The Golden Years

By Joe Starzyk

BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE SHORT FILM OF THE YEAR, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT 2026, BEST CAST & BEST ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR (Category: Indie Narrative Short Film)

Kev Franzi – Works 80 Years in the Film Industry HD

By Dianne Lang

BEST UNIVERSAL DOCUMENTARY SHORT 2026, BEST ORIGINAL EDITING, BEST PRODUCER & BEST FILMMAKER (Category: Global Documentary Short)

The San Quentin News

By Thomas W Bolema

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE BIOGRAPHICAL SCRIPT 2026 & BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER (Category: Original Biographical Script)

Zoya

By Ben Hopwood

BEST ARTHOUSE ORIGINAL SHORT FILM 2026, BEST INDIE MOVIMAKER, BEST SOUNDTRACK & BEST PRODUCTION COMPANY (Category: Arthouse Short Film)

Appointment With The Plague Doctor, Lester Haywood

By L.S. Strange

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE HORROR 2026, BEST EDITING, BEST DIRECTOR & BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Arthouse Horror)

Unpromised Land

By Damiano Rossi

BEST NEW CINEMATIC VISION, BEST VISIONARY DIRECTOR (Category: Experimental Film) & BEST ORIGINAL EXPERIMENTAL CINEMATOGRAPHER

Numb

By Troy Bush

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER 2026 (Category: Short Script) & BEST ARTHOUSE SHORT SCRIPT OF THE YEAR

The Spiritualization of Jeff Boyd

By Uwe Schwarzwalder

BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE FEATURE 2026, BEST PRODUCER, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST MOVIEMAKER (Category: International Arthouse Film)

Primordial

By Nana Papadaki

BEST EUROPEAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM OF THE YEAR, BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATIC VISION (Category: Global Experimental Director), BEST UNIVERSAL EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO POETRY & BEST SPIRITUAL SHORT FILM 2026

Michelangelo and Me and da Vinci and me opener

By Colleen Fuglaar

BEST INTERNATIONAL FANTASY SCRIPT 2026, BEST ORIGINAL WRITER & BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE

Cock Robin

By Frances Barth

BEST VISIONARY DIRECTOR, BEST STORYTELLER, BEST PRODUCER (Category: Comedy) & BEST INDIE COMEDY 2026

Keyo?/Why?

By Aparup Agarwala

BEST ARTHOUSE FIRST TIME DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING

Disclosure from a Cloakroom

By Carol Dorn

BEST GLOBAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2026, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST VISIONARY INDIE WRITER OF THE YEAR

Final Orders

By Nathan Benham

BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA OF THE YEAR

Drawn Home

By Camy De Mario

BEST INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: Animated Short Film), BEST ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR & BEST EDITOR (Category: International Indie Animated Short Film)

Secrets of the Forbidden City

By Pamela PerryGoulardt

BEST UNIVERSAL SHORT SCRIPT 2026, BEST GLOBAL SCREENWRITER & BEST PSYCHOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE CHARACTERS (Category: Short Script)

Brothers of Babylon

By Gabriel Womack

BEST GLOBAL ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST UNIVERSAL WRITER 2026

The Green Mill: A Real Chicago Joint

By Paul Carr

BEST INTERNATIONAL STORYTELLER (Category: Universal Documentary), BEST GLOBAL INDIE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE, BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR & BEST INDIE PRODUCER

Hope is Not a Black and White Rainbow

By Harold Brown

BEST GLOBAL FEATURE SCRIPT, BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE & BEST UNIVERSAL SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR

Doctor Hypotheses 2 – The Breakdown

By Vicentini Gomez

BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE (Category: International Screenplay), BEST VISIONARY FEATURE SCRIPT (Category: Screenwriter) & BEST UNIVERSAL WRITER 2026

Pretty Little Lucy

By David Williamson

BEST GLOBAL THRILLER SCRIPT 2026, BEST WRITING STYLE (Category: Crime Script), BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR & BEST INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT 2026

Staycation

By Russell Emanuel

BEST ORIGINAL FILM 2026, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: International Narrative Feature), BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE DIRECTOR, BEST CAST, BEST SOUNDTRACK & BEST STORYTELLING (Category: Narrative Feature)

The Beauty in a Restless Mind

By Lena Mattsson

BEST GLOBAL VISIONARY SHORT FILM 2026, BEST ARTHOUSE MOVIEMAKER & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING

Vertigo Mix Art Clic Drippin

By Sylvie Kay

BEST INTERNATIONAL CHOREOGRPAHY OF THE YEAR, BEST ARTHOUSE DANCE FILM & BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER (Category: Dance Movie)

I Waited for You

By Jennifer Glee

BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER, BEST EDITOR, BEST CAMERA OPERATOR (Category: International Experimental Film) & BEST VISIONARY STORYTELLER 2026

Plandemic: Tribunal

By Chris Ross Leong

BEST GLOBAL SCREENPLAY 2026, BEST ORIGINAL WRITING SYLE, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: Feature Script)

The New Immigrant- Hong Kongers

By Vivian Tsang

BEST GLOBAL FIRST TIME DIRECTOR 2026, BEST CAMERA OPERATOR, BEST SOCIAL DOCUMENTARY, BEST ORIGINAL YOUNG STORYTELLER & BEST ARTHOUSE EDITOR

