Black Reel Award for Outstanding Breakthrough Performance, Male

Black Reel Award for Outstanding Breakthrough Performance, Male
Black Reel Award for Outstanding Breakthrough Performance, Male
Awarded for	Outstanding 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.

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

Year	Actor	Film	Ref
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)	Straight Outta Compton
	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

Year	Actor	Film	Ref
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

Tyler James Williams (winner) and Brandon P. Bell in Dear White People (2015)
Andre Holland and Stephan James in Selma (2015)
Jason Mitchell and O'Shea Jackson Jr. in Straight Outta Compton (2016)
Trevante Rhodes (winner), Alex Hibbert, and Ashton Sanders in Moonlight (2017)
Daniel Kaluuya (winner) and Lil Rel Howery in Get Out (2018)
Jonathan Majors and Jimmie Fails in The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2020)
Kingsley Ben-Adir (winner) and Eli Goree in One Night in Miami... (2021)
Deon Cole & Edi Gathegi in The Harder They Fall (2022)

Age superlatives

Record	Actor	Film	Age (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

References

^ "2014 Black Reel Awards - Nominees". Black Reel Awards. December 11, 2014. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
^ 2015 Black Reel Awards
^ 2016 Black Reel Awards
^ "Black Reel Awards (2017)".
^ "Black Reel Awards (2018)".
^ "Black Reel Awards (2019)".
^ "Black Reel Awards (2020)".
^ "A Special "Night in Miami!"". February 18, 2021. Archived from the original on February 22, 2021. Retrieved February 22, 2021.
^ "'The Harder They Fall' Sets Record with 20 Nominations from the Black Reel Awards". Black Girl Nerds. BGN Staff. Retrieved January 2, 2022.

[1] "2014 Black Reel Awards - Nominees". Black Reel Awards. December 11, 2014. Retrieved August 1, 2016.

[2] 2015 Black Reel Awards

[3] 2016 Black Reel Awards

[4] "Black Reel Awards (2017)".

[5] "Black Reel Awards (2018)".

[6] "Black Reel Awards (2019)".

[7] "Black Reel Awards (2020)".

[8] "A Special "Night in Miami!"". February 18, 2021. Archived from the original on February 22, 2021. Retrieved February 22, 2021.

[9] "'The Harder They Fall' Sets Record with 20 Nominations from the Black Reel Awards". Black Girl Nerds. BGN Staff. Retrieved January 2, 2022.

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