Black Reel Award for Outstanding Ensemble

Black Reel Award for Outstanding Ensemble
Country	United States
Presented by	The Black Reel Awards (BRAs)
First award	Black Reel Awards of 2006
Most recent winner	Victoria Thomas The Harder They Fall (Black Reel Awards of 2022)
Website	blackreelawards.com

This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Ensemble. First given in 2006, this award is given to the casting directors. Victoria Thomas holds the record for most wins in this category with 3.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

2000s

Year	Film	Casting Director	Ref
2006
	Crash	Sarah Halley Finn and Randi Hiller	[1]
	Four Brothers	Kimberly Hardin
	Hustle & Flow	Chris Gray and Kimberly Hardin
	Rent	Tiffany Little Canfield and Bernard Telsey
	Roll Bounce	Monica Swann
2007	—
2008
	Cadillac Records	Michelle Adams and Kimberly Hardin	[2]
	Honeydripper	John Hubbard
	Miracle at St. Anna	Kim Coleman, Béatrice Kruger and Karen Kaia Livers
	The Secret Life of Bees	Aisha Coley, Craig and Mark Fincannon
	Slumdog Millionaire	Gail Stevens and Loveleen Tandan

2010s

Year	Film	Casting Director	Ref
2010
	Precious	Billy Hopkins and Jessica Kelly	[3]
	American Violet	Susan Shopmaker
	Notorious	Tracy Bird and Pamela Frazier
	Passing Strange	Heidi Griffiths and Jordan Thaler
	The Princess and the Frog	Jen Rudin
2011
	For Colored Girls	Robi Reed	[4]
	Brooklyn’s Finest	Suzanne Smith and Mary Vernieu
	Night Catches Us	Lois J. Drabkin
	Takers	Lisa Hayes Kroeger and David Rapaport
	Unstoppable	Denise Chamian
2012
	The Help	Kerry Barden and Paul Schnee	[5]
	Attack the Block	Nina Gold
	Fast Five	Debra Zane
	Jumping the Broom	Tracy Byrd
	Mooz-lum	Aleta Chappelle
	Pariah	Eyde Belasco
2013
	Django Unchained	Victoria Thomas	[6]
	Flight	Victoria Burrows
	Middle of Nowhere	Aisha Coley
	Sparkle	Tracy Byrd
	Think Like a Man	Kim Hardin
2014
	12 Years a Slave	Francine Maisler  [ d ]	[7]
	42	Victoria Thomas
	The Best Man Holiday	Julie Hutchinson
	The Butler	Leah Daniels and Billy Hopkins
	Fruitvale Station	Nina Henninger
2015
	Selma	Aisha Coley	[8]
	Belle	Toby Whale
	Dear White People	Kim Coleman
	Get On Up	Kerry Barden and Paul Schnee
	Top Five	Victoria Thomas
2016
	Straight Outta Compton	Victoria Thomas and Cindy Tolan	[9]
	Chi-Raq	Kim Coleman
	Concussion	Lindsay Graham and Mary Vernieu
	Creed	Francine Maisler
	Dope	Kim Coleman
2017
	Moonlight	Yesi Ramirez	[10]
	The Birth of a Nation	Andrea Craven, Craig Fincannon, Lisa Mae Fincannon, Mary Vernieu, Michelle Wade Byrd
	Fences	Victoria Thomas
	Hidden Figures	Victoria Thomas
	Keanu	Nicole Abellera and Jeanne McCarthy
2018
	Mudbound	Billy Hopkins (Casting Director), Ashley Ingram (Casting Director)	[11] [12]
	Detroit	Victoria Thomas
	Get Out	Terri Taylor
	Girls Trip	Michelle Wade Byrd & Mary Vernieu
	Marshall	Victoria Thomas
2019
	Black Panther	Sarah Halley Finn	[13]
	Sorry to Bother You	Cindy Tolan
	If Beale Street Could Talk	Cindy Tolan
	Widows	Francine Maisler, Mickie Paskal & Jennifer Rudnicke
	BlacKkKlansman	Kim Coleman

2020s

Year	Film	Casting Director	Ref
2020
	Dolemite Is My Name	Lindsay Graham, Mary Vernieu	[14]
	Just Mercy	Carmen Cuba
	The Last Black Man in San Francisco	Julia Kim
	Us	Terri Taylor
	Waves	Avy Kaufman
2021
	One Night in Miami...	Kim Hardin	[15]
	Da 5 Bloods	Kim Coleman
	Judas and the Black Messiah	Alexa L. Fogel
	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Avy Kaufman
	Miss Juneteenth	Chelsea Ellis Bloch
2022
	The Harder They Fall	Victoria Thomas	[16]
	In the Heights	Tiffany Little Canfield & Bernard Telsey
	King Richard	Rich Delia & Avy Kaufman
	Passing	Kim Ostroy & Laura Rosenthal
	Zola	Kim Coleman

Multiple nominations and wins

Multiple wins

3 Wins

• Victoria Thomas

2 Wins

• Sarah Halley Finn
• Kim Hardin
• Billy Hopkins
• Victoria Thomas

Multiple nominations

9 Nominations Victoria Thomas 7 Nominations Kim Coleman 5 Nominations Mary Vernieu Kim Hardin 3 Nominations Twinkie Byrd Francine Maisler Cindy Tolan Billy Hopkins Aisha Coley Avy Kaufman

2 Nominations Tiffany Little Canfield Terri Taylor Sarah Halley Finn Paul Schnee Michelle Wade Byrd Lisa Mae Fincannon Lindsay Graham Kerry Barden Craig Fincannon Bernard Telsey

References

1. 2006 Black Reel Awards
2. 2008 Black Reel Awards
3. 2010 Black Reel Awards
4. 2011 Black Reel Awards
5. 2012 Black Reel Awards
6. "Critics Wild About Beasts". Black Reel Awards. February 8, 2013. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
7. "2014 Black Reel Awards – Nominees". Black Reel Awards. December 11, 2014. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
8. 2015 Black Reel Awards
9. 2016 Black Reel Awards
10. 2016 Black Reel Awards
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12. Get Out “Sinks” the Competition at The Black Reel Awards Archived 2018-02-28 at the Wayback Machine Black Reel Awards. 23 February 2018.
13. 2019 Black Reel Awards
14. 2020 Black Reel Awards
15. "A Special "Night in Miami!" – the Black Reel Awards". Archived from the original on 2021-02-22. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
16. "'The Harder They Fall' Sets Record with 20 Nominations from the Black Reel Awards". Black Girl Nerds. BGN Staff. 16 December 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2022.