Black Reel Award for Outstanding Original Score

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Black Reel Award for Outstanding Score
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The 2024and 2025 recipient: Kris Bowers
Country United States
Presented by The Black Reel Awards (BRAs)
First award Black Reel Awards of 2005
Most recent winner Kris Bowers
The Wild Robot (2025)
Website blackreelawards.com

This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Original Score. This award is given to the film composers and was first awarded during the 2005 ceremony. Michael Abels & Nicholas Britell currently holds the record for most wins in this category.

Contents

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

2000s

YearComposerFilmRef
2005
Ray Charles and Stephen Altman Ray [1]
Terence Blanchard She Hate Me
RZA Kill Bill: Volume 2
2006 —
2007
Harvey Mason Jr. and Damon Thomas Dreamgirls [2]
Big Boi Idlewild
Terence Blanchard Inside Man
Lisa Coleman and Wendy Melvoin Something New
Aaron Zigman Akeelah and the Bee
2008
A. R. Rahman Slumdog Millionaire [3]
Terence Blanchard and Steve Jordan Cadillac Records
Stanley Clarke Soul Men
Mason Daring Honeydripper
Steve Isles RocknRolla

2010s

YearComposerFilmRef
2010 —
2011
The Roots Night Catches Us [4]
James Horner The Karate Kid
Atticus Ross and Leopold Ross The Book of Eli
Marcelo Zarvos Brooklyn's Finest
Aaron Zigman For Colored Girls
2012
Thomas Newman The Help [5]
Harry Escott Shame
Alex Heffes The First Grader
Steven Price Attack the Block
Misha Segal Mooz-lum
2013
Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin Beasts of the Southern Wild [6]
Terence Blanchard Red Tails
Kathryn Bostic Middle of Nowhere
Bruce Hornsby Red Hook Summer
Salaam Remi Sparkle
2014
Hans Zimmer 12 Years a Slave [7]
Stanley Clarke The Best Man Holiday
Ludwig Göransson Fruitvale Station
Mark Isham 42
Rodrigo Leao The Butler
2015
Jason Moran Selma [8]
Terence Blanchard Black or White
Kathryn Bostic Dear White People
Danny Bramson and Waddy Wachtel Jimi: All Is by My Side
Mark Isham Beyond the Lights
2016
Joseph Trapanese Straight Outta Compton [9]
Terence Blanchard Chi-Raq
Germaine Franco Dope
Ludwig Göransson Creed
Dan Romer Beast of No Nation
2017
Nicholas Britell Moonlight [10]
Robert Glasper Miles Ahead
Henry Jackman The Birth of a Nation
Benjamin Wallfisch, Pharrell Williams and Hans Zimmer Hidden Figures
Marcelo Zarvos Fences
2018
Michael Abels Get Out [11]
James Newton Howard Detroit
David Newman Girls Trip
Roger Suen Gook
Marcus Miller Marshall
2019
Nicholas Britell If Beale Street Could Talk [12]
Terence Blanchard BlacKkKlansman
Ludwig Göransson Black Panther
Ludwig Göransson Creed II
Dustin O'Halloran The Hate U Give

2020s

YearComposerFilmRef
2020
Michael Abels Us [13]
Scott Bomar Dolemite Is My Name
Emile Mosseri The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Devonté Hynes Queen & Slim
Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor Waves
2021
Trent Reznor , Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste Soul [14]
Guy C. Routte The Forty-Year-Old Version
John Debney Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
Robert Glasper The Photograph
Fabrice Lecomte Sylvie's Love
2022
Jeymes Samuel The Harder They Fall [15]
Robert Akiki Aubrey Lowe Candyman
Alex Lacamoire, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Bill Sherman In the Heights
Devonté Hynes Passing
Kris Bowers Respect
2023
Terence Blanchard The Woman King [16]
Common Alice
Craig DeLeon End of the Road
Tanerélle and Bartek Gliniak Nanny
Michael Abels Nope
2024
Kris Bowers The Color Purple [17]
Jon Batiste American Symphony
Kris Bowers Chevalier
Branford Marsalis Rustin
Desmond Murray and Pierre Charles They Cloned Tyrone
2025
Kris Bowers The Wild Robot [18]
Chanda Dancy Blink Twice
Kris Bowers Bob Marley: One Love
Tamar-kali The Fire Inside
Jon Batiste Saturday Night

Multiple nominations and wins

Multiple wins

2 wins

Multiple nominations

8 nominations
4 nominations
3 nominations
2 nominations

References

  1. ↑ 2005 Black Reel Awards
  2. ↑ 2007 Black Reel Awards
  3. ↑ 2008 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. ↑ 2017 Black Reel Awards
  11. ↑ 2018 Black Reel Awards
  12. ↑ 2019 Black Reel Awards
  13. ↑ 2020 Black Reel Awards
  14. ↑ "A Special "Night in Miami!" – the Black Reel Awards". Archived from the original on 2021-02-22. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
  15. ↑ "'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.
  16. ↑ Complex, Valerie (February 6, 2023). "'The Woman King' Wins Big at the 23rd Annual Black Reel Awards". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved February 6, 2023.
  17. ↑ Complex, Valerie (January 16, 2024). "Black Reel Awards Reveals Winners of Film and Television Categories; 'American Fiction' and 'The Color Purple' Take Home Top Honors". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved January 17, 2024.
  18. ↑ 2025 Black Reel Awards
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