Black Reel Awards of 2011

Here are the winners and nominees for the 2011 Black Reel Awards.^[1] Tyler Perry's For Colored Girls broke the record for most nominations with 14. This was the first ceremony where no Oscar-nominated performances were nominated.

Category	Winner	Nominees
Best Film	Night Catches Us	Just Wright For Colored Girls The Book of Eli Brooklyn's Finest
Best Director	Hughes Brothers (The Book of Eli)	Antoine Fuqua (Brooklyn's Finest) Sanaa Hamri (Just Wright) Tanya Hamilton (Night Catches Us) Tyler Perry (For Colored Girls)
Best Actor	Anthony Mackie (Night Catches Us)	Don Cheadle (Brooklyn's Finest) Denzel Washington (The Book of Eli) Jaden Smith (The Karate Kid) Denzel Washington (Unstoppable)
Best Actress	Kerry Washington (Night Catches Us)	Thandie Newton (For Colored Girls) Queen Latifah (Just Wright) Anika Noni Rose (For Colored Girls) Kimberly Elise (For Colored Girls)
Best Supporting Actor	Wesley Snipes (Brooklyn's Finest)	Sean Combs (Get Him to the Greek) Samuel L. Jackson (Mother and Child) Brandon T. Jackson (Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief) Laurence Fishburne (Predators)
Best Supporting Actress	Phylicia Rashad (For Colored Girls)	Kerry Washington (For Colored Girls) Viola Davis (Eat Pray Love) Janet Jackson (For Colored Girls) Shareeka Epps (Mother and Child)
Best Screenplay, Adapted or Original	Tanya Hamilton (Night Catches Us)	Michael C. Martin (Brooklyn's Finest) Michael Elliott (Just Wright) Peter Allen, Gabriel Casseus, John Luessenhop and Avery Duff (Takers) Tyler Perry (For Colored Girls)
Best Documentary	Waiting for "Superman"	The Lottery Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy My Mic Sounds Nice: The Truth About Women in Hip Hop
Best Breakthrough Performance	Tessa Thompson (For Colored Girls)	Omari Hardwick (For Colored Girls) Amari Cheatom (Night Catches Us) Zoë Kravitz (It's Kind of a Funny Story) Yaya DaCosta (The Kids Are All Right)
Best Ensemble	For Colored Girls	Brooklyn's Finest Unstoppable Night Catches Us Takers
Best Original or Adapted Song	John Legend ("Shine" from Waiting for "Superman")	Queen Latifah ("Champion" from Just Wright) Jay-Z (feat. Rihanna and Kanye West) ("Run This Town" from Brooklyn's Finest) Justin Bieber (feat. Jaden Smith) ("Never Say Never" from The Karate Kid) Leona Lewis ("I Know Who I Am" from For Colored Girls)
Best Original Score	Night Catches Us	The Karate Kid Brooklyn's Finest The Book of Eli For Colored Girls
Best Independent Film	Preacher's Kid	Kings of the Evening Toe to Toe Black Venus Finding God in the City of Angels

References

1. http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000957/2011