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Weeks of predictions and voting got here to a rousing finish on Saturday, March 11, 2020 with major surprising wins and of course, major disappointments. For one, ‘God Calling’, one of many greatest nominees for this yr took residence 2 awards out of its 11 nominations whereas the Ramsey Nouah directed sequel, ‘Residing in Bondage Breaking Free’ snatched a complete of eight awards together with the coveted Path Blazer and Total Greatest Film classes.
The most important snub of the evening was 2018 blockbuster, Kemi Adetiba‘s ‘King of Boys’ with its 6 nominations and 0 win.
Many of the on-line response to KOB’s large AMVCA snub rested closely on the AMVCA’s 2019 silence that left the excessive grossing political drama with an unequal preventing probability towards some 2019 nominees. The conversations largely sidelined the truth that the film obtained nominated in predominately voting classes thereby putting its probabilities of profitable on the nominee with a gusto for getting muddy and canvassing votes.
One other movie launched in 2018 and nominated for this yr’s award was critically acclaimed psychological thriller ‘Sylvia’ directed by Daniel Oriahi. Its lead actress, Zainab Balogun obtained nominated within the Greatest Actress class that turned out to be Toyin Abraham‘s sole win of the evening.
Abraham’s singular win was additionally one of many stunning highlights of the award evening. The actress has had a exceptional 2018 and 2019 and was nominated in each Greatest Actress class and twice in Greatest Actress in a Comedy class. Surprisingly, Abraham misplaced her comedy class for ‘Bling Lagosians’ and ‘Kasanova’ to Funke Akindele for her efficiency in ‘Mothers at Battle’.
Lastly, Nollywood’s present rave, ‘Ratnik’ made one of many evening’s second greatest winners with 2 wins from its 7 nominations. The Sci-fi received in each the Greatest Artwork Director and Greatest Costume classes.
