WINNERS GLOBAL Film Indie Critics Association Awards 2026

Union

By Whitney Hamilton

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE FEATURE 2026, BEST COSTUME DESIGN, BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST PRODUCER (Category: Narrative Feature)

No Mas

By Stephen Kelly

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT FILM 2026, BEST CAST, BEST FILMMAKER & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING (Category: Short Film)

French Broad

By Reid Barwick

BEST INTERNATIONAL PILOT TV & BEST SCREENWRITER 2026 (Category: TELEVISION SCRIPT)

Measure for Measure

By Phil Howe

BEST ORIGINAL SHORT FILM 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SHORT

Fractures In Time

By Lesley Ann Albiston

BEST FEATURE SCRIPT 2026 & BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITING STYLE

The Legend Of The Bum-Barian

By Kel Owens

BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR 2026 (Category: Narrative Short), BEST CAST, BEST SOUNDTRACK, BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: International Narrative Short)

Christmas Card

By Kel Owens

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SHORT FILM, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA, BEST INTERNATIONAL MOVIEMAKER & BEST ORGINAL SCREENWRITER 2026 (Category: Indie Narrative Short Film)

The New Immigrant- Hong Kongers

By Vivian Tsang

BEST INTERNATIONAL FIRST TIME DIRECTOR 2026, BEST YOUNG PRODUCER & BEST INDIE DOCUMENTARY

Out of control

By Bellopropello

BEST SPIRITUAL SHORT FILM, BEST POETRY FILM, BEST ORIGINAL ANIMATION & BEST INDIE FILMMAKER

Eyesolation

By Damiano Rossi

BEST ARTHOUSE EXPERIMENTAL FILM 2026, BEST EDITING E BEST CAMERA OPERATOR  

Omnipotent Resolution

By Uniqueness Heiress & Azia

BEST ORIGINAL MUSICAL 2026, BEST COSTUME DESIGNER, BEST DANCE FILM, BEST DIRECTOR & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: INDIE MUSIC VIDEO)

Cataclysm Down Under – Hero

By Akal Demir

BEST ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER

Michelangelo and Me

By Colleen Fuglaar

BEST INTERNATIONAL FANTASY SCRIPT 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER

Solo il bene

By Don Pasquale Ferone

BEST EUROPEAN INDIE MUSIC VIDEO, BEST SONG WRITER & BEST INTERNATIONAL SINGER

Doctor Hypotheses 2 – The Breakdown

By Vicentini Gomez

BEST SCREENPLAY 2026 & BEST HUMAN RIGHTS SCRIPT

American Money

By Timothy A McGhee

BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITING STYLE 2026 (Category: FEATURE SCRIPT) & BEST INDIE SCREENWRITER  

The Dead Ringer

By Suzanne Lutas

BEST ORIGINAL STORY 2026 & BEST ARTHOUSE WRITER 2026 (Category: FEATURE SCRIPT)

An Ever After Drama

By Michelle Lynn

BEST ARTHOUSE NARRATIVE SHORT 2026, BEST AMERICAN DIRECTOR 2026, BEST ACTRESS, BEST MAKE-UP & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER

Behind The Algorithm

By Michelle Lynn

BEST AMERICAN FEAURE SCRIPT 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: Screenplay)

Silver Lights: City of Dream

By Michelle Lynn

BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITER 2026 (Category: Feature Script)

I Waited for You

By Jennifer Glee

BEST INDIE DIRECTOR 2026 (Category: EXPERIMENTAL FILM) & BEST ARTHOUSE EXPERIMENTAL FILM

Staycation

By Russell Emanuel

BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR 2026, BEST ARTHOSUE NARRATIVE FEATURE, BEST SCREENPLAY, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER, BEST CATING DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

Noise

By R. Scott MacLeay

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM 2026 & BEST SOUNDTRACK

AMERICA BOXED IN

By Ian S. Williams & Casey Williams

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2026, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & FILMMAKER (Category: International Documentary Feature)

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST HISTORICAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2026 & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER

The Mongrel

By Lynn Elliott

BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST WRITING STYLE 2026 (Category: TELEVISION SCRIPT)

Thankful

By Earnest Diaz

BEST WRITER 2026 & BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT

The Little Match-Seller

By Danilo Del Tufo

BEST DIRECTOR 2026 (Category: Animation) BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT

