| Black Reel Award for Outstanding Original Song | |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | The Black Reel Awards (BRAs) |
| First award | Black Reel Awards of 2001 |
| Most recent winner | Halle Bailey &Phylicia Pearl Mpasi "Keep It Movin'" (Black Reel Awards of 2024) |
| Website | blackreelawards |
This article lists the winners and nominees for theBlack Reel Award for Outstanding Original Song. It's presented to the performer and songwriters for the best original song written specially for a film. Performers who also wrote the song is credited with one win or nomination.
This award was first introduced as Outstanding Original or Adapted song from 2001 - 2013. At the14th Annual Black Reel Awards the category was renamed to Outstanding Original Song only allowing original songs written specifically for a film to be eligible.
This award was first presented at the2nd Annual Black Reel Awards where Meshell Ndegeocello's "Fool of Me" fromLove & Basketball won.
John Legend holds the record with the most wins as both a performer and songwriter with 3 wins. Legend is the most nominated songwriter in this category with 6 nominations and tied withBeyonce for the most nominations as a performer with 5 nominations.
Other multiple winners in this category includesRaphael Saadiq,Mary J. Blige &Common (rapper).
Love & Basketball,The Brothers,Brown Sugar,Dreamgirls,The Princess and the Frog,The Butler,Creed,Black Panther,Queen & Slim &The Harder They Fall are the only films to receive 2 or more nominations in this category.The Butler,Creed &The Harder They Fall are the only films to not have one of their songs win.
Winners are listed first and highlighted inbold.
| Year | Artist | Writers | Song | Film | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | |||||
| Meshell Ndegeocello | Meshell Ndegeocello andFederico Peña | "Fool of Me" | Love & Basketball | [1] | |
| Destiny's Child | Beyoncé, Cory Rooney, Tone (as Samuel J. Barnes) and Poke (as Jean Claude Olivier) | "Independent Women" | Charlie's Angels | ||
| Janet Jackson | Janet Jackson, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis | "Doesn't Really Matter" | Nutty Professor II: The Klumps | ||
| Donell Jones | Rahsaan Patterson and Steve 'Silk' Hurley | "I'll Go" | Love & Basketball | ||
| R. Kelly | R. Kelly | "Bad Man" | Shaft | ||
| Lucy Pearl | Dawn Robinson and Raphael Saadiq | "Dance Tonight" | Love & Basketball | ||
| 2002 | |||||
| Eric Benét | Eric Benet | "Love Don't Love Me" | The Brothers | [2] | |
| Snoop Dogg,Tyrese Gibson and Mr. Tan | Battlecat, Tyrese Gibson, Snoop Dogg and Olan Thompson | "Just a Baby Boy" | Baby Boy | ||
| R. Kelly | R. Kelly | "The World's Greatest" | Ali | ||
| Nelly | Nelly and Waiel Yaghnam | "#1" | Training Day | ||
| R.L. | Charles Bereal, Kenneth Bereal & Walter Worth Milsap | "Good Love" | The Brothers | ||
| 2003 | |||||
| Erykah Badu andCommon | Raphael Saadiq, Erykah Badu, Madukwu Chinwah, Common, Bobby Ozuna, James Poyser and Glenn Standridge | "Love of My Life (An Ode to Hip-Hop)" | Brown Sugar | [3] | |
| Beyoncé | Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo and Beyoncé | "Work It Out" | Austin Powers in Goldmember | ||
| Bow Wow,Jermaine Dupri,Fabolous and Fundisha | Jimmy Bralower, Robert Ford, Full Force, James B. Moor, Kurtis Blow, Shirley Walker and William Waring | "Basketball" | Like Mike | ||
| Bootsy Collins,Snoop Dogg,Mr. Kane, Quaze andFred Wesley | George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Jerome Brailey, Snoop Dogg and Quazedelic | "Undercova Funk (Give Up the Funk)" | Undercover Brother | ||
