Black Reel Awards Reveals Winners Of Film And Television Categories; ‘American Fiction’ And ‘The Color Purple’ Took Home Top Honors:

e 24th Annual Black Reel Awards.

Cord Jefferson’s directorial debut, based on novelist Percival Ellison’s Erasure, took home six Black Reel Awards including Outstanding Picture. Jefferson was the biggest single winner of the night. Jefferson nabbed awards on five nominations, marking the most wins in a single night in Black Reel Award history. Jefferson also became the first person to sweep all the directing and writing awards in the same year. To round out the total victories for Jefferson’s film, Jeffrey Wright secured the award for Outstanding Lead Performance bringing Fiction’s total to six on the night. Wright became the thirteenth actor to win awards for Lead and Supporting Performances in their career.

Oprah Winfrey’s production of the musical version of The Color Purple was awarded the most Black Reel Awards with a grand total of nine awards and became the most awarded musical in Black Reel Awards history. The honors included Outstanding Supporting Performance for Danielle Brooks, Outstanding Ensemble, Outstanding Original Song, Soundtrack and Breakthrough Performance for Fantasia Barrino. Fantasia became the second American Idol alumni to win a Black Reel Award for acting.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the only animated film to be recognized at the awards this year, brought home two awards. Shameik Moore won his second award for Voice Performance and set the bar for the number of wins in that field. Spider-Verse also set a record for being the only animated film to win a Bolt for Outstanding Editing.

On the television side, as a part of the combined awards announcement, Abbott Elementary was the leader, bringing home four Black Reel Television Awards. Elementary won Outstanding Comedy Series and all the acting awards in the comedy category.

Snowfall was the big winner in the tight races of the drama categories, taking away two wins. While Snowfall won for Outstanding Drama Series, Damson Idris was awarded Outstanding Lead Performance for his work on the final season of the show.

In the TV Movie/Limited Series Categories, The Best Man: The Final Chapters and P-Valley tied for most wins with three each. The Best Man finale won for Outstanding Series, Directing and Music Supervision. P-Valley won Original Song, Costume Design and Makeup. Swarm’s Dominique Fishback took home the award for Outstanding Lead Performance.

FX claimed the win for networks. Fueled by the success of Snowfall and Atlanta, the network claimed six total awards. ABC and Starz tied for second place with four Bolts each thanks to Abbott Elementary and P-Valley respectively.

Congratulations to all the winners and nominees this year!

The complete list of winners is listed at Deadline.