2018 AMVCA Awards: Hard Work Pays - Lydia Forson
Award-winning actress Lydia Forson has described her Africa Magic Viewer’s Choice Award (AMVCA) win as a testament of hard work.
Miss Forson, the only nominated actress from Ghana, was selected as the ‘Best Supporting Actress Movie/TV Series’ for her role as Kukua in the movie, ‘Isoken’.
Ghana had seven nominations in this year’s awards. Shirley Frimpong Manso and Sparrow productions got four nominations, actor Adjetey Anang won ‘Best Actor in Drama Movie/TV Series’ which was one of the two categories he was nominated. Lydia had a nomination.
“This is my first AMVCA, I mean I have won almost every award. I have never won an AMVCA so this year I came in on the fence. I really wanted to win but I had so much respect for all the other people in the category.
"I was telling somebody that I am the only actress from Ghana; Pressure. If I don’t win the headline will be Ghana loses,” Lydia told MzGee.
Miss Forson, who was grateful to her colleagues who voted for her, said her victory at AMVCA though for a Nigerian production, rubbished suggestions that the movie industry in Ghana is dead.
She, however, admitted that the industry is going through a phase which is normal.
“At the point where people say that our industry is struggling, I refuse to say the industry is dead, it is not dead. Everything goes through a phase if you want something to die you kill it with your mouth but I think this is a testament that yes the industry is struggling but some of us are working day in day out to make Ghana proud,” she said.