Black Reel Award for Outstanding Writing, Drama Series

Black Reel Award for Outstanding Writing, Drama Series
Awarded for	Outstanding Writing, Drama Series
Country	United States
Presented by	Black Reel Awards for Television
First awarded	2017; 8 years ago (2017)
Currently held by	Kay Oyegun & Eboni FreemanThis Is Us (2021)
Website	blackreelawards.com

The Black Reel Award for Television for Outstanding Writing, Drama Series is an annual award given in honor of a writer or writers who produced an outstanding story or screenplay for an episode of a television drama series during the primetime network season episode of the year.

2010s

Year	Program	Episode	Nominee	Network
2017 1st [1][2]
	Luke Cage	"Moment of Truth"	Cheo Hodari Coker	Netflix
	Empire	"Toil and Trouble, Part 1"	Eric Haywood & Diane Ademu-John	FOX
	How to Get Away With Murder	"There Are Worse Things Than Murder"	Angela Robinson	ABC
	This Is Us	"The Right Thing to Do"	Aurin Squire	NBC
	Queen Sugar	"First Things First"	Ava DuVernay	OWN
2018 (2nd) [3]
	This Is Us	"This Big, Amazing Beautiful Life"	Kay Oyegun	NBC
	Queen Sugar	"Dream Variations"	Ava DuVernay	OWN
	The Chi	"Pilot"	Lena Waithe	Showtime
	Queen Sugar	"Heritage"	Monica Macer & Davita Scarlett	OWN
	This Is Us	"Number Three"	Shukree Tilghman	NBC
2019 3rd [4]
	This Is Us	"Our Little Island Girl"	Eboni Freeman	NBC
	Claws	"Scream"	Maisha Closson	TNT
	Pose	"Love is the Message"	Janet Mock & Ryan Murphy	FX
	God Friended Me	"Unfriended"	Safia M. Dirie	CBS
	This Is Us	"R&B"	Kay Oyegun	NBC

2020s

Year	Program	Episode	Nominee	Network
2020 4th [5][6]
	This Is Us	"A Hell of a Week: Part One"	Jon Dorsey	NBC
	Pose	"Never Knew Love Like This Before"	Janet Mock & Ryan Murphy	FX
	Queen Sugar	"Where My Body Stops or Begins"	Mike Flynn	OWN
	Hunters	"(Ruth 1:16)"	Zakiyyah Alexander	Amazon Prime Video
	Black Lightning	"The Book of Markova: Chapter Four: Grab the Strap"	Charles D. Holland & Asheleigh O. Conley	CW
2021 5th [7][8]
	This Is Us	"Birth Mother"	Kay Oyegun & Eboni Freeman	NBC
	Lovecraft Country	"Jig-a-Bobo"	Misha Green	HBO
	The Falcon and the Winter Soldier	"New World Order"	Malcolm Spellman	Disney+
	The Mandalorian	"Chapter 15: The Believer"	Ricky Famuyiwa	Disney+
	Snowfall	"Sleeping Dogs"	Justin Hillian	FX

Programs with multiple awards

4 awards This Is Us

Programs with multiple nominations

7 nominations This Is Us 4 nominations Queen Sugar 2 nominations Pose

Total awards by network

• NBC – 4
• Netflix - 1

Individuals with multiple awards

2 wins Eboni Freeman Kay Oyegun

Individuals with multiple nominations

3 nominations Kay Oyegun 2 nominations Ava DuVernay Eboni Freeman Janet Mock Ryan Murphy

References

1. Black Reel Awards for television Archived 2017-08-12 at the Wayback Machine blackreelawards.com
2. Winners Archived 2022-05-15 at the Wayback Machine blackreelawards.com
3. Historic night for Queen Sugar blackreelawards.com Archived 2018-06-24 at the Wayback Machine
4. Billy Porter Makes History as First Openly Gay Black Man to Win Emmy for Outstanding Actor in Drama Series indiewire.com September 2019
5. ‘Watchmen,’ ‘Insecure’ top Black Reel Awards for Television winners awardswatch.com
6. Watchmen & Insecure Pace the Black Reel Awards for TV Nominations blackreelawards.com Archived 2020-07-04 at the Wayback Machine
7. Gordon, Tim. "Plenty of "Love" in the Heart of the Country!". blackreelawards.com. Archived from the original on June 28, 2021. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
8. Gordon, Tim. ""Love" Reigns Supreme!". blackreelawards.com. Archived from the original on October 5, 2021. Retrieved August 16, 2021.