Black Reel Award for Outstanding Voice Performance

Black Reel Award for Outstanding Voice Performance
File:Avatar The Way of Water Tokyo Press Conference Zoe Saldaña (52563431865) (cropped2).jpg The 2023 recipient: Zoe Saldana
Country	United States
Presented by	Black Reel Awards (BRAs)
First awarded	Black Reel Awards of 2010
Most recent winner	Zoe Saldana Avatar: The Way of Water (Black Reel Awards of 2023)
Official website	blackreelawards.com

This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Voice Performance. This category was first presented in 2010, but was retired until the 2013 ceremony.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

2010s

Year	Actor / Actress	Film	Ref
2010
	Anika Noni Rose	The Princess and the Frog
	Keith David	Coraline
		The Princess and the Frog
	Delroy Lindo	Up
	Forest Whitaker	Where the Wild Things Are
2011–12	N/A
2013
	Dennis Haysbert	Wreck-It Ralph
	Chris Rock	Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
	Queen Latifah	Ice Age: Continental Drift
	Wanda Sykes
	Tempestt Bledsoe	ParaNorman
2014
	Samuel L. Jackson	Turbo
	Beyoncé	Epic
	Keith David	Free Birds
	Snoop Dogg	Turbo
	Maya Rudolph
2015
	Morgan Freeman	The Lego Movie
	Vin Diesel	Guardians of the Galaxy
	Maya Rudolph	Big Hero 6
	Damon Wayans Jr.
	Zoe Saldana	The Book of Life
2016
	Rihanna	Home
	Maya Rudolph	Strange Magic
	Marelik Walker	The Peanuts Movie
	Quvenzhané Wallis	The Prophet
	Jeffrey Wright	The Good Dinosaur
2017
	Idris Elba	The Jungle Book
	Idris Elba	Finding Dory
		Zootopia
	Dwayne Johnson	Moana
	Lupita Nyong'o	The Jungle Book
2018
	Vin Diesel	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
	Kevin Hart	Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
	Jenifer Lewis	Cars 3
	Maya Rudolph	The Emoji Movie
		The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature
2019
	Shameik Moore	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
	Mahershala Ali	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
	Brian Tyree Henry
	Taraji P. Henson	Ralph Breaks the Internet
	Samuel L. Jackson	Incredibles 2

2020s

Year	Actor / Actress	Film	Ref
2020
	Chiwetel Ejiofor	The Lion King
	James Earl Jones	The Lion King
	Donald Glover
	Jordan Peele	Toy Story 4
	Keegan-Michael Key
2021
	Jamie Foxx	Soul
	Angela Bassett	Soul
	Phylicia Rashad
	Maya Rudolph	The Willoughbys
	Octavia Spencer	Onward
2022
	Maya Rudolph	The Mitchells vs. the Machines
	Eric André	The Mitchells vs. the Machines
	Marsai Martin	Spirit Untamed
	Maya Rudolph	Luca
	Zoe Saldana	Vivo
2023
	Zoe Saldaña	Avatar: The Way of Water
	Zazie Beetz	The Bad Guys
	Idris Elba	Sonic the Hedgehog 2
	Keke Palmer	Lightyear
	Gabrielle Union	Strange World

Multiple nominations and wins

Multiple nominations

8 Nominations

• Maya Rudolph

3 Nominations

• Keith David
• Idris Elba

2 Nominations

• Vin Diesel
• Samuel L. Jackson
• Zoe Saldana

Multiple nominations from the same film

• Anika Noni Rose (winner) & Keith David in The Princess and the Frog (2010)
• Queen Latifah and Wanda Sykes in Ice Age: Continental Drift (2013)
• Samuel L. Jackson (winner), Snoop Dogg and Maya Rudolph in Turbo (2014)
• Maya Rudolph and Damon Wayans Jr. in Big Hero 6 (2015)
• Idris Elba (winner) & Lupita Nyong'o in The Jungle Book (2017)
• Shameik Moore (winner), Mahershala Ali & Brian Tyree Henry in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2019)
• Chiwetel Ejiofor (winner), James Earl Jones & Donald Glover in The Lion King (2020)
• Jordan Peele & Keegan-Michael Key in Toy Story 4 (2020)
• Jamie Foxx (winner), Angela Bassett & Phylicia Rashad in Soul (2021)
• Maya Rudolph (winner) & Eric André in The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2022)