Akosua Adoma Owusu
Awards and nominations

Akosua Adoma Owusu

Section Title: Awards and nominations
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Year	Award	Work	Category	Result	Ref.

2005	Virginia Film Festival	Ajube Kete	Ken Jacobs Award for Best Experimental Short Film	Won

2008	Berlin International Film Festival	Me Broni Ba/My White Baby	Berlinale Talent Campus	Won

2008	California Institute of the Arts	Good Hair	Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Grant	Won

2008	Detroit Docs	Intermittent Delight	Most Progressive Filmmaker Award	Won

2008	Mexico International Film Festival	Me Broni Ba/My White Baby	Silver Palm Award	Won

2009	Athens International Film and Video Festival	Me Broni Ba/My White Baby	Best Documentary Short	Won

2009	Chicago Underground Film Festival	Me Broni Ba/My White Baby	Best Documentary Short	Won

2010	Robert J. Flaherty Film Seminar	Work	Featured Artist	Won

2010	Real Life Documentary Festival	Me Broni Ba/My White Baby	Special Jury Mention, Best Short Film	Won

2011	Black Maria Film Festival	Drexciya	Jury's Citation Prize	Won

2011	African Film Festival, Tarifa	Drexciya	Special Jury Mention	Won

2011	Expresión en Corto International Film Festival	Drexciya	Best Experimental Short	Won

2012	Focus Features Africa First	Kwaku Ananse	Production Grant	Won

2012	Creative Capital Foundation	Black Sunshine	Film/Video Grant	Won

2012	Art Matters Foundation	Kwaku Ananse	Post-Production Grant	Won

2013	Ann Arbor Film Festival	Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful	Most Promising Filmmaker Prize	Won

2013	Berlin International Film Festival	Kwaku Ananse	Golden Bear Best Short Film	Nominated

2013	Africa Movie Academy Award	Kwaku Ananse	Best Short Film	Won

2013	Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma	Kwaku Ananse	Best Short Film of the Year	Won

2013	Arte International Prize	Black Sunshine	Development Grant	Won

2013	MacDowell Colony Fellowship	Black Sunshine	Screenwriting Grant	Won

2014	Berlin International Film Festival	Black Sunshine	Production Grant	Won

2015	Association Cinémas et Cultures d'Afrique	Kwaku Ananse	Special Jury Mention	Won

2015	John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation	Black Sunshine	Guggenheim Fellowship	Won

2015	Tribeca Film Institute	Black Sunshine	Tribeca All Access Development Grant	Won

2016	Berlin International Film Festival	Reluctantly Queer	Golden Bear for Best Short Film	Nominated

2016	Berlin International Film Festival	Reluctantly Queer	Teddy Award for Best Short Film	Nominated

2016	Baltimore International Black Film Festival	Reluctantly Queer	Audience Award for Best International Short Film	Won

2016	The Camargo Foundation	Save the Rex	Travel Grant	Won

2017	Africa Movie Academy Award	On Monday of Last Week	Best Short Film	Nominated

2018	Pratt Institute	On Monday of Last Week	Mellon Research Grant	Won

2018	International Short Film Festival Oberhausen	Oberhausen Film Seminar	Featured Artist	Won

2018	Goethe-Institut Vila Sul Salvador-Bahia	Black Sunshine	Artist-in-Residence	Won

2018	Cobo Center Marquee Video Art Series	Intermittent Delight	John S. and James L. Knight Foundation	Won

2019	Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts	Akosua Adoma Owusu: Welcome to the Jungle	The Westridge Foundation	Won

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In 2013, Kwaku Ananse received a Golden Bear nomination at the Berlinale and won the 2013 Africa Movie Academy Award in the Best Short Film category.
In 2013, Kwaku Ananse received a Golden Bear nomination and won the Africa Movie Academy Award, in the Best Short Film category.
In 2013, Akosua Adoma Owusu's Kwaku Ananse received a Golden Bear nomination and won the 2013 Africa Movie Academy Award in the Best Short Film category.

final_sentence: In 2013, Kwaku Ananse received a Golden Bear nomination at the Berlinale and won the 2013 Africa Movie Academy Award in the Best Short Film category.
final_sentence: In 2013, Kwaku Ananse received a Golden Bear nomination and won the Africa Movie Academy Award, in the Best Short Film category.
final_sentence: In 2013, Akosua Adoma Owusu's Kwaku Ananse received a Golden Bear nomination and won the 2013 Africa Movie Academy Award in the Best Short Film category.