We have broken down all of the individual votes that were counted as part of the 2024 What Kept Me Up Critics Poll.
You can find the full list of this year’s results here.
In order of submission
With Difficulty Comes Ease
Afamefuna
A Tribe Called Judah
A Green Fever
Aburo
Directors: –
Performances: –
With Difficulty Comes Eas
Wives on Strike 3
A Tribe Called Judah
Kill Boro
Suspicion
Directors: Korede Azeez (With Difficulty Comes Ease)
Performances: Uzoamaka Aniunoh (With Difficulty Comes Ease)
Adetunji Excel Adeogun, Nollywood Reinvented
Funmilayo Ransome Kuti
Breath of Life
A Father’s Love
The Last Call
Afamefuna
Directors: Bolanle Austen Peters (Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti), BB Sasore (Breath of Life), Kayode Kasum (Afamefuna).
Performances: Kehinde Bankole (Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti), David Jones David (A Father’s Love), Uzor Arukwe (A Tribe Called Judah)
With Difficulty Comes Ease
A Green Fever
Fumilayo Ransome Kuti
Kill Boro
Directors: Korede Azeez (With Difficulty Comes Ease)
Performances: Uzoamaka Aniunoh (With Difficulty Comes Ease)
Breath of Life
Funmilayo Ransome Kuti
With Difficulty Comes Ease
Wives on Strike 3
Farmer’s Bride
Directors: BB Sasore (Breath of Life), Bolanle Austen Peters (Funmilayo Ransome Kuti), Taiwo Egunjobi (A Green Fever)
Performances: Uzoamaka Aniunoh (With Difficulty Comes Ease), Kehinde Bankole (Funmilayo Ransome Kuti), Philip Asaya (Kill Boro)
With Difficulty Comes Ease
A Green Fever
Kill Boro
Funmilayo Ransome Kuti
A Ghetto Love Story
Directors: Korede Azeez (With Difficulty Comes Ease), Bolanle Austen-Peters (Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti), Courage Obayuwana (Kill Boro)
Performances: Uzoamaka Aniunoh (With Difficulty Comes Ease), Uche Chika Elumelu (Suspicion), Ini Dima-Okojie (Kill Boro)
Mustapha Timilehin, Reel Nolly Takes
With Difficulty Comes Ease
Breath of Life
Afamefuna
House of Ga’a
A Green Fever
Directors: Taiwo Egunjobi (A Green Fever), Korede Azeez (With Difficulty Comes Ease)
Performances: Uzoamaka Aniunoh (With Difficulty Comes Ease), Femi Branch (House of Ga’a), Uche Chika Elumelu (Suspicion)
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Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
Afamefuna
Breath of Life
A Father’s Love
With Difficulty Comes Ease
Directors: Bolanle Austen-Peters (Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti)
Performances: Kehinde Bankole (Funmilayo Ransome Kuti), Uzoamaka Aniunoh (With Difficulty Comes Ease), Stan Nze (Afamefuna)
Japheth Josiah, Nollywood Bants
With Difficulty Comes Ease
Breath of Life
Kill Boro
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
A Tribe Called Judah
Directors: B.B. Sasore (Breath Of Life), Korede Azeez (With Difficulty Comes Ease), Courage Obayuwana (Kill Boro)
Performances: Uzoamaka Aniunoh (With Difficulty Comes Ease), Ademola Adedoyin (Breath of Life), Kehinde Bankole (Funmilayo Ransome Kuti)
Victory Hayzard Solum, Freelance
Kill Boro
Farmer’s Bride
A Tribe Called Judah
With Difficulty Comes Ease
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
Directors: Jack’enneth Opukeme & Adebayo Tijani (Farmer’s Bride), Courage Obayuwana (Kill Boro)
Performances: Philip Asaya (Kill Boro), Uzoamaka Aniunoh (With Difficulty Comes Ease), William Benson (A Green Fever)
Matilda Adegbola, In Nollywood
A Tribe Called Judah
Wives on Strike 3
Breath of Life
A Green Fever
Farmer’s Bride
Directors: B.B. Sasore (Breath Of Life), Taiwo Egunjobi (A Green Fever), Korede Azeez (With Difficulty Comes Ease)
Performances: Hilda Dokubo (Wives On Strike 3), Kehinde Bankole (Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti), Tobi Makinde (A Tribe Called Judah)
Wives on Strike 3
With Difficulty Comes Ease
A Tribe Called Judah
Kill Boro
Suspicion
Directors: Omoni Oboli (Wives on Strike 3), Korede Azeez (With Difficulty Comes Ease), Keppy Ekpeyong Bassey (The Weekend)- ineligible
Performances: Hilda Dokubo (Wives On Strike 3), Uzoamaka Aniunoh (With Difficulty Comes Ease)
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What About Us
Ajosepo
A Tribe Called Judah
Breath of Life
Wives on Strike 3
Directors: Niyi Akinmolayan (Lisabi: The Uprising), B.B. Sasore (The Breath of Life), Bolanle Austen Peters (House of Ga’a)
Performances: Hilda Dokubo (Wives On Strike 3), Femi Branch (House of Ga’a), Mercy Aigbe (Farmer’s Bride)
Breath of Life
Blacksmith: Alagbede
A Tribe Called Judah
Afamefuna
A Green Fever
Directors: Femi Adebayo (Seven Doors)- ineligible, Usman ‘Blakky’ Ogunlade (Blacksmith: Alagbede), B.B. Sasore (Breath of Life)
Performances: Kehinde Bankole (Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti), Femi Adebayo (Seven Doors)- ineligible, Chimezie Imo (Breath of Life)
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With Difficulty Comes Ease
A Tribe Called Judah
Breath of Life
A Green Fever
Blood Vessel
Directors: Korede Azeez (With Difficulty Comes Ease), Funke Akindele (A Tribe Called Judah), Taiwo Egunjobi (A Green Fever)
Performances: Chimezie Imo (Breath of Life), Uzoamaka Aniunoh (With Difficulty Comes Ease), Kehinde Bankole (Funmilayo Ransome Kuti
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