Black Reel Award for Outstanding Breakthrough Performance, Male

This page lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Breakthrough Performance, Male. The award was originally part of the category Outstanding Breakthrough Performance, but was divided in the 2014 ceremony. Barkhad Abdi's performance in Captain Phillips is currently the only Oscar-nominated or winning performance also honored with a nomination or win at the Black Reel Awards.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

2010s

Year	Actor	Film	Ref
2014
	Barkhad Abdi	Captain Phillips	[1]
	Chadwick Boseman	42
	Skylan Brooks	The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete
	Tequan Richmond	Blue Caprice
	Keith Stanfield	Short Term 12
2015
	Tyler James Williams	Dear White People	[2]
	Brandon P. Bell	Dear White People
	David Gyasi	Interstellar
	Andre Holland	Selma
	Stephan James	Selma
2016
	Abraham Attah	Beasts of No Nation	[3]
	RJ Cyler	Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
	O'Shea Jackson Jr.	Straight Outta Compton
	Jason Mitchell
	Shameik Moore	Dope
2017
	Trevante Rhodes	Moonlight	[4]
	Alex Hibbert	Moonlight
	Ashton Sanders	Moonlight
	Markees Christmas	Morris From America
	Jovan Adepo	Fences
2018
	Daniel Kaluuya	Get Out	[5]
	Lil Rel Howery	Get Out
	Sterling K. Brown	Marshall
	Nnamdi Asomugha	Crown Heights
	J. Quinton Johnson	Last Flag Flying
2019
	Winston Duke	Black Panther	[6]
	John David Washington	BlacKkKlansman
	Daveed Diggs	Blindspotting
	Brian Tyree Henry	If Beale Street Could Talk
	Donald Glover	Solo: A Star Wars Story

2020s

Year	Actor	Film	Ref
2020
	Kelvin Harrison Jr.	Waves	[7]
	Tituss Burgess	Dolemite Is My Name
	Jonathan Majors	The Last Black Man in San Francisco
	Aldis Hodge	Clemency
	Jimmie Fails	The Last Black Man in San Francisco

References

1. "2014 Black Reel Awards - Nominees". Black Reel Awards. December 11, 2014. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
2. 2015 Black Reel Awards
3. 2016 Black Reel Awards
5. https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000957/2018?ref_=nmawd_awd_14. Missing or empty |title= (help)