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Freedoms Under Assault

By Jacob Comforty & Robert Arnove

BEST GLOBAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2026, BEST STORYTELLER, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST PRODUCER & BEST SOUND DESIGNER (Category: Indie Documentary Feature)

Vertigo Mix Art Clic Drippin

By Sylvie Kay

BEST VISIONARY DANCE MOVIE OF THE YEAR, BEST GLOBAL CHOREOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR, BEST DIRECTOR 2026 (Category: Dance Movie) & BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHER

Pretty Little Lucy

By David Williamson

BEST GLOBAL THRILLER SCRIPT 2026, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR, BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY (Category: Crime), BEST NOIR SCRIPT & BEST UNIVERSAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2026

Bad Influence/ Mauvaise Influence

By Aurélie Latona

BEST GLOBAL INDIE DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR, BEST EUROPEAN STORYTELLER, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: Super Short Film) & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING

French Broad

By Reid Barwick

BEST SCREENWRITER 2026 (Category: Arthouse Feature Script), BEST BEST PSYCHOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE CHARACTERS & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Thinking

By Valerie Knill

BEST GLOBAL SUPER SHORT FILM 2026, BEST FILMMAKER, BEST STORYTELLER & BEST CINEMATIC VISION (Category: International Super Short Film)

Plandemic: Tribunal

By Chris Ross Leong

BEST NEW WRITING STYLE, BEST ORIGINAL STORY, BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL THEME (Category: International Screenwriter)

Out of Control

By Bellopropello

BEST GLOBAL DIRECTOR (Category: Video Poetry), BEST VISIONARY STORYTELLER, BEST ARTHOUSE INDIE PRODUCER & BEST EXPERIMENTAL CINEMATOGRAPHER

The Revenge Club

By Marla Eaton

BEST GLOBAL SHORT SCRIPT 2026, BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER 2026 (Category: Short Script) & BEST ORIGINAL STORYTELLER

The Novice

By Vincenzo Amoruso

BEST ORIGINAL ACTING & BEST NEW WAVE ACTOR 2026

American Money

By Timothy A McGhee

BEST GLOBAL VISIONARY WRITER, BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATIC VISION (Category: Feature Script) & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR

Not Without Gloves

By Lena Mattsson

BEST UNIVERSAL EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM 2026, BEST EUROPEAN PRODUCER & BEST POETIC EDITING

The Beauty in a Restless Mind

By Lena Mattsson

BEST EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTOR 2026, BEST ARTHOUSE EDITING & BEST VIDEO POETRY 2026

The Rorschach Test

By Lena Mattsson

BEST INSPIRATIONAL SHORT FILM & BEST ACTRESS 2026

The Aesthetics of Failure

By Lena Mattsson

BEST VISIONARY FILMMAKER 2026, BEST SPIRITUAL SHORT FILM & BEST SOUND

Colombano & La 21esima Fetta

By Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE DIRECTOR, BEST HISTORICAL FILM, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST CINEMATIC VISION

The Duchess

By C. Arnold Curry

BEST ARTHOUSE DRAMA 2026, BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR 2026 (Category: Drama), BEST EDITING, BEST ACTING (Category: International Drama)

Staycation

By Russell Emanuel

BEST GLOBAL MOVIE 2026, BEST DIRECTOR (Category: NARRATIVE FEATURE), BEST SCREENWRITER, BEST SCREENPLAY, BEST SOUND DESIGNER, BEST ORIGINAL STORYTELLER, BEST PRODUCTION COMPANY, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING

The Pathos of Hamlet

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST EXPERIMENTAL ACTING, BEST INDIE ART FILM & BEST GLOBAL SPIRITUAL SHORT FILM 2026

The Stones of Rome

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST ORIGINAL INDIE ACTOR & BEST HISTORICAL SHORT FILM 2026

My heads f*cked

By Fabia Cerra

BEST ORIGINAL MOBILE FILM 2026, BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER & BEST NEW CINEMATIC VISION

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana

By Ken Kimmelman

BEST ORIGINAL VIDEO POETRY 2026, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER, BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM DIRECTOR 2026 & BEST SOUND

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST HISTORICAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2026 & BEST GLOBAL SCREENWRITER

The Mongrel

By Lynn Elliott

BEST INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION SCRIPT 2026

Pirandello’s Wife

By Lynn Elliott

BEST DRAMA 2026, BEST BIOGRAPHICAL SCRIPT 2026 & BEST INDIE WRITER

Hope is Not a Black and White Rainbow

By Harold Brown

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2026, BEST NEW WRITING STYLE & BEST ARTHOUSE ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER

The New Immigrant- Hong Kongers

By Vivian Tsang

BEST INTERNATIONAL FIRST TIME DIRECTOR 2026, BEST ORIGINAL YOUNG FILMMAKER 2026, BEST STORYTELLER (Category: Documentary) & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR

Creators – 2

By Shamil Aliyev

BEST INDIE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2026 & BEST INTERNATIONAL EDITING (Category: Documentary)

Bellatrix

By Jacek Krawczyk

BEST CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVE SHORT 2026, BEST INNOVATIVE FILMMAKER 2026, BEST EDITING, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST AUTEUR VISION 2026 (Category: Narrative Short)

The Circle

By Theodora Kotsi-Felici

BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM, BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER & BEST EDITING (Category: Experimental Film)

Chasing music

By Catherine Boruch

BEST INDIE FILMMAKER, BEST EDITING & BEST ORIGINAL STORYTELLER (Category: Documentary Short)

Full Circle

By Colleen Fuglaar

BEST CONTEMPORARY SCREENWRITER (Category: International Thriller Script), BEST INNOVATIVE WRITING STYLE 2026 & BEST AUTEUR VISION (Category: Indie Screenwriter)

Unpromised Land

By Damiano Rossi

BEST ORIGINAL THEME, BEST EMOTIONAL IMPACT (Category: Global Educational Film Project) & BEST CREATIVE VISION

Pretty Little Lucy

By David Williamson

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER 2026 (Category: Thriller Script), BEST GLOBAL CRIME SCRIPT, BEST WRITING STYLE & BEST PSYCHOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE CHARACTERS (Category: International Crime Script)

One Such Child

By Wendy White

BEST INTERNATIONAL SONG OF THE YEAR, BEST SONG WRITER 2026 & BEST INTERNATIONAL SOUND

The Giant

By Kevin B Ploth

BEST INTERNATIONAL STORYTELLING (Category: Television Script), BEST CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT & BEST GLOBAL PILOT TV 2026

Precious the baby dragon

By Dawn Menge

BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITER (Category: Children’s Book) & BEST EMOTIONAL IMPACT (Category: International Book)

Non dimenticare il poeta

By Fabrizio Fuochi

BEST EUROPEAN SONG 2026, BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Music Video) & BEST ARTHOUSE SONG WRITER

Novice

By Vincenzo Amoruso

BEST GLOBAL ACTING, BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTOR 2026 & BEST EXPERIMENTAL CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Dead Ringer

By Suzanne Lutas

BEST INDIE SCREENPLAY 2026, BEST ORIGINAL INDIE WRITER, BEST CINEMATIC VISION (Category: International Feature Script) & BEST ARTHOUSE WRITING STYLE

Kev Franzi – Works 80 Years in the Film Industry HD

By Dianne Lang

BEST AUTHORIAL IDENTITY (Category: Documentary), BEST UNIVERSAL DOCUMENTARY SHORT 2026, BEST FILMMAKER OF THE YEAR (Category: International Documentary Short) 6 BEST INTERNATIONAL EDITOR

American Money

By Timothy A McGhee

BEST ORIGINAL STORY STRUCTURE, BEST CHARACTERS DEVELOPMENT & BEST INTERNATIONAL INNOVATIVE WRITER 2026

Down The Rabbit Hole

By Sean Waldron

BEST ARTHOUSE ACTOR 2026 & BEST VISIONARY INDIE FILM PROJECT

The New Immigrant- Hong Kongers

By Vivian Tsang

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE FIRT TIME DIRECTOR, BEST GLOBAL DOCUMENTARY SHORT OF THE YEAR & BEST EDITOR 2026 (Category: Underground Documentary Short)

The Duchess

By C. Arnold Curry

BEST GLOBAL CAST 2026, BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE DRAMA 2026, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST ARTHOUSE STORYTELLER (Category: Drama)

Doctor Hypotheses 2 – The Breakdown

By Vicentini Gomez

BEST INTERNATIONAL UNDERGROUNG SCRIPT OF THE YEAR & BEST ORIGINAL GLOBAL WRITER

Staycation

By Russell Emanuel

BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE 2026, BEST STORYTELLER, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST EDITOR (Category: Global Narrative Feature), BEST ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK, BEST UNIVERSAL SCREENPLAY, BEST VISIONARY IDEA, BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST ARTHOUSE PRODUCTION COMPANY (Category: International Indie Film)

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana

By Ken Kimmelman

BEST GLOBAL EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTOR 2026, BEST STORYTELLER, BEST EXPERIMENTAL CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST ORIGINAL EDITING & BEST PRODUCER

Pirandello’s Wife

By Lynn Elliott

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE WRITER & BEST INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2026

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST GLOBAL SCREENPLAY 2026, BEST HUMAN RIGHTS SCRIPT & BEST AMERICAN SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR

Uncle Franco’s Birthday Suit

By Lynn Elliott

BEST COMEDY SCRIPT OF THE YEAR & BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE

Bad Influence/ Mauvaise Influence

By Aurélie Latona

BEST EXPERIMENTAL SUPER SHORT FILM OF THE YEAR, BEST EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE MOVIEMAKER & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: Indie Narrative Short Film)

Plandemic: Tribunal

By Chris Ross Leong

BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE WRITER 2026, BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT, BEST CINEMATIC VISION (Category: Global Screenplay)

The Beauty in a Restless Mind

By Lena Mattsson

BEST GLOBAL VIDEO POETRY OF THE YEAR, BEST EXPERIMENTAL PERSPECTIVE & BEST VISIONARY INDIE FILMMAKER 2026

The Pathos of Hamlet

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST EXPERIMENTAL ACTOR 2026 & BEST CINEMATIC NEW VISION

The Stones of Rome

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST UNIVERSAL INDIE FILMMAKER, BEST ORIGINAL EDITING & BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE ACTING

My Hollywood Circus

By Roger Paradiso

BEST CONTEMPORARY AUTHOR 2026 (Category: Book), BEST GLOBAL BOOK 2026 & BEST INTERNATIONAL LITERY VOICE 2026

Freedoms Under Assault

By Jacob Comforty & Robert Arnove 

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2026, BEST STORYTELLING, BEST ORIGINAL EDITING, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST INDIE DIRECTOR (Category: Indie Documentary Feature)

The Cassandra Venice Project

By Hugo Teugels

BEST INTERNATIONAL MOVIEMAKER (Category: Experimental Video Project), BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST INDIE PRODUCER

The Sixty-Minute Shakespeare Series

Adapted By Cass Foster, Professor Emeritus

BEST EDUCATIONAL SCRIPT 2026

The Great Animal Escape — A Multimedia Literary Adaptation Book • Musical/Themed Music Adaptation • STORY MONSTERS® LITTLE READ-ALONGS™

Written by Linda Harkey – Illustrated by Jeff Yesh Music and Lyrics by Zachary R. Simpson – Performed by Erin Rementer Narrated by Stewart Davis STORY MONSTERS® LITTLE READ-ALONGS™ produced by Studio Story Monster®, a division of Story Monsters® LLC Published by Story Monsters Press®

BEST INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN BOOK & BEST ORIGINAL THEME SONG 2026

The Case of the Missing Pink Piggy — A Multimedia Literary Adaptation Book • Children’s Narrated Read-Along • Original Theme Song Credits

Written by Linda Harkey Illustrated by Mike Minick Narrated by Jimmy Dymott STORY MONSTERS® LITTLE READ-ALONGS™ produced by Studio Story Monster®, a division of Story Monsters® LLC Published by Story Monsters Press

BEST INTERNATIONAL MULTIMEDIA LITERARY ADAPTATION 2026

N-W-G (New World Gangsters)

By John Snell

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER 2026 (Category: Action), BEST GLOBAL ACTION SCRIPT, BEST WRITING STYLE & BEST PSYCHOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE CHARACTERS (Category: International Crime Script)

The Dead Ringer

By Suzanne Lutas

BEST CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT & BEST INNOVATIVE SCREENPLAY 2026

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana

By Ken Kimmelman

UNIVERSAL VIDEO POETRY OF THE YEAR, BEST ORIGINAL PERSPECTIVE, BEST VISIONARY INDIE SCREENWRITER & BEST INDIE PRODUCER (Category: Arthouse Video Poetry)

Fractures In Time

By Lesley Ann Albiston

BEST STORY STRUCTURE, BEST VISUAL STORYTELLING (Category: International Feature Script), BEST CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT & BEST INNOVATIVE WRITER 2026

Breathe

By Alison Somilleda

BEST CONTEMPORARY DIRECTOR (Category: International Experimental Short Film), BEST INNOVATIVE FILMMAKER 2026, BEST EXPERIMENTAL EDITING & BEST AUTEUR VISION 2026

America Boxed In

By Ian S. Williams & Casey Williams

BEST INVESTIGATIVE DOCUMENTARY 2026, BEST GLOBAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE, BEST AUTHORIAL VOICE (Category: Documentary) & BEST CREATIVE IDENTITY

Plandemic: Tribunal

By Chris Ross Leong

BEST THEME, BEST EMOTIONAL IMPACT (Category: International Feature Script) & BEST CREATIVE VISION

Virulence

By Christopher Pennington

BEST AUTHORIAL IDENTITY (Category: International Feature Script), BEST SUSPENSE (Category: Indie Screenplay) & BEST VISIONARY PLOT

The Spiritualization of Jeff Boyd

By Uwe Schwarzwalder

BEST INTERNATIONAL VISIONARY FILM OF THE YEAR, BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Narrative Feature), BEST SUSPENSE, BEST ATMOSPHERE, BEST CAST, BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SCREENWRITER (Category: Global Film)

And The Devil called!

