Month: November 2025

Split Focus

By Cherie Carson

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST CHOREOGRAPHY & BEST PRODUCER (Category: Indie Dance Film)

Water

By Gary Beeber

BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST NEW FEATURE SCRIPT

Cataclysm Down Under – Hero

By Akal Demir

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE MOVIEMAKER, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST INDIE DIRECTOR

Queen vernita’s adventures and Queen Giggles

By Dr. Dawn Menge

BEST BOOK 2025 & BEST INDIE WRITER OF THE YEAR

American Money

By Timothy A McGhee

BEST SCREENPLAY OF THE YEAR & BEST AMERICAN ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR

Black Wolf

By Jamie Sutliff

BEST ORIGINAL INDIE SHORT & BEST CAST (Category: Narrative Short Film)

Colombano e la 21esima Fetta

By Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti

BEST CINEMATIC NEW VISION (Category: International Film), BEST ARTHOUSE MOVIEMAKER & BEST SOUND DESIGNER

Elysian Dreams

By Anaya (AnayaMusic) Kunst

BEST INTERNATIONAL VOICE, BEST DIRECTOR (Category: MUSIC VIDEO) & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Dead Ringer

By Suzanne Lutas

BEST SCREENWRITER & BEST WRITING STYLE (Category: INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SCREENPLAY)

Am I a painter?/Czy jestem malarzem?

By Michał Kucharski

BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER, BEST ORIGINAL ANIMATED SHORT & BEST EXPERIMENTAL CINEMATOGRAPHY

I Waited for You

By Jennifer Glee

BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR (Category: EXPERIMENTAL FILM), BEST ORIGINAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM & BEST SPIRITUAL FILM

Bagliori – Flashes of Light

By Mattia Paone

BEST ORIGINAL SHORT FILM 2025 & BEST INDIE MOVIMAKER OF THE YEAR

Cassandra Venice

By Hugo Teugels

BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE MOVIEMAKER OF THE YEAR

Monument to Love

By Jacob Comforty

BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Indie Documentary Feature), BEST ORIGINAL STORY, BEST EDITING & BEST INDIE PRODUCTION COMPANY

Soularis

By Janja Rakuš

BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER, BEST NEW VISION OF CINEMA, BEST EUROPEAN INDIE FILMMAKER & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

The New Immigrant- Hong Kongers

By Vivian Tsang

BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER OF THE YEAR & BEST ARTHOUSE CAMERA OPERATOR

Pearly Dreams

By Michelle Lynn

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SONG & BEST SONG WRITER

Secrets of Montmartre 2

By Michelle Lynn

BEST FEATURE SCRIPT OF THE YEAR & BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATIC VISION (Category: International Arthouse Screenplay)

Limitless in Las Vegas

By Michelle Lynn

BEST WRTING STYLE & BEST CHARACTERS

An Ever After Drama

By Michelle Lynn

BEST SHORT FILM 2025, BEST ORIGINAL ACTRESS, BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE PRODUCER & BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT  

Staycation

By Russell Emanuel

BEST PICTURE, BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE, BEST EDITING, BEST CINEMATIC VISION (Category: Film) & BEST SOUNDTRACK

Katabasis

By Samantha Casella

BEST INDIE NARRATIVE FEATURE & BEST ORIGINAL FILM 2025

Doctor Hyphoteses

By Vicentini Gomez

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE ACTOR, BEST CINEMATIC VISION (Category: Comedy) & BEST INDIE SCREENPLAY

Eye of the Storm

By Brooke Wolff

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY, BEST AMERICAN PRODUCER & BEST FILMMAKER

Thankful

By Earnest Diaz

BEST HUMAN RIGHTS FEATURE SCRIPT, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST SOCIAL SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR

The Little Match-Seller

By Danilo Del Tufo

BEST DIRECTOR 2025, BEST EDITING, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST CINEMATIC NEW VISION (Category: ANIMATION)

AMERICA BOXED IN

By Ian S. Williams & Casey Williams

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE OF THE YEAR, BEST PRODUCTION COMPANY, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST CINEMATIC VISION (Category: Documentary Feature)

Ghost Town, N.M.

