Category: Senza categoria

Mother, Mother

By Micki Dickoff

BEST INDIE SHORT FILM & BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER 2025

Brothers of Babylon

By Gabriel Womack

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Sheldon Mashugana gets Stooged

By Dean Morgan

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Omnipotent Resolution

By Uniqueness Heiress & Azia

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Life’s Mapped Out

By Akal Demir

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Christmas Card

By Kel Owens

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM, BEST INDIE MOVIEMAKER & BEST INDIE PRODUCER

The Girl Made of Earth and Water

By Pamela PerryGoulardt

BEST DIRECTOR 2025 (Category: SUPER SHORT FILM)

Effata

By Anaya Music Kunst 

BEST VOICE OF THE YEAR & BEST DIRECTOR (Category: INDIE MUSIC VIDEO)

The Legend Of The Bum-Barian

By Kel Owens

BEST ARTHOUSE NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR

Hotel Purgatorio

By Joey Agbayani

BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM OF THE YEAR & BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR 2025

Staycation

By Russell Emanuel

BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE OF THE YEAR, BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE MOVIEMAKER, BEST CAST, BEST CASTING DIRECTOR & BEST AMERICAN INDIE SCREENWRITER

Katabasis

By Samantha Casella

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The Pathos of Hamlet

By Sean Gregory Tansey

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The Stones of Rome

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST EDITING, BEST HISTORICAL SHORT FILM & BEST INDIE EDITOR

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

By Florence Cazebon-Taveau

BEST INTERNATIONAL HISTORICAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL WRITER

Lambada The Dance Of Fate

By Kai Fischer

BEST BIOGRAPHICAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER

NeverWere: a Lycan Love Story

By Chris Ross Leong

BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENPLAY 2025 & BEST ORIGINAL WRITER

The New Immigrant- Hong Kongers

By Vivian Tsang

BEST FIRST TIME DIRECTOR & BEST INTERNATIONAL YOUNG FILMMAKER

The Edge “Into The Past”

By Gary St. Martin

BEST INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION SCRIPT 2025

Am I a painter?/Czy jestem malarzem?

By Michał Kucharski

BEST INDIE FILMMAKER, BEST PRODUCER, BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM & BEST EDITING

Wacko

By Matthew Roch

BEST AMERICAN DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR, BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM, BEST HORROR & BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Thriller)

Not Without Gloves

By Lena Mattsson

BEST POETRY SHORT FILM, BEST EXPERIMENTAL EDITING & BEST EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR

The Rorschach Test

By Lena Mattsson

BEST ORIGINAL INSPIRATIONAL FILM 2025

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST HISTORICAL FEATURE SCRIPT

Pirandello’s Wife

By Lynn Elliott

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER

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

By Lynn Elliott

BEST ORIGINAL TELEVISION SCRIPT OF THE YEAR

S2 E1 Premiere: Halloween Hotness with Brian Sikoff

By Tommy Anderson Sh

BEST INTERNATIONAL WEB/TV SERIES 2025

The Little Match-Seller

By Danilo Del Tufo

BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL ANIMATION

Chasing Truths

By Dennis Manning

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE 2025 & BEST INDIE FILMMAKER OF THE YEAR

An Ever After Drama

By Michelle Lynn

BEST AMERICAN NARRATIVE SHORT FILM, BEST ACTING, BEST EDITNG & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Secrets of Montmartre 3

By Michelle Lynn

BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT

Silver Heels

By Michelle Lynn

BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR & BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITER (Category: Book/Manuscript)

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana

By Ken Kimmelman

BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM, BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Inspirational Film) & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING

American Money

By Timothy A McGhee

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER & BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT

Eye of the Storm

By Brooke Wolff

BEST AMERICAN DIRECTOR 2025, BEST BIOGRAPHICAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER

Colombano e la 21esima Fetta

By Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM, BEST INDIE DIRECTOR, BEST CAST & BEST INDIE PRODUCTION COMPANY

The Duchess

By C. Arnold Curry

BEST ORIGINAL DRAMA OF THE YEAR & BEST ORIGINAL WRINTING STYLE

Virulence

By Christopher Pennington

BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST INDIE SCREENPLAY

The Dead Ringer

By Suzanne Lutas

BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST WRITING STYLE

Mecca

By Monte Albers de Leon

BEST INDIE WRITER & BEST AMERICAN SCREENPLAY

Tom and Luce

By Muxel Paule

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE DRAMA

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, 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

Noise

By R. Scott MacLeay

BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTOR & BEST INTERNATIONAL ESPERIMENTAL FILM 2025

Hotel Purgatorio

By Joey Agbayani

BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE FEATURE FILM, BEST THRILLER & BEST ANIMATION

Potato Family

By Lori Hamilton

BEST INTERNATIONAL ANIMATED SHORT FILM

TinMan

By Kevin Tudor

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY & BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHER

Get out Breathing

By Nathan Benham

BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA & BEST SCREENWRITER

Eyesolation

By Damiano Rossi

BEST EUROPEAN SHORT SHORT FILM & BEST INDIE PRODUCER

Thinking

By Valerie Knill

BEST ORIGINAL SHORT FILM & BEST ARTHOUSE EDITING

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

By Fumitaka Otoguro

BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR (Category: Film)

Paco

By Cresencio Medina

BEST WRITER, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST INTERNATIONAL TV SERIES

63Geminorum

By Laura Calderini

BEST EUROPEAN SHORT SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL STORY

AMERICA BOXED IN

By Ian S. Williams & Casey Williams

BEST ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE & BEST INDIE PRODUCTION COMPANY

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)

Walking With God

By Lois M. Banks

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE FEATURE 2025

A Pilgrimage Into Tibet

By Marc Gould

BEST ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY SHORT & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR

Thankful

By Earnest Diaz

BEST WRITER & BEST FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

SOLDIERS, Six Stories, Six Wars

By Tony Villani

BEST FILMMAKER (Category: Indie Documentary)

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 ARTHOUSE INDIE FILMMAKER 2025

I Swear

By Richard VanOverbroeck

BEST INDIE MUSIC VIDEO 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)

A New You

By James Dubbeldam

BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT

Bagliori – Flashes of Light

By Mattia Paone

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

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

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 New Immigrant-Hong Kongers

By Vivian Tsang

BEST INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS FILM & BEST ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR

Eye of the Storm

By Brooke Wolff

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

What is Wrong With This Country

By Olaf Lenz

BEST INDIE FILMMAKER

Free Birds

By Olaf Lenz

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE MOVIEMAKER 2025

Think Tank

By Olaf Lenz

BEST DIRECTOR (Category: International Indie Experimental Film)

The Rings

By Geoffrey Gould

BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER & BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT

Chasing Truths

By Dennis Manning

BEST PICTURE, BEST LGBTQ+ FILM & & BEST SCREENPLAY

The Shakespeare Plays

By Martin Keady

BEST INDIE BIOGRAPHICAL SCRIPT 2025

I/O (Input-Output) Proof of Concept

By Molly Vernon

BEST ARTHOUSE TELEVISION SCRIPT

Everland

By John Johnson

BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SCREENPLAY

Mine

By John Johnson

BEST ANIMATED FILM & BEST DIRECTOR

Planetary Rebellion

By Fabrizio Fuochi

BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC VIDEO & BEST EUROPEAN SONG 2025

Calamity & Mercy

By Daniel W Smith

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE OF THE YEAR & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR

Cataclysm Down Under – Hero

By Akal Demir

BEST INDIE PRODUCER & BEST INDIE DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR

Garbage Rex

By Steve Hunyi

BEST ORIGINAL SHORT FILM & BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT

Asherah’s Colors

By Gary Mazeffa

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT FILM 2025, BEST ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR, BEST EDITING & BEST MAKE-UP

Revisited – Life is Short

By TerryLee WHETSTONe

BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSIC VIDEO 2025 & BEST EDITING

Ricerca

By Don Pasquale Ferone

BEST HUMAN RIGHTS MUSIC VIDEO

Nelle Sue mani

By Don Pasquale Ferone

BEST GUITARIST & BEST SOUND DESIGNER (Category: EUROPEAN MUSIC VIDEO)

Credo

By Don Pasquale Ferone

BEST SINGER 2025 

Power of Intimate Touch

By Les Dotson

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY SHORT OF THE YEAR

Soularis

By Janja Rakuš

BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR

Man in a Can

By Henk Pringels

BEST INDI 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)

A Melody in the Bronx

By Frank Mancuso

BEST THRILLER SCRIPT

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 2025

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

By Florence Cazebon-Taveau

BEST EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR & BEST HISTORICAL SCRIPT

Running Out Of Time

By Jeremy and Christine Stork

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SONG & BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC VIDEO

Iriso

By Mitsuo Kurihara

BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA 2025

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)

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

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 Resolution

By Uniqueness Heiress & Azia

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

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

Precious the baby dragon

By Dr Dawn Menge

BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: BOOK/MANUSCRIPT)

Legends of the Land of Quails

By Dr Dawn Menge

BEST INDIE DIRECTOR 2025

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

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

The Little Match-Seller

By Danilo Del Tufo

BEST ANIMATION

Forevermore

By Danilo Del Tufo

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

Fractures In Time

By Lesley Ann Albiston

BEST WRITER 2025, & BEST WRITING STYLE (Category: FEATURE SCRIPT)

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

An Ever After Drama

By Michelle Lynn

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

Secrets of Montmartre

By Michelle Lynn

BEST AMERICAN SCREENWRITER (Category: FEATURE SCRIPT)

