KAZEEM OPEYEMI BALIKIS has been named Best Script Writer of the Year at the 2025 Integrity Icon Awards, marking a significant professional milestone and reaffirming her standing as one of the industry’s most disciplined and dependable screenwriting voices.
The Integrity Icon Award recognises creatives whose work reflects excellence, consistency, and ethical storytelling standards. In conferring the Best Script Writer honour on Balikis, the award panel cited her sustained commitment to narrative clarity, character credibility, and socially grounded storytelling across multiple screen projects.
Balikis has steadily built a body of work defined by restraint and structure rather than excess. Her scripts are known for their emotional realism, purposeful dialogue, and respect for audience intelligence. These qualities have made her a trusted creative within production environments that value coherence and long term impact over momentary spectacle.
Her screen credits include Fate, Perfect, Hidden Wound, My Cake, Aiku, and Aso Mi, among others. Across these projects, she has demonstrated range while maintaining a consistent writing identity rooted in consequence driven storytelling and believable character arcs. She works full time with Integrity Icon Productions, where she contributes to story development and screenplay execution within a structured production framework.
The 2025 award also reflects the strength of her recent and ongoing work. Her last completed project, ALE, was noted for its narrative discipline and thematic focus, while her current project, The Unwritten Law, signals a deeper exploration of social norms, unspoken rules, and moral tension within everyday life.
Speaking through the awards citation, the Integrity Icon Awards described Balikis as “a writer whose scripts balance technical precision with moral clarity, reflecting the values of integrity, responsibility, and craft that the award represents.”
Winning the Integrity Icon Award for Best Script Writer 2025 positions Kazeem Opeyemi Balikis among a select group of creatives shaping the present and future of Nigerian screen storytelling. Beyond personal recognition, the honour underscores a broader industry truth: strong cinema begins with strong writing, and writers who prioritise integrity and discipline remain central to the growth of African film narratives.