- Clinches Best Lead Actor & Best Lead Actress awards
It was a night of glamour, triumph and celebration at this year’s Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards (AMVCA), which held in Lagos on Saturday, May 10, 2025.
At the prestigious award ceremony, Femi Adebayo’s film, Seven Doors won two of the most coveted awards – Best Lead Actor and Best Lead Actress, which went to Femi Adebayo and Chioma Chukwuka respectively.
Seven Doors, a historical drama series directed by Femi Adebayo, Adebayo Tijani and Tope Adebayo, centers on the story of reluctant monarch, King Adedunjoye, whose reign is haunted by a generational curse. To break the curse, he must open ‘seven doors’ by marrying six more wives despite his deep love for his wife, Amaka.
At the event, veteran actors Sani Mu’azu and Nkem Owoh were honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Awards, while director Kayode Kasum took home the Trailblazer Award.
Here’s the complete list of AMVCAs winners:
Femi Adebayo – Best Lead Actor (Seven Doors)
Chioma Chukwuka – Best Lead Actress (Seven Doors)
Sani Mu’azu and Nkem Owoh – Lifetime Achievement Awards
Kayode Kasum – Trailblazer Award
Kassim Sulaiman & Anneke De Ridder – Best-Unscripted M-Net Original (Nigerian Idol)
Gabriel Afolayan – Best Supporting Actor (Inside Life)
Mercy Aigbe – Best Supporting Actress (Farmer’s Bride)
Tolu Obanro – Best Score/Music (Seven Doors)
Chinenye Nworah & Taiwo Adebayo – Best-Scripted M-Net Original (My Fairytale Wedding)
Jide Jblaze Oyegbile – Best Short Film
Zi M Uzo – Best Indigenous M-Net Original
Iyo Prosper Adokiye – Best Digital Content Creator (We Listen, We Don’t Judge – Bible Edition)
Ifeoluwa Fatogun & Ebi Atawodi – Best Documentary (Dundun)
Leo Purman – Best Cinematography (The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos)
Adedimeji Lateef & Adebimpe Oyebade Adedimeji – Best Indigenous Language (West Africa)
Abel Mutua Musyoka – Best Indigenous Language (East Africa)
Cosmas Ng’andwe – Best Indigenous Language (Southern Africa)
Abel Mutua Musyoka – Best Writing in a TV Series
Blessing Uzzi – Best Writing (Movie) (Freedom Way)
Tongai Furusa – Best Editing (Inkabi)
Michael Botha, Olaosebikan Okonrende & Dil Chike Ajufo – Best Sound Design (Suspicion)
Soliu Badu Noutical & Ayanmo Yakub – Best Art Direction (Lisabi: The Uprising)
Hakeem Onilogbo – Best Makeup (Lisabi: The Uprising)
Adedamola Adeyemi – Best Costume Design (Christmas in Lagos)
Awam Amkpa – Best Director (The Man Died)
Blessing Uzzi – Best Movie (Freedom Way)
Clarence Peters’Inside Life – Best-Scripted Series
Kefa Igilo & Jerryson Onasaa – Best-Unscripted Series (Wa Milele?)
Olamide Glover & Morenikeji Uka – Best Multichoice Talent Factory Film (Everything Light Touches)