The Green Mill

By Michelle Lynn

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT 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 WRITING STYLE

The Hallmark Couple

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST SCREENPLAY OF THE YEAR

Dancing with Spies @Goddess

By Francis Billingsley

BEST ORIGINAL WRITER (Category: BOOK/MANUSCRIPT)

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

Roll The dice

By Federica De Stasio

BEST EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR

Out of State-A Gothic Romance

By Victoria Bugbee

BEST INDIE NARRATIVE FEATURE

Urban Eats MTL

By Ioannis Koutroubis

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

NeverWere:a Lycan Love Story

By Chris Ross Leong

BEST WRITER, BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL SYLE

See me

By Anton Svantesson-Helkiö

BEST ARTHOUSE MOVIEMAKER

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

The Rorschach Test

By Lena Mattsson

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM 2025

Not Without Gloves

By Lena Mattsson

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: EXPERIMENTAL)

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 &  BEST CAST

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

Pirandello’s Wife

By Lynn Elliott

BEST HISTORICAL FEATURE SCRIPT

Water

By Gary Beeber

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

Le Cafe De Mes Souvenirs

By Valto Baltzar

BEST INDIE DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR

Mission

By John Alden

BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT

We are Rivers

By Graciela Cassel

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY SHORT & BEST EDITING

Michelangelo and Me + Da Vinci and Me

By Colleen Fuglaar

BEST HISTORICAL SCREENPLAY & BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITING SYLER

Sanctuary

By AnayaMusic Kunst

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SINGER 2025 & BEST POETRY MUSIC VIDEO

Effata

By Anaya Music Kunst 

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO 2025

Sheldon Mashugana gets Stooged

By Dean Morgan

BEST INTERNATIONAL COMEDIAN 2025

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

Sonnets (words in despair)

By Larry Gene Fortin

BEST INDIE AMERICAN WRITER 2025

Fire Flies

By Larry Gene Fortin

BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENPLAY

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

Doctor Hyphoteses

By Vicentini Gomez

BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTOR 2025 & BEST ORIGINAL ACTING

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

Calamity & Mercy

By Daniel W Smith

BEST FILMMAKER (CATEGORY: Documentary)

Love Is My Gun

By Valérie Verseau

BEST EDITING (Category: MUSIC VIDEO) & BEST ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO

Am I a painter?/Czy jestem malarzem?

By Michał Kucharski

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM 2025

Monument to Love

By Jacob Comforty

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

Cassandra Venice

By Hugo Teugels

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST PRODUCER & BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR

The Quisling

By Lynn Elliott

BEST FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST AMERICAN WRITER OF THE YEAR

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST HUMAN RIGHTS FEATURE SCRIPT

Pirandello’s Wife

By Lynn Elliott

BEST AMERICAN INDIE WRITER

Katabasis

By Samantha Casella

BEST EUROPEAN FILM, BEST MOVIEMAKER & BEST SCRRENPLAY

Sinestesìa

By Gianni Salamone

BEST INDIE EUROPEAN DIRECTOR (Category: MUSIC VIDEO)

Searching for Camelot

By Roger Paradiso

BEST INDIE DIRECTOR, BEST CAST & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE PRODUCER

Mourning Coffee

By Denise Mack

BEST FIRST TIME DIRECTOR

Wave Man

By Anna Morelli

BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT

Change The World

By Angelena Bonet

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY SHORT & BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR

Hope!

By Shaun Guzman

BEST AMERICAN INDIE DRAMA OF THE YEAR

Alone

By Shaun Guzman

BEST INDIE YOUNG SCREENWRITER 2025

Ballad of the Millennial Dream

By Yuliya Levashova

BEST INDIE SCREENPLAY SHORT

Artists and Aliens

By Jaymz Bee

BEST INDIE SONG

Garden Court Guardians

By Yankee Zhou

BEST ARTHOUSE DRAMA

French Broad

By Reid Barwick

BEST ORIGINAL PILOT TV/TELEVISION SCRIPT 2025

AMERICA BOXED IN

By Casey & Ian S. Williams

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2025 & BEST PRODUCER OF THE YEAR

The Ballad of Wonderhussy and Other Desert Tales

Michael Mayhan

BEST FILMMAKER (Category: Indie Musical)

The Rorschach Test

By Lena Mattsson

BEST EUROPEAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM & BEST SPIRITUAL CINEMATOGRAPHY

Not Without Gloves

By Lena Mattsson

BEST DIRECTOR & BEST ACTRESS (Category: Experimental Film)

Wacko

By Matthew Roch

BEST INDIE INTERNATIONAL PICTURE 2025, BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR, BEST CAST, BEST HORROR & BEST SUSPENSE

