Black Reel Award for Outstanding Breakthrough Performance, Male

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Black Reel Award for Outstanding Breakthrough Performance, Male
Awarded forOutstanding Breakthrough Performance, Male
Country United States
Presented by Black Reel Awards (BRAs)
First awarded Black Reel Awards of 2014
Most recent winner Jeremy Pope
The Inspection (Black Reel Awards of 2023)
Website blackreelawards.com

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.

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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

YearActorFilmRef
Outstanding Breakthrough Performance, Male
2014
Barkhad Abdi Captain Phillips
(Outstanding Supporting Actor Winner)
[1]
Chadwick Boseman 42
Skylan Brooks The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete
Tequan Richmond Blue Caprice
(Outstanding Supporting Actor Nominee)
Keith Stanfield Short Term 12
(Outstanding Supporting Actor Nominee)
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
(Outstanding Actor Nominee)
[3]
RJ Cyler Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
O'Shea Jackson Jr. Straight Outta Compton
Jason Mitchell
(Outstanding Supporting Actor Nominee)
Shameik Moore Dope
2017
Trevante Rhodes Moonlight [4]
Alex Hibbert Moonlight
Ashton Sanders Moonlight
(Outstanding Supporting Actor Nominee)
Markees Christmas Morris From America
Jovan Adepo Fences
(Outstanding Supporting Actor Nominee)
2018
Daniel Kaluuya Get Out
(Outstanding Actor Winner)
[5]
Lil Rel Howery Get Out
(Outstanding Supporting Actor Nominee)
Sterling K. Brown Marshall
Nnamdi Asomugha Crown Heights
J. Quinton Johnson Last Flag Flying
2019
Winston Duke Black Panther [6]
John David Washington BlacKkKlansman
(Outstanding Actor Nominee)
Daveed Diggs Blindspotting
Brian Tyree Henry If Beale Street Could Talk
(Outstanding Supporting Actor Nominee)
Donald Glover Solo: A Star Wars Story

2020s

YearActorFilmRef
2020
Kelvin Harrison Jr. Waves
(Outstanding Actor Nominee)
[7]
Tituss Burgess Dolemite Is My Name
Jonathan Majors The Last Black Man in San Francisco
(Outstanding Supporting Actor Nominee)
Aldis Hodge Clemency
(Outstanding Supporting Actor Nominee)
Jimmie Fails The Last Black Man in San Francisco
(Outstanding Actor Nominee)
2021
Kingsley Ben-Adir One Night in Miami...
(Outstanding Actor Nominee)
[8]
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II The Trial of the Chicago 7
Dusan Brown Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Eli Goree One Night in Miami...
Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine Farewell Amor
2022
Anthony Ramos In the Heights [9]
Deon Cole The Harder They Fall
Edi Gathegi The Harder They Fall
Joshua Henry Tick, Tick...Boom!
Caleb McLaughlin Concrete Cowboy
2023
Jeremy Pope The Inspection
(Outstanding Actor Winner)
Jalyn Hall Till
Daryl McCormack Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Quintessa Swindell Black Adam
Micheal Ward Empire of Light
(Outstanding Supporting Actor Nominee)

Multiple nominations from the same film

Age superlatives

RecordActorFilmAge (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

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