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in 23 categories. The film nominations were announced on February 18, 2021, and led by '' One Night in Miami...'' with 15 nominations. Amazon Studios' 'One Night in Miami...' was the big winner, winning 5 wins including Outstanding Director for

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, Outstanding Ensemble and Outstanding Original Song for "Speak Now". King became the third woman behind

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to win Outstanding Director. Judas and the Black Messiah took home 3 prizes including Outstanding Film, Outstanding Supporting Actor for

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& Outstanding Supporting Actress for Dominique Fishback. The producing team of

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and Charles D. King became the first all-Black producing team to win Outstanding Film in Black Reel Award history. In addition, Kaluuya joined

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as only the second person and first male to win the Black Reel Award "Triple-Crown" for Lead, Supporting and Breakthrough categories.

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2 wins were historic as

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win for Outstanding Actor became the first posthumously winner, while

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win for Outstanding Actress tied her for the most wins in that category with 2. Other big winners included The Forty-Year-Old Version, Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey &

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The 5th Annual Black Reel Awards for Television was presented on August 11, 2021. The nominations were announced on June 17, 2021.

Film winners and nominees

Films with multiple nominations and awards

Television winners and nominees

Comedy

Drama

Television Movies/Limited Series

Other categories

Television Movies/Limited Series

References

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2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

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