By Lynn Elliott

BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE WRITER

The Quisling

By Lynn Elliott

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SCREENPLAY

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST SCREENWRITER (Category: Historical Script)

The Arcangel Of Death

By Vincenzo Amoruso

BEST INSPIRATIONAL SHORT FILM, BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE ACTOR & BEST ORIGINAL ACTING

Sheldon Mashugana gets Stooged

By Dean Morgan

BEST AMERICAN COMEDY, BEST SCREENWRITER COMEDY & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE ACTOR

Omnipotent Resolution

By Uniqueness Heiress & Azia

BEST ORIGINAL MUSICAL, BEST FILMMAKER, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Inspirational Music Video)

The Duchess

By C. Arnold Curry

BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER & BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA

Roll The dice

By Federica de Stasio

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST HISTORICAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

Iriso

By Mitsuo Kurihara

BEST ORIGINAL INDIE DIRECTOR & BEST INDIE DRAMA

A Cacophany Of Scales

By William Thinnes

BEST INDIE ANIMATED SHORT FILM

Unmaskyourlife

By Bruno Marro

BEST DIRECTOR (Category: ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO) & BEST ORIGINAL SOUND DESIGNER

Dreaming Vincent

By Christian Candido

BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM

Cataclysm Down Under – Hero

By Akal Demir

BEST INDIE PRODUCER & BEST INDIE DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR

Eye of the Storm

By Brooke Wolff

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST BIOGRAPHICAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2025 & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR

Mourning Coffee

By Denise Mack

BEST FIRST TIME DIRECTOR

Am I a painter?/Czy jestem malarzem?

By Michał Kucharski

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM 2025 & BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR

Monument to Love

By Jacob Comforty

BEST DIRECTOR 2025 (Category: Documentary Feature) & BEST PRODUCER

The New Immigrant – Hong Kongers

By Vivian Tsang

BEST INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS FILM & BEST ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR

Urban Eats MTL

By Ioannis Koutroubis

BEST INTERNATIONAL WEB/TV SERIES, BEST INDIE PRODUCER & BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER (Category: Web/Tv Series)

Cassandra Venice

By Hugo Teugels

BEST FILMMAKER, BEST PRODUCER & BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR

Love Is My Gun

By Valérie Verseau

BEST ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO

Downriver

By Andrea Boll

BEST ORIGINAL DANCE MOVIE 2025

Stay With Me

By Zsolt Pozsgai

BEST WRITER, BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

Gambia Untitled

By Xochi Blymyer

BEST INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER

Noise

By R. Scott MacLeay

BEST INDIE DIRECTOR & BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM 2025

Hotel Purgatorio

By Joey Agbayani

BEST FILMMAKER (Category: Animated film) & BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE FEATURE  

Wane Man

By Anna Morelli

BEST EUROPEAN FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER

Soularis

By Janja Rakuš

BEST INDIE DIRECTOR, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SHORT

High Screams

By Matt Townsend

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT & BEST SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR (Category: Short Script)

Ndazkoh

By Tracey Cochrane

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY & BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Documentary)

Ctabka

By Edward Bryson

BEST INTERNATIONAL THRILLER SHORT 2025

Silent Plan

By Ömer Yıldırım

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SHORT FILM, BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT

Antiquarius

By Jacek Krawczyk

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SHORT, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST PRODUCER (Category: International Narrative Short Film)

A Pilgrimage Into Tibet

By Mark Gould

BEST HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY & BEST DIRECTOR (Category: International Documentary Short)

Hide

By Ian Sciacaluga

BEST INTERNATIONAL FIRST TIME DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHY

Ragzi & The Danseuse

By Kevin Irvine

BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST INDIE SCREENWRITER

Tom and Luce

By Muxel Paule

BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER & BEST ORIGINAL DRAMA

The Flaming Cats of Sohan

By Mark Hammond

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCI/FI COMEDY & BEST ARTHOUSE MOVIEMAKER

Nossos Caminhos (Our Paths)

