WINNERS Route 66 Film Critics Circle Awards 2026

2026 August 5

WINNERS Route 66 Film Critics Circle Awards 2026

Mikey Blue Eyes

By Stephen Kelly

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

Tomorrow’s Dream

By Justin Gizzi

BEST GLOBAL SCREENPLAY 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER

Christmas Card

By Kel Owens

BEST INDIE SHORT FILM 2026, BEST DIRECTOR (Category: International Narrative Short), BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT, BEST CAST & BEST ORIGINAL STORYTELLING

Pretty Little Lucy

By David Williamson

BEST ARTHOUSETHRILLER SCRIPT 2026, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR & BEST INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT 2026

Virulence

By Christopher Pennington

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY, BEST ARTHOUSE VISIONARY SCREENWRITER, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE

Not Fore Long

By Patricia Marshall

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE DRAMA SCRIPT, BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE & BEST VISIONARY SCREENWRITER (Category: Drama)

King David during Covid

By Francis Billingsley

BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSICAL DRAMA 2026, BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER & BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATIC VISION

A Tale Of Two Tails

By Camy De Mario

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM 2026, BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER, BEST ORIGINAL STORY & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING

Precious the baby dragon

By Dawn Menge

BEST INTERNATIONAL BOOK 2026, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST GLOBAL WRITER

Tipping Point

By L. Scooter Morris

BEST INTERNATIONAL SUPER SHORT FILM 2026, BEST INTERNATIONAL MOVIEMAKER & BEST EXPERIMENTAL CINEMATOGRAPHY

Split Focus

By Cherie Carson

BEST DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR (Category: Dance Movie), BEST DANCE MOVIE 2026, BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE PRODUCER

Plandemic: Tribunal

By Chris Ross Leong

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE WRITING STYLE 2026, BEST ORIGINAL THRILLER & BEST ORIGINAL HUMAN RIGHTS SCRIPT 2026

Eyesolation

By Damiano Rossi

BEST SPIRTUAL SHORT FILM 2026, BEST EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTOR (Category: POETRY FILM) & BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHER

Pounding Pavements

By Jeremy & Christine Stork

BEST ORIGINAL SONG 2026 & BEST ARTHOUSE SONG WRITER

The Novice

By Vincenzo Amoruso

BEST UNIVERSAL ACTING & BEST INTERNATIONAL YOUNG ACTOR 2026

Fractures In Time

By Lesley Ann Albiston

BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT, BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER 2026 & BEST STORYTELLING (Category: Screenplay)

Your Father, who sees in secret

By Danilo Del Tufo

BEST INSPIRATIONAL DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST SOCIAL SHORT SCRIPT

Hito

By Danilo Del Tufo

BEST INDIE ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST VISIONARY SHORT FILM 2026

My Hollywood Circus

By Roger Paradiso

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE BOOK 2026 & BEST AMERICAN WRITER OF THE YEAR

The James Crow Hotel

By Terri Battee

BEST THRILLER OF THE YEAR, BEST CRIME SCRIPT & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE CINEMATIC VISION

Master Heist – A True Christmas Fiction

By Kai Fischer

BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2026, BEST PSYCHOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE CHARACTERS, BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE WRITER & BEST VISIONARY WRITING STYLE 2026

An Ever After Drama

By Michelle Lynn

BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE SHORT FILM 2026, BEST DIRECTOR 2026, BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTRESS, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT, BEST SOUND DESIGNER, BEST EDITING & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER (Category; Short Film)

Behind The Algorithm

By Michelle Lynn

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY 2026 & BEST VISIONARY INDIE WRITER  

Whispers of Love

By Michelle Lynn

BEST ROMANCE SCRIPT 2026, BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT OF THE YEAR & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER

Lucky in Long Island

By Michelle Lynn

BEST SONG WRITER 2026 & BEST SOUND DESIGNER

I Waited for You

By Jennifer Glee

BEST EXPERIMENTAL CINEMATIC VISION, BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER 2026, BEST EDITING & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER (Category: Experimental)