| Angie Stone | Angie Stone, Homer Talbert and Herscholt Polk | "Bring Me Your Heart" | Brown Sugar | ||
| 2004 | |||||
| Beyoncé and Walter Williams Sr. | Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis and Big Jim Wright | "He Still Loves Me" | The Fighting Temptations | [4] | |
| Amerie andLL Cool J | Norma Jean Wright, Allan Wayne Felder, Kenneth Burke, LL Cool J, Poke (as Jean Claude Olivier), Tone (as Samuel Barnes), Amerie and 50 Cent | "Paradise" | Deliver Us from Eva | ||
| Joe Budden | Joe Budden, Justin Smith, George Funky Brown, Robert Kool Bell, Ronald Bell, Robert Spike Mickens, Claydes Smith, Richard Westfield, Dennis 'Dee Tee' Thomas | "Pump It Up" | 2 Fast 2 Furious | ||
| Ludacris | Ludacris (as Christopher Bridges), Keith McMasters | "Act a Fool" | |||
| Notorious B.I.G. andTupac Shakur | Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., Eminem, Luis Resto, Edgar Winter | "Runnin' (Dying to Live)" | Tupac: Resurrection | ||
| 2005–06 | N/a | ||||
| 2007 | |||||
| Jennifer Hudson | Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen | "And I'm Telling You (I'm Not Going)" | Dreamgirls | [5] | |
| Beyoncé | Henry Krieger, Scott Cutler, Beyoncé, and Anne Preven | "Listen" | Dreamgirls | ||
| Jennifer Hudson | Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen | "I Am Changing" | |||
| Lyfe Jennings andAlicia Keys | Curtis Mayfield | "People Get Ready" | Glory Road | ||
| OutKast | Andre Benjamin | "Idlewild Blue (Don'tchu Worry 'Bout Me)" | Idlewild | ||
| 2008 | N/a | ||||
| Year | Artist | Writers | Song | Film | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | |||||
| Anika Noni Rose | Randy Newman | "Almost There" | The Princess and the Frog | [6] | |
| De'Adre Aziza,Daniel Breaker andStew | Stew | "Keys" | Passing Strange | ||
| Mary J. Blige | Mary J. Blige, Ne-Yo & Chuck Harmon | "I Can Do Bad All By Myself" | I Can Do Bad All By Myself | ||
| Ne-Yo | Ne-Yo | "Never Knew I Needed" | The Princess and the Frog | ||
| Anika Noni Rose | Randy Newman | "Down in New Orleans" | |||
| 2011 | |||||
| John Legend | John Legend | "Shine" | Waiting for "Superman" | [7] | |
| Justin Bieber andJaden Smith | Adam Messinger, Nasri, Justin Bieber, Kuk Harrell (as Thaddis Harrell), Jaden Smith and Omarr Rambert | "Never Say Never" | The Karate Kid | ||
| Jay Z,Rihanna andKanye West | Shawn Carter, Kanye West, Robyn Fenty, Ernest Wilson, Jeff Bhasker, Athanasios Alatas | "Run This Town" | Brooklyn's Finest | ||
| Queen Latifah | Andre Lyon, Queen Latifah, Jazmine Sullivan and Marcello Valenzano | "Champion" | Just Wright | ||
| Leona Lewis | Greg Barnhill, Joanna Cotten and Melissa Manchester | "I Know Who I Am" | For Colored Girls | ||
| 2012 | |||||
| Mary J. Blige | Mary J. Blige, Thomas Newman, Harvey Mason Jr. and Damon Thomas | "The Living Proof" | The Help | [8] | |
| Nicole Beharie | Scott Jacoby, Stefan C. Schaefer & Chris Silber | "My Last Day Without You" | My Last Day Without You | ||
| Jamie Foxx | Siedah Garrett | "Fly Love" | Rio | ||
| Cee-Lo Green andKenny Wayne Shepherd | R.L. Burnside | "Walkin' Blues" | Footloose | ||
| Ludacris andSlaughterhouse | Ryan Montgomery, Crooked I, Eminem, Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz, Ludacris, Mr. Porter, Tony "56" Jackson, Claret Jai, Luis Resto | "Furiously Dangerous" | Fast Five | ||
| 2013 | |||||
| John Legend | John Legend | "Who Did That to You?" | Django Unchained | [9] | |
| Travis Barker,Tom Morello,Raekwon andRZA | Travis Barker,Tom Morello,Raekwon andRZA | "Carry It" | The Man with the Iron Fists | ||
