The AMA Awards are aimed at honouring and promoting excellence in the African movie industry, Africans in the diaspora as well as uniting the Africans from across the globe through arts and culture.

The AMA awards are widely considered to be Africa’s most important film even and the most prestigious film award for people of African descent.

Here are the awards up for grabs:

Best Short Film

Best Documentary

Best Diaspora Feature

Best Diaspora Documentary

Best Animation

Achievement In Production Design

Achievement In Costume Design

Achievement In Make-Up

Achievement In Soundtrack

Achievement in Visual Effects

Achievement In Sound

Achievement In Cinematography

Achievement In Editing

Best Film by an African Living Abroad

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Best Actress In A Leading Role

Best First Feature Film by a Director

Best Diaspora Short Film

Achievement In Screenplay

Best Nigerian Film

Best Film in an African Language

Most Promising Actor

Best Child Actor

Best Actor In A Supporting Role

Best Actress In A Supporting Role

Best Director

Best Film

Submit your film here.

http://www.popafrica.com/2017/01/the-2017-africa-movie-academy-awards-organizers-are-now-accepting-submissions/

AMAA needs to grow up and scrap the following award categories off: best nigerian film, best film in an African language, best promising actor and best child actor. They are just too uncalled for. Y must dere be a separate award for only nigerian films? Why must there be a separate award for films in African language. Is AMAA not entirely an African thing in the first place.It makes no sense. And as for best promising actor, we dont need it. You cannot deduce how promising an actor is from just one movie, I mean what is the yardstick for measuring that. As for best child actor. AMAA could nominate a child that did extraordinarily well with the adults in the major acting award categories. Atleast that is what is done by various award bodies in the world. If AMAA wants to attain the international recognition it deserves, all this should be looked into.
And if AMAA is so obsessed with increasing the award categories, they could add: An award for best original score/ song and award for best sound mixing.