The 18th Annual South African Film and Television Awards nominees have been announced and AFDA is proud to announce that AFDA students and alumni have received over 50 nominations in the various categories.
The AFDA Johannesburg 2023 third year graduation film, “Anguish”, produced by Raheem Razak and directed by Mandisa Mary-Jane Mtembu was nominated in the Best Student Film category, making it 18 years in a row that AFDA student films have been nominated.
AFDA alumni dominate the feature film category. Tristan Holmes’ debut feature film, “The Fragile King”, received 5 nominations including Best Feature Film and Best Actress (Antoinette Louw). Liese Kuhn’s directorial debut, “Seconds”, also received 5 nominations including Best Feature Film and Corne and Rene van Rooyen’s award-winning feature film, “Hans Steek die Rubicon Oor”, received 4 nominations.
In the TV Comedy category AFDA alumni received 8 nominations for the series “Miseducation”, including Best TV Comedy.
In the TV Drama category AFDA alumni received 3 nominations for their work on “Shaka Ilembe”.
Behind the scenes AFDA alumni cinematographers are nominated in all the different categories with Tom Marais receiving 3 nominations.
AFDA alumnus Ebenhaezer Smal (Haezer) received 5 nominations in the sound and editing categories and Mandle N is once again in the running, he received 3 nominations in the Telenovela category for his show “Isitha”.
Congratulations to all the AFDA students and alumni on their nominations. Here is the full list:
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND – DOCUMENTARY
- Rise: The Siya Kolisi Story Practitioner: Ebenhaezer Smal (Haezer)
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING – DOCUMENTARY
- Rise: The Siya Kolisi Story Practitioner: Ebenhaezer Smal (Haezer)
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
- Production House: Orange Films and Star Films
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKE-UP AND HAIRSTYLING – TV COMEDY
- Miseducation Practitioner: Refentse Munyai
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN WARDROBE – TV COMEDY
- Miseducation Practitioner: Bryce Bowers
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION – TV COMEDY
- Miseducation Practitioner: Martha Sibanyoni
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING – TV COMEDY
- Miseducation Practitioners: Melanie Golden & Aluta Mlisana
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SCRIPTWRITING -TV COMEDY
- Lwazi Mvusi & Rethabile Ramaphakela
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY -TV COMEDY
- Grown Woman Practitioner: Nyembezi Ncaba
- Yoh! Christmas Practitioner: James Adey
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING – TV COMEDY
- Miseducation Practitioners: Lwazi Mvusi
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING – TV DRAMA
- Unseen Practitioner: Simon Beesley & Aluta Mlisana
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY – TV DRAMA
- Dam Season 2 Practitioners: Tom Marais
- Shaka Ilembe Practitioner: Zeno Petersen
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SCRIPTWRITING – TV DRAMA
- Shaka Ilembe Practitioners: Thishiwe Ziqubu
- Trompoppie Practitioners: Etienne Fourie
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING – TV DRAMA
- Shaka Ilembe Practitioners: Zeno Petersen & Adze Ugah
- Unseen Practitioner: Travis Taute
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING –TELENOVELA
- Outlaws Practitioners: Ebenhaezer Smal
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN ORIGINAL MUSIC/SCORE – TELENOVELA
- Isitha Season 1 Practitioner: Mandla Ngcongwane
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN AN ORIGINAL SONG – TELENOVELA
- Isitha Season 1 Practitioner: Mandla Ngcongwane
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY – TELENOVELA
- Outlaws Practitioners: Ntobeko Dlamini
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION – TV SOAP/TELENOVELA
- Outlaws Practitioners: Waldemar Coetsee
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SCRIPTWRITING – TELENOVELA
- Isitha Season 1 Practitioners: Mandla Ngcongwane
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING – TELENOVELA
- Diepe Waters Practitioners: Heleni Handt
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN – FEATURE FILM
- Hans Steek die Rubicon Oor Practitioner: Marné van der Burgh
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND DESIGN – FEATURE FILM
- Hans Steek die Rubicon Oor Practitioner: Ebenhaezer Smal
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING – FEATURE FILM
- Hans Steek die Rubicon Oor Practitioner: Ebenhaezer Smal
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY – FEATURE FILM
- BLINDELINGS Practitioner: Tom Marais
- Hans Steek die Rubicon Oor Practitioner: Sunel Haasbroek
- iNumber Number: Jozi Gold Practitioner: Tom Marais
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SCRIPTWRITING – FEATURE FILM
- The Fragile King Practitioners: Tristan Holmes
BEST STUDENT FILM
- Anguish
BEST ACTOR IN A TV COMEDY
- Prev Reddy (Miseducation)
BEST TV COMEDY
- Miseducation Production House: Burnt Onion Productions
BEST ACTRESS IN A FEATURE FILM
- Antoinette Louw (The Fragile King)
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING – FEATURE FILM
- The Fragile King Practitioner: Tristan Holmes
BEST FEATURE FILM
- The Fragile King
- Seconds