| Whitney Houston andJordin Sparks | R. Kelly | "Celebrate" | Sparkle | ||
| Jay Z,Frank Ocean andKanye West | Kanye West, Jay-Z (as Shawn Carter), Mike Dean, Charles Njapa, Gary Wright, Phil Manzanera, James Brown, Joseph Maloy Roach, The-Dream (as Terius Nash), Frank Ocean | "No Church in the Wild" | Safe House | ||
| John Legend andLudacris | John Legend, Allen Arthur, Ludacris, Clayton Reilly, Keith Justice, and Miguel | "Tonight (Best You Ever Had)" | Think Like a Man | ||
| 2014 | |||||
| Judith Hill | Judith Hill | "Desperation" | 20 Feet from Stardom | [10] | |
| Fantasia Barrino | Keith McMasters, Fantasia Barrino, Ricco Barrino, and Abel Terry | "In the Middle of the Night" | The Butler | ||
| Alicia Keys | Alicia Keys | "Queen of the Field (Patsey's Song)" | 12 Years a Slave | ||
| Gladys Knight | Lenny Kravitz | "You & I Ain't No More" | The Butler | ||
| Pharrell Williams | Pharrell Williams | "Happy" | Despicable Me 2 | ||
| 2015 | |||||
| Common andJohn Legend | Common, John Legend & Rhymefest | "Glory" | Selma | [11] | |
| Eliza Colby andQuestlove | Eliza Colby & Questlove | "It Ain't Easy" | Top Five | ||
| Alicia Keys andKendrick Lamar | Pharrell Williams, Alicia Keys, Hans Zimmer and Kendrick Lamar | "It's On Again" | The Amazing Spider-Man 2 | ||
| Janelle Monáe | Janelle Monáe, Nate 'Rocket' Wonder and Roman GianArthur Irvin | "What is Love" | Rio 2 | ||
| Rita Ora | Diane Warren | "Grateful" | Beyond the Lights | ||
| 2016 | |||||
| Wiz Khalifa andCharlie Puth | DJ Frank E, Andrew Cedar, Charlie Puth, Wiz Khalifa | "See You Again" | Furious 7 | [12] | |
| Jhené Aiko,Childish Gambino andVince Staples | Ludwig Göransson, Ryan Coogler, Vince Staples and Donald Glover | "Waiting for My Moment" | Creed | ||
| Dr. Dre | Dr. Dre, Slim the Mobster, Mario Johnson, Russell Brown | "Talking to My Diary" | Straight Outta Compton | ||
| Tessa Thompson | Ludwig Göransson, Sam Dew and Tessa Thompson | "Grip" | Creed | ||
| The Weeknd | The Weeknd, Stephan Moccio, DaHeala, Belly | "Earned It" | Fifty Shades of Grey | ||
| 2017 | |||||
| Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings | "I'm Still Here" | Miss Sharon Jones! | [13] | |
| Common andBilal | Common, Karriem Riggins & Robert Glasper | "A Letter to the Free" | 13th | ||
| Alicia Keys | Alicia Keys, Illangelo, Billy Walsh | "Back to Life" | Queen of Katwe | ||
| John Legend | John Legend | "Start" | Southside with You | ||
| Lalah Hathaway andPharrell Williams | Pharrell Williams | "Surrender" | Hidden Figures | ||
| 2018 | |||||
| Mary J. Blige | Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq & Taura Stinson | "Mighty River" | Mudbound | [14][15] | |
| Kortnee Price | Jypsy Nichols, Jeff Paige, Bobby Huntley & Nikki Wade | "Best of Me" | La Vie Magnifique De Charlie | ||
| Cynthia Erivo | Raphael Saadiq, Taura Stinson & Laura Karpman | "Jump" | Step | ||
| Common andAndra Day | Dianne Warren & Common | "Stand Up for Something" | Marshall | ||
| Phonte and Zo! | Phonte & Zo! | "Starlight" | Zo! Making SkyBreak | ||
| 2019 | |||||
| Kendrick Lamar &SZA | Kendrick Lamar, Sounwave, Al Shux and SZA | "All the Stars" | Black Panther | ||
| Jennifer Hudson | Diane Warren | "I’ll Fight" | RBG | ||
| Khalid &Normani | Khalid, Normani, Ryan Vojtesak, Tayla Parx and Jamil Chammas | "Love Lies" | Love, Simon | ||
| The Weeknd &Kendrick Lamar | The Weeknd, Kendrick Lamar, Frank Dukes and Doc McKinney | "Pray for Me" | Black Panther | ||
| Arlissa | Jessica Karpov, Kevin White and Mike Woods | "We Won’t Move" | The Hate U Give |
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