Something ain’t right

By Susan Downs

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

Garbage Rex

By Steve Hunyi

BEST INDIE NARRATIVE SHORT & BEST INDIE FILMMAKER

TinMan

By Kevin Tudor

BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER, BEST INDIE PRODUCER, BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY & BEST CASTING DIRECTOR

Katabasis

By Samantha Casella

BEST ARTHOUSE FILM, BEST EUROPEAN ACTRESS, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST SCRRENPLAY

Paco

By Cresencio Medina

BEST INTERNATIONAL TV SERIES & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER

Legends of the Land of Quails

By Dr Dawn Menge

BEST DIRECTOR & BEST EDITING

Revisited – Life is Short

By TerryLee WHETSTONe

BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Music Video) & BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSIC VIDEO 2025

Thinking

By Valerie Knill

BEST EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE NARRATIVE SHORT

In Search of A P-I-G

By Keith Szarabajka

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

The Second Coming

By Keith Szarabajka

BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR & BEST INTERNATIONAL COMEDY

Urban Eats MTL

By Ioannis Koutroubis

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

Hotel Purgatorio

By Joey Agbayani

BEST FANTASY OF THE YEAR, BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR, BEST ANIMATED FILM & BEST SCREENPLAY

63Geminorum

By Laura Calderini

BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE & BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT 2025

American Money

By Timothy A McGhee

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER & BEST FEATURE SCRIPT

Brothers of Babylon

By Gabriel Womack

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST WRITING STYLE

Seasoning of the Soul

By Charli Brown

BEST INDIE FILMMAKER & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Croix – The Prequel: Kiss The Ring

By Charli Brown

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French Broad

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American Money

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Because We Are Too Many

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Free Birds

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Running Out Of Time

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By Jonathan Fisher

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Colombano e la 21esima Fetta

By Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti

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By Suzanne Lutas

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By Charli Brown

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By Alexander Senicki

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By Cherie Carson

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Indie Jax Grind

By Royce Freeman

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Secrets of Montmartre

By Michelle Lynn

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The Green Mill

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By Matthew Roch

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By R. Scott MacLeay

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By Francis Billingsley

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The Ballad of Wonderhussy and Other Desert Tales

Michael Mayhan

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In Search of A P-I-G

By Keith Szarabajka

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The Second Coming

By Keith Szarabajka

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Omnipotent Resolution

By Uniqueness Heiress & Azia

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By Russell Emanuel

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Mecca

By Monte Albers de Leon

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Lambada The Dance Of Fate

By Kai Fischer

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By Brooke Wolff

BEST BIOGRAPHICAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2025 & BEST DIRECTOR

NeverWere: a Lycan Love Story

By Chris Ross Leong

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST WRITING STYLE

See me

By Anton Svantesson-Helkiö

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Dirty Revenge

By Gary St. Martin

BEST DIRECTOR (Category: PILOT TV) & BEST WRITING STYLE

Wild Blooms

By Cassandra Hodges

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

Fear not, my child

By Michaela Kuti

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

Hollywood Elite Podcast Episode 1 Salute to the 2025 Oscars

By Tommy Anderson Sherry Severs

BEST ORIGINAL WEB/TV SERIES 2025

Brothers of Babylon

By Gabriel Womack

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Virulence

By Christopher Pennington

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The Rorschach Test

By Lena Mattsson

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

The Duchess

By C. Arnold Curry

BEST DRAMA 2025 & BEST SCREENWRITER

The Golden Years

By Joseph Starzyk

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST MOVIEMAKER & BEST CASTING DIRECTOR

The Stones of Rome

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST ORIGINAL ACTING

The Pathos of Hamlet

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Arcangel Of Death

By Vincenzo Amoruso

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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

Hope!

By Shaun Guzman

BEST AMERICAN INDIE DRAMA OF THE YEAR

Alone

By Shaun Guzman

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We are Rivers

By Graciela Cassel

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Michelangelo and Me + Da Vinci and Me

By Colleen Fuglaar

BEST EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE SCREENPLAY & BEST INTERNATIONAL HISTORICAL PROJECT OF THE YEAR

Sanctuary

By AnayaMusic Kunst

BEST VOICE OF THE YEAR & BEST EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC VIDEO

Effata

By Anaya Music Kunst 

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO 2025

Sheldon Mashugana gets Stooged

By Dean Morgan

BEST COMEDY OF THE YEAR & BEST COMEDY SCRIPT

Legends of the Land of Quails

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BEST DIRECTOR & BEST EDITING

No Mas

By Stephen Kelly

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

Mikey Blue Eyes

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BEST ORIGINAL SHORT SCRIPT

Fire Flies

By Larry Gene Fortin

BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

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

Doctor Hyphoteses

By Vicentini Gomez

BEST ACTOR 2025 & BEST ORIGINAL ACTING

Urban Eats MTL

By Ioannis Koutroubis

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The Sea of Hope

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Calamity & Mercy

By Daniel W Smith

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