Best Indie Short: A Farmer’s Daughter by Audrey Lane (USA)
Best Indie Short: Breathe by Biser Jonev (Bulgaria)
Best Drama Short: January 14th by La’Chris Jordan (USA)
Best Drama Short: Lost But Not Forgotten by Tsuyoshi Ishida (USA)
Best Documentary Short: Natalie’s Point of View by Abigail Fuller (USA)
Best Documentary Short: The Tides That Bind by Nick Natalicchio (USA)
Best Romantic Short: Belovely by Hallie Haller (South Africa)
Best Romantic Short: What’s Up by Norah Xi (China)
Best Comedy Short: Hazel by Jay Dallen (USA)
Best Comedy Short: Sleeper Agent by Will Ammann (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short: Frostbite On My Dick by Steven Bueno (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short: Roommates by Meg Poveromo (USA)
Best Thriller Short: The Black Hole by Carlton Heard (USA)
Best Film Noir Short: Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t by Nick Muhlbach (USA)
Best Mystery Short: It’s Your Turn… by Emma Asquith (UK)
Best Mystery Short: Shard by Georgy Keburiya (Georgia)
Best Crime Short: The Protege’ Project: Chapter 1 by Benny Tjandra and Lovie Johnson (USA)
Best Horror Short: Pauper by Neil Watson (V) (USA)
Best Horror Short: Vortex by Mauricio Kuri (Mexico)
Best Fantasy Short: Tic Tac Toe by Kaustuv Mukherjee (USA)
Best Fantasy Short: What’s Up by Norah Xi (China)
Best Sci-Fi Short: Epoch by Ethan Erickson (USA)
Best Sci-Fi Short: The Processed by Joshua Sowden (USA)
Best Experimental Short: Broken Circle by Dicle Ozcer (USA)
Best Experimental Short: For Hongkong by Yuzhi Zhu (China)
Best Student Short: The Escape Room by Vivian Full (Canada)
Best Student Short: Winter Leaves by Geonhee Jang (South Korea)
Best Animation Short: Girl and Robot by Joe Loftus (Ireland)
Best Animation Short: King Sand by Zahra Shafeie (Iran)
Best Animation Short: Kung Fu Express by Cheng Guo (USA)
Best Children Short: My Brother’s Life Without Sound by Aisha Barker (UK)
Best Women Short: Back Then by Hernán Velit (Peru)
Best Women Short: Madjigui by Maïmouna N’Diaye (Burkina Faso)
Best Women Short: The Letter by Amy Carlson (USA)
Best LGBTQ Short: Meow Mixer by Joshua Nelson (USA)
Best LGBTQ Short: Sand by Marta Aleksandra Przybysz (Poland)
Best Microfilm: Hazel by Jay Dallen (USA)
Best Microfilm: Rendezvous by Hiroki Utsunomiya (Japan)
Best Music Video: Finding by Sigmund Washington (USA)
Best Mobile Short: I Want To Be a Fashion Designer by Maria Rotger (Spain)
Best Mobile Short: The Call by Shawn Richardz and Veronica Berry (USA)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Dino Land by Mark Manjardi (USA)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: The Protectors of the Wood – Dreamstone Warriors by John KixMiller and Tamara Kachelmeier (USA)
Best Web and New Media: The Great Carbuncle & Other Bird Songs from Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 2020 by Nate Chura (USA)
Best Web and New Media: The Running Man 2020 by Jonas Grimas (UK)
Best Parody Short: Corona Dating by Rodja Martin Tröscher (Germany)
Best Parody Short: I Fekking Hate You by Michelle Tarbox, Rebecca Nelsen, and Eric Stokloßa (USA)
Best Director (Female): Jennifer Karlsson for Bare Intimacy (Australia)
Best Director (Female): Kk Araujo and Ariane Porto for Jadzia (Brazil)
Best Director (Male): Gareth Brierley for People Show 138: Last Day (UK)
Best Director (Male): Samuel Rigal and Dominic Crisp for I’m From A Place (UK)
Best Student Director (Female): Jessica Pierce for The Tide (USA)
Best Student Director (Female): Mulan Fu for Beautiful (USA)
Best Student Director (Male): Collin Ahrendsen for The Ribbon (USA)
Best Student Director (Male): Sam Lowenburg for Heavenly Care (USA)
Best First Time Director (Female): Dagmar Scheibenreif for Void (UK)
Best First Time Director (Female): Wenting Gao for Summer Attic (China)
Best First Time Director (Male): George Blagden for L A R A (UK)
Best First Time Director (Male): Josh Mathieson for Things that Grow (UK)
Best Young Filmmaker: Cortez Kenton Campos for The Formula For Love (USA)
Best Young Filmmaker: Joy Xing for The Pursuit of Happiness (Canada)
Best Actress: Denise Arregui for Back Then (Peru)
Best Actress: Nicole Tompkins for Hazel (USA)
Best Actor: Chandler Qian for Red Candle (Canada)
Best Actor: Tyrone Huggins for People Show 138: Last Day (UK)
Best Supporting Actress: Candace Keeton for Ovals: I Dont Want to Love Myself (USA)
Best Supporting Actor: Ira Rubin for Late Shift (USA)
Best Supporting Actor: Scott Cohen for The Letter (USA)
Best Child/Young Actress: Mia Andrews for It’s Your Turn… (UK)
Best Child/Young Actor: Markus Schulze for Future Belongs to the Youth (Germany)
Best Acting Duo: Olivia Le May and Nicola Moore for Lollipops (UK)
Best Acting Duo: Tony Bartele and Brock Jones for The Processed (USA)
Best Acting Ensemble: Lisa Belcher, David Allen, James Drake Coleman, and Alex Christian for SaaSy (USA)
Best Acting Ensemble: Ray Strasser-King, Annabel Facer, and Daniel Burke for I’m From A Place (UK)
Best Cinematography: Ilona Szekeres for Hamda (United Arab Emirates)
Best Cinematography: Tyler Murgo for Every Day Burns (USA)
Best Editing: Jack Leronimo for Every Day Burns (USA)
Best Editing: James Grisom for Vacation (USA)
Best Visual FX: L A R A (UK)
Best Visual FX: Two Worlds, Not One (UK)
Best Production Design: Alexa Velasquez for Vacation (USA)
Best Production Design: The Spray (Germany)
Best Sound Design: Blackball (USA)
Best Sound Design: My Demons (Sweden)
Best Original Score: Filipe Silva for Visions of a Vivid Life (UK)
Best Original Score: Simon Tebbenham for Girl and Robot (Ireland)
Best Original Story: Jaci Kjernander and Mallary Silva for Out With It (USA)
Best Original Story: Keyi Zhang for The River Will Carry Them (China)
Best Short Script: Berliners by Jack Ebstein (USA)
Best Short Script: The Drowned Man by Warren Paul Glover (Australia)
Best Short Script: TinderBox by Jared Chinigo (USA)
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