| Best Film | Best Director | - Love & Basketball
- Bamboozled
- Girlfight
- Loving Jezebel
- Men of Honor
- Remember the Titans
| - Gina Prince-Bythewood – Love & Basketball
- Kwyn Bader – Loving Jezebel
- Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes – American Pimp
- Spike Lee – Bamboozled
- John Singleton – Shaft
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| Best Actor | Best Actress |
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- Denzel Washington – Remember the Titans
- Omar Epps – Love & Basketball
- Morgan Freeman – Nurse Betty
- Cuba Gooding Jr. – Men of Honor
- Samuel L. Jackson – Shaft
| - Sanaa Lathan – Love & Basketball
- Angela Bassett – Boesman and Lena
- Jada Pinkett Smith – Bamboozled
- Michelle Rodriguez – Girlfight
- Alfre Woodard – What's Cooking?
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| Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress |
|---|
- Don Cheadle – Traffic
- Rob Brown – Finding Forrester
- Tommy Davidson – Bamboozled
- Chris Rock – Nurse Betty
- Marlon Wayans – Requiem of a Dream
| - Gabrielle Union – Bring It On
- Lisa Bonet – High Fidelity
- Eartha Kitt – The Emperor's New Groove
- Nia Long – Boiler Room
- Sheryl Lee Ralph – Deterrence
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| Best Screenplay, Adapted or Original | Best Film Poster |
|---|
- Gregory Allen Howard – Remember the Titans
- Kwyn Bader – Loving Jezebel
- Spike Lee – Bamboozled
- Scott Marshall Smith – Men of Honor
- Gina Prince-Bythewood – Love & Basketball
| - Love & Basketball
- Bamboozled
- The Way of the Samurai
- Requiem for a Dream
- Unbreakable
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| Outstanding Original Soundtrack | Best Original or Adapted Song |
|---|
- Love & Basketball
- Backstage
- Bamboozled
- The Way of the Samurai
- The Ladies Man
| - "Fool of Me" from Love & Basketball – Performed by Meshell Ndegeocello
- "Dance Tonight" from Love & Basketball – Performed by Lucy Pearl
- "I'll Go" from Love & Basketball – Performed by Donell Jones
- "Independent Women Part I" from Charlie's Angels – Performed by Destiny's Child
- "Doesn't Really Matter" from The Klumps – Performed by Janet Jackson
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| Outstanding Television Movie or Limited Series | Outstanding Director in a Television Miniseries or Movie |
|---|
- The Corner (HBO) – Nina Kostroff Noble
- Disappearing Acts (HBO) – Lydia Dean Pilcher
- Freedom Song (TNT) – Amanda DiGiulio
- Holiday Heart (Showtime) – Cheryl West
- Sally Hemings: American Scandal (PBS) – Marty Eli Schwartz and Gerrit van der Meer
| - Charles S. Dutton – The Corner (HBO)
- Jeffrey W. Byrd – Seventeen Again (Showtime)
- Julie Dash – Love Song (MTV)
- Gina Prince-Bythewood – Disappearing Acts (HBO)
- Robert Townsend – Holiday Heart (Showtime)
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| Best Actor in a TV Movie or Limited Series | Best Actress in a TV Movie or Limited Series |
|---|
- T. K. Carter – The Corner (HBO)
- Leon – Little Richard (NBC)
- Sean Nelson – The Corner (HBO)
- Ving Rhames – Holiday Heart (Showtime)
- Wesley Snipes – Disappearing Acts (HBO)
| - Khandi Alexander – The Corner (HBO)
- Carmen Ejogo – Sally Hemings: American Scandal (PBS)
- Sanaa Lathan – Disappearing Acts (HBO)
- Regina Taylor – Cora Unashamed (PBS)
- Alfre Woodard – Holiday Heart (Showtime)
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| Best Supporting Actor in a TV Movie or Limited Series | Best Supporting Actress in a TV Movie or Limited Series |
|---|
- Glenn Plummer – The Corner (HBO)
- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje – The True Story of Fanny Kemble (Showtime)
- Vondie Curtis-Hall – Freedom Song (TNT)
- Vicellous Reon Shannon – Freedom Song (TNT)
- Mykelti Williamson – Holiday Heart (Showtime)
| - Diahann Carroll – Sally Hemings: American Scandal (PBS)
- Lisa Arrindell Anderson – Disappearing Acts (HBO)
- Kim Fields – Hidden Blessings (BET)
- Regina Hall – Disappearing Acts (HBO)
- Jesika Reynolds – Holiday Heart (Showtime)
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| Outstanding Screenplay in a TV Movie or Limited Series |
|---|
- David Simon and David Mills – The Corner (HBO)
- Tina Andrews – Sally Hemings: American Scandal (PBS)
- Lisa Jones and Terry McMillan – Disappearing Acts (HBO)
- Stewart St. John – Seventeen Again (Showtime)
- Cheryl West – Holiday Heart (Showtime)
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1. ^[https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000957/2001 2001 Black Reel Awards]
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