“We don’t know anything. We only organise. There are years, I remember a year that Run Baby Run cleared all the awards.

“That’s a film from Ghana by Emmanuel Appiah. Yes, he’s the son of this soil. So that has nothing to do with whether Nigeria fights the awards because it’s Southern Africa that comes to clear the awards all the time,” she explained.

She, however, added that South Africans pay particular attention to the movies they produce, which turn out well.

“In the Southern Africa space, you see, technically they are very sound. They pay attention to the details. It can take them five years to produce a film. Eastern Africa is the same.

“So, the contributions of AMAA in African space were that it makes good work get recognised; initially we thought we [Nigerians] were the King Kong back in West Africa. It makes us sit on our toes and do the right thing,” Judith Oluwole Kuwornu said.

Celebrated Ghanaian actress, Jackie Appiah, made the nominee list for best actress in a leading role for her performance in the movie “Red Carpet.”

Jackie faces competition from Girley Jazama, Oyin Oladejo, Unati Faku, Uzoamaka Aniunoh, Laura Pepple and Ife Irele.

The 20th Africa Movie Academy Awards is set to dazzle at Balmoral Center, Ikeja on 2 November 2024.