Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Sound

Last updated

The Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Sound is an annual merit by the Africa Film Academy to reward films with the most adjured and euphoric sound for the year. [1]

Best Sound
YearFilmSound MixersResult
2005 Yesterday Won
Eye of the GodsNominated
Osuofia in London Nominated
2006 Widow's CotWon
Eagle's BrideNominated
Behind Closed DoorsNominated
Secret AdventureNominated
Rising Moon Nominated
ArrouNominated
2007 Abeni Won
The Amazing Grace Nominated
Sitanda Nominated
MokiliNominated
2008 White Waters Won
Mirror of BeautyNominated
Black FridayNominated
Across the Niger Nominated
Mission to NowhereNominated
2009 Seventh HeavenWon
From a Whisper Nominated
Battle of the SoulNominated
Gugu and Andile Nominated
Grey FocusNominated
2010 I Sing of a Well Won
The TenantNominated
Season of a LifeNominated
The Perfect PictureNominated
Soul Diaspora Nominated
2011 Shirley AdamsWon
Sinking Sands Nominated
Izulu LamiNominated
Viva Riva! Nominated
Tango With Me Nominated
2012 State of Violence Won
Otelo Burning Nominated
How to Steal 2 Million Nominated
Man on GroundNominated
Algiers MurderNominated
2013 Nairobi Half Life Won
Last Flight to Abuja Nominated
Streets Of CalabarNominated
Heroes and Zeros Nominated
Zama ZamaNominated
Virgin MagaridaNominated
2014 The Forgotten KingdomWon
FelixNominated
A Northern Affair Nominated
Nothing For MahalaNominated
Of Good ReportNominated
2015 Lonbraz Kann Won
Le PresidentNominated
Timbuktu Nominated
Run Nominated
iNumber Number Nominated
2016 Fifty Won
Eye of the Storm Nominated
The Cursed Ones Nominated
Behind Closed DoorsNominated
RebeccaNominated
Falling Nominated
2017 Vaya Won
93 Days Nominated
Félicité Nominated
WuluNominated
Dora’s PeaceNominated
2018 Hotel Called MemoryWon
The Lost Café Nominated
The Road To SunshineNominated
Pop Lock ‘N’ RollNominated
Sidechic GangNominated
2019 Mabata BataWon
Urgent Nominated
Redemption Nominated
Make RoomNominated
The Last VictimNominated
The Delivery Boy Nominated
The Burial of Kojo Nominated
Sew the Winter to My Skin Nominated
2020 Fiela’s Child Won
Knuckle City Nominated
Children of the StormNominated
The Ghost and House of Truth Nominated
For Maria: Ebun PatakiNominated
40 Sticks Nominated
Desrances Nominated
Gold Coast Lounge Nominated
2021 Hairareb Pending
African AmericanPending
The Gravedigger’s Wife Pending
Eyimofe Pending
La Femme Anjola Pending

Related Research Articles

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Professional honorary organization

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion pictures. The Academy's corporate management and general policies are overseen by a board of governors, which includes representatives from each of the craft branches.

The Academy Award for Best Sound is an Academy Award that recognizes the finest or most euphonic sound mixing, recording, sound design, and sound editing. It is generally awarded to the production sound mixers, re-recording mixers, and supervising sound editors of the winning film. In the lists below, the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees. Before the 93rd Academy Awards, Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing were separate categories.

The Academy Award for Best Sound Editing was an Academy Award granted yearly to a film exhibiting the finest or most aesthetic sound design or sound editing. Sound editing is the creation of sound effects. The award was usually received by the Supervising Sound Editors of the film, sometimes accompanied by the Sound Designers. Beginning with the 93rd Academy Awards, Best Sound Editing was combined with Best Sound Mixing into a single award for Best Sound.

<i>Yesterday</i> (2004 film) 2004 film

Yesterday is a 2004 South African movie written and directed by Darrell Roodt. It was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 77th Academy Awards. It also won Best Sound and Best Editing at the inaugural edition of the Africa Movie Academy Awards. The film tells a story of a young mother, Yesterday, who discovers she has AIDS. Her husband, a migrant mine laborer, rejected her despite being the one that infected her. Her ambition becomes to live long enough to see her daughter, Beauty, go to school. This film is the first commercial feature-length production in Zulu.

