FULL LIST: Femi Adebayo’s ‘Seven Doors’ Dominates 2025 BON Awards Nominations

The nominees for the 2025 Best of Nollywood (BON) Awards have been announced, with Femi Adebayo’s Seven Doors leading with nine nominations.

Ibrahim Yekini’s Abanisete follows closely with eight nominations, while My Mother Is A Witch and Farmer’s Bride earned seven and six nominations, respectively.

The awards ceremony is scheduled for December 14, 2025, at the Federal Palace Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos. The event will also feature a Guinness World Record attempt for the longest red carpet on the newly completed Coastal Road.

Below is the full list of nominees:

🔹 Best Actor

• Ibrahim Yekini – Abanisete

• Gideon Okeke – Blackout

• Femi Adebayo – Seven Doors

• Razaq Adoti – Son of the Soil

• Tobi Bakre – Farmer’s Bride

• Jide Awobona – Inspector Jero

🔹 Best Actress

• Folu Storms – Red Circle

• Gbubemi Ejeye – Farmer’s Bride

• Padita Agu – Blackout

• Efe Irele – My Mother Is a Witch

• Chioma Chukwuka – Seven Doors

• Florence Nwachukwu – Fury

🔹 Best Kiss

• Tobi Bakre & Gbubemi Ejeye – Farmer’s Bride

• Timini Egbuson & TJ Omusuku – Reel Love

• Kunle Remi & Tope Olowoniyan – The Party

• Padita Agu & Demola Adedoyin – Planning Forever

• Tobi Bakre & Folu Storms – Red Circle

🔹 Best Director

• Niyi Akinmolayan – My Mother Is a Witch

• Adebayo Tijani & Tope Adebayo – Abanisete

• Adebayo Tijani & Jack’enneth Opukeme – Farmer’s Bride

• Tope Adebayo & Adebayo Tijani – Her Excellency

• Toka McBaror – The Waiter

• Adebayo Tijani, Tope Adebayo & Femi Adebayo – Seven Doors

🔹 Movie of the Year

• Abanisete

• My Mother Is a Witch

• Farmer’s Bride

• The Waiter

• Her Excellency

• The Serpent’s Gift

🔹 Best Series

• The Party

• Seven Doors

🔹 Best Supporting Actor

• Stan Nze – Serpent’s Gift

• Femi Branch – Owambe Thieves

• Adedimeji Lateef – Red Circle

• Buchi Franklin – The Waiter

• Taye Arimoro – Son of the Soil

• Neo Akpofure – My Mother Is a Witch

🔹 Best Supporting Actress

• Mercy Aigbe – My Mother Is a Witch

• Bolaji Ogunmola – Longing

• Tina Mba – The Serpent’s Gift

• Mercy Aigbe – Farmer’s Bride

• Susan Jimah – Take My Breath Away

• Kehinde Bankole – Iyalode

🔹 Best Social Message

• Out in the Darkness

• My Mother Is a Witch

• Fury

• Longing

• Mayomi

• Blackout

• Single Mother

🔹 Best Costume

• Owambe Thieves

• Abanisete

• Iyalode

• Labake Olododo

• Seven Doors

• Olomi

• The Serpent’s Gift

🔹 Best Sound

• Red Circle

• Agemo

• Anjola

• Fury

• Reel Love

• Ewu Ife

• My Mother Is a Witch

• Take My Breath Away

• Olomi

• Durotimi

• The Serpent’s Gift

🔹 Best Use of Food

• Owambe Thieves

• Longing

• Alakada: Bad and Boujee

• 07.03 (The 7th of the 3rd)

• Farmer’s Bride

🔹 Best Child Actor

• Ahmad Isa – Finding Nina

• Yoma Davidson – Den of Safety

• Royal Aziomaku – Seven Doors

• Adeshina Daniel – Telephone

🔹 Best Child Actress

• Ijelu Folajimi – Son of the Soil

• Darasimi Nadi – Agemo

• Diva Owoniyi – Den of Safety

• Kamdi Ugochukwu – A Ride with Forever

• Angel Unigwe – In My Circle

🔹 Most Promising Actor

• Razaaq Adoti – Son of the Soil

• Yomi Orimadegun – The Boy from the Window

• Korede Lawal – On Our Skin

• Abduazeem M. Ibrahim – Finding Nina

🔹 Most Promising Actress

• Dolapo Oyebamiji – Olomi

• Lila Idoko – I Am Anis

• Sylvia Ebere – Flipside

• Sunshine Rosman – Son of the Soil

• Temitope Luqman – Durotimi

🔹 Best Production Design

• Seven Doors

• Labake Olododo

• Abanisete

• Iyalode

• Farmer’s Bride

🔹 Best Screenplay

• Thinline

• Ewu Ife

• Owambe Thieves

• Fixing Others

• The Serpent’s Gift

• Blackout

• Agemo

🔹 Best Special Effect

• Seven Doors

• Labake Olododo

• Son of the Soil

• Red Circle

• The Waiter

• Abanisete

• Iyalode

🔹 Best Documentary

• Beyond Olympic Glory

• Nigeria Laughs

• Not Addressing This Anymore

🔹 Best Editing

• Son of the Soil

• The Waiter

• Reel Love

• Red Circle

• Between Silence & Truth

• Olomi

• Agemo

🔹 Best Cinematography

• 07.03 (7th of the 3rd)

• My Mother Is a Witch

• Abanisete

• Agemo

• Seven Doors

• The Serpent’s Gift

• Finding Nina

🔹 Best Indigenous Movie

• Abanisete

• Brotherly Love

• Iyalode

• The Serpent’s Gift

• Agemo

• My Mother Is a Witch

• Olomi

🔹 Best Makeup

• The Waiter

• Seven Doors

• Iyalode

• Abanisete

• Labake Olododo

The BON Awards’ return to Lagos has been met with excitement, as stakeholders commend the organisers for their consistency and effort in promoting Nollywood’s finest talents.