[18] Ed Halter, one of the founders of Light Industry in Brooklyn, listed Me Broni Ba as one of 2010's top ten films in Artforum magazine.

In 2013, Kwaku Ananse[20] received a Golden Bear nomination at the Berlinale[21] and won the 2013 Africa Movie Academy Award[22] for the West African nation of Ghana in the Best Short Film category.

[24][25][26] Kwaku Ananse was also included in the 2013 Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma - César Golden Nights, a program organized with support from UNESCO that selects notable short films.

"[42][43][44] The film which featured American actress Karyn Parsons best known for her role as Hilary Banks on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, secured a nomination at the 2017 African Movie Academy Awards.

"[48] In 2014, Akosua Adoma Owusu was one of the Executive Producers for Afronauts a science fiction short film written and directed by young Ghanaian filmmaker Nuotama Bodomo.

[62] In 2016, Owusu developed a screenplay based on her global campaign to Save the Rex Cinema[63][64][65] in Ghana at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France.

[66][67] In 2017, The Guardian announced that Owusu was working on a part-real life, part-fictionalized feature film about her campaign to restore the historic Rex cinema.

[72] In 2018, Owusu was commissioned by the Cobo Center to produce a video installation along Jefferson and Washington avenues in downtown Detroit, Michigan during Black History Month.

[73] Owusu was awarded an artist-in-residence by the Goethe-Institut Vila Sul in Salvador, Bahia Brazil, in 2018, along with celebrated British installation artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien.

[74] Owusu participated as a distinguished juror at the 57th annual Ann Arbor Film Festival and presented a special program dedicated to her body of work.

[75] In 2019, she led a workshop for filmmakers, critics and researchers on Triple Consciousness at Cinema Camp[76] an annual four-day long summer event organized by Meno Avilys Film Center based in Vilnius, Lithuania.

[77] Owusu's film White Afro[78] received the Premio Medien Patent Verwaltung AG prize in Pardi di domani (Leopards of Tomorrow) section of the 2019 Locarno Festival[79][80] in Switzerland.