Screen Nation Nominations

September 14, 2011

The Nominations for the 7th Screen Nation awards were announced Wednesday night.

Screen Nation has been at the forefront of acknowledging the best in Black British talent for several years. It has been dubbed as the ‘Black Baftas’ and its primary aim is to acknowledge the achievements of those in the film and television industry over the course of 12 months.

This year’s award ceremony will be held on October 16 at the IndigO2 and will be hosted by one of TV’s favourite couples, Angellica Bell and Michael Underwood.

Past winners include acting legend Morgan Freeman, and the UK’s Noel Clarke and Thandie Newton.

The Screen Nation awards (formerly the BFM Film and TV Awards) was founded in 2003 by film producer, Charles Thompson, as a platform to raise the profile of black British and international film and television talent.

This year’s Nominations are:

UK Screen Achievements Awards

Male Performance in Film

Adam Deacon – Anuvahood, Everywhere & Nowhere, Shank
Chiwetel Ejiofor – Salt, Endgame, 2012
Clint Dyer – Sus
Colin Salmon – Clubbed, Devils Playground
Eamonn Walker – Legacy: Black Ops
Idris Elba – Legacy, Obsessed Thor, Takers
Noel Clarke – Screwed, 4.3.2.1, Centurion

Female Performance in Film

Shanika Warren-Markland – 4.3.2.1

Sherrie Silver – Africa United

Sophie Okonedo – The Secret Life of Bees, Skin

Thandie Newton – 2012, For Colored Girls, W

Male Performance in TV

Ashley Walters – Small Island, Outcast, Five Days
Chiwetel Ejiofor – The Shadow Line, Endgame
David Oyelowo – Blood & Oil, Small Island
Idris Elba – Luther, The Office (US), The Big C
Jimmy Akingbola – Holby City, Rev, Doctors
Lenni James – Survivors, Walking Dead, Hung
Nonso Anozie – Stolen, Outcasts, I am Slave, Occupation
Shaun Parkes – Moses Jones, Small Island, Harley St, Identity

Female Performance in TV

Angel Coulby – Merlin
Ginny Holder – Holby City
Lenora Chrichlow – Material Girl, Being Human
Naomie Harris – Blood & Oil, Small Island
Nikki Amuka Bird – Small Island, Survivors, Luther, Silent Witness
Wunmi Mosaku- I am Slave, Vera, 32 Brinkburn St

Favourite Male TV Star

Aml Ameen
Arinze Kene
Chucky Venice
Levi Roots
Ricky Whittle

Favourite Female TV Star

Angela Griffin
Angellica Bell
Lorraine Pascale
Tameka Empson
Zaraah Abrahams

Emerging Talent

Abdul Salis – Casualty
Antonia Thomas – Misfits, The Deep
Arinze Kene – Freestyle, Eastenders, Hollyoaks
Ashley ‘Bashy’ Thomas – Shank, The Veteran, 4.3.2.1
Devon Anderson – Eastenders
La Charné Jolly – Holby City
Nadine Marshall – Random, The Shadow Line, Criminal Justice

Young Shooting Star (16-22)

Arnold Oceng – Adulthood, 4.3.2.1
Bunmi Mojekwu – Eastenders, Future Wags of GB, Coming up
Daniel Kaluuya – Chat Rom, Skins, Bellamy’s People, Psychoville, Random
John Boyega – Attack the Block
Merveille Lukeba – Skins, Bloody Foreigners
Tobi Bakare – The Shadow Line, Silent Witness, Casualty, Doctors

Comedy Performer

Andi Osho – Stand up for the Week, Mock the Week, Michael McIntryre’s Comedy Roadshow
Daniel Kaluuya – Bellamy’s People, Psychoville, Comedy Lab, That Mitchell & Webb Look
Dominque Moore – Hotel Trubble, My Almost Famous Family, Horrible Histories
Kobina Holdbrook-Smith – Sirens, Fighting the Flak
Miss London (Dionne Hughes) – CBBC, Laughter Shock
Richard Ayoade – The IT Crowd

Screen Craft Achievement Awards
Diversity in Factual Production