Black Reel Award for Outstanding Emerging Director

This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Emerging Director. The award is given to the directors for their first directorial debut.

Black Reel Award for Outstanding Emerging Director
Awarded for	Outstanding Emerging Director
Country	United States
Presented by	Black Reel Awards (BRAs)
First award	2017
Most recent winner	Cord Jefferson American Fiction (2024)
Website	blackreelawards.com

Winners and nominees

2010s

Year	Director	Film	Ref.
2017	Ezra Edelman	O.J.: Made in America	[1]
	Steven Caple Jr.	The Land
	Tahir Jetter	How to Tell You're a Douchebag
	Rita Coburn Whack	Maya Angelou and Still I Rise
	Yared Zeleke	Lamb
2018	Jordan Peele	Get Out	[2]
	Maggie Betts	Novitiate
	Damon Davis and Sabaah Folayan	Whose Streets?
	J.D. Dillard	Sleight
	Malik Vitthal	Imperial Dreams
2019	Boots Riley	Sorry to Bother You	[3]
	Idris Elba	Yardie
	Rashida Jones	Quincy
	Nijla Mumin	Jinn
	Reinaldo Marcus Green	Monsters and Men

2020s

Year	Director	Film	Ref.
2020	Melina Matsoukas	Queen & Slim	[4]
	Nia DaCosta	Little Woods
	Mati Diop	Atlantics
	Chinonye Chukwu	Clemency
	Julius Onah	Luce
2021	Regina King	One Night in Miami...	[5]
	Eugene Ashe	Sylvie's Love
	Radha Blank	The Forty-Year-Old Version
	Shaka King	Judas and the Black Messiah
	Channing Godfrey Peoples	Miss Juneteenth
2022	Jeymes Samuel	The Harder They Fall	[6]
	Halle Berry	Bruised
	Janicza Bravo	Zola
	Rebecca Hall	Passing
	Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson	Summer of Soul
2023	Nikyatu Jusu	Nanny	[7]
	Elegance Bratton	The Inspection
	Adamma Ebo	Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
	Elvis Mitchell	Is That Black Enough for You?!?
	Carey Williams	Emergency
2024	Cord Jefferson	American Fiction	[8]
	Blitz the Ambassador	The Color Purple
	Raven Jackson	All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
	A. V. Rockwell	A Thousand and One
	Juel Taylor	They Cloned Tyrone