AMAA 2011 nominations are out and “Sinking Sands” is leading from Ghana with 9 nominations pushing Leila Djansi into the “Best Director Category” and Ama K Abebrese into “ Best Actress In Leading Role Category”.

Yvonne Okoro has been nominated in the category of  “Best Actress In Supporting Role” for her role in “Pool Party” and John Dumelo makes it in “Best Actor In Supporting Role” for his role in “Private Storm”.

Ekow Blankson has also been nominated in the “Best Actor In  Leading Role Category” for his role in CheckMate.

Other Ghanaian movies that have secured nominations are “6 Hours To Christmas”, “Who Owes Da City”, “Elima” and “Hot Fork”.

Congrats to all the nominees!

Check out the full nomination list below…

Gospel musician Cecilia Marfo, High Life crooner Kwabena Kwabena and Hip Life artiste Trigmatic has come on top of the Ghana Music Awards Festival 2011 nominations.

They both grabbed 6 nominations each with their songs ‘Afunumu Ba’, ‘Dadea Anoma’ and ‘My Life’ respectively. The launch ceremony which was marred by the torrential rains had No Tribe, Castro, VIP and D-Black with 5 nominations each.

New discoveries Eazzy, Jay and Herty Bongreat both had four nominations each. The general public can now vote for their favourite artiste. Interesting, VIP’s ‘I Think I Like Am’ which was nominated in the ‘Afro Pop Song of the Year’ in the last year’s awards before they opted out has missed out and has been replaced by their ‘Away’ track.

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