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The Africa Movie Academy Awards, popularly known as AMAA and The AMA Awards, are presented annually to recognize excellence among professionals working in, or non-African professionals who have contributed to, the African film industry. It was founded by Peace Anyiam-Osigwe and is run through the Africa Film Academy. The awards are aimed at ...
Best Film; Title Director Nation 1st: Gloryland Cultural Center, Bayelsa State 30 May 2005 Stella Damasus-Aboderin, Segun Arinze: The Mayors [14] [15] [16] Dickson Iroegbu: Nigeria: 2nd: Gloryland Cultural Center, Bayelsa State 29 April 2006 Frank Edoh, Chinyelu Anyiam-Osigwe Rising Moon [17] Andy Nwakalor: 3rd: Gloryland Cultural Center ...
Palomar Pictures International was a film production subsidiary of American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. [126] It is not to be confused with another company with the name Palomar Pictures, founded in 1992 by Anne-Marie Mackay and Jonathon Ker and whose majority ownership stake was sold to Sigurjon "Joni" Sighvattson, a founder of Propaganda ...
Carl Laemmle (/ ˈ l ɛ m l i / ⓘ; born Karl Lämmle German:; January 17, 1867 – September 24, 1939) was a German-American film producer and the co-founder and, until 1934, owner of Universal Pictures. He produced or worked on over 400 films.
The Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study, located at 1313 Vine Street in Hollywood and named for legendary actress and Academy co-founder Mary Pickford, houses several Academy departments, including the Academy Film Archive, the Science and Technology Council, Student Academy Awards and Grants, and the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting ...
Justin Timberlake is an American singer-songwriter, actor, dancer, and record producer. He is the recipient of 10 Grammy Awards, 4 Emmy Awards, 7 American Music Awards, 3 Brit Awards, 9 Billboard Music Awards, 11 MTV Video Music Awards and 29 ASCAP Awards as well as nominations for an Academy Award, three Critics' Choice Movie Awards, two Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award.
Wanuri Kahiu is a Kenyan film director, best known for her film From a Whisper, which was awarded Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Picture at the Africa Movie Academy Awards in 2009. Nearly 10 years after the release of From a Whisper , Kahiu's film Rafiki , a coming-of-age romantic drama about two teenage girls in the present-day Kenya.
The 2020 Africa Movie Academy Awards ceremony was held on Sunday 20 December 2020 online at the AMAA website due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [1] [2] The award night was hosted by Lorenzo Menakaya. After the film entries were submitted, the date for the announcement of nominees was shifted from 20 November to 30 November. [3]