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VIDEO: See who won BIG at the #AMVCA8

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VIDEO: See who won BIG at the #AMVCA8

The eighth edition of the Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards (AMVCAs) came to a rousing end on Saturday, 14 May 2022, with winners announced on the biggest and most glamorous night to celebrate African film and TV talent.

The movies, Rattlesnake – The Ahanna Story and Amina came tops with four AMVCA honors each with Best Director going to Ramsey Nouah for Rattlesnake – The Ahanna Story and Best Overall Movie to Amina.

In the public voting categories, Stan Nze clinched the award for Best Actor in Drama while Osas Ighodaro won Best Actress in Drama. First time AMVCA nominees, Samuel Perry popularly known as ‘Broda Shaggi’ and Omowunmi Dada won Best Actor in a Comedy and Best Supporting Actress in a Drama respectively.

Producer, Rogers Ofime, also had multiple wins in the categories; Best Television Series for The Mystic RiverBest Indigenous Language Movie (Hausa) for Voiceless and Best Africa Magic Original Comedy Series for The Johnsons.

The regional awards saw Collision Course winning Best Movie West Africa, while The Girl in the Yellow Jumper and Hairareb won in the Best Movie East Africa and Best Movie Southern Africa respectively.

In the special recognition categories, the AMVCA industry Merit award for this edition was given to veteran Nigerian actress, journalist and television presenter, Taiwo Ajai-Lycett (OON) whilst the Trailblazer award, an award given to an outstanding achievement by a young and upcoming act, went to Teni Aladese.

The eighth edition of the Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards is brought by Africa Magic in association with MultiChoice and is proudly sponsored by Amstel Malta.

Here’s the full winners list below:

 CATEGORYNOMINEE 
1BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY (MOVIE/TV SERIES)  
 DWINDLEBRODA SHAGGI/SAMUEL PERRY 
 
2BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA (MOVIE/TV SERIES)  
 RATTLESNAKE – THE AHANNA STORYSTAN NZE 
 
3BEST ACTRESS IN A  COMEDY (MOVIE/TV SERIES)  
 OMO GHETTO (THE SAGA)FUNKE AKINDELE 
 
4BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA (MOVIE/TV SERIES)  
 RATTLESNAKE – THE AHANNA STORYOSAS IGHODARO 
  
5BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN MOVIE OR TV SERIES  
 JANKARIWOODUNLADE ADEKOLA 
 
6BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN MOVIE OR TV SERIES  
 COUNTRY HARDOMOWUNMI DADA 
 
7BEST SHORT FILM OR ONLINE VIDEO  
 I AM THE PROSTITUTE MAMA DESCRIBEDTAIWO OGUNNIMO 
 
8BEST ONLINE SOCIAL CONTENT CREATOR  
 MR FUNNYOGA SABINUS 
 
9BEST AFRICA MAGIC ORIGINAL DRAMA SERIES  
 THE RISHANTESDIMBO ATIYA 
 
10BEST AFRICA MAGIC ORIGINAL COMEDY SERIES  
 THE JOHNSONSROGERS OFIME 
 
11BEST INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE MOVIE OR TV SERIES – HAUSA  
 VOICELESSROGERS OFIME 
 
12BEST DIRECTOR/PRODUCER MOVIE  
 RATTLESNAKE – THE AHANNA STORYRAMSEY NOUAH 
 
13BEST INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE MOVIE OR TV SERIES – IGBO  
 NNE-KAUCHE NNANNA MADUKA 
 
14BEST INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE MOVIE OR TV SERIES – SWAHILI  
 OBAMBOFREDDY FERUZI 
  
15BEST TELEVISION SERIES DRAMA OR COMEDY  
 THE MYSTIC RIVERROGERS OFIME 
 
16BEST SOUND TRACK MOVIE OR TV SERIES  
 GOLD COAST LOUNGEPASCAL AKA & RAQUEL 
 
17BEST MAKE UP CATEGORY  
 OMO GHETTO (THE SAGA)BALOGUN ABIODUN 
 
18BEST SOUND EDITOR MOVIE OR TV SERIES  
 AMINAJIM LIVELY & JAMES NELSON 
 
19BEST DOCUMENTARY  
 IF OBJECTS COULD SPEAKSAITABAO KAIYARE, MUMO LIKU, ELENA SCHILLING, DANIELLA FRITZ, ANN KATRINA BOBERG 
 
20BEST LIGHTING DESIGNER IN A MOVIE OR TV SERIES  
 NNEKA THE PRETTY SERPENTMATHEW YUSUF 
 
21BEST MOVIE SOUTHERN AFRICA  
 HAIRAREBDANTAGOS JIMMY – MELANI 
 
22BEST ART DIRECTOR MOVIE OR TV SERIES  
 AMINATUNJI AFOLAYAN 
 
23BEST COSTUME DESIGNER MOVIE OR TV SERIES  
 AMINAMILLICENT T. JACK 
 
24BEST INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE MOVIE OR TV SERIES – YORUBA  
 ALAISEDAVID AKANDE, DEMOLA YUSUF, EDGARD LEROY 
 
25BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER  
 RATTLESNAKE – THE AHANNA STORYMUHAMMED ATTA AHMED 
 
26BEST PICTURE EDITOR  
 FOR MARIA EBUN PATAKITUNDE APALOWO 
 
27BEST WRITER IN A MOVIE OR TV SERIES  
 INTRODUCING THE KUJUS’MANIE OISEOMAYE, DONALD TOMBIA, BIODUN STEPHEN 
 
28BEST MOVIE EAST AFRICA  
 THE GIRL IN THE YELLOW JUMPERMOROCCO OMARI 
 
29BEST MOVIE WEST AFRICA  
 COLLISION COURSEBOLANLE AUSTEN – PETERS, JOSEPH UMOIBOM & JAMES AMUTA 
 
30BEST MULTICHOICE TALENT FACTORY  
 ENGAITODaisy Masembe 
 
31BEST OVERALL MOVIE  
 AMINAIZU OJUKWU & OKEY OGUNJIOFOR 
 

The eighth edition of the Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards was brought to you by Africa Magic in association with MultiChoice.

Asuquo Eton founded talkmediaafrica.com, now one of the most visited TV, music, tech and features website, in 2011. He is also a social media analyst, media and entertainment consultant.

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