EFERE OZAKO AMAA 2025 AWARD FOR BEST
SHORT FILM
- The Missing Piece – Kenya
- Vandals – Mozambique
- Echoes From The Past- Nigeria/UK
- Abu Judy -Egypt
- Chikha-Queen – Morrocco
- MIA – Burkina Faso
- Stigma – Tunisia
- LEES WAXUL – Senegal
- The last Harvest – Cape Verde
JUBRIL MALAFIA AMAA 2025 AWARD FOR BEST
ANIMATION
- Dawn – Cameroun
- My Brother, My Brother- Egypt/France/Germany
- The Travails of Ajadi – Nigeria
- Nkizzi’s First Day – Uganda
- Amara and the Spirit of Nyamagunda – Uganda
- Monologue – Nigeria/UK
AMAA 2025 AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY
- The Journey East – DRC
- Double Minority – Nigeria
- The Empty Grave – Tanzania/UK
- Khartoum – Sudan/UK
- Ancestral Visions of the Future -Lesotho/France/Germany
OUSMANE SEMBENE AMAA 2025 AWARD FOR
BEST FILM IN AN AFRICAN LANGUAGE
- Katanga: Dance of The Scorpions -B/Faso
- Small Gods – Uganda/UK
- Lukas: Namibia
- Lobola Man – South Africa
- Lisabi: The Uprising
- The Heart is a Muscle: South Africa
MICHAEL ANYIAM OSIGWE AMAA 2025 AWARD
FOR BEST FILM BY AN AFRICAN LIVING
ABROAD
- Lemohang Jeremiah – Ancestral Visions of the
- Future – Lesotho/France/Germany
- Katanga: Dance of The Scorpions – Dany Kouyate (B/Faso)
- Khartoum – Ibrahim Snoopy – Sudan
AMAA 2025 AWARD FOR BEST DIASPORA SHORT
- Cartes – USA
- Superman Doesn’t steal – USA
- Harvest – USA
AMAA 2025 AWARD FOR BEST DIASPORA
DOCUMENTARY
- The Billy Preston Story – USA
- Carnival: ‘They Cant Steal Our Joy – Canada
- Missing Rio Doce – Brazil/France
- Rediscovering Fenon – USA/Algeria/Martinique
AMAA 2025 AWARD FOR BEST DIASPORA
NARRATIVE FEATURE
- Sisters Maid – Brazil
- Romeo N Juliet 4EVA – Jamaica
- The Model, The Mannequin and Me – USA
AMAA 2025 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN
PRODUCTION DESIGN
- Katanga: Dance of The Scorpions
- The Heart is a Muscle
- 3 Cold Dishes
- Last Stop
- Red Circle
AMAA 2025 ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN
- Katanga: Dance of The Scorpions
- The Lost Days
- The Masked King
- The Serpent Gift
- Hunting Jessica Brok
AMAA 2025 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP
- Spelonk
- Lisabi: The Uprising
- Amanayanbo
- The Masked King
The Heart is a Muscle
AMAA 2025 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN
SOUNDTRACK
- Recall
- Freedom Way
- Old Righteous Blues
- Kites
- Le Point- The Bridge
AMAA 2025 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN
VISUAL EFFECT
- For Land, For Love, For Power
- Lisabi
- Spelonk
- Hunting Jessica Brok
- Amanayanbo: The Eagle King
AMAA 2025 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND
- Algiers
- Old Righteous Blues
- Le Point – The Bridge
- Hunting Jessica Brok
- Katanga: Dance of The Scorpions -B/Faso
AMAA 2025 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN
CINEMATOGRAPHY
- 3 cold dishes
- Old Righteous Blues
- Spelonk
- Small gods
- For love, for land, for power
- The Heart is a muscle
- Katanga: Dance of The Scorpions -B/Faso
AMAA 2025 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN
EDITING
- For Love, For Land, For power
- Spelonk
- The Heart is a Muscle
- 3 Cold Dishes
- Algiers
AMAA 2025 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN
SCREEN PLAY
- Old Righteous Blues
- Le Point – The Bridge
- For Love, For Land, For Power
- Small Gods
- Red circle
- Katanga: Dance of The Scorpions -B/Faso
AMAA 2025 – NATIONAL FILM AND VIDEO CENSORS BOARD (NFVCB) AWARD FOR BEST NIGERIAN FILM
- Lisabi: The Uprising
- Recall
- Freedom Way
- The Serpent Gift
- Amanayanbo
- 3 Cold Dishes
- Red Circle
- The Masked King
AMAA 2025 AWARD FOR BEST YOUNG/ PROMISING ACTOR
- Alejandro Cooper- Lukas
- Turinayo Jatham – Small gods
- Tiwalola Adebola-Walter – Freedom Way
- Kisi Ogborueche – Kill Boro
- Ruby Akubueze – 3 Cold Dishes
AMAA 2025 AWARD FOR BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
- Kojo Boakye – Two of a Kind
- Femi Jacobs – Freedom Way
- Clemento Ashietey – Last Stop
- Abdulai Saidu Kamara – Code of Honor
AMAA 2025 AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
- Zohra Chetioui – Le Point- The Bridge
- Tina Mba – The Serpent Gift
- Fadela Brown – Old Righteous Blues
- Bukky Wright – Red Circle
AMAA 2025 AWARD FOR BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
- Keenan Arrison – The Heart is a Muscle
- KalkidanTessema – For love, for land, for power
- Adjetey Anang – Last Stop
- Lateef Adedimeji – Lisabi: The Uprising
- Ayden Croy- Old Righteous Blues
- Bizimana Hussain – Small Gods
- Mahamadi Nana – Katanga: Dance of The
- Scorpions -B/Faso
- Nabil Asli – Algiers
AMAA 2025 AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
- Linda Ejiofor-Suleiman – The Serpent Gift
- Analisa Munyana – Mucoma: The Battle of the Couple
- Shaffy Bello – The Masked King
- Danica De La Ray Jones- Hunting Jessica Brok
- Tsigereda Bekele – For Love, For Land, For Power
- Florence Mariserena – Small gods
- Meriem Medjkane – Algiers
- Osas Ighodaro, Fat Toure and Maud Guerard – 3 Cold Dishes
AMAA 2025 AWARD FOR BEST DEBUT FEATURE FILM BY A DIRECTOR
- The Lost Days – Wingonia Ikpi
- Small Gods- Asher Rosen
- Algiers- Chakib Taleb-Bendiab
- Kill Boro- Obayuwana Courage
- The Heart is a Muscle – Imran Hamdulay
- Freedom Way – Afolabi Olalekan
AMAA 2025 AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR
- Niyi Akinmolayan- Lisabi: The Uprising (Nigeria)
- The Heart is a Muscle – Imran Hamdulay (South Africa)
- Asurf Oluseyi – 3 Cold Dishes (Nigeria)
- Asher Rosen- Small Gods – (Uganda)
- Theodros Teshome -For Love, For Land, For Power (Ethiopia)
- Dany Kouyate – Katanga:
- Dance of The Scorpions -B/Faso
- Kwabena Gwansah – Last Stop (Ghana)
- Chakib Taleb-Bendiab – Algiers (Algeria)
AMAA 2025 AWARD FOR BEST FILM
- Algiers – Algeria
- 3 Cold Dishes – Nigeria
- The Heart is a Muscle – South Africa
- Small Gods – Uganda
- For Love, For Land, For Power -Ethiopia
- Katanga: Dance of The Scorpions -B/Faso
- Last Stop – Ghana
- Lisabi: The Uprising (Nigeria)