4th Africa Movie Academy Awards
The 4th Africa Movie Academy Awards ceremony was held on the 26th of April 2008 at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, Nigeria, to honor the best African films of 2007. The ceremony was broadcast live on Nigerian national television. The special guest of honor at the event was Hollywood actress Angela Bassett.[1]
The nominees were announced to a large gathering of African film industry representatives, African actresses & actors on 19 March 2008 in Johannesburg, South Africa by Africa Movie Academy Awards CEO Peace Anyiam-Osigwe.[2][3]
Winners
Major awards
The winners of the Award Categories are listed first and highlighted in bold letters.[2][4]
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Best Actress in a leading role | Best Actor in a leading role |
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Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Best Actor in a Supporting Role |
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Best Upcoming Actress | Best Upcoming Actor |
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Best Child Actor | Best Indigenous Film |
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Most Outstanding Actress Indigenous | Most Outstanding Actor Indigenous |
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Best Effect | Best Music |
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Best Costume | Heart of Africa |
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Best Feature Documentary | Best Short Documentary |
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Best Art Direction | Best Screenplay |
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Best Editing | Best Sound |
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Best Cinematography | Best Make-up |
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Other awards
The winners are written first and emboldened and not all categories had winners.
Best Film African Diaspora
- Through the Fire (film)
- Bleeding Rose
Best Drama (Short)
- Kingswill – Sirrie Mange Entertainment
- Magical Blessings
- Sky line
Best Animation
- The Lunatic – Ebele Okoye
Best First Film by a Director
- Daniel Adenimokan (Special Mention)
Best Comedy
- Stronger than Pain
Multiple nominations
The following films had the highest number of nominations.
- 14 Nominations
- Across the Niger
- 12 Nominations
- White Water
- Princess Tyra
- 9 Nominations
- Run Baby Run
- 8 Nominations
- 30 Days
Multiple awards
The following films won the most awards on the Night
- 4 awards
- Run Baby Run
- White Waters
- 3 Awards
- Stronger than Pain
References
- ^ Amatus, Azuh; Okoye, Tessy (2 May 2008). "How Nollywood stormed Abuja for AMAA". Daily Sun. Lagos, Nigeria. Archived from the original on 17 May 2008. Retrieved 14 February 2011.
- ^ a b "AMAA Awards and Nominees 2008". Africa Movie Academy Awards. Archived from the original on 12 October 2010. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
- ^ "Africa Movie Academy Awards' nominees take a bow in Josies". Archived from the original on 8 February 2010. Retrieved 23 October 2009.
- ^ "4TH AMAA AWARD WINNERS AND NOMINEES". African Movie Academy. Archived from the original on 14 February 2014. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
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- Best Film
- Director
- Nigerian Film
- Actor
- Actress
- Supporting Actor
- Supporting Actress
- Most Promising Actor
- Screenplay
- Animation
- Documentary
- Film in an African Language
- Short Film
- Comedy Film
- Cinematography
- Costume Design
- Editing
- Makeup
- Soundtrack
- Production Design
- Sound
- Visual Effects
- First Feature Film by a Director
- Diaspora Feature
- Child Actor
- Diaspora Short Film
- Diaspora Documentary
- Film by an African Living Abroad
- Lifetime Achievement Awards
- Special Jury Award
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Special awards |
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