Past Winners

“Atlanta” (FX)

Donald Glover

“Atlanta” (FX)

Issa Rae

“Insecure” (HBO)

Tituss Burgess

“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” (Netflix)

Jenifer Lewis

“black-ish” (ABC)

“Guilty as Fuck”

Insecure (HBO)

Debbie Allen, directed by

“B.A.N.”

Atlanta (FX)

Donald Glover, writer

Dave Chappelle

“Saturday Night Live” (NBC)

“This Is Us” (NBC)

Sterling K. Brown

“This Is Us” (NBC)

Rutina Wesley

“Queen Sugar” (OWN)

Ron Cephas Jones

“This Is Us” (NBC)

Thandiwe Newton

“Westworld” (HBO)

“I Call Marriage”

This Is Us (NBC)

George Tillman, Jr., directed by

“Moment of Truth”

Luke Cage (Netflix)

Cheo Hodari Coker, written by

Mahershala Ali

“Luke Cage” (Netflix)

The New Edition Story (BET)

Woody McClain

The New Edition Story (BET)

Sanaa Lathan

Shots Fired (FOX)

Wood Harris

The New Edition Story (BET)

Regina King

American Crime (ABC)

Chris Robinson

The New Edition Story (BET)

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (HBO)

George C. Wolfe, written by

Time: The Kalief Browder Story (Spike TV)

Jenner Furst, directed by

The New Edition Story (BET)

“Atlanta” (FX)

Donald Glover

“Atlanta” (FX)

Issa Rae

“Insecure” (HBO)

LaKeith Stanfield

“Atlanta” (FX)

Jenifer Lewis

“black-ish” (ABC)

“Juneteenth”

black-ish (ABC)

Anton Cropper, directed by

“Teddy Perkins”

Atlanta (FX)

Donald Glover, writer

Katt Williams

“Atlanta” (FX)

Tiffany Haddish

“Saturday Night Live” (NBC)

“Black Lightning” (CW)

Sterling K. Brown

“This Is Us” (NBC)

Rutina Wesley

“Queen Sugar” (OWN)

Omar Dorsey

“Queen Sugar” (OWN)

Susan Kelechi Watson

“This Is Us” (NBC)

“Pilot”

The Chi (Showtime)

Rick Famuyiwa, directed by

“This Big, Amazing Beautiful Life”

This Is Us (NBC)

Kay Oyegun, written by

Ron Cephas Jones

“This Is Us” (NBC)

Phylicia Rashad

“Empire” (FOX)

Seven Seconds (Netflix)

Michael B. Jordan

Fahrenheit 451 (HBO)

Regina King

Seven Seconds (Netflix)

Russell Hornsby

Seven Seconds (Netflix)

Letitia Wright

Black Mirror (Netflix)

“Wherever It Leads”

Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G.

Anthony Hemingway, directed by

“A Boy and a Bike”

Seven Seconds (Netflix)

Veena Sud & Shalisha Francis, written by

The Defiant Ones (HBO)

Allen Hughes, directed by

Insecure (HBO)

“Insecure” (HBO)

Don Cheadle

“Black Monday” (Showtime)

Issa Rae

“Insecure” (HBO)

Tituss Burgess

“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” (Netflix)

Jenifer Lewis

“black-ish” (ABC)

“Black Like Us”

black-ish (ABC)

Salli Richardson, directed by

“Black Like Us”

black-ish (ABC)

Pete Saji, written by

Katt Williams

“black-ish” (ABC)

Anna Deavere Smith

“black-ish” (ABC)

“This Is Us” (NBC)

Billy Porter

“Pose” (FX)

Rutina Wesley

“Queen Sugar” (OWN)

Joe Morton

“God Friended Me” (CBS)

Susan Kelechi Watson

“This Is Us” (NBC)

“Don’t Take My Sunshine Away”

This Is Us (NBC)

George Tillman Jr., directed by

“Our Little Island Girl”

This Is Us (NBC)

