About the African-American Film Critics Awards
The 50 members of AAFCA are the largest minority film critics’ organization in the United States representing television, radio and online critics and they annual select nominees in 11 categories to recognize excellence in diverse cinematic achievement.
Since 2009, the organization has kicked-off Hollywood’s Awards Season with a live show, The AAFCA AWARDS – A Salute to Outstanding Achievement in Feature Film.
In 2010, the awards ceremony will be held on December 13, 2010 in Los Angeles at the Ebony Repertory Theater with awards presented in the following categories: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress/Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Foreign Film and Best Documentary.
In 2010 AAFCA will bestow its Special Achievement Honors on three individuals: film critic Roger Ebert, The Horizon Award; filmmaker, Melvin Van Peebles (Vanguard Award and, Lena Horne The Legacy Award.
AAFCA CATEGORIES
The awards are determined by a secret ballot cast by all Active AAFCA members, before being tabulated by the Beverly Hills accounting firm headed by W. Steven Temple.
Results are revealed during a special ceremony that takes place in Los Angeles on the 2nd Monday in December, an event that kicks off the film industry’s awards calendar.
The 1st AAFCA Awards live event was presented on December 13, 2009 at the Ebony Repertory Theatre in Los Angeles.
Award Categories
- Best Film
- Best Director
- Best Actor
- Best Actress
- Best Supporting Actor
- Best Supporting Actress
- Best Screenplay
- Best Original Song
- Best Foreign Language Film
- Best Documentary
- Special Achievement Award
AAFCA GUESTS
Gil L. Robertson IV
Gil L. Robertson IV is one of America’s foremost authorities on African American pop culture.
Robertson is a co-founder and president of the African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA), the largest body of the nation’s leading African American film critics. He is also the founder of the Robertson Treatment’s Media Workshop, an annual journalism initiative presented at the Auburn Avenue Research Library in Atlanta, GA and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York, NY.
As a journalist, author, lecturer and media consultant, he is responsible for literary works and intellectual properties that create dialogues for social change and personal growth.
Robertson is also the editor of the NAACP Image Award nominated book, Not in My Family: AIDS in the African American Community. The best-selling anthology features thoughts and solutions from a wide cross section of African Americans on the HIV/AIDS crisis.
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