Tom and Luce

By Muxel Paule

BEST DRAMA 2026, BEST EDITING & BEST ORIGINAL MOVIEMAKER

The Stones of Rome

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST ARTHOUSE ACTOR 2026 & BEST SPIRITUAL SHORT FILM

The Pathos of Hamlet

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST INDIE POETRY SHPORT FILM 2026 & BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA SHORT

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana

By Ken Kimmelman

BEST EDITING (Category: EXPERIMENTAL FILM), BEST INDIE FILMMAKER 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL PRODUCER  

Not Without Gloves

By Lena Mattsson

BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER 2026, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST POETIC CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: EXPERIMENTAL FILM)

The Rorschach Test

By Lena Mattsson

BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM & BEST SOUND DESIGN 

Precious the baby dragon

By Dr Dawn Menge

BEST INTERNATIONAL BOOK 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA 2026

Legends of the Land of Quails

By Dr Dawn Menge

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER 2026

Colombano e la 21esima Fetta

By Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti

BEST FILM 2026, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA, BEST HISTORICAL FILM, BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE DIRECTOR & BEST CAST

The Duchess

By C. Arnold Curry

BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA 2026, BEST ORIGINAL WRINTING SYLE & BEST INDIE SCREENWRITER

The Dragonfly Dreaming Project

By Angelena Bonet

BEST ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SHORT 2026 & BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR (Category: Documentary Short)

Malibu Madam

By Phoebe Von Satis

BEST AMERICAN INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT 2026

WINNERS Jean-Luc Godard Awards 2026

You Are Here

By Dylan Brody

BEST ARTHOUSE NARRATIVE FEATURE 2026, BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR, BEST INDIE SCREENPLAY, BEST CASTING DIRECTOR & BEST INDIE PRODUCTION COMPANY

Colombano e la 21esima Fetta

By Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti

BEST EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE FILM 2026, BEST ORIGINAL INDIE DIRECTOR & BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Narrative Feature)

Eyesolation

By Damiano Rossi

BEST INDIE EXPERIMENTAL FILM 2026 & BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2026

Omnipotent Resolution

By Uniqueness Heiress & Azia

BEST DANCE FILM 2026, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST PRODUCER, BEST EDITING, BEST MAKE-UP (Category: Dance Film) & BEST SOUND DESIGN

An Ever After Drama

By Michelle Lynn

BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE SHORT 2026, BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE DIRECTOR 2026, BEST CASTING DIRECTOR, BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTRESS 2026 & BEST AMERICAN SCREENPLAY SHORT

Behind The Algorithm

By Michelle Lynn

BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT 2026

Roses are Blind

By Wendy White

BEST THRILLER 2026 & BEST AMERICAN DIRECTOR

TinMan

By Kevin Tudor

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE NARRATIVE FEATURE 2026, BEST FILMMAKER, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST EDITOR (Category: Film)

Water

By Gary Beeber

BEST INDIE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2026 & BEST ARTHOUSE PRODUCER

Sinestesìa

By Gianni Salamone

BEST MUSIC VIDEO 2026, BEST DIRECTOR & BEST SOUND DESIGNER (Category: Indie Music Video)

Black Wolf

By Jamie Sutliff

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SHORT FILM 2026, BEST EDITING & BEST MOVIEMAKER (Category: Narrative Short Film)

Balkan Jazz

By Jacob Comforty

BEST BIOGRAPHICAL DOCUMENTARY 2026, BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER & BEST PRODUCER (Category: Indie Documentary)

I Waited for You

By Jennifer Glee

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST ORIGINAL STORY, BEST EDITOR, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST INDIE PRODUCER (Category: Indie Experimental Film)

Virulence

By Christopher Pennington

BEST SCREENWRITER 2026 (Category: FEATURE SCRIPT) & BEST PSYCHOLOGICAL DEPTH OF THE CHARACTERS

On My Special Day

By Leilani Amour Arenzana

BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE SHORT 2026, BEST CAST, BEST INDIE FILMMAKER & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SHORT

Time Boun

By Tommy Anderson

BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE & BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT 2026

Grandi cose

By Don Pasquale Ferone

BEST ORIGINAL SONG WRITER, BEST ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO & BEST SINGER

Out of control

By Bellopropello

BEST EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION, BEST INDIE PRODUCER, BEST ARTHOUSE EDITING & BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER

