Winners ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA Critics’ Choice Awards, Hollywood, LA

2025 July 30

Winners ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA Critics’ Choice Awards, Hollywood, LA

Wild Blooms

By Cassandra Hodges

BEST INTERNATIONAL PILOT TV & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWTITER (Category: Pilot TV/Television Script)

The Golden Years

By Joseph Starzyk

BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT, BEST INDIE MOVIEMAKER & BEST CASTING DIRECTOR

Calamity & Mercy

By Daniel W Smith

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENARY & BEST INDIE FILMMAKER (Category: Documentary)

In Search of A P-I-G

By Keith Szarabajka

BEST WEB/TV SERIES, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENWRITER, BEST CAST & BEST SOUND DESIGNER (Category: Web/Tv Series)

The Second Coming

By Keith Szarabajka

BEST INTERNATIONAL COMEDY SCI-FI OF THE YEAR

Fractures In Time

By Lesley Ann Albiston

BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE & BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER (Category: Feature Script)

Staycation

By Russell Emanuel

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE NARRATIVE FEATURE OF THE YEAR, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST CAST (Category: Narrative Feature)

Dirty Revenge

By Gary St. Martin

BEST ORIGINAL PILOT TV & BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR (Category: Pilot Tv)

Calamity Jane: Queen of Spades

By Pamela PerryGoulardt

BEST WRITER OF THE YEAR (Category: Indie Feature Script)

Noise

By R. Scott MacLeay

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM OF THE YEAR

Water

By Gary Beeber

BEST DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR (Category: Indie Documentary), BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2025 & BEST EDITING (Category: Documentary Feature)

Le Cafe De Mes Souvenirs

By Valto Baltzar

BEST INDIE DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR

Michelangelo and Me + Da Vinci and Me

By Colleen Fuglaar

BEST INTERNATIONAL HISTORICAL PROJECT OF THE YEAR

Hope!

By Shaun Guzman

BEST AMERICAN DRAMA OF THE YEAR

Alone

By Shaun Guzman

BEST YOUNG SCREENWRITER 2025 (Category: International Feature Script)

We are Rivers

By Graciela Cassel

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY SHORT, BEST FILMMAKER & BEST EDITING (Category: Documentary Short)

Secrets of Montmartre

By Michelle Lynn

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST AMERICAN ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER

An Ever After Drama

By Michelle Lynn

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST ACTRESS, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SHORT, BEST LOCATION & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER

The Green Mill

By Michelle Lynn

BEST ORIGINAL INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE

Q1

By Silvano Perozic

BEST FILMMAKER 2025 & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: Experimental Film)

Sanctuary

By AnayaMusic Kunst

BEST ORIGINAL SINGER

Effata

By Anaya Music Kunst 

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO 2025

Legends of the Land of Quails

By Dr Dawn Menge

BEST ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO

Precious the baby dragon

By Dr Dawn Menge

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE WRITER 2025 & BEST ORIGINAL BOON/MANUSCRIPT

No Mas

By Stephen Kelly

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

Mikey Blue Eyes

By Stephen Kelly

BEST ORIGINAL SHORT SCRIPT

The New Immigrant- Hong Kongers

By Vivian Tsang

BEST INTERNATIONAL STUDENT FILM & BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR

See me

By Anton Svantesson-Helkiö

BEST INDIE SHORT FILM, BEST SCREENWRITER, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST LOCATION, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR (Category: Narrative Short Film)

Voyage in the desert

By ΕΛΠΙΔΑ ΑΜΙΤΣΗ

BEST ORIGINAL INDIE NARRATIVE FEATURE

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana

By Ken Kimmelman

BEST AMERICAN DIRECTOR & BEST EXPERIMENTAL EDITING

Sinestesìa

By Gianni Salamone

BEST ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO & BEST EDITING (Category: International Music Video)

Other Side Of The Lens

By Sofia Mavrou & Carl Staples

BEST SHORT SCRIPT 2025

Sheldon Mashugana gets Stooged

By Dean Morgan

BEST AMERICAN ACTOR 2025 & BEST INDIE COMEDY

Love Is My Gun

By Valérie Verseau

BEST INDIE MUSIC VIDEO 2025

Am I a painter?/Czy jestem malarzem?

By Michał Kucharski

BEST INDIE FILMMAKER 2025 & BEST ARTHOUSE ANIMATED SHORT FILM

Monument to Love

By Jacob Comforty

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

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

By Florence Cazebon-Taveau

BEST HISTORICAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL INDIE WRITER

Doctor Hyphoteses

By Vicentini Gomez

BEST ARTHOUSE ACTOR 2025, BEST EXPERIMENTAL ACTING & BEST ORIGINAL COMEDIAN OF THE YEAR

Gold Glory & Nobility

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST AMERICAN SCREENPLAY 2025

The Hallmark Couple

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER & BEST HUMAN RIGHTS FEATURE SCRIPT

Only in Malibu

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

Credo

By Don Pasquale Ferone

BEST SPIRTUAL SONG & BEST EUROPEAN SINGER

The Days of Knight: Chapter 1

By John Martinez

BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE SHORT FILM 2025, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER, BEST EDITING & BEST PRODUCTION COMPANY

Lambada The Dance Of Fate

By Kai Fischer

BEST INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL SCREENPLAY & BEST INDIE SCREENWRITER

Mourning Coffee

By Denise Mack

BEST INTERNATIONAL FIRST TIME DIRECTOR

Eye of the Storm

By Brooke Wolff

BEST BIOGRAPHICAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2025, SPECIAL POSTHUMOUS AWARD TO ROBIN WILLIAMS & BEST AMERICAN FILMMAKER

The Stones of Rome

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST INSPIRATIONAL ACTOR & BEST HISTORICAL SHORT FILM

The Pathos of Hamlet

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL EDITING & BEST ARTHOUSE ACTING

Fear not, my child

By Michaela Kuti

BEST INTERNATIONAL SONG 2025, BEST INDIE SINGER & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: Song)

 . . of elephants and ladies

By Larry Gene Fortin

BEST EXPERIMENTAL SCREENWRITER 2025

Sundown In Beaver Creek

By Larry Gene Fortin

BEST PILOT TV OF THE YEAR

The Quisling

By Lynn Elliott

BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITER OF THE YEAR

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT 2025 & BEST SOCIAL FEATURE SCRIPT

Hollywood Elite Podcast Episode 1 Salute to the 2025 Oscars

By Tommy Anderson Sherry Severs

BEST ORIGINAL WEB/TV SERIES 2025

NeverWere: a Lycan Love Story

By Chris Ross Leong

BEST FEATURE SCRIPT, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SCREENWRITER

The Dead Ringer

By Suzanne Lutas

BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT

Mecca

By Monte Albers de Leon

BEST AMERICAN FILMMAKER 2025 & BEST LGBTQ+ PROJECT

Forevermore

By Danilo Del Tufo

BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR, BEST INDIE PRODUCER & BEST INTERNATIONAL ANIMATED SHORT FILM

Virulence

By Christopher Pennington

BEST WRITING STYLE & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT

The Rorschach Test

By Lena Mattsson

BEST IEUROPEAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM & BEST SPIRITUAL CINEMATOGRAPHY

Not Without Gloves

By Lena Mattsson

BEST DIRECTOR & BEST ACTRESS (Category: Experimental Film)

The Spiritualization of Jeff Boyd

By Uwe Schwarzwalder

BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Indie Film), BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Narrative Feature), BEST CASTING DIRECTOR & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE NARRATIVE FEATURE

The Duchess

By C. Arnold Curry

BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA 2025 & BEST SCREENWRITER

Katabasis

By Samantha Casella

BEST EUROPEAN PICTURE, BEST ARTHOUSE PRODUCER, BEST SOUND DESIGNER, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST MAKE-UP

Cassandra Venice

By Hugo Teugels

BEST INDIE ORIGINAL PROJECT & BEST INDIE PRODUCTION COMPANY

Something ain’t right

By Susan Downs

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

Searching for Camelot

By Roger Paradiso

BEST INDIE DIRECTOR, BEST CAST & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE PRODUCER

The Arcangel Of Death

By Vincenzo Amoruso

BEST INTERNATIONAL YOUNG ACTOR & BEST EUROPEAN INDIE SHORT FILM

Uncle Franco’s Birthday Suit

By Lynn Elliott

BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL WRITER

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST HISTORICAL FEATURE SCRIPT OF THE YEAR

Ghost Town, N.M.

By Lynn Elliott

BEST INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST WRITING STYLE

Wacko

By Matthew Roch

BEST PICTURE 2025, BEST INDIE MOVIEMAKER, BEST CAST, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST AMERICAN INDIE PRODUCTION COMPANY

Omnipotent Resolution

By Uniqueness Heiress & Azia

BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSIC VIDEO, BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Dance Film), BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSICAL & BEST SPIRITUAL SHORT FILM

Nossos Caminhos (Our Paths)

By Carla Di Bonito

BEST HUMAN RIGHTS SCREENPLAY 2025 & BEST ORIGINAL DRAMA SCRIPT

Flashes of Light (Bagliori)

By Mattia Paone

BEST EUROPEAN NARRATIVE SHORT 2025 & BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR

Brothers of Babylon

By Gabriel Womack

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST WRITING STYLE

Thankful

By Earnest Diaz

BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITER 0F THE YEAR

Running Out Of Time

By Jeremy and Christine Stork

BEST INDIE SONG & BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC VIDEO 2025