Black Reel Award for Best Screenplay, Adapted or Original

Here are the winners and nominees of the Black Reel Award for Best Screenplay, Adapted or Original. Gregory Allen Howard currently has the most wins with 2.

Geoffrey Fletcher & John Ridley are the only Black Reel Award Screenwriting winners to win Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay.

• Multiple Nominees

• 1. Tyler Perry- 5 nominations
• 2. John Ridley - 4 nominations
• 2. Michael Elliot, Spike Lee, Gina Prince-Bythewood - 3 nominations
• 4. Ava DuVernay, Chris Rock, Malcolm D. Lee, James McBride, Elizabeth Hunter, Gregory Allen Howard, Mark Brown, Don Scott- 2 nominations

Winners/Nominees

Year	Winner	Nominees	Source
2015	Chris Rock (Top Five)	Misan Sagay (Belle) Gina Prince-Bythewood (Beyond the Lights) John Ridley (Jimi: All Is by My Side) Justin Simien (Dear White People)
2014	John Ridley (12 Years a Slave)	Kasi Lemmons (Black Nativity) Michael Starburry (The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete) Malcolm D. Lee (The Best Man Holiday) Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station)
2013	Ava DuVernay (Middle of Nowhere)	Spike Lee & James McBride (Red Hook Summer) Mara Brock Akil (Sparkle) Aaron McGruder & John Ridley (Red Tails) Rashida Jones & Will McCormack (Celeste and Jesse Forever)
2012	Steve McQueen & Abi Morgan (Shame)	Arelene Gibbs & Elizabeth Hunter (Jumping the Broom) Dee Rees (Pariah) Qasim Basir (Mooz-lum) Ava DuVernay (I Will Follow)
2011	Tanya Hamilton (Night Catches Us)	Michael C. Martin (Brooklyn's Finest) Michael Elliot (Just Wright) Peter Allen, Gabriel Casseus, John Luessenhop and Avery Duff (Takers) Tyler Perry (For Colored Girls)
2010	Geoffrey S. Fletcher (Precious)	Brian Bird (Not Easily Broken) Scott Sanders, Michael Jai White and Bryon Minms (Black Dynamite) John Lee Hooker (The Blind Side) Reggie Rock Bythewood & Cheo Hodari (Notorious)
2008	Gina Prince-Bythewood (The Secret Life of Bees)	Darnell Martin (Cadillac Records) James McBride (Miracle at St. Anna) Tyler Perry (Meet the Browns) Tyler Perry (The Family That Preys)
2007	Kriss Turner (Something New)	Tina Gordon Chism (ATL) Chris Cleveland and Bettina Gilois (Glory Road) Tyler Perry (Madea's Family Reunion) Bryan Barber (Idlewild)
2006	Norman Vance Jr. (Roll Bounce)	Tyler Perry (Diary of a Mad Black Woman) Rob Hardy (The Gospel)
2005	James L. White (Ray)	Mario Van Peebles (BAADASSSSS!) Shonda Rimes (The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement) Spike Lee and Michael Genet (She Hate Me) Don D. Scott (Barbershop 2: Back in Business)
2004	Gary Hardwick, James Iver Mattson and B.E. Brauner (Deliver Us From Eva)	Chris Rock and Ali LeRoi (Head of State) Elizabeth Hunter and Saladin K. Patterson (The Fighting Temptations)
2003	Antwone Fisher (Antwone Fisher)	Mark Brown and Don D. Scott (Barbershop) Jordan Moffet and Michael Elliott (Like Mike) John Ridley (Undercover Brother) MMichael Elliot (Brown Sugar)
2002	Gregory Allen Howard (Ali)	John Singleton (Baby Boy) Darryl Quarles & Peter Gaulke (Black Knight) Gary Hardwick (The Brothers) Mark Brown (Two Can Play That Game)
2001	Gregory Allen Howard (Remember the Titans)	Kwyn Bader (Loving Jezebel) Scott Marshall Smith (Men of Honor) Spike Lee (Bamboozled) Gina Prince-Bythewood (Love & Basketball)
2000	Malcolm D. Lee (The Best Man)	Spike Lee (Summer of Sam) Rick Famuyiwa and Todd Boyd (The Wood)