Legends of land of Quails House & Precious the baby dragon

By Dr Dawn Menge

BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITER 2026 (Category: BOOK), BEST WRITING STYLE & BEST ORIGINAL BOOK

We are Rivers

By Graciela Cassel

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY SHORT 2026, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST STORYTELLING & BEST INDIE PRODUCER (Category: Documentary Short)

Doctor Hyphoteses

By Vicentini Gomez

BEST ORIGINAL ACTING 2026 & BEST INTERNATIONAL ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER

The New Immigrant- Hong Kongers

By Vivian Tsang

BEST INTERNATIONAL FIRST TIME DIRECTOR 2026 & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY

Whispers in the Walls

By Ioannis Koutroubis

BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SCREENWRITER 2026

Katabasis

By Samantha Casella

BEST EUROPEAN NARRATIVE FEATURE 2026, BEST ARTHOUSE MOVIEMAKER & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

AMERICA BOXED IN

By Ian S. Williams & Casey Williams

BEST ORIGINAL EDITING, BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2026 & BEST HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY

Cataclysm Down Under – Hero

By Akal Demir

BEST INDIE MOVIEMAKER 2026, BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER & BEST ORIGINAL INDIE PRODUCER

Thankful

By Earnest Diaz

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL WRITER

Sheldon Mashugana gets Stooged

By Dean Morgan

BEST ACTOR 2026, BEST ORIGINAL COMEDY, BEST SCREENPLAY E BEST DIRECTOR (Category: International Comedy)

Ndazkoh

By Tracey Cochrane

BEST INDIE DOCUMENTARY 2026, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST PRODUCER & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: International Arthouse Documentary)

The Dead Ringer

By Suzanne Lutas

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

American Money

By Timothy A McGhee

BEST WRITER 2026, BEST ARHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST SOCIAL SCRIPT

Staycation

By Russell Emanuel

BEST PICTURE 2026, BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE FEATURE 2026, BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Narrative Feature), BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR, BEST CAST & BEST COSTUME DESIGN

The Little Match-Seller

By Danilo Del Tufo

BEST INTERNATIONAL ANIMATED SHORT FILM 2026, BEST ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR (Category: Animation) & BEST EXPERIMENTAL CINEMATOGRAPHY

Noise

By R. Scott MacLeay

BEST AMERICAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM 2026, BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER, BEST PRODUCER & BEST INSPIRATIONAL FILM

Antiquarius

By Jacek Krawczyk

BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE SHORT FILM 2026, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE DIRECTOR (Category: International Narrative Short Film)

Brothers of Babylon

By Gabriel Womack

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY 2026 & BEST AMERICAN INDIE SCREENWRITER  

Am I a painter?/Czy jestem malarzem?

By Michał Kucharski

BEST SHORT FILM 2026 (Category: ANIMATION), BEST FILMMAKER, BEST SOUND DESIGNER & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

Not Without Gloves

By Lena Mattsson

BEST EUROPEAN FILMMAKER 2026, BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST EXPERIMENTAL SCREENPLAY  

The Rorschach Test

By Lena Mattsson

BEST EXPERIMENTAL CINEMATIC VISION 2026, BEST ACTRESS & BEST ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST HISTORICAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2026 & BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER

The Mongrel

By Lynn Elliott

BEST ORIGINAL PILOT TV 2026

PIRANDELLO’S WIFE

By Lynn Elliott

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

Eye of the Storm

By Brooke Wolff

BEST AMERICAN DOCUMENTARY 2026, BEST INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKER & BEST INTERNATIONAL STORYTELLING

Bagliori – Flashes of Light

By Mattia Paone

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT FILM 2026, BEST INDIE SCREENPLAY SHORT 2026 & BEST INDIE PRODUCER

The Duchess

By Arnold Curry

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKER 2026, BEST PRODUCER & BEST DRAMA

The Stones of Rome

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT 2026 & BEST ACTING 2026

The Pathos of Hamlet

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST POETRY SHORT FILM 2026, BEST EDITING, BEST DIRECTOR & BEST EDITING (Category: Indie Experimental Short Film)

Potato Family

By Lori Hamilton

BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Indie Animated Short Film), BEST ARTHOUSE ANIMATION & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE MOVIEMAKER 2026

