| Black Reel Award for Outstanding Ensemble | |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | The Black Reel Awards (BRAs) |
| First awarded | Black Reel Awards of 2006 |
| Most recent winner | Victoria Thomas The Harder They Fall (Black Reel Awards of 2022) |
| Website | blackreelawards |
This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Ensemble. First given in 2006, this award is given to the casting directors. Victoria Thomas holds the record for most wins in this category with 3.
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
2000s
| Year | Film | Casting Director | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | |||
| Crash | Sarah Halley Finn and Randi Hiller | ||
| Four Brothers | Kimberly Hardin | ||
| Hustle & Flow | Chris Gray and Kimberly Hardin | ||
| Rent | Tiffany Little Canfield and Bernard Telsey | ||
| Roll Bounce | Monica Swann | ||
| 2007 | — | ||
| 2008 | |||
| Cadillac Records | Michelle Adams and Kimberly Hardin | ||
| Honeydripper | John Hubbard | ||
| Miracle at St. Anna | Kim Coleman, Béatrice Kruger and Karen Kaia Livers | ||
| The Secret Life of Bees | Aisha Coley, Craig and Mark Fincannon | ||
| Slumdog Millionaire | Gail Stevens and Loveleen Tandan | ||
2010s
| Year | Film | Casting Director | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | |||
| Precious | Billy Hopkins and Jessica Kelly | ||
| American Violet | Susan Shopmaker | ||
| Notorious | Tracy Bird and Pamela Frazier | ||
| Passing Strange | Heidi Griffiths and Jordan Thaler | ||
| The Princess and the Frog | Jen Rudin | ||
| 2011 | |||
| For Colored Girls | Robi Reed | ||
| Brooklyn’s Finest | Suzanne Smith and Mary Vernieu | ||
| Night Catches Us | Lois J. Drabkin | ||
| Takers | Lisa Hayes Kroeger and David Rapaport | ||
| Unstoppable | Denise Chamian | ||
| 2012 | |||
| The Help | Kerry Barden and Paul Schnee | ||
| Attack the Block | Nina Gold | ||
| Fast Five | Debra Zane | ||
| Jumping the Broom | Tracy Byrd | ||
| Mooz-lum | Aleta Chappelle | ||
| Pariah | Eyde Belasco | ||
| 2013 | |||
| Django Unchained | Victoria Thomas | ||
| Flight | Victoria Burrows | ||
| Middle of Nowhere | Aisha Coley | ||
| Sparkle | Tracy Byrd | ||
| Think Like a Man | Kim Hardin | ||
| 2014 | |||
| 12 Years a Slave | Francine Maisler [d] | ||
| 42 | Victoria Thomas | ||
| The Best Man Holiday | Julie Hutchinson | ||
| The Butler | Leah Daniels and Billy Hopkins | ||
| Fruitvale Station | Nina Henninger | ||
| 2015 | |||
| Selma | Aisha Coley | ||
| Belle | Toby Whale | ||
| Dear White People | Kim Coleman | ||
| Get On Up | Kerry Barden and Paul Schnee | ||
| Top Five | Victoria Thomas | ||
| 2016 | |||
| Straight Outta Compton | Victoria Thomas and Cindy Tolan | ||
| Chi-Raq | Kim Coleman | ||
| Concussion | Lindsay Graham and Mary Vernieu | ||
| Creed | Francine Maisler | ||
| Dope | Kim Coleman | ||
| 2017 | |||
| Moonlight | Yesi Ramirez | ||
| The Birth of a Nation | Andrea Craven, Craig Fincannon, Lisa Mae Fincannon, Mary Vernieu, Michelle Wade Byrd | ||
| Fences | Victoria Thomas | ||
| Hidden Figures | Victoria Thomas | ||
| Keanu | Nicole Abellera and Jeanne McCarthy | ||
| 2018 | |||
| Mudbound | Billy Hopkins (Casting Director), Ashley Ingram (Casting Director) | ||
| Detroit | Victoria Thomas | ||
| Get Out | Terri Taylor | ||
| Girls Trip | Michelle Wade Byrd & Mary Vernieu | ||
| Marshall | Victoria Thomas | ||
| 2019 | |||
| Black Panther | Sarah Halley Finn | ||
| Sorry to Bother You | Cindy Tolan | ||
| If Beale Street Could Talk | Cindy Tolan | ||
| Widows | Francine Maisler, Mickie Paskal & Jennifer Rudnicke | ||
| BlacKkKlansman | Kim Coleman |
2020s
| Year | Film | Casting Director | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | |||
| Dolemite Is My Name | Lindsay Graham, Mary Vernieu | ||
| Just Mercy | Carmen Cuba | ||
| The Last Black Man in San Francisco | Julia Kim | ||
| Us | Terri Taylor | ||
| Waves | Avy Kaufman | ||
| 2021 | |||
| One Night in Miami... | Kim Hardin | ||
| Da 5 Bloods | Kim Coleman | ||
| Judas and the Black Messiah | Alexa L. Fogel | ||
| Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Avy Kaufman | ||
| Miss Juneteenth | Chelsea Ellis Bloch | ||
| 2022 | |||
| The Harder They Fall | Victoria Thomas | ||
| In the Heights | Tiffany Little Canfield & Bernard Telsey | ||
| King Richard | Rich Delia & Avy Kaufman | ||
| Passing | Kim Ostroy & Laura Rosenthal | ||
| Zola | Kim Coleman |
Multiple nominations and wins
Multiple wins
- 3 Wins
- Victoria Thomas
- 2 Wins
- Sarah Halley Finn
- Kim Hardin
- Billy Hopkins
- Victoria Thomas
Multiple nominations
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References
- 2006 Black Reel Awards
- 2008 Black Reel Awards
- 2010 Black Reel Awards
- 2011 Black Reel Awards
- 2012 Black Reel Awards
- "Critics Wild About Beasts". Black Reel Awards. February 8, 2013. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
- "2014 Black Reel Awards – Nominees". Black Reel Awards. December 11, 2014. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
- 2015 Black Reel Awards
- 2016 Black Reel Awards
- 2016 Black Reel Awards
- Get Out Dominates the Black Reel Awards Archived 2017-12-19 at the Wayback Machine Black Reel Awards. 13 December 2017.
- Get Out “Sinks” the Competition at The Black Reel Awards Archived 2018-02-28 at the Wayback Machine Black Reel Awards. 23 February 2018.
- 2019 Black Reel Awards
- 2020 Black Reel Awards
- "A Special "Night in Miami!" – the Black Reel Awards". Archived from the original on 2021-02-22. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
- "'The Harder They Fall' Sets Record with 20 Nominations from the Black Reel Awards". Black Girl Nerds. BGN Staff. 16 December 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
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