Nigeria, Ethiopia, South Africa Lead African Movie Academy Award 2015 Nomination Categories

African Movie Academy Award Jury has released the nominees for the 28 categories of the continental awards for motion picture practitioners in Africa and the Diaspora.

 

At a nominations gala night in global entertainment headquarters, Los Angeles, United States, the 2015 AMAA Jury chaired by the Zimbabwean, Mr. Keith Shiri announced nominations that have Nigeria, South Africa, Ethiopia, Angola and Mauritius leading the pack in the numbers of films from the countries in competition while United States led the pack in the films from the Africans in Diaspora.

 

Films from Nigerian filmmakers such as 'October 1', 'Cheetanah', 'Iyore', 'Dazzling Mirage' are prominent on the nominations list while 'Triangle Going to America' from Ethiopia, 'imbuktu' from Mauritius and 'Queen of Angola' from Angola are very strong in various categories of the award.

 

Ghana-born actress, Jocelyn Dumas and her Nigerian counterpart, Ini Edo are once again in big battle for the Best Actress category for their roles in 'While You Slept' and 'Silver Rain'. The two leading female actors were nominated in the same category in 2014.

 

Two new revelations in the Most Promising Actor/Actress category are Demola Adedoyin for his role in Kunle Afolayan’s October 1 and Kemi Lala Akindoju for her role in Tunde Kelani’s Dazzling Mirage.

 

AMAA main event, which is the award night, will hold in South Africa in September and it will be the first time the continental awards will take place outside Nigeria in its 11 years having held 10 previous editions in Nigeria.