February 2023

BEST PICTURE
Prisoners (USA)
Dir: Ed Sanchez

BEST FEATURE FILM
Prisoners (USA)
Dir: Ed Sanchez

BEST FOREIGN FEATURE
Ezhuthola (India)
Dir: Suresh Unnikrishnan

BEST BRITISH FEATURE
Melanie’s Grave (UK)
Dir: Garry Moore

BEST SHORT FILM
Look Around (Brazil)
Dir: Ulisses Malta Junior, Gustavo Azevedo Santos

BEST COMEDY/DRAMEDY SHORT
Talking Head (UK)
Dir: Paul Blake

BEST HORROR/THRILLER/SCI-FI SHORT
Deeplight (Hungary)
Dir: Zsolt Répási

BEST ANIMATION SHORT
Ten Steps (China)
Dir: Jinyu Liang

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Bancoco (USA)
Dir: Brad M King

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
The Road to Learning (China)
Dir: Helene Zhuge

BEST STUDENT FILM
Cells (China)
Dir: Sitong Xue

BEST ANIMATION SHORT STUDENT
Wish Tree (China)
Dir: Qing Yang

BEST FANTASY SHORT STUDENT
A Jar of Sadness (UK)
Dir: Jiawei Hu, Jiaqi Cai

BEST HORROR/THRILLER/SCI-FI SHORT STUDENT
Mariana (USA)
Dir: Parker Anderson

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY FEATURE
A Call to Arms
by Julian Poulter

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SHORT
Sirens of Silence
by Matt Townsend, Ellana Blacher

BEST ACTOR
Kaik Pereira
‘Look Around’

BEST ACTRESS
Vivianne Bánovits
‘Deeplight’

BEST CHILD/YOUNG ACTRESS
Saoirse Maguire
‘Sisterly Love’

BEST DIRECTOR FEATURE
Ed Sanchez
‘Prisoners’

BEST FIRST TIME DIRECTOR
SURESH UNNIKRISHNAN
‘Ezhuthola’

BEST FEMALE DIRECTOR
Flavia Moraes
‘Visions in the Dark’

BEST DIRECTOR SHORT
Ulisses Malta Junior, Gustavo Azevedo Santos
‘Look Around’

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Road to Learning (China)
Dir: Helene Zhuge

BEST EDITING
The Road to Learning (China)
Dir: Helene Zhuge

BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Daddy Come Home (UK)
Dir: Sebastian Anthony Pecchia