Cinema of South Africa Filmmaking in South Africa

The cinema of South Africa refers to the films and film industry of the nation of South Africa. Many foreign films have been produced about South Africa.

The 36th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1963, were held on April 13, 1964, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. They were hosted by Jack Lemmon.

No film received more than three awards at the 20th Academy Awards. This would not recur until the 78th Academy Awards.

Willie D. Burton is an African American production sound mixer. His career has spanned five decades and has included films such as The Shawshank Redemption, Se7en, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Burton has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound or Best Achievement in Sound Mixing a total of seven times, winning twice; he has been nominated for two BAFTA Film Awards for Best Sound, winning once; and he was nominated for one Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film Sound Mixing for his work on Roots.

This is a list of winners and nominees for the BAFTA Award for Best Sound, which is presented to sound designers, sound editors, sound engineers, and sound mixers, given out by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts since 1969.

Leila Djansi American and Ghanaian filmmaker

Leila Afua Djansi is an American and Ghanaian filmmaker who started her film career in the Ghana film industry.

Africa Movie Academy Awards African film industry award ceremony

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 honouring and promoting excellence in the African movie industry as well as uniting the African continent through arts and culture. The award presentation is attended by numerous media representatives, celebrities, politicians, journalists, actresses and actors from all across the world. The AMA Awards are widely considered to be Africa's most important film event and the most prestigious film award in Africa.

Ludwig Emil Tomas Göransson is a Swedish composer, conductor, and record producer. He has scored films such as Fruitvale Station, the Rocky franchise entries Creed and Creed II, Venom, and Tenet. He also composed the new fanfare for Warner Bros. Pictures, as well as the fanfare for the Star Wars brand logo. For his work on the 2018 superhero film Black Panther, he won the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media and the Academy Award for Best Original Score, and he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. Göransson is also known for his work on American TV series like Community, Happy Endings, New Girl, Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj, and The Mandalorian, winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series for the last.

White Waters is a 2007 Nigerian slice of life drama film directed by Izu Ojukwu. The film received 12 nominations and won four awards at the 4th African Movie Academy Awards including winning Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Sound and Best Actress award in a Supporting Role for Joke Silva.

<i>Timbuktu</i> (2014 film) 2014 film

Timbuktu is a 2014 Mauritanian-French drama film directed and co-written by Abderrahmane Sissako. The film centres on the brief occupation of Timbuktu, Mali by Ansar Dine, and is partially influenced by the 2012 public stoning of an unmarried couple in Aguelhok. Shot in Oualata, Mauritania, Timbuktu was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the François Chalais Prize. It was chosen as Mauritania's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and went on to be nominated for the prize at the 87th Academy Awards; it was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language at the 69th British Academy Film Awards. Timbuktu was named Best Film at the 11th Africa Movie Academy Awards, where it was nominated for ten further awards. In 2017, The New York Times ranked it the twelfth best film of the twenty-first century so far.

Golden Icons Academy Awards (GIAMA) is an annual film award in the diaspora to reward outstanding contribution to the African film industry. The first edition was held in Houston, Texas, United States. The most recent ceremony was held in Stafford Center Performing Art Theater on October 19, 2013. The most recent ceremony was the 4th edition in the United States, no award ceremony was held in 2016.

Dorothy A. Atabong Canadian actor

Dorothy A. Atabong is a Canadian actress, writer and producer. She is best known for Sound of Tears for which she’s won various awards including an Africa Movie Academy Award in 2015.

<i>Of Good Report</i> 2013 film

Of Good Report is a 2013 South African romantic thriller film, directed by Jahmil X.T. Qubeka. The film had Mothusi Magano and Petronella Tshuma in lead roles. At the 10th Africa Movie Academy Awards, it had the most nominations and awards, and won the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Film. The film was screened at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.

References

  1. "Official Website of the AMAAs". Africa Movie Academy Awards. Retrieved 22 May 2014.