| 2022 | The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey | Apple TV+ | Diane Houslin |
| 2022 | Colin in Black & White | Netflix | Michael Starrbury |
| 2022 | DMZ | HBO Max | Roberto Patino |
| 2022 | True Story | Netflix | Eric Newman |
| 2022 | We Own This City | HBO | George Pelecanos |
| 2023 | | | |
| 2023 | The Best Man: The Final Chapters | Peacock | Malcolm D. Lee |
| 2023 | Black Girl Missing | Lifetime | [data missing] |
| 2023 | Entergalactic | Netflix | Michael Penketh, Mike Moon |
| 2023 | Praise This | Peacock | Will Packer, Tim Story, James Lopez |
| 2023 | Swarm | Amazon Prime Video | Janine Nabers |

## Programs with multiple nominations

Totals include continuing series, but not sequels or revivals.

## Total awards by network

* HBO - 11
* Netflix - 2
* BET - 1
* CBS - 1
* FX - 1
* Lifetime - 1
* Showtime - 1
* TV One - 1