Eboni Freeman, written by

Rob Morgan

“This Is Us” (NBC)

Phylicia Rashad

“This Is Us” (NBC)

When They See Us (Netflix)

Jharrel Jerome

When They See Us (Netflix)

Niecy Nash

When They See Us (Netflix)

Michael K. Williams

When They See Us (Netflix)

Marsha Stephanie Blake

When They See Us (Netflix)

When They See Us

Ava DuVernay, directed by

“Episode One”

When They See Us

Ava DuVernay, Julian Breece & Attica Locke, written by

Surviving R. Kelly (Lifetime)

Nigel Bellis & Astral Finnie, directed by

Pose (FX)

“Insecure” (HBO)

Don Cheadle

“Black Monday” (Showtime)

Issa Rae

“Insecure” (HBO)

Kenan Thompson

“Saturday Night Live” (NBC)

Yvonne Orji

“Insecure” (HBO)

“Chapter V”

Dear White People (Netflix)

Cheryl Dunye, directed by

“Uptown”

High Fidelity (HULU)

Zoe Kravitz & E.T. Feigenbaum written by

Eddie Murphy

“Saturday Night Live” (NBC)

Maya Rudolph

“The Good Place” (NBC)

“Pose” (FX)

Sterling K. Brown

“This Is Us” (NBC)

Zendaya

“Euphoria” (HBO)

Giancarlo Esposito

“Godfather of Harlem” (EPIX)

Thandiwe Newton

“Westworld” (HBO)

“In My Heels”

Pose (FX)

Janet Mock, directed by

“A Hell of a Week: Part One”

This Is Us (NBC)

Jon Dorsey written by

Chad Coleman

“All American” (CW)

Cicely Tyson

“How to Get Away With Murder” (ABC)

Watchmen (HBO)

Blair Underwood

Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madame C.J. Walker (Netflix)

Regina King

Watchmen (HBO)

Yahya Abdul-Manteen II

Watchmen (HBO)

Lexi Underwood

Little Fires Everywhere (HULU)

“This Extraordinary Being”

Watchmen (HBO)

Stephen Williams, directed by

“She Was Killed by Space Junk”

Watchmen (HBO)

Damon Lindelof & Christal Henry, written by

The Last Dance (ESPN)

Jason Hehir, directed by

The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel (Lifetime)

“A Black Lady Sketch Show” (HBO)

Anthony Anderson

“black-ish” (ABC)

Robin Thede

“A Black Lady Sketch Show” (HBO)

Kenan Thompson

“Saturday Night Live” (NBC)

Gabrielle Dennis

“A Black Lady Sketch Show” (HBO)

“Black People for Rent”

Woke (HULU)

Maurice Marable, directed by

“Black People for Rent”

Woke (HULU)

Rochee Jeffrey, written by

Dave Chappelle

“Saturday Night Live” (NBC)

Erika Alexander

“Run the World” (Starz)

“Lovecraft Country” (HBO)

Jonathan Majors

“Lovecraft Country” (HBO)

Jurnee Smollett

“Lovecraft Country” (HBO)

Michael K. Williams

“Lovecraft Country” (HBO)

Adjoa Andoh

“Bridgerton” (Netflix)

“Jig-a-Bobo”

Lovecraft Country

Misha Green, directed by

“Birth Mother”

This Is Us (NBC)

Eboni Freeman & Kay Oyegun, written by

Courtney B. Vance

“Lovecraft Country” (HBO)

Phylicia Rashad

“This Is Us” (NBC)

I May Destroy You (HBO)

Leslie Odom Jr.

Hamilton (Disney+)

Michaela Coel

I May Destroy You (HBO)

John Boyega

Small Axe (Amazon Prime Video)

Weruche Opia

I May Destroy You (HBO)

Lover’s Rock

Small Axe

Steve McQueen, directed by

Sylvie’s Love

Eugene Ashe, written by

Tina (HBO)

T.J. Martin & Dan Lindsay, directed by

Hamilton (Disney+)