Noise

By R. Scott MacLeay

BEST UNIVESRAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM 2026, BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATIC VISION & BEST INTERNATIONAL CINEMATOGRAPHER (Category: Indie Experimental Film)

Out of Control

By Bellopropello

BEST VISIONARY ANIMATED SHORT FILM, BEST ORIGINAL STORYTELLER & BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT (Category: Animated Short Film)

Bad Influence/ Mauvaise Influence

By Aurélie Latona

BEST GLOBAL SUPER SHORT FILM, BEST MOVIEMAKER, BEST STORYTELLER & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: Super Short Film)

French Broad

By Reid Barwick

BEST GLOBAL TELEVISION SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL WRITIG STYLE (Category: International Pilot TV)

Calm Lake

By Reid Barwick

BEST UNIVERSAL INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER

Freedoms Under Assault

By Jacob Comforty & Robert Arnove 

BEST INDIE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2026, BEST CINEMATIC VISION (Category: Documentary), BEST UNIVERSAL STORYTELLING, BEST EDITOR & BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Indie Documentary)

Tipping Point

By L. Scooter Morris

BEST UNIVERSAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM 2026, BEST VISIONARY CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST EDITING (Category: Super Short Film) & BEST GLOBAL VIDEO POETRY

AMERICA BOXED IN

By Ian S. Williams & Casey Williams

BEST PRODUCERS, BEST FILMMAKERS, BEST ORIGINAL STORY, BEST STORYTELLER & BEST EDITORS (Category: International Arthouse Documentary)  

The Duchess

By C. Arnold Curry

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

In 2 Minds

By Fabia Cerra

BEST GLOBAL WRITER 2026 (Category: Book/Manuscript), BEST WRITING STYLE (Category: Book) & BEST INTERNATIONAL STORY

The Novice

By Vincenzo Amoruso

BEST ORIGINAL ACTOR OF THE YEAR, BEST NEW CINEMATIC VISION (Category: Actor) & BEST EXPERIMENTAL ACTING

The James Crow Hotel

By Terri Battee

BEST ORIGINAL CRIME STORY 2026, BEST GLOBAL SCREENWRITER (Category: Arthouse Thriller) & BEST VISIONARY WRITING STYLE

Non dimenticare il poeta

By Fabrizio Fuochi

BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSIC VIDEO 2026, BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Music Video) & BEST ARTHOUSE SONG OF THE YEAR

Master Heist – A True Christmas Fiction

By Kai Fischer

BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT 2026, BEST ORIGINAL STORY & BEST VISIONARY SCREEPLAY OF THE YEAR

American Money

By Timothy A McGhee

BEST AMERICAN SCREENWRITER 2026, BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL STORY

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana

By Ken Kimmelman

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE PRODUCER, BEST EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTOR 2026, BEST INTERNATIONAL EDITOR & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER (Category: Video Poetry)

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST GLOBAL WRITER 2026, BEST INTERNATIONAL HISTORICAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

Pirandello’s Wife

By Lynn Elliott

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

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

By Lynn Elliott

BEST ARTHOUSE FANTASY SCRIPT 2026, BEST PILOT TV & BEST GLOBAL SCREENNWRITER 2026

Once There Were Stories

By Lynn Elliott

BEST UNIVERSAL ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT 2026 & BEST INDIE CINEMATIC VISION (Category: Feature Script)

Is He Cheating?

By Bill Morton

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER (LGBTQ+) & BEST UNIVERSAL LGBTQ+ PROJECT 2026

Split Focus

By Cherie Carson

BEST INTERNATIONAL DANCE MOVIE 2026, BEST INDIE DIRECTOR & BEST SOUND (Category: Dance Movie)

The Dead Ringer

By Suzanne Lutas

BEST INTERNATIONAL THRILLER STORY 2026, BEST GLOBAL VISIONARY WRITER & BEST INDIE SCREENPLAY OF THE YEAR

Ashes of Freedom

By Daniel Arreola

BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATIC VISION (Category: International Screenplay) & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: International Feature Script)

Precious the baby dragon

By Dr Dawn Menge

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE BOOK OF THE YEAR, BEST FANTASY BOOK & BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITER 2026

The Stones of Rome

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTOR 2026 & BEST HISTORICAL SHORT FILM

The Pathos of Hamlet

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST VISIONARY ACTING, BEST HUMAN RIGHTS SHORT FILM & BEST UNIVERAL EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKER

Who Killed Don Minzoni

By Giampietro Manzalini

BEST EUROPEAN INDIE SCREENWRITER & BEST EUROPEAN BIOGRAPHICAL SCRIPT

Parisina – Punishment without Forgiveness

By Giampietro Manzalini

BEST ORIGINAL IDEA 2026

Ferrara & The Young Balbo

By Giampietro Manzalini

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SCRIPT 2026

Girolamo Savonarola & Trial Of Fire

By Giampietro Manzalini

BEST GLOBAL HISCTORICAL SCRIPT OF THE YEAR & BEST PSYCHOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE CHARACTERS

Sinestesìa

By Gianni Salamone

BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER (Category: European Music Video)