Africa’s Stars Shine Bright at 8th AMVCAs: See Full List of Winners

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 River, Best 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.

Uganda bagged two awards with the Best Movie East Africa and Best MultiChoice Talent Factory award going to Girl in A Yellow Jumper and Engaito respectively. Speaking on the award of the Best MultiChoice Talent Factory, Daisy Masembe the MTF alumni said, “I thank God for this win because there is no way the odds could have led me here. This win has taught me the value of team work and perseverance. When you keep working on the thing that you love, even in the not-so-glamorous times of the journey, it eventually pays off. I can never pretend that this is a personal win rather it took a great team of people, (who sometimes never get recognized and appreciated) my cast for Jinja and Kampala, my crew and of course MultiChoice as my executive producers. I have these people to thank this AMVCA!” she added.

Joan Semanda Kizza the PR and Communications manager MultiChoice Uganda recognized and appreciated the effort that the Ugandan filmmakers put into their work that was recognized at the awards. “Congratulations to the two winning teams from Uganda at the AMVCA’s. It speaks volumes that out of the four nominees we had – two have emerged winners. Our Ugandan film industry is growing and these wins are proof of it. We applaud you, and recognize your hard work.”

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.

See the full list of winners below and visit www.africamagic.tv/AMVCA for more news and highlights of the night: