The nominations have been announced for Screen Nation Awards 2011 tagged as Uk Oscars .
Names were revealed at an exclusive nominations party, held at Revolution Bar in London.
Twenty-two awards categories were announced which included Male Performance in Film, Favourite TV Star, Diversity in Drama Production, Favourite Urban Movie, Favourite International Film and Favourite Music Video Performance.
For the first time African films and actors are receiving nominations from the highly coveted awards which means African films have started gaining good recognition worldwide.
Nollywood and Ghallywood are the two major movie industries in Africa right now and the two will battle for the prizes as Omotola jalade, Genevieve Nnaji, Jackie appiah ,Ama k ,Mercy Johnson ,Funke Akindele battle for favourite west african actress.
See the list of African category below;
Favourite West African Film
Ije
Inale
Perfect Picture
Sinking sands
The figurine
The Mirror Boy
Favourite West African actor
Hakeem Kae Kazim
John Dumelo
Majid Michel
Mike Ezurunoye
Osita Iheme
Ramsey Nouah
Favourite West African actress
Ama K abebrese
Funke Akindele
Genevieve Nnaji
Jackie Appiah
Mercy Johnson
Omotola Jalade
The Screen Nation Film & TV Awards annual ceremony aka the ‘Black Baftas’ was founded to celebrate outstanding achievements and diversity on the British screen and will take place on Sunday the 16th October 2011 at the indigO2, hosted by one of TV’s favourite couples Angellica Bell and Michael Underwood.