Mecca

By Monte Albers de Leon

BEST AMERICAN INDIE SCREENWRITER

WINNERS – Shakespeare Film Golden Gala in Venice 2026

Sixty-Minute Shakespeare Series: Hamlet

Adapted by Professor Emeritus Cass Foster

BEST FEATURE SCRIPT 2026

Water

By Gary Beeber

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2026, BEST ORIGINAL EDITING, BEST FILMMAKER, BEST PRODUCER & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR (Category: Documentary Feature)

Going Home

By TerryLee WHETSTONe

BEST MUSIC VIDEO 2026, BEST FILMMAKER & BEST PRODUCER (Category: Music Video)

Eyesolation

By Damiano Rossi

BEST ARTHOUSE EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM 2026 & BEST INDIE MOVIEMAKER

It Happened One Night In Space

By Pamela PerryGoulardt

BEST SUPER SHORT FILM 2026, BEST INDIE DIRECTOR & BEST SCREENPLAY SUPER SHORT

Omnipotent Resolution

By Uniqueness Heiress & Azia

BEST MUSICAL 2026, BEST FILMMAKER, BEST COSTUME DESIGNER, BEST DANCE FILM & BEST EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC VIDEO

The Duchess

By C. Arnold Curry

BEST ARTHOUSE DRAMA 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

Legends of land of Quails House & Precious the baby dragon

By Dr Dawn Menge

BEST ORIGINAL BOOK 2026 & BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITER

The Little Match-Seller

By Danilo Del Tufo

BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER 2026 & BEST ARTHOUSE ANIMATION

Nossos Caminhos (Our Paths)

By Carla Di Bonito

BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITER 2026 (Category: Drama Script)

The New Immigrant- Hong Kongers

By Vivian Tsang

BEST FIRST TIME DIRECTOR 2026, BEST INDIE DOCUMENTARY & BEST ARTHOUSE CINEMATOGRAPHER

Credo

By Don Pasquale Ferone

BEST POETRY SONG, BEST EUROPEAN SINGER & BEST INTERNATIONAL SONG WRITER

Planetary Rebellion

By Fabrizio Fuochi

BEST EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO 2026, BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE FILMMAKER & BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATIC VISION (Category: Music Video)

The Arcangel Of Death

By Vincenzo Amoruso

BEST ORIGINAL ACTING 2026 & BEST EUROPEAN ORIGINAL SHORT FILM

American Money

By Timothy A McGhee

BEST SCREENPLAY 2026, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER (Category: Feature Script) & BEST CHARACTERS

Cataclysm Down Under – Hero

By Akal Demir

BEST DIRECTOR 2026, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST SPIRITUAL FILM

Colombano e la 21esima Fetta

By Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti

BEST INDIE NARRATIVE FEATURE 2026, BEST HISTORICAL SCREENPLAY & BEST INDIE CINEMATOGRAPHER

Staycation

By Russell Emanuel

BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR 2026, BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE 2026, BEST ORIGINAL EDITOR, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST SOUNDTRACK

The Aesthetics of Failure

By Lena Mattsson

BEST POETRY FILM 2026 & BEST EUROPEAN INDIE DIRECTOR

Not Without Gloves

By Lena Mattsson

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKER, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST INSPIRATIONAL PROJECT

The Rorschach Test

By Lena Mattsson

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE EDITOR, BEST CINEMATIC ATMOSPHERE & BEST SOUND DESIGN

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST SOCIAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITER 2026

“Only You Can Save Her,” pilot teleplay of series THE BOY WHO EARNED HIS MAGIC

By Lynn Elliott

BEST TELEVISION SCRIPT 2026

Uncle Franco’s Birthday Suit

By Lynn Elliott

BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT

The Stones of Rome

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST EXPERIMENTAL ACTOR 2026 & BEST HISTORICAL SHORT FILM 2026

The Pathos of Hamlet

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST ORIGINAL SHORT FILM 2026 & INTERNATIONAL ACTING

The Lost Village

By Roger Paradiso

BEST INTERNATIONAL ORIGINAL DIRECTOR 2026

Cassandra Venice

By Hugo Teugels

BEST EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER 2026 & BEST EDITOR

Bagliori – Flashes of Light

By Mattia Paone

BEST SHORT FILM 2026, BEST EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER & BEST INDIE MOVIEMAKER

AMERICA BOXED IN

By Ian S. Williams & Casey Williams

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2026 & BEST INDIE DIRECTOR