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Awards Night is on November 28. See all movies on the Africa Movie Academy Awards, AMAA 2021 nominations list.

Efere Okazo AMAA 2021 Award nomminnes for Best Short Film
Meat – Uganda
Enroute – Bourkina Fasso
A Better Friend – Ghana
Find Me By The River – South Africa
In Extremis – DRC
Portrait of Princess Tutu – Cote d’Ivoire
The Long Night In Abuja – Nigeria

Best Documentary
Softie – Kenya
The Sacred Woods – Tunisia
Postcard – Morocco
Unmasked: Leadership, Trust & the Pandemic – Nigeria
Linda Under Lockdown – South Africa
Bulembu: History of a Culture – DRC
Noboth – Uganda
Zindet – Niger

Best Animation
Room 5 – Ghana
Shaka-Inklosi Yamakhosi – South Africa
The Pyramid – Egypt
Mofiala – Togo
Lady Buckit & the Motley Mopster – Nigeria
A Thousand Fate – Uganda
White Nights – Algeria

Best Diaspora Short Film
Three Leaves (Haiti)
In Other News (Canada)
Blue (US)
The Berne Identity (Switzerland)
No Comprendo (UK)

Best Diaspora Documentary
Akwaaba – The Awakening (US)
African Redemption: the Life of Marcus Garvey (US)
Race Today Documentary (UK)

Best Diaspora Narrative Feature
Ride Share (US)
Hal King (US)
Residue (US)

Best Film by an African Living Abroad
Blackmail – Obi Emelonye (Nigeria/UK)
First Call – Angela Onuora (Nigeria/Canada)
K.I.A.B – Eric Zoa & Oleksii Osyka (Cameroon/USA)
Gone – Daniel Ademinokan (Nigeria/US)

Other Categories of AMAA Awards

Achievement in Costume Design
African American
Buried
Oba Bi Olorun
Tecora
Eagle Wings

Achievement in Make-Up
Fried Barry
Tecora
The Gravedigger’s Wife
The Takers
Mission To Rescue

Achievement in Visual Effect
Nneka The Pretty Serpent
Stain
Fried Barry
The Takers
Mission to Rescue

Achievement in SoundTrack
The Citation
Nyara (The Kidnapper)
The Gravedigger’s Wife
This Lady Called Life
Hotel on the Koppies

Achievement in Cinematography
Ayinla
Black Medusa
Stain
Nyara (The Kidnapping)
The Gravedigger’s Wife

Achievement in Sound
Hairareb
African American
The Gravedigger’s Wife
Eyimofe
La Femme Anjola

Achievement in Production Design
Tecora
The Takers
Nyara (The Kidnapping)
The Gravedigger’s Wife
Shadow Parties

Achievement in Editing
Mission to Rescue
Omo Ghetto: The Saga
Nyala (The Kidnapping)
Fried Barry
Eyimofe

Achievement in Screenplay
Chasing Lullaby
Where I Come From
Stain
Collission Course
Hairareb

Best Film in an African Language
Bangarang – Robin Odongo (Kenya)
Ayinla – Tunde Kelani (Nigeria)
The Golddigger’s Wife – Khadar Ahmed (Somalia)
Hotel on the Koppies – Charlie Vundler (South Africa)
Nyara – Ram Ally Kasongo (Tanzania)
Stain – Morris Mugisha (Uganda)

National Film and Censor Board (NFVCB) Award for Best Nigerian Film
Rattlesnake: The Ahanna Story
Ayinla
Eyimofe
The Citation
Omo Ghetto: The Saga
La Femme Anjola
Collission Course
Shadow Parties

AMAA Awards for Acting, Directing

Best Young/ Promising Actor
Wilmah Muremera – Shaina
Oluwabamike Olawunmi-Adenibuyan – Collission Course
Faith Fidel – Where I Come From
David Weda – Bangarang
Bertha Abdallah – Nyara (The Kidnapping)
Hannah Sukali – Fatsani: A Tale Of Survival

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Mulshid Mugabire – Monica
Kelechi Udegbe – Collission Course
Mehdi Hajri – Black Medusa
Cameron Scott – Hotel on the Koppies
Bimbo Manuel – Gone

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Gloria Anozie-Young – Rattlesnake: The Ahanna Story
Naana Hayford – Chasing Lullaby
Tumi Morake – Seriously Single
Hazel Hinda – Hairareb
Ini Edo – The Citation

Best Actress in Leading Role
Lucie Memba Bois – Buried
Funke Akindele – Omo Ghetto: The Saga
Sarah Alina Grosz – Black Medusa
Joan Agaba – Stain
Phumi Mthembu – African American
Rita Dominic – La Femme Anjola
Claudine de Groot – Hairareb

Best First Feature Film by a Director
Shaina – Beatrice Masvaure Alf (Zimbabwe)
African American – Muzi Mthembu (South Africa)
Eyimofe – Chuko & Ayie Esiri (Nigeria)
The Gravedigger’s Wife – Khadar Ahmed (Somalia)
Black Medusa – Youssef Chebbi & Ismael (Tunisia)
Fried Barry – Ryan Kruger (South Africa)

Best Director
Gilbert Lukalia – (Mission To Rescue)
Ryan Kruger – (Fried Barry)
Khadar Ahmed – (The Gravedigger’s Wife)
Morris Mugisha – (Stain)
Chuko & Ayie Esiri – (Eyimofe)
Oshoveli Shipoh – (Hairareb)
Ram Ally Kasongo – (Nyara/The Kidnapping)
Youssef Chebbi & Ismael – (Black Medusa)

Best Film
Mission To Rescue (Kenya)
Fried Barry (South Africa)
The Gravedigger’s Wife (Somalia)
Stain (Uganda)
Eyimofe (Nigeria)
Hairareb (Namibia)
Nyara:The Kidnapping (Tanzania)
Black Medusa (Tunisia)

Best Actor in Leading Role

Gary Green – Fried Barry
Lateef Adedimeji – Ayinla
Melvin Alusa – Mission To Rescue
Jude Akuwudike – Eyimofe
Omar Abdi – The Gravedigger’s Wife
David Njavera – Hairareb
Nonso Bassey – La Femme Anjola

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