Category: Senza categoria

From Shattered to Strong: A Long Way Forward

By Darrelle Radcliff

BEST UNIVERSAL SCREENWRITER 2026 (Category: International Feature Script), BEST INDIE HUMAN RIGHTS ORIGINAL SCRIPT & BEST GLOBAL SOCIAL SCREENPLAY

Remnant

By Mike Horan

BEST ARTHOUSE ORIGINAL NARRATIVE FEATURE, BEST INDIE MOVIEMAKER 2026, BEST CASTING DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Arthouse Film), BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATIC VISION (Category: Indie Film) & BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: Arthouse Film)

I Swear

By Richard VanOverbroeck

BEST GLOBAL INDIE MUSIC VIDEO 2026, BEST FILMMAKER, BEST EDITING & BEST SOUND DESIGNER (Category: International Arthouse Music Video)

Virulence

By Christopher Pennington

BEST ARTHOUSE ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2026, BEST STORYTELLER (Category: Screenplay) & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: International Screenplay)

Stalker Hair Twirl

By Faye Fayerman

BEST ARTHOUSE EXPERIMENTAL CINEMATIC VISION, BEST INDIE DIRECTOR, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST EDITING (Category: Indie Experimental Film)

Ghost Executioners 2

By Jimmy Wienholz

BEST VISIONARY INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

The Spiritualization of Jeff Boyd

By Uwe Schwarzwalder

BEST FILM OF THE YEAR, BEST DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR, BEST ARTHOUSE INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY (Category: Arthouse Narrative Feature), BEST CAST, BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST SOUNDTRACK

The San Quentin News

By Thomas W. Bolema

BEST ARTHOUSE SCRIPT OF THE YEAR & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER (Category: Indie Feature Script)

Meet My Pet Monster

By James Storm

BEST AMERICAN NARRATIVE FEATURE 2026, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENWRITER, BEST ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK, BEST PRODUCER, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Indie Film)

Operation: Black Sphere

By Paul Brenno

BEST INTERNATIONAL AI SHORT FILM OF THE YEAR, BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR & BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: AI SHORT FILM)

French Broad

By Reid Barwick

BEST INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION SCRIPT, BEST UNIVERSAL SCREENWRITER (Category: Pilot TV) & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: Television Script)

Drawn Home

By Camy De Mario

BEST UNIVERSAL DIRECTOR 2026 (Category: Animated Short Film), BEST GLOBAL ANIMATED SHORT FILM 2026, BEST INDIE PRODUCER & BEST ORIGINAL STORY

Precious the baby dragon

By Dawn Menge

BEST ARTHOUSE BOOK OF THE YEAR, BEST ORIGINAL STORY & BEST INTERNATIONAL VISIONARY WRITER 2026

My Hollywood Circus

By Roger Paradiso

BEST HUMAN RIGHTS BOOK 2026, BEST GLOBAL WRITER & BEST WRITING STYLE

Esperándote

By Jesus Schettino

BEST INDIE FIRST TIME DIRECTOR 2026, BEST INTERNATINAL STORYTELLER 2026, BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (Category: Global First Time Director)

Brothers of Babylon

By Gabriel Womack

BEST INTERNATIONAL ORIGINAL WRITER 2026, BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITING STYLE, BEST GLOBAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2026

Noise

By R. Scott MacLeay

BEST GLOBAL EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTOR, BEST EDITOR, BEST SOUND (Category: Arthouse Experimental Film) & BEST INSPIRATIONAL STORYTELLER

Plandemic: Tribunal

By Chris Ross Leong

BEST GLOBAL ARTHOUSE SCREENPLAY 2026, BEST VISIONARY FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST WRITER 2026

Wisdom’s Teeth

By Daniel Arreola

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT 2026, BEST GLOBAL SCREENWRITER, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST VISIONARY WRITING STYLE (Category: Short Script)

Staycation

By Russell Emanuel

BEST GLOBAL NARRATIVE FEATURE 2026, BEST CAST, BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR (Category: Narrative Feature Film), BEST PRODUCER, BEST SOUND DESIGNER, BEST INTERNATIONAL VISIONARY SCREENPLAY, BEST COSTUME DESIGNER & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: Film)

3327 Il figlio dei fulmini (Nikola Tesla) / The Son of Lightning

By Mariano Tamburrini

BEST BIOGRAPHICAL SHORT FILM, BEST GLOBAL NARRATIVE SHORT FILM & BEST EUROPEAN INDIE DIRECTOR

I Waited for You

By Jennifer Glee

BEST GLOBAL DIRECTOR (Category: Experimental Film), BEST ARTHOUSE EXPERIMENTAL FILM 2026 & BEST VIDIONARY EDITING (Category: International Experimental Editing)

Normal Thoughts From A Strange Mind: Session A

By L. S. Strange

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST PSYCHOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE CHARACTERS (Category: International Feature Script)

The Duchess

By C. Arnold Curry

BEST UNIVERSAL DRAMA OF THE YEAR, BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR 2026 (Category: Global Drama), BEST ORIGINAL EDITING & BEST CAST (Category: International Drama)

Tipping Point

By L. Scooter Morris

BEST VISIONARY INDIE FILMMAKER 2026, BEST GLOBAL SUPER SHORT FILM 2026, BEST EDITING & BEST HUMAN RIGHTS STORYTELLER

American Money

By Timothy A McGhee

BEST INDIE THRILLER SCRIPT 2026, BEST UNIVERSAL WRITER & BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATIC VISION (Category: Screenplay)

Thinking

By Valerie Knill

BEST ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR, BEST EDITING & BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHER (Category: Indie Super Short Film)

The Cassandra Venice Project

By Hugo Teugels

BEST UNIVERSAL ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR, BEST EUROPEAN PRODUCER, BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST INDIE STORYTELLER

America Boxed In

By Ian S. Williams & Casey Williams

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

Secrets of the Forbidden City

By Pamela PerryGoulardt

BEST UNIVERAL INDIE SHORT SCRIPT 2026, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER (Category: International Short Script)

Hope is Not a Black and White Rainbow

By Harold Brown

BEST GLOBAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2026, BEST SOCIAL SCRIPT & BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER 2026

Unpromised Land

By Damiano Rossi

BEST INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL SHORT FILM OF THE YEAR & BEST GLOBAL ARTHOUSE EXPERIMENTAL MOVIEMAKER  

Out of State-A Gothic Romance

By Victoria Bugbee

BEST INDIE NARRATIVE FEATURE FILM 2026, BEST INDIE DIRECTOR, BEST ROMANCE SCREENPLAY, BEST ARTHOUSE NARRATIVE FEATURE OF THE YEAR, BEST CAST, BEST COSTUME DESIGNER & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING (Category: International Narrative Feature)

The Dead Ringer

By Suzanne Lutas

BEST UNIVERSAL SCREENPLAY 2026, BEST ARTHOUSE WRITER, BEST CINEMATIC VISION (Category: International Feature Script) & BEST INDIE STORYTELLER

The New Immigrant- Hong Kongers

By Vivian Tsang

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY SHORT 2026, BEST CAMERA OPERATOR, BEST EDITOR (Category: Global Short Documentary) & BEST FIRST TIME DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR 

Out of Control

By Bellopropello

BEST UNIVERSAL VISIONARY INDIE DIRECTOR, BEST POETRY ANIMATED SHORT FILM 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SHORT

Heaven

By AnayaMusic Kunst

BEST GLOBAL SINGER, BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSIC VIDEO, BEST FILMMAKER 2026 & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: Music Video)

Novice

By Vincenzo Amoruso

BEST GLOBAL ACTOR 2026, BEST UNIVERSAL ACTING 2026 & BEST PSYCHOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE CHARACTER

Master Heist – A True Christmas Fiction

By Kai Fischer

BEST UNIVERSAL SCREENPLAY 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE

Bad Influence/ Mauvaise Influence

By Aurélie Latona

BEST UNIVERSAL VIDEO POETRY, BEST ORIGINAL MOVIEMAKER & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: Global Super Short Film)

The Beauty in a Restless Mind

By Lena Mattsson

BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM 2026 & BEST SPIRITUAL FILM PROJECT OF THE YEAR

Not Without Gloves

By Lena Mattsson

BEST INDIE VISIONARY SHORT FILM & BEST ARTHOUSE ORIGINAL STORYTELLER

The Rorschach Test

By Lena Mattsson

BEST GLOBAL INDIE INSPIRATIONAL FILMMAKER, BEST SOUND & BEST EDITING

The Aesthetics of Failure

By Lena Mattsson

BEST POETRY SHORT FILM 2026, BEST SOUND & BEST EUROPEAN SHORT FILM 2026

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT, BEST HISTORICAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: Indie Feature Script)

Pirandello’s Wife

By Lynn Elliott

BEST UNIVERSAL BIOGRAPHICAL SCRIPT 2026 & BEST INDIE WRITER (Category: International Drama Script)

The Script, A Celtic Horror Tale

By Lynn Elliott

BEST GLOBAL HORROR SCRIPT 2026, BEST WRITER & BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITING STYLE (Category: Horror Script)

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

By Lynn Elliott

BEST ARTHOUSE TELEVISION SCRIPT & BEST PILOT TV 2026

Michelangelo and Me and da Vinci and Me opener

By Colleen Fuglaar

BEST ORIGINAL INDIE WRITER 2026, BEST GLOBAL FANTASY SCRIPT & BEST ARTHOUSE VISIONARY SCREENPLAY

The Stones of Rome

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST VISIONARY ACTOR 2026, BEST ARTHOUSE HISTORICAL SHORT FILM 2026 & BEST EDITING (Category: Poetry Film)

The Pathos of Hamlet

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST ORIGINAL ACTING & BEST GLOBAL ARTHOUSE ACTOR 2026

Vertigo Mix Art Clic Drippin

By Sylvie Kay

BEST ARTHOUSE DANCE MOVIE, BEST EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC VIDEO & BEST INTERNATIONAL CHOREOGRAPHER 2026

Doctor Hypotheses 2 – The Breakdown

By Vicentini Gomez

BEST INDIE SCREENPLAY 2026 & BEST CINEMATIC VISION (Category: Global Screenwriter)

A Child’s Voice

By Karen Matthews

BEST INDIE TELEVISION SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

Meet Me on a Rock

By Marie Bryan

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SHORT FILM, BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER 2026, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT, BEST CAST & BEST SOUNDTRACK (Category: Narrative Short)

Hope is Not a Black and White Rainbow

By Harold Brown

BEST INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SCRIPT, BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE & BEST UNIVERSAL ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER 2026

Esperándote

By Jesus Schettino

BEST FIRST TIME VISIONARY DIRECTOR 2026, BEST ARTHOUSE CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (Category: International First Time Director)

Pretty Little Lucy

By David Williamson

BEST GLOBAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2026, BEST THRILLER SCRIP OF THE YEAR & BEST ORIGINAL STORY

Unpromised Land

By Damiano Rossi

BEST EUROPEAN VISUAL ARTIST 2026, BEST UNIVERSAL STORYTELLER & BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: Global Experimental Film)

Vertigo Mix Art Clic Drippin

By Sylvie Kay

BEST INTERNATIONAL DANCER 2026, BEST ORIGINAL DANCE MOVIE & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SOUND

Riding on Duke’s Train

By Ken Kimmelman – Based on a book by Mick Carlon

BEST ARTHOUSE INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY 2026 & BEST PSYCHOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE CHARACTERS

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana

By Ken Kimmelman

BEST AMERICAN STORYTELLER, BEST INTERNATIONAL VIDEO POETRY 2026, BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR

Kev Franzi – Works 80 Years in the Film Industry HD

By Dianne Lang

BEST UNIVERSAL DOCUMENTARY SHORT 2026, BEST FILMMAKER OF THE YEAR (Category: International Documentary Short), BEST ORIGINAL EDITOR & BEST STORYTELLER (Category: Indie Documentary Short)

The James Crow Hotel

By Terri Battee

BEST UNIVERSAL ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER 2026 & BEST GLOBAL THRILLER SCRIPT OF THE YEAR

American Money

By Timothy A McGhee

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

Precious the baby dragon

By Dawn Menge

BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE (Category: Book), BEST UNIVERSAL FANTASY BOOK & BEST VISIONARY WRITER OF THE YEAR

The Novice

By Vincenzo Amoruso

BEST INTERNATIONAL YOUNG ACTOR OF THE YEAR, BEST UNIVERSAL ACTING & BEST EXPERIMENTAL ARTHOUSE ACTING

Freedoms Under Assault

By Jacob Comforty & Robert Arnove 

BEST UNIVERSAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2026, BEST HISTORICAL ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY & BEST DIRECTORS (Category: Global Documentary Feature)

I Waited for You

By Jennifer Glee

BEST INSPIRATIONAL ARTHOUSE MOVIEMAKER (Category: Experimental Film), BEST UNIVERSAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM, BEST EXPERIMENTAL EDITING & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE STORYTELLER

The New Immigrant- Hong Kongers

By Vivian Tsang

BEST UNIVERSAL YOUNG DIRECTOR 2026, BEST EXPERIMENTAL EDITING (Category: International Short Documentary) & BEST INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL DOCUMENTARY SHORT  

Storia di una Mistress

By Ciro Tomaiuoli – Produced by Monica Bartolucci

BEST EUROPEAN INDIE FILM 2026, BEST INDIE PRODUCTIONAL COMPANY & BEST CASTING DIRECTOR

Tipping Point

By L. Scooter Morris

BEST VISUAL ARTIST OF THE YEAR, BEST INDIE SUPER SHORT FILM 2026 & BEST ARTHOUSE ORIGINAL STORYTELLER 2026 

In 2 Minds

By Fabia Cerra

BEST ARTHOUSE WRITING STYLE, BEST INDIE WRITER 2026 & BEST GLOBAL INDIE STORY 2026

Heaven

By AnayaMusic Kunst

BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSIC VIDEO 2026, BEST UNIVERSAL SONG 2026 & BEST INTERNATIONAL SINGER OF THE YEAR

Plandemic: Tribunal

By Chris Ross Leong

BEST INTERNATIONAL CRIME SCRIPT, BEST UNIVERSAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE (Category: International Screenwriter)

Staycation

By Russell Emanuel

BEST UNIVERSAL NARRATIVE FEATURE 2026, BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Global Narrative Feature), BEST SCREENWRITER, BEST SOUNDTRACK, BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENPLAY, BEST SOUND DESIGNER, BEST ORIGINAL STORYTELLER, BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST INTERNATIONAL EDITOR (Category: International Indie Film)

Bad Influence/ Mauvaise Influence

By Aurélie Latona

BEST VIDEO POETRY 2026, BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTOR, BEST INSPIRATIONAL ARTIST OF THE YEAR (Category: International Arthouse Super Short Film)

Ashes of Freedom

By Daniel Arreola

BEST INTERNATIONAL ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY 2026, BEST GLOABAL WRITER, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

The Dead Ringer

By Suzanne Lutas

BEST EXPERIMENTAL THRILLER SCRIPT, BEST ORIGINAL WRITER & BEST GLOBAL WRITING STYLE

An Ever After Drama

By Michelle Lynn

BEST UNIVERSAL DIRECTOR (Category: Short Film), BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE SHORT FILM 2026, BEST STORYTELLER 2026, BEST ACTRESS 2026, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT OF THE YEAR (Category: Narrative Short) & BEST CINEMATIC VISION (Category: Short Film)

Behind The Algorithm

By Michelle Lynn

BEST VISIONARY FEATURE SCRIPT 2026, BEST AMERICAN ARTHOUSE SCREENWRTITER OF THE YEAR & BEST PSYCHOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE CHARACTERS (Category: Global Feature Script)

Whispers of Love

By Michelle Lynn

BEST ARTHOUSE ROMANCE SCRIPT 2026 & BEST WRITING STYLE

The Stones of Rome

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BESTUNIVERSAL ARTHOUSE ACTOR 2026 & BEST HISTORICAL SHORT FILM OF THE YEAR

The Pathos of Hamlet

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST GLOBAL ORIGINAL ACTING, BEST INDIE POETRY SHORT FILM & BEST EXPERIMENTAL STORYTELLER

The Boy Who Earned His Magic

By Lynn Elliott

BEST AMERICAN BOOK 2026

Pirandello’s Wife

By Lynn Elliott

BEST GLOBAL ARTHOUSE WRITER & BEST INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2026

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST SOCIAL SCREENPLAY 2026, BEST HUMAN RIGHTS SCRIPT & BEST VISIONARY SCREENWRITER

Drawn Home

By Camy De Mario

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM 2026, BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR & BEST EDITING (Category: International Animation)

The Duchess

By C. Arnold Curry

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

Michelangelo and Me and da Vinci and me opener

By Colleen Fuglaar

BEST ORIGINAL FANTASY SCRIPT OF THE YEAR & BEST EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER 2026

Polymers Among Us
By Conrad J. Storad, illustrated by Jeff Yesh, and published by Story Monsters® Press
BEST ORIGINAL WRITER 2026 & BEST ARTHOUSE CHILDREN’S STEM BOOK

Harkey’s Animal Tales Series:
The Great Animal Escape
The Case of the Missing Pink Piggy
Desert Friends (Second Edition)
By Linda Harkey and published by Story Monsters® Press
BEST INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S BOOK SERIES 2026

The Singing Detective “Who Killed Lex”

By Gary St. Martin

BEST GLOBAL TELEVISION SCRIPT 2026, BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE (Category: Pilot TV) & BEST ORIGINAL THRILLER (Category: International Television Script)

Primordial

By Nana Papadaki

BEST INDIE EXPERIMENTAL FILM 2026, BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER & BEST INTERNATIONAL CINEMATOGRAPHER (Category: Experimental)

The Novice

By Vincenzo Amoruso

BEST GLOBAL ACTOR OF THE YEAR, BEST ARTHOUSE ORIGINAL ACTING & BEST VISIONARY INDIE SHORT FILM 2026

The New Immigrant- Hong Kongers

By Vivian Tsang

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE YOUNG DIRECTOR, BEST GLOBAL ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY 2026, BEST ORIGINAL YOUNG STORYTELLER & BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHY

La Hacienda

By Patricia Fox

BEST GLOBAL HORROR SCRIPT 2026, BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE, BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITER (Category: Indie Horror)

The Green Mill: A Real Chicago Joint

By Paul Carr

BEST ARTHOUSE INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY 2026, BEST STORYTELLER, BEST CAMERA OPERATOR & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING (Category: Global Documentary)

Unpromised Land

By Damiano Rossi

BEST GLOBAL INSPIRATIONAL SHORT FILM 2026, BEST EXPERIMENTAL EDITING & BEST EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE INDIE STORYTELLER (Category: Experimental)

Thankful

By Earnest Diaz

BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITING STYLE (Category: Indie Feature Script) BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY 2026 & BEST NEW CINEMATIC VISION (Category: Indie Screenplay 2026)

Vertigo Mix Art Clic Drippin

By Sylvie Kay

BEST GLOBAL DANCE MOVIE OF THE YEAR, BEST INTERNATIONAL CHOREOGRAPHER 2026 & BEST SOUND

Sensus Mori

By Sydney Rincón

BEST INDIE SHORT FILM 2026, BEST GLOBAL FILMMAKER, BEST SCREENWRITER, BEST CAST & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER (Category: Indie Narrative Short Film)

Esperándote

By Jesus Schettino

BEST GLOBAL FIRST TIME DIRECTOR, BEST NEW CINEMATIC VISION & BEST ORIGINAL STORYTELLER 2026

Precious the baby dragon

By Dr Dawn Menge

BEST ARTHOUSE BOOK/MANUSCRIPT 2026, BEST VISIONARY WRITER 2026 & BEST GLOBAL FANTASY BOOK

Bad Influence/ Mauvaise Influence

By Aurélie Latona

BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR, BEST INTERNATIONAL VIDEO POETRY & BEST ARTHOUSE GLOBAL EDITING (Category: Inspirational Super Short Film)

The Armchair Travellers

By Patricia Planck

BEST FANTASY FEATURE SCRIPT 2026, BEST WRITER, BEST STORYTELLER, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST WRITING STYLE (Category: Fantasy Script)

The James Crow Hotel

By Terri Battee

BEST INTERNATIONAL STORYTELLER 2026 (Category: Crime Fiction), BEST GLOBAL THRILLER SCRIPT & BEST GLOBAL SCREENWRITER (Category: Thriller)

My Hollywood Circus

By Roger Paradiso

BEST UNIVERSAL  BOOK/MANUSCRIPT 2026, BEST GLOBAL STORYTELLER & BEST WRITING STYLER OF THE YEAR (Category: Book/Manuscript)

Out of State-A Gothic Romance

By Victoria Bugbee

BEST INDIE FILM 2026, BEST ROMANCE NARRATIVE FEATURE OF THE YEAR, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST DIRECTOR (Category: American Narrative Feature)

Cock Robin

By Frances Barth

BEST GLOBAL COMEDY 2026, BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Comedy) & BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR (Category: Comedy)

The Dead Ringer

By Suzanne Lutas

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL WRITER (Category: Original Screenplay)

The Duchess

By C. Arnold Curry

BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR 2026 (Category: Drama), BEST EDTING, BEST ACTING (Category: International Drama)

I Waited for You

By Jennifer Glee

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM, BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER, BEST EDITING & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: Experimental)

American Money

By Timothy A McGhee

BEST ARTHOUSE GLOBAL SCREENPLAY OF THE YEAR & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER

The Love That Will Be

By Stephen Kelly

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE DIRECTOR (Category: Arthouse Experimental Film), BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: Experimental)

Staycation

By Russell Emanuel

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE FEATURE 2026, BEST DIRECTOR (Category: NARRATIVE FEATURE), BEST CAST, BEST SCREENPLAY, BEST SOUND DESIGNER, BEST INDIE PRODUCER, BEST CASTING DIRECTOR, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING

In 2 Minds

By Fabia Maria Cerra

BEST GLOBAL BOOK OF THE YEAR, BEST GLOBAL INDIE WRITER 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL STORYTELLING

Whispers of Paris

By Michelle Lynn

BEST GLOBAL FEATURE SCRIPT OF THE YEAR & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE WRITER (Category: Drama Script)

An Ever After Drama

By Michelle Lynn

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT FILM 2026, BEST GLOBAL DIRECTOR 2026, BEST ACTRESS OF THE YEAR, BEST GLOBAL SCREENPLAY SHORT, BEST SOUNDTRACK, BEST MAKE-UP ARTIST, BEST SOUND DESIGNER & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Whispers of Montana

By Michelle Lynn

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY & BEST PSYCHOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE CHARACTERS (Category: Global Feature Script)

Wildflowers and Honey

By Michelle Lynn

BEST GLOBAL SONG WRITER OF THE YEAR

Freedoms Under Assault

By Jacob Comforty & Robert Arnove 

BEST ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2026, BEST FILMMAKERS & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING DIRECTOR (Category: Global Arthouse Documentary)

Not Fore Long

By Patricia Marshall

BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL PSYCHOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE CHARACTERS (Category: Global Feature Script)

Tipping Point

By L. Scooter Morris

BEST INTERNATIONAL ART SHORT FILM, BEST GLOBAL SUPER SHORT FILM 2026, BEST ARTHOUSE MOVIEMAKER & BEST EXPERIMENTAL EDITING (Category: Super Short Film)   

Borderline Justice

By Lynn Elliott

BEST ORIGINAL WRITER 2026 & BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITING STYLE (Category: Feature Script)

Pirandello’s Wife

By Lynn Elliott

BEST BIOGRAPHICAL FEATURE SCRIPT OF THE YEAR

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

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

The Beauty in a Restless Mind

By Lena Mattsson

BEST GLOBAL EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTOR, BEST ARTHOUSE EDITING & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY 2026

The Rorschach Test

By Lena Mattsson

BEST POETRY SHORT FILM & BEST EDITING

Not Without Gloves

By Lena Mattsson

BEST ARTHOUSE EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM 2026 & BEST EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER

The Aesthetics of Failure

By Lena Mattsson

BEST INDIE EUROPEAN EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL STORYTELLER 2026

The Cassandra Venice Project

By Hugo Teugels

BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR (Category: Arthouse Video Project), BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST INDIE PRODUCER

Ashes of Freedom

By Daniel Arreola

BEST INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT OF THE YEAR, BEST NEW CINEMATIC STYLE (Category: Global Screenplay) & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

Medea

By Andronica Marquis

BEST HISTORICAL INDIE SHORT FILM 2026, BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER (Category: Narrative Short film), BEST HISTORICAL SHORT SCREENPLAY, BEST EDITING (Category: Arthouse Narrative Short Film) & BEST CAST (Category: Indie Short Film)

Hito

By Danilo Del Tufo

BEST EXPERIMENTAL INDIE SHORT FILM

Codename: Matilda

By Rebecca Robinson

BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: Arthouse Feature Script)