Black Reel Award for Outstanding First Screenplay | |
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Awarded for | Outstanding First Screenplay |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Black Reel Awards (BRAs) |
First awarded | Black Reel Awards of 2017 |
Most recent winner | Radha Blank The Forty-Year-Old Version (Black Reel Awards of 2021) |
Website | blackreelawards |
This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding First Screenplay. The award is given to the writers for their first screenplay debut.
Year | Writer | Film | Ref. |
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2017 | Steven Caple Jr. | The Land | [1] |
Hermon Hailay | Price of Love | ||
Yared Zeleke | Lamb | ||
2018 | Maggie Betts | Novitiate | [2] |
Gerald McMurray and Christine T. Berg | Burning Sands | ||
Malik Vitthal and Ismet Prcic | Sleight | ||
J.D. Dillard and Alex Theurer | Lamb | ||
Caroline Jules | Tourments d'amour | ||
2019 | Boots Riley | Sorry to Bother You | [3] |
Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal | Blindspotting | ||
Reinaldo Marcus Green | Monsters and Men | ||
Michael Larnell | Roxanne Roxanne | ||
Nijla Mumin | Jinn |
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