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Black Reel Award for Outstanding Voice Performance

award presented annually by the Black Reel Awards

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ4921561 ↗
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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

2020s

Multiple nominations and wins

Multiple wins

2 wins

Shameik Moore

Zoe Saldaña

Multiple nominations

8 nominations

Maya Rudolph

5 nominations

Idris Elba

4 nominations

Zoe Saldaña

3 nominations

Keith David

Brian Tyree Henry

2 nominations

Vin Diesel

Ayo Edebiri

Samuel L. Jackson

Dwayne Johnson

Shameik Moore

Lupita Nyong'o

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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Black Reel Award for Outstanding Voice Performance” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.