By Carla Di Bonito

BEST DRAMA SCRIPT 2025

Plumeria and her lost Green Knit Mouse Doll

By Lilith Ivy von Satis

BEST INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S MANUSCRIPT/BOOK

Plumeria Aesthetics

By Lilith Ivy von Satis

BEST WRITING STYLE (Category: Book/Manuscript)

Plumeria has a Tea Party With Friends

By Lilith Ivy von Satis

BEST AMERICAN WRITER 2025

Tubs loves pats

By Lilith Ivy von Satis

BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: CHILDREN’S MANUSCRIPT/BOOK)

Mother, Mother

By Micki Dickoff

BEST FILMMAKER (Category: Short Film)

Something ain’t right

By Susan Downs

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR, BEST ORIGINAL EDITING & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR

Wacko

By Matthew Roch

BEST THRILLER FEATURE FILM OF THE YEAR, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Horror)

Poo Pookudhu (From RAIL Movie) – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

By S. J. Jananiy

BEST ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 2025 & BEST SOUND DESIGNER

Days Like These

By Megan Rigoni

BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMEDY OF THE YEAR

SOLDIERS, Six Stories, Six Wars

By Tony Villani

BEST FILMMAKER (Category: Indie Documentary)

Potato Family

By Lori Hamilton

BEST INTERNATIONAL ANIMATED SHORT FILM

AMERICA BOXED IN

By Ian S. Williams & Casey Williams

BEST ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE & BEST INDIE PRODUCTION COMPANY

We are Rivers

By Graciela Cassel

BEST INDIE MOVIEMAKER, BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY SHORT & BEST EDITING

TinMan

By Kevin Tudor

BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR, BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY & BEST PRODUCER

Credo

By Don Pasquale Ferone

BEST INTERNATIONAL SINGER 2025 & BEST SPIRITUAL SONG 

Get out Breathing

By Nathan Benham

BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA & BEST SCREENWRITER

Eyesolation

By Damiano Rossi

BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER & BEST EDITING

The Dead Ringer

By Suzanne Lutas

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE WRITER 2025 (Category: FEATURE SCRIPT)

The Arcangel Of Death

By Vincenzo Amoruso

BEST ORIGINAL ACTOR & BEST INTERNATIONAL SPIRITUAL SHORT FILM

Thankful

By Earnest Diaz

BEST WRITER & BEST FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

The Little Match-Seller

By Danilo Del Tufo

BEST ORIGINAL ANIMATION & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE PRODUCER

Forevermore

By Danilo Del Tufo

BEST EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTOR (Category: Animation) & BEST ARTHOUSE ANIMATED SHORT FILM OF THE YEAR

Precious the baby dragon

By Dr Dawn Menge

BEST INTERNATIONAL BOOK

Legends of the Land of Quails

By Dr Dawn Menge

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER

Asherah’s Colors

By Gary Mazeffa

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT FILM 2025, BEST CAST & BEST AMERICAN DIRECTOR

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana

By Ken Kimmelman

BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR, BEST POETRY FILM & BEST EXPERIMENTAL EDITING

Doctor Hyphoteses

By Vicentini Gomez

BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTOR 2025 & BEST ORIGINAL ACTING

The Legend Of The Bum-Barian

By Kel Owens

BEST DIRECTOR & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER (Category: Narrative Short)

Christmas Card

By Kel Owens

BEST CAST, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: Narrative Short)

An Ever Afer Drama

By Michelle Lynn

BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST AMERICAN ACTRESS, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY& BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Secrets of Montmartre

By Michelle Lynn

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER 2025 (Category: FEATURE SCRIPT) & BEST ROMANCE SCRIPT

The Green Mill

By Michelle Lynn

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

Not Without Gloves

By Lena Mattsson

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: EXPERIMENTAL)

The Aesthetics of Failure

By Lena Mattsson

BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING

The Rorschach Test

By Lena Mattsson

BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR, BEST INSPIRATIONAL FILM & BEST ARTHOUSE ACTRESS

Thinking

By Valerie Knill

BEST ORIGINAL SHORT FILM & BEST ARTHOUSE EDITING

Paco

By Cresencio Medina

BEST ORIGINAL WRITER, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST INTERNATIONAL TV SERIES

63Geminorum

By Laura Calderini

BEST EUROPEAN SHORT SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL STORY

