WINNERS – Australian Oscar in Melbourne

2026 March 3

WINNERS – Australian Oscar in Melbourne

Walking With God

By Lois M. Banks

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE PICTURE, BEST ARTHOUSE FILM 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR (Category: Indie Film)

Pretty Little Lucy

By David Williamson

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER 2026, BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENPLAY, BEST WRITING SYLE (Category: Feature Script)

Measure for Measure

By Phil Howe

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE NARRATIVE SHORT FILM 2026, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST ORIGINAL MOVIEMAKER

Precious the baby dragon

By Dr Dawn Menge

BEST INTERNATIONAL BOOK 2026 & BEST WRITER 2026

Tipping Point

By L. Scooter Morris

BEST HUMAN RIGHTS SHORT FILM 2026 & BEST EXPERIMENTAL SUPER SHORT FILM

Amen-Amen-Amen: A Story of Our Times

By Tom Gallagher

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2026, BEST DIRECTOR & BEST EDITOR (Category: Documentary)

Pounding Pavements

By Jeremy and Christine Stork

BEST AUSTRALIAN SONG & BEST AUSTRALIAN MUSIC VIDEO 2026

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana

By Ken Kimmelman

BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR 2026, BEST EXPERIMENTAL CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST INSPIRATIONAL SHORT FILM OF THE YEAR 

Alzati dal buio

By Don Pasquale Ferone

BEST SINGER 2026, BEST SPIRITUAL SONG & BEST INDIE MUSIC VIDEO

The New Immigrant- Hong Kongers

By Vivian Tsang

BEST INTERNATIONAL YOUNG DIRECTOR 2026, BEST INDIE DOCUMENTARY 2026, BEST PRODUCER & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR

Midnite’s Journey

By Dana Silkiss

BEST INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL PROJECT & BEST SCREENWRITER (Category: True Crime)

Heaven

By AnayaMusic

BEST INTERNATIONAL VOICE 2026, BEST INTERNATIONAL SONG & BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Music Video)

Staycation

By Russell Emanuel

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE FEATURE 2026, BEST DIRECTOR (Category: NARRATIVE FEATURE), BEST CAST, BEST SCREENPLAY, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST INDIE CASTING DIRECTOR

Revisited – Life is Short

By TerryLee WHETSTONe

BEST ARTHOUSE ORIGINAL INDIE MUSIC VIDEO, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST EDITOR (Category: Arthouse Music Video)

Eyesolation

By Damiano Rossi

BEST INDIE EXPERIMENTAL PROJECT 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE MOVIEMAKER 

 Out of control

By Bellopropello

BEST POETRY SHORT FILM, BEST ORIGINAL INDIE FILMMAKER & BEST INTERNATIONAL ANIMATED PROJECT 2026

The Harmony Saga & Movement I – Disciple: Episode I of The Harmony Saga

By Timothy Brad Reinhold

BEST CINEMATIC VISION, BEST INTERNATIONAL SCRIPT & BEST ARTHOUSE ANIMATION 2026

The Green Mill

By Michelle Lynn

BEST ARTHOUSE SCRIPT 2026 & BEST GLOBAL WRITER OF THE YEAR

An Ever After Drama

By Michelle Lynn

BEST AMERICAN NARRATIVE SHORT 2026, BEST ORIGINAL ACTING, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT, BEST EDITING & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Behind The Algorithm

By Michelle Lynn

BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATIC VISION (Category: Screenwriter) & BEST INDIE FEAURE SCRIPT 2026

The Arcangel Of Death

By Vincenzo Amoruso

BEST ACTING, BEST ORIGINAL INSPIRATIONAL FILMMAKER & BEST INTERNATIONAL YOUNG ACTOR OF THE YEAR

A Tragedy of Riches

By Tony Cointreau

BEST INDIE BOOK 2026

Zone

By Danilo Del Tufo

BEST ORIGINAL EDITING, BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR, BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST ARTHOUSE POETRY FILM 

Virulence

By Christopher Pennington

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT OF THE YEAR, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER 2026

The Duchess

By C. Arnold Curry

BEST CINEMATIC VISION, BEST ORIGINAL DRAMA 2026, BEST FILMMAKER, BEST ACTOR, BEST ACTRESS (Category: International Drama)

American Money

By Timothy A McGhee

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2026, BEST INDIE SCREENWRITER (Category: Arthouse Screenplay) & BEST ORIGINAL CHARACTERS

Sheldon Mashugana gets stooged

By Dean Morgan

BEST INTERNATIONAL COMEDY 2026, BEST COMEDIAN OF THE YEAR & BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR (Category: Comedy)

AMERICA BOXED IN

By Ian S. Williams & Casey Williams

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE OF THE YEAR, BEST CAMERA OPEAROR, BEST PRODUCER, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING

And We Were Left Darkling

By Lynn Elliott

BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITER 2026 & BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT OF THE YEAR

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST INDIE SCREENPLAY 2026, BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER & BEST HISTORICAL SCRIPT

Pirandello’s Wife

By Lynn Elliott

BEST HUMAN RIGTS SCRIPT 2026

When Cassandra Venice speaks

By Hugo Teugels

BEST INTERNATIONAL MOVIEMAKER 2026 (Category: Experimental) & BEST INDIE PRODUCER OF THE YEAR

Mind over Matter

By Pamela PerryGoulardt

BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR, BEST EDITING, BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Super Short Film) & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SUPER SHORT FILM 2026

The Jaguar and the Dragonfly

By Pamela PerryGoulardt

BEST ORIGINAL WRITING SYLE (Category: Feature Script) & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

The Dead Ringer

By Suzanne Lutas

BEST INDIE SCREENPLAY, BEST ORIGINAL INDIE SCREENWRITER & BEST ORIGINAL CHARACTERS

A nest in My Heart

By Mira Kim

BEST ORIGINAL INDIE DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR, BEST SOUND & BEST EXPERIMENTAL CINEMATIC VISION

Not Without Gloves

By Lena Mattsson

BEST POETRY SHORT FILM 2026 & BEST ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR

The Rorschach Test

By Lena Mattsson

BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER

The Aesthetics of Failure

By Lena Mattsson

BEST EXPERIMENTAL EDITING & BEST INDIE DIRECTOR (Category: Experimental)

Omnipotent Resolution

By Uniqueness Heiress & Azia

BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC VIDEO 2026, BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR, BEST INDIE DANCE FILM, BEST ORIGINAL SOUND & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: INDIE MUSIC VIDEO)

The Stones of Rome

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST ARTHOUSE ACTOR 2026, BEST ARTHOUSE EDTING & BEST POETRY SHORT FILM

The Pathos of Hamlet

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST EXPERIMENTAL ACTING & BEST INTERNATIONAL ART SHORT FILM 2026

Brothers of Babylon

By Gabriel Womack

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SCREENPLAY 2026 & BEST INDIE SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR

Cataclysm Down Under – Hero

By Akal Demir

BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER