The 22nd Annual Pan African Film Festival came to a close in Los Angeles this week, screening 172 films representing 46 countries across the Diaspora. Kicking off the festival, PAFF honored actor Charles Dutton, film publicist Roz Stevenson, CodeBlack’s Jeff Clanagan, and others as part of the pre-show festivities for the awards ceremony of the African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA), which chose Fruitvale Station, 12 Years A Slave, and Lee Daniels’ The Butler to receive its top honors this year.
Overall festival award winners were announced at a Filmmaker Brunch on Monday, where Tommy Oliver’s 1982 received the Audience Award and Jahmil X.T. Qubeka’s Of Good Report took the award for Best Feature Narrative.
Find a complete list of winners from AAFCA and PAFF below:
2014 African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) Awards
Best Actor Forest Whitaker, Lee Daniels: The Butler (TWC)
Best Actress Sandra Bullock, Gravity (Warner Bros.)
Best Supporting Actress Oprah Winfrey, Lee Daniels: The Butler (TWC)
Best Supporting Actor Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club (Focus Features)
Best World Cinema Mother of George (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
Breakout Performance Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight)
Best Director Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight)
Best Screenplay John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight)
Best Music Raphael Sadiq, Black Nativity (RCA Inspirational)
Best Independent Film Fruitvale Station (TWC)
Best Animation Frozen (Walt Disney Pictures)
Best Documentary American Promise (Rada Film Group)
1. 12 Years a Slave
2. Lee Daniels: The Butler
3. Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
4. American Hustle
5. Gravity
6. Fruitvale Station
7. Dallas Buyers Club
8. Saving Mr. Banks
9. Out of the Furnace
10. 42
2014 Pan African Film Festival Award Winners
Best Feature Narrative
Of Good Report (South Africa) Director: Jahmil X.T. Qubeka
Special Jury Recognition-Feature Narrative
Confusion Na Wa (Nigeria) Director: Kenneth Gyang
Best Director-First Feature Narrative
The Forgotten Kingdom (Lesotho/South Africa) Director: Andrew Mudge
Special Jury Recognition-Director – First Feature Narrative
Felix (South Africa) Director: Roberta Durrant
Best Documentary
Freedom Summer (US) Director: Stanley Nelson
Special Jury Recognition-Documentary
Small Small Thing (US) Director: Jessica Vale
Best Narrative Short
Freedom Road (South Africa) Director: Shane Vermooten
Special Jury Recognition-Short Narrative
Sketch (US) Director: Stephen T. Barton
Festival Programmers’ Award-Narrative Feature
Kingston Paradise (Jamaica) Director: Mary Wells
Festival Programmers’ Award-Documentary
Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People (US) Director: Thomas Allen Harris
Festival Founders’ Award- Narrative
Blackbird (US) Director: Patri
Festival Founders’ Award-Documentary
Brothers Hypnotic (Netherlands/US) Director: Reuben Atlas
CAPRI Capital Partners Award
The Magic City (US) Director: R. Malcolm Jones
Audience Award—Documentary
Inner City Champions (US) Directed by Kenneth Taylor
Audience Award—Narrative Feature
1982 (US) Director: Tommy Oliver
New Media Award
Kickin’ It Caucasian (US) Director: Jason Bevly
BAFTA LA PRIZE (Pan African Film Festival-British Academy ofFilm and Television Arts/LA Prize)
Of Good Report (South Africa) Director: Jahmil X.T. Qubeka