By Patricia Poulos

BEST HORROR SCREENWRITER 2026, BEST ATMOSPHERE, BEST CONTEMPORARY HORROR SCRIPT & ORIGINAL SUSPENSE

I Waited for You

By Jennifer Glee

BEST EXPERIMENTAL SCREENWRITER, BEST POETRY FILM OF THE YEAR & BEST EMOTIONAL IMPACT (Category: Experimental Film)

In 2 Minds

By Fabia Cerra

BEST CONTEMPORARY AUTHOR 2026 (Category: Book), BEST ORIGINAL CONCEPT, BEST GLOBAL BOOK 2026 &  BEST INTERNATIONAL LITERY VOICE 2026

The New Immigrant- Hong Kongers

By Vivian Tsang

BEST AUTHORIAL IDENTITY (Category: Documentary Short), BEST NEW VOICE OF THE INTERNATIONAL CINEMA, BEST VISIONARY FIRST TIME DIRECTOR 2026, BEST UNIVERAL DOCUMENTARY SHORT OF THE YEAR

Thankful

By Earnest Diaz

BEST GLOBAL WRITER 2026, BEST HUMAN RIGHTS SCREENPLAY & BEST ORIGINAL STORY

The Singer

By Ela Ilham von Schöning

BEST VISIONARY FEATURE SCRIPT OF THE YEAR, BEST EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER 2026 & BEST PSYCHOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE CHARACTERS (Category: International Feature Script)

Pretty Little Lucy

By David Williamson

BEST CONCEPT, BEST DIALOGUE, BEST GLOBAL THRILLER & BEST STORYTELLER 2026

Staycation

By Russell Emanuel

BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE 2026, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER, BEST EMOTIONAL IMPACT (Category: Film), BEST INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKER 2026 (Category: Narrative Feature Film), BEST ARTHOUSE PRODUCER, BEST DIALOGUE SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR, BEST CASTING DIRECTOR & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE PRODUCTION COMPANY

The Beauty in a Restless Mind

By Lena Mattsson

BEST AUTEUR VISION, BEST AVANT-GARDE DIRECTOR & BEST INNOVATIVE DIRECTOR 2026

Master Heist – A True Christmas Fiction

By Kai Fischer

BEST GLOBAL SCREENPLAY STRUCTURE, BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE WRITER, BEST UNEXPECTED ENDING & BEST ORIGINAL PLOT

The James Crow Hotel

By Terri Battee

BEST CRIME SUSPENSE WRITER 2026, BEST AUTHORIAL VOICE, BEST CONTEMPORARY VISIONARY SCREENWRITER & BEST CHARACTER DEVELOPLMENT (Category: Crime Script)

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST HISTORICAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL STORYTELLING

Pirandello’s Wife

By Lynn Elliott

BEST INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL SCRIPT 2026 & BEST WRITER (Category: Drama Script)

Once There Were Stories

By Lynn Elliott

BEST AMERICAN ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT 2026 & BEST INDIE WRITER

Doctor Hypotheses 2 – The Breakdown

By Vicentini Gomez

BEST STORY STRUCTURE (Category: International Screenplay) BEST CREATIVE IDENTITY, BEST INNOVATIVE SCREENWRITER 2026 & BEST ARTISTIC VISION

The Stones of Rome

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST ACTING PERMORMANCE, BEST NARRATIVE VOICE & BEST EXPERIMENTAL INDIE ACTOR 2026

The Pathos of Hamlet

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST CONTEMPORARY INTERPRETATION OF SHAKESPEARE & BEST UNIVERSAL ACTOR 2026

American Money

By Timothy A McGhee

BEST DRAMA WRITER OF THE YEAR, BEST SCREENPLAY STRUCTURE & BEST SCENE WRITING

The Jaguar and the Dragonfly

By Pamela PerryGoulardt

BEST CONTEMPORARY SCREENWRITER (Category: Short Script), BEST ARTHOUSE STORYTELLER & BEST STORY STRUCTURE (Category: International Short Script)

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

By Florence Cazebon-Taveau

BEST HISTORICAL RECONSTRUCTION, BEST INTERPRETATION OF HISTORICAL EVENTS & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE STORYTELLER 2026