Walking With God

By Lois M. Banks

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE FEATURE 2025

Fractures In Time

By Lesley Ann Albiston

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER 2025, & BEST INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT

TOKYO STRANGE TALE / 僕を呼ぶ声 Boku wo Yobu Koe

By Fumitaka Otoguro

BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR (Category: Film)

A Pilgrimage Into Tibet

By Marc Gould

BEST ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY SHORT & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR

Cock Robin

By Frances Barth

BEST COMEDY OF THE YEAR & BEST SCREENWRITER CATEGORY (Comedy)

The Case of the Missing Pink Piggy

By Linda Harkey (Story Monsters Press)

BEST INDIE WRITER & BEST INDIE BOOK/MANUSCRIPT

Nice To Meet You

By Noah Kara

BEST ORIGINAL YOUNG DIRECTOR OF THE & BEST ARTHOUSE INDIE FILMMAKER 2025

French Broad

By Reid Barwick

BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER & BEST ORIGINAL PILOT TV/TELEVISION SCRIPT 2025

A Model Life

By Catherine Boruch

BEST ARTHOUSE COMEDY, BEST MOVIEMAKER & BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: International Comedy)

American Money

By Timothy A McGhee

BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST WRITING STYLE INTERNATIONAL

Out of control

By Bellopropello

BEST DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL STYLE (Category: Animated Short Film)

I Swear

By Richard VanOverbroeck

BEST ORIGINAL SOUND DESIGNER & BEST INDIE MUSIC VIDEO 2025

A New You

By James Dubbeldam

BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM

Bagliori – Flashes Of Light

By Mattia Paone

BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST ORIGINAL MOVIEMAKER & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (Category: Short Film)

I Waited For You

By Jennifer Glee

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM 2025 & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: Experimental Film)

As predicted in prophecies

By Shihyun Wang

BEST MOVIEMAKER 2025 (Category: Documentary)

The Sun Never Sets in Happenstance

By Joe Territo

BEST SCREENWRITER & BEST ARTHOUSE SHORT SCRIPT 2025

Because We Are Too Many

By Eve Leonard

BEST IINDI DRAMA OF THE YEAR

What is Wrong With This Country

By Olaf Lenz

BEST INDIE FILMMAKER

Free Birds

By Olaf Lenz

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE MOVIEMAKER 2025

The Rings

By Geoffrey Gould

BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER & BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT

The Shakespeare Plays

By Martin Keady

BEST INDIE BIOGRAPHICAL SCRIPT 2025

Chasing Truths

By Dennis Manning

BEST PICTURE, BEST LGBTQ+ FILM & & BEST SCREENPLAY

Lambada The Dance Of Fate

By Kai Fischer

BEST ARTHOUSE INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL SCREENPLAY & BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER 2025

Colombano e la 21esima Fetta

By Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti

BEST EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE FILM 2025 & BEST SCREENPLAY

Omnipotent Sesolution

By Uniqueness Heiress & Azia

BEST MUSIC VIDEO 2025, BEST INDI FILMMAKER (Category: Dance Film), BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSICAL & BEST SOUND DESIGNER (Category: MUSIC VIDEO)

Planetary Rebellion

By Fabrizio Fuochi

BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC VIDEO & BEST EUROPEAN SONG 2025

Fire Flies

By Larry Gene Fortin

BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITING STYLE

Calamity & Mercy

By Daniel W Smith

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE OF THE YEAR & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR

Garbage Rex

By Steve Hunyi

BEST ORIGINAL SHORT FILM & BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT

Revisited – Life is Short

By TerryLee WHETSTONe

BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSIC VIDEO 2025 & BEST EDITING

Power of Intimate Touch

By Les Dotson

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY SHORT OF THE YEAR

Man in a Can

By Henk Pringels

BEST FILMMAKER (Category: ANIMATION 2025)

Union

By Whitney Hamilton

BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE, BEST CAST, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR (Category: Narrative Feature)

Is He Cheating?