American Money

By Timothy A McGhee

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER, BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE (Category: Feature Script)

The Pathos of Hamlet

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTING & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER

The Stones of Rome

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATIC VISION (Category: Experimental Short Film), BEST INDIE FILMMAKER, BEST ORIGINAL EDITING & BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL SHORT 2026

Brothers of Babylon

By Gabriel Womack

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT 2026 & BEST INTERNATIONAL VISIONARY SCREENWRITER 2026

Scachs d’Amor

By Daniel Arreola

BEST ARTHOUSE SHORT SCRIPT 2026 & BEST CINEMATIC VISION

Ashes of Freedom

By Daniel Arreola

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SCRIPT 2026, BEST INDIE WRITER, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA 2026

In 2 Minds

By Fabia Maria Cerra

BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE (Category: International Indie Book)

My heads f*cked

By Fabia Maria Cerra

BEST VISIONARY SCREENWRITER 2026 & BEST ARTHOUSE SCRIPT 2026

Staycation

By Russell Emanuel

BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE FEATURE 2026, BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Narrative Feature), BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR, BEST CASTING DIRECTOR, BEST SOUNDTACK, BEST ORIGINAL EDITING & BEST STORYTELLING

The Duchess

By C. Arnold Curry

BEST INTERNATIONAL STORYTELLER (Category: Drama), BEST STORYTELLING & BEST ORIGINAL ACTING (Category: International Drama)

What Kind of Day

By C. Arnold Curry

BEST SCREENWRITER 2026 (Category: International Arthouse Drama)

The Beauty in a Restless Mind

By Lena Mattsson

BEST POETRY SHORT FILM 2026 & BEST EUROPEAN INDIE MOVIEMAKER

The Aesthetics of Failure

By Lena Mattsson

BEST INDIE EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM & BEST VISIONARY EDITOR

Not Without Gloves

By Lena Mattsson

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST INDIE PRODUCER

The Rorschach Test

By Lena Mattsson

BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST ART FILM 2026

Christmas On Earth

By Janja Rakuš

BEST INTERNATIONAL VISIONARY DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR, BEST SOUND & BEST ARTHOUSE EXPERIMENTAL FILM

Kev Franzi – Works 80 Years in the Film Industry HD

By Dianne Lang

BEST GLOBAL FILMMAKER OF THE YEAR, INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY SHORT 2026, BEST INDIE PRODUCER & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING (Category: Documentary)

The New Immigrant- Hong Kongers

By Vivian Tsang

BEST INTERNATIONAL FIRST TIME DIRECTOR 2026, BEST CAMERA OPERATOR, BEST ORIGINAL EDITING & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE DOCUMENTARY

Doctor Hyphoteses

By Vicentini Gomez

BEST UNIVERSAL COMEDIAN 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR

Colombano e la 21esima Fetta

By Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti

BEST INTERNATIONAL HISTORICAL FILM 2026, BEST SCREENWRITER & BEST ORIGINAL INDIE MOVIEMAKER

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST WRITER 2026 INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY 2026 & BEST HISTORICAL SCRIPT

Pirandello’s Wife

By Lynn Elliott

BEST SOCIAL SCRIPT OF THE YEAR & BEST BIOGRAPHICAL SCRIPT

The Mongrel

By Lynn Elliott

BEST SCREENWRITER 2026 (Category: Television Script)

Uncle Franco’s Birthday Suit

By Lynn Elliott

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL INDIE SCREENWRITER

Mercy

By Laura Calderini

BEST EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER 2026, BEST ORIGINAL SHORT SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

Ritratto temporale IV – Teresa

By Ilaria Pezone

BEST EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY SHORT OF THE YEAR & BEST ORIGINAL GLOBAL FILMMAKER 2026