26th Annual Black Reel Awards

26th Black Reel Awards
DateFebruary 16, 2026
Highlights
Most winsSinners (14)
Most nominationsSinners (21)
Outstanding FilmSinners

The 26th Annual Black Reel Awards ceremony, presented by the Foundation for the Augmentation of African-Americans in Film (FAAAF) and honoring the best films of 2025, took place during a virtual ceremony on February 16, 2026.

The film nominations were announced on December 18, 2025. Ryan Coogler's supernatural horror film Sinners led with a record-breaking twenty-one nominations, followed by Highest 2 Lowest with eleven, and 40 Acres and On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, both with nine each. The category for Outstanding Independent Documentary was introduced.

Sinners was the most awarded film of the ceremony history with fourteen accolades, surpassing the previous record of ten awards won by Black Panther in 2019. The film also won all three acting categories, becoming the first film to achieve it since the categories merged into gender neutral in 2024. Ludwig Göransson became first person to win Outstanding Score and Original Song in the same year on the ceremony history. Autumn Durald Arkapaw became the first woman to win Outstanding Cinematography.

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