By Bill Morton

BEST LGBTQ+ FILM 2025

Josh’s Employment Agency of Brooklyn/the Hereafter

By Nancy Kimmel

BEST INDIE SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR (Category: International Feature Script)

Theater 8

By John Martinez

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST MOVIEMAKER

A Melody in the Bronx

By Frank Mancuso

BEST ORIGINAL THRILLER SCRIPT

The Sicilians

By Frank Mancuso

BEST AMRICAN FEATURE SCRIPT 2025 & BEST INDIE SCREENWRITER

Water

By Gary Beeber

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKER 2025 (Category: DOCUMENTARY FEATURE & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR

Amen-Amen-Amen: A Story of Our Times

By Tom Gallagher

BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR, BEST EDITING & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Roses are Blind

By Wendy White

BEST AMERICAN ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR & BEST INTERNATIONAL THRILLER OF THE YEAR

The Priory of Sion and the treasure of abbey Sauniere of Rennes the Castle France

By Florence Cazebon-Taveau

BEST HISTORICAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2025 & BEST EUROPEAN WRITER

The Mountain

By Ruth Finnegan

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER

The Girl Made of Earth and Water

By Pamela PerryGoulardt

BEST INTERNATIONAL SUPER SHORT FILM OF THE YEAR

Calamity Jane: Queen of Spades

By Pamela PerryGoulardt

BEST ORIGINAL INDIE SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR (Category: Indie Feature Script)

Running Out Of Time

By Jeremy and Christine Stork

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SONG & BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC VIDEO

Q1

By Silvano Perozic

BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING

In a Whole New Way

By Jonathan Fisher

BEST EDUCATIONAL FILM, BEST HUMAN RIGHTS FILM & DIRECTOR

Mecca

By Monte Albers de Leon

BEST BEST LGBTQ+ & BEST AMERICAN SCREENWRITER

Staycation

By Russell Emanuel

BEST INDIE DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR, BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY & BEST CASTCINEMATOGRAPHER

The Assassin’s Apprentice 2: Silbadores of the Canary Islands

By Russell Emanuel

BEST AMERICAN NARRATIVE SHORT 2025, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT, BEST CAST & BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER

Routine

By Russell Emanuel

BEST INDIE PRODUCER, BEST INDIE SHORT FILM & BEST SOUND DESIGN

Seasoning of the Soul

By Charli Brown

BEST INDIE FILMMAKER & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Croix – The Prequel: Kiss The Ring

By Charli Brown

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE MOVIEMAKER

You Are Here

By Dylan Brody

BEST ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Emergency Musical Response: Part 1 – Journey to Netherworld

By Alexander Senicki

BEST ARTHOUSE MUSICAL 2025 & BEST FILMMAKER (Category: Musical)

The G-FILES

By John Johnson

BEST ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE & DIRECTOR (Category: Indie Documentary

Sequoia Spirits

By Cherie Carson

BEST DANCE FILM OF THE YEAR & BEST SOUND DESIGNER

Indie Jax Grind

By Royce Freeman

BEST DIRECTOR & BEST INDIE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2025

The Good Americans

By Robert Tobin

BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT

Malibu Madam

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT

Only in Malibu

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST AMERICAN WRITER

Gold Glory & Nobility

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST WRITING STYLE

The Hallmark Couple

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST SCREENPLAY OF THE YEAR

Sheldon Mashugana gets Stooged

By Dean Morgan

BEST INTERNATIONAL COMEDIAN 2025 & BEST COMEDY OF THE YEAR

Dancing with Spies @Goddess

By Francis Billingsley

BEST ORIGINAL WRITER (Category: BOOK/MANUSCRIPT)

Sanctuary

By AnayaMusic Kunst

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SINGER 2025 & BEST POETRY MUSIC VIDEO

Effata

By Anaya Music Kunst 

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO 2025

The Ballad of Wonderhussy and Other Desert Tales

Michael Mayhan

BEST MUSICAL 2025, BEST DIRECTOR & BEST EDITING (Category: MUSICAL)

