2018 AMAA awards released nominees [FULL LIST]

The list of nominees for the 2018 Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) has been released.

They were announced on Friday at an event held at the Wheatbaker Hotel in Lagos.

Here is the full list:

EFERE OZAKO AMAA 2018 award for Best Short Film

Dem Dem – Senegal/Belgium
Zenith – Cameroun/USA
It Rains on Ouga – Burkina Faso
In Shadows – Kenya
Coat of Harm – Nigeria
Tikitat Soulima – Morocco
Nice, Very Nice – Algeria
Visions (Shaitan, Buruja, Brood) – Nigeria
Fallou – Senegal
Still Water Runs Deep – Nigeria/USA

AMAA 2018 Award for Best Animation

Group Photo – Nigeria
Belly Flop – South Africa
Untitled – Ghana
Crush – Nigeria

AMAA 2018 Award for Best Documentary

Bigger Than Africa – Nigeria/USA
Winnie – South Africa
Boxing Libreville – Gabon
Silas – South Africa/Kenya
When Babies Don’t Come – South Africa
Uncertain Future – Burundi
We Came In Sprint Carts – South Africa

OUSMANE SEMBENE AMAA 2018 Award for Best Film in an African Language

Mansoor – Nigeria
Five Fingers For Marseilles – South Africa
Icheke Oku – Nigeria
Agwaetiti Obiuto – Nigeria
Nyasaland – Malawi
Tunu – Tanzania

MICHAEL ANYIAM OSIGWE AMAA 2018 Award for Best Film by an African living abroad

Minister – Nigeria/Italy

Alexandra – Nigeria/USA

Low Lifes And High Hopes – Nigeria/Austria

AMAA 2018 Award for Best Diaspora Short

Torments of Love (Guadeloupe)
Baby Steps (USA)
Intercept (USA)

AMAA 2018 Award for Best Diaspora Documentary

Evolutionary Blues (USA)

Barrows: Freedom Fighter (Barbados)

Sammy Davis Jr. – I’ve Got To Be Me (USA)

AMAA 2018 Award for Best Diaspora Narrative Feature

Angelica (Puerto Rico)

Love Jacked (Canada)

Charlie: La Vie Magnifique Charlie (USA)

AMAA 2018 Award for Achievement in Production Design

Kada River

Five Fingers For Marseille

Tatu

In My Country

Cross Roads

AMAA 2018 Achievement in Costume Design

Icheke Oku

Cross Roads

Esohe

Five Fingers For Marseille

Isoken

14. AMAA 2018 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKE-UP

1. Siembamba
2. Icheke Oku
3. Five Fingers For Marseille
4. Esohe
5. The Road To Sunshine

15. AMAA 2018 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUNDTRACK

1. The Road To Sunshine
2. Tatu
3. Hotel Called Memory
4. Isoken
5. Siembamba

16. AMAA 2018 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECT

1. Siembamba
2. Icheke Oku
3. Lucky Specials
4. Esohe
5. Kada River

17. AMAA 2018 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND

1. The Lost Café
2. The Road To Sunshine
3. Hotel Called Memory
4. Pop Lock ‘N’ Roll
5. Sidechic Gang

18. AMAA 2018 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY

1. The Road To Sunshine
2. Five Fingers For Marseille
3. The Lost Café
4. The Blessed Vost (Les Bienheureux)
5. Siembamba

19. AMAA 2018 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING

1. Hotel Called Memory
2. Pop Lock ‘N’ Roll
3. Lucky Specials
4. The Blessed Vost (Les Bienheureux)
5. Siembamba

20. AMAA 2018 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SCREEN PLAY

1.The Women
2 Potato Potahto
3. Ojukokoro
4. Five Fingers For Marseille
5. Hakkunde
6. The Lost Café

21. AMAA 2018- AYIAM OSIGWE FOUNDATION AWARD FOR BEST NIGERIAN FILM

1. Cross Roads
2. In My Country
3. Isoken
4. Hotel Called Memory
5. Ojukokoro
6. Lost Café
7. Icheke Oku

22. AMAA 2018 AWARD FOR BEST YOUNG/ PROMISING ACTOR

1. Patrick Dibuah – Banana Island Ghost
2. Austin Enabulele – In My Country
3. Cindy Sanyu – Bella
4. Anine Lansari – The Blessed Vost (Les Bienheureux)
5. Maurice Paige – Pop Lock ‘N’ Roll
6. Nichole Ozioma Banna – Icheke Oku
7. Zainab Balogun – Sylva

23. TONY ELUMELU AMAA 2018 AWARD FOR BEST COMEDY

1. Sidechic Gang – Ghana
2. Banana Island Ghost – Nigeria
3. The Adventures Of Supermama – South Africa
4. Koko: The Box TV – Nigeria

24. AMAA 2018 AWARD FOR BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

1. Seun Ajayi – Ojukokoro
2. Lionel Newton – Pop Lock ‘N’ Roll
3. Akah Nani – Banana Island Ghost
4. Richard Lukunku – Lucky Specials
5. Gideon Okeke – Cross Roads

25. AMAA 2018 AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

1. Sika Osei – In Line
2. Sivenathi Mabuya – Lucky Specials
3. Rahama Sadau – Hakkunde
4. Toyin Abraham- Esohe
5. Joke Silva – Potato Potahto

26. AMAA 2018 AWARD FOR BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

1. Vuyo Dabula – Five Fingers For Marseille
2. Richard Mofe Damijo – Cross Roads
3. Sam Dede – In My Country
4. Sani Bouajla – The Blessed Vost
5. OC Ukeje – Potato Potahto
6. Chris Attoh – Esohe
7. Oros Mampofu – Lucky Specials
8. Frank Donga – Hakkunde

27. AMAA 2018 AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

1. Kate Henshaw- Roti
2. Reine Swart – Siembamba
3. Okawa Shaznay –In My Country
4. Dakore Egbuson – Isoken
5. Nana Ama McBrown, Lydia Forson and Sika Osei – Sidechic Gang
6. Mariam Phiri – The Road To Sunrise
7. Tunde Aladese – Lost Café
8. Joselyn Dumas – Potato Potahto

28. AMAA 2018 AWARD FOR BEST FIRST FEATURE FILM BY A DIRECTOR

1. My Mothers Story –Flora Suya- Malawi
2. Ogwuetiti Obiuto – Onyeka Nwelue – Nigeria
3. Five Fingers for Marseilles- Michael Mathews- South Africa
4. Isoken – Jadesola Osiberu- Nigeria
5. 18 Hours – Njue Kevin – Kenya
6. Banana Island Ghost – BB Sasore- Nigeria
7. The Blessed Vost – Sefia Djama – Algeria

29. AMAA 2018 AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR

3. Frank Rajah Arase – In My Country
4. Safia Djama- The Blessed Vost
5. Oluseyi Siwoku – Cross Roads
6. Shemu Joyah- Road to Sunshine
7. Darrell Roodt- Siembamba
8. Akin Omotosho- Hotel Called Memory
9. Peter Kofi Sedufia – Sidechic Gang
10. The Lost Café – Kenneth Gyang
29. AMAA 2018 AWARD FOR BEST FILM

1. Isoken – Nigeria
2. Five Fingers For Marseilles – South Africa
3. In My Country – Nigeria
4. The Blessed Vost- Algeria
5. Cross Roads – Nigeria
6. Road to Sunshine – Malawi
7. Siembamba – South Africa
8. Hotel Called Memory – Nigeria
9. Sidechic Gang – Ghana
10. Lost Café – Kenneth Gyang

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