Black Reel Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor

This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. Oscar-nominated or winning performances also honored with nominations or wins at the Black Reel Awards include Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips), Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby), Michael Clarke Duncan (The Green Mile), Jamie Foxx (Collateral), Djimon Hounsou (Blood Diamond, In America) and Eddie Murphy (Dreamgirls).

The award was discontinued at the 24th Black Reel Awards and merged with Outstanding Supporting Actress in favor of a single gender-neutral award, Outstanding Supporting Performance.

Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

Multiple wins

 * 2 Wins
 * Don Cheadle
 * Jamie Foxx
 * Djimon Hounsou
 * Wesley Snipes

Multiple nominations

 * 5 nominations
 * Chiwetel Ejiofor
 * Jamie Foxx
 * Jeffrey Wright


 * 4 nominations
 * Laurence Fishburne


 * 3 nominations
 * Idris Elba
 * Morgan Freeman
 * Terrence Howard
 * David Oyelowo
 * Forest Whitaker


 * 2 nominations
 * Mahershala Ali
 * Anthony Anderson
 * Cedric the Entertainer
 * Don Cheadle
 * Mos Def
 * Colman Domingo
 * Mike Epps
 * Brian Tyree Henry
 * Aldis Hodge
 * Andre Holland
 * Djimon Hounsou
 * Brandon T. Jackson
 * Samuel L. Jackson
 * Daniel Kaluuya
 * Anthony Mackie
 * Jason Mitchell
 * Eddie Murphy
 * Nate Parker
 * Ving Rhames
 * Wesley Snipes
 * LaKeith Stanfield
 * Michael K. Williams

Multiple nominations from the same film

 * Terrence Howard (winner) and Ludacris in Crash (2006)
 * Jeffrey Wright (winner), Mos Def and Eamonn Walker in Cadillac Records (2008)
 * Corey Hawkins and Jason Mitchell in Straight Outta Compton (2016)
 * Mahershala Ali (winner), Andre Holland & Ashton Sanders in Moonlight (2017)
 * Jovan Adepo & Stephen Henderson in Fences (2017)
 * Aldis Hodge & Leslie Odom Jr. in One Night in Miami... (2021)
 * Idris Elba & LaKeith Stanfield in The Harder They Fall (2022)