In Search of A P-I-G

By Keith Szarabajka

BEST SCREENWRITER, BEST INTERNATIONAL WEB/TV SERIES & BEST INDIE FILMMAKER

The Second Coming

By Keith Szarabajka

BEST COMEDY OF THE YEAR

Katabasis

By Samantha Casella

BEST EUROPEAN FILM, BEST MOVIEMAKER & BEST SCREENPLAY

Out of State-A Gothic Romance

By Victoria Bugbee

BEST INDIE NARRATIVE FEATURE

Voyage in the desert

By ΕΛΠΙΔΑ ΑΜΙΤΣΗ

BEST ORIGINAL INDIE NARRATIVE FEATURE

NeverWere: a Lycan Love Story

By Chris Ross Leong

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT

Dirty Revenge

By Gary St. Martin

BEST INTERNATIONAL PILOT TV 2025

Wild Blooms

By Cassandra Hodges

BEST TELEVISION SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWTITER (Category: Pilot TV/Television Script)

Fear not, my child

By Michaela Kuti

BEST VOICE 2025, BEST ORIGINAL SONG 2025 & BEST SONG WRITER

Hollywood Elite Podcast Episode 1 Salute to the 2025 Oscars

By Tommy Anderson Sherry Severs

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SCREENWRITER & ORIGINAL WEB/TV OF THE YEAR

Brothers of Babylon

By Gabriel Womack

BEST WRITER 2025 & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT

Virulence

By Christopher Pennington

BEST FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

See Me

By Anton Svantesson-Helkiö

BEST INDIE FILMMAKER & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

The Spiritualization of Jeff Boyd

By Uwe Schwarzwalder

BEST INDIE EUROPEAN DIRECTOR (Category: Indie NARRATIVE FEATURE)

The Duchess

By C. Arnold Curry

BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA 2025, BEST ORIGINAL WRINTING SYLE & BEST SCREENWRITER

The Golden Years

By Joseph Starzyk

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST FILMMAKER

Searching for Camelot

By Roger Paradiso

BEST INDIE DIRECTOR, BEST CAST & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE PRODUCER

Sinestesìa

By Gianni Salamone

BEST INDIE EUROPEAN DIRECTOR (Category: MUSIC VIDEO)

The Stones of Rome

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST ACTOR 2025

The Pathos of Hamlet

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST ORIGINAL ACTING & BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKER

Le Cafe De Mes Souvenirs

By Valto Baltzar

BEST INDIE DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR

Mission

By John Alden

BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT

Full Circle

By Colleen Fuglaar

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER 2025

Michelangelo and Me + Da Vinci and Me

By Colleen Fuglaar

BEST HISTORICAL SCREENPLAY & BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITING SYLER

No Mas

By Stephen Kelly

BEST INTERNATIONAL BEST SHORT FILM, BEST FILMMAKER & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING

Mikey Blue Eyes

By Stephen Kelly

BEST ORIGINAL SHORT SCRIPT

The Sea of Hope

By Walid Salhab

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM & BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER (Category: Animation)

See Me Once More，My Dear Kid

By Geyang (Elizabeth) Wang

BEST INDIE FEATURE FILM

Change The World

By Angelena Bonet

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY SHORT & BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR

Ballad of the Millennial Dream

By Yuliya Levashova

BEST INDIE SCREENPLAY SHORT

I/O (Input-Output) Proof of Concept

By Molly Vernon

BEST ARTHOUSE TELEVISION SCRIPT

Hope!

By Shaun Guzman

BEST AMERICAN INDIE DRAMA OF THE YEAR

Alone

By Shaun Guzman

BEST INDIE YOUNG SCREENWRITER 2025

Roll The dice

By Federica De Stasio

BEST EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR

The Duchess

By C. Arnold Curry

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE DRAMA, BEST FILMMAKER & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER (Category: Drama)

Out of Control

By Bellopropello

BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATED SHORT FILM & BEST INDIE FILMMAKER 2025

Urban Eats MTL

By Ioannis Koutroubis

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