The nominations for the 17th Annual Black Reel Awards will be announced in approximately four months. For the first time in our awards history, there is a huge and diverse selection of choices in both the film, television, and independent film categories. As we enter into the “final quarter” of the year, which films and performances have a legitimate shot of having their names called in December?
This Week’s Updates:
These projections are based on personal impressions (based on advance screenings of hundreds of films each year), publicly available information (release dates, genres, talent rosters and teasers/trailers often offer valuable clues), historical considerations (comparing and contrasting how other films with similar pedigrees over our awards history have resonated), and conversations with industry insiders (including fellow members of the press, awards strategists, filmmakers and awards voters), TheFilmGordon awards’ analyst currently projects…
Outstanding Film
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FRONTRUNNERSThe Birth of A Nation (Fox Searchlight)
Hidden Figures (20th Century Fox)
Moonlight (A24)
Fences (Paramount)
Loving (Focus Features)SPOILERS
Southside With You (Roadside Attractions)
Queen of Katwe (Walt Disney)
A United Kingdom (Pathé)
Collateral Beauty (Warner Bros.)
Morris From America (A24)POSSIBILITIES
Miles Ahead (Sony Pictures Classics)
Don’t Think Twice (The Film Arcade)
All Eyez On Me (Open Road)LONG SHOTS
How to Tell If You’re A Douchebag (Big Vision Creative)
The Fits (Oscilloscope)
Nina (RLJ Entertainment)Outstanding TV Movie or Limited Series
FRONTRUNNERSAmerican Crime (ABC)
People vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story (FX)
Confirmation (HBO)
Roots (History)
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill (HBO)SPOILERS
All the Way (HBO)
Jean of the Joneses (TV One)
Showing Roots (Lifetime)
The Breaks (VH1)
Toni Braxton: Unbreak My Heart (Lifetime)
Outstanding Independent Feature
FRONTRUNNERSThe Land
How To Tell If You’re A Douchebag
Kicks
Destined
Five Nights in Maine
SPOILERS
Interwoven
Halfway
Destination: Planet Negro
The Sin SeerOutstanding Actor, Motion Picture
FRONTRUNNERSNate Parker, (The Birth of A Nation)
Denzel Washington (Fences)
Don Cheadle (Miles Ahead)
Will Smith (Collateral Beauty)
Trevante Rhodes (Moonlight)
SPOILERS
David Oyelowo (A United Kingdom)
Parker Sawyers (Southside With You)
Markees Christmas (Morris From America)
Keegan-Michael Key (Don’t Think Twice)
Denzel Washington (The Magnificient Seven)Outstanding Actor, Television Movie or Limited Series
FRONTRUNNERS
Courtney B. Vance (The People vs. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story)
Cuba Gooding Jr. (The People vs. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story)
Malachi Kirby (Roots)
Rege Jean-Page (Roots)
Tristan Wilds (The Breaks)SPOILERS
Wesley Johnathan (Bad Dad Rehab)
Romany Malco (Mad Dogs)
Adrian Lester (Undercover)
Robert Ri’chard (Bad Dad Rehab)
Rick Gonzales (Bad Dad Rehab)Outstanding Actress, Motion Picture
FRONTRUNNERSRuth Negga, (Loving)
Taraji P. Henson (Hidden Figures)
Viola Davis (Fences)
Tika Sumpter (Southside With You)
Madina Nalwanga (Queen of Katwe)SPOILERS
Royalty Hightower (The Fits)
DeWanda Wise (How To Tell If You’re A Douchebag)
Zoe Saldana (Nina)
Monique (Interwoven)
Halle Berry (Kidnap)Outstanding Actress, Television Movie or Limited Series
FRONTRUNNERSKerry Washington, (Confirmation)
Audra McDonald (Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill)
Teyonah Parris (Love Under New Management: The Miki Howard Story)
Sophie Okonedo (Undercover)
Taylour Paige (Jean of the Joneses)SPOILERS
Afton Williamson (The Breaks)
Laverne Cox (The Rocky Horror Picture Story)
Uzo Azuba (Showing Roots)
Lex Scott Davis (Toni Braxton: Unbreak My Heart)
Sophie Okonedo (The Hallow Queen)Outstanding Supporting Actor, Motion Picture
FRONTRUNNERSCraig Robinson (Morris From America)
Colman Domingo (The Birth of A Nation)
Mahershala Ali (Moonlight)
Mykelti Williamson (Fences)
Andre Holland (Moonlight)SPOILERS
Stephen Henderson (Fences)
Chadwick Boseman (Captain America: Civil War)
Chiwetel Ejiofor (Doctor Strange)
Alano Miller (Loving)
Jovan Adepo (Fences)Outstanding Supporting Actor, Television Movie or Limited Series
FRONTRUNNERSSterling K. Brown (The People vs. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story)
Wendell Pierce (Confirmation)
Michael K. Williams (The Night Of)
Forest Whitaker (Roots)
Andre Benjamin (American Crime)SPOILERS
Anthony Mackie (All the Way)
Jeffrey Wright (Confirmation)
Chad E. Coleman (Roots)
Trevor Jackson (American Crime)
Malachi Kirby (Black Mirror)Outstanding Supporting Actress, Motion Picture
FRONTRUNNERSAja Naomi King (The Birth of A Nation)
Janelle Monáe (Hidden Figures)
Naomi Harris (Moonlight)
Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures)
Lupita Nyong’o (Queen of Katwe)SPOILERS
Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Queen Sloane)
Zoe Saldana (Live By Night)
Gabrielle Union (The Birth of A Nation)
Janelle Monáe (Moonlight)
Emayatzy Corinealdi (Miles Ahead)Outstanding Supporting Actress, Television Movie or Limited Series
FRONTRUNNERSRegina King (American Crime)
Anika Noni Rose (Roots)
Emayatzy Corinealdi (Roots)
Angela Bassett (American Horror Story – Season 6)
Jennifer Hudson (Hairspray Live!)SPOILERS
Erica Tazel (Roots)
Erica Ash (Jean of Joneses)
Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Black Mirror)
Aisha Hinds (All the Way)
Sherri Shepherd (Jean of Joneses)Outstanding Director, Motion Picture
FRONTRUNNERSNate Parker (The Birth of A Nation)
Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)
Denzel Washington (Fences)
Amma Assante (A United Kingdom)
Don Cheadle (Miles Ahead)SPOILERS
Antoine Fuqua (The Magnificient Seven)
Tahir Jetter (How to Tell You’re A Douchebag)
Benny Boom (All Eyez On Me)