2026 Award Winners

  • Best Picture

    John Zuppo

    The Things We Do For The Things We Like

  • Best Director

    Kilie Obenashi

    Bad Tattoo

  • Best Cinematography

    Jackson Wells

    Daywalker

  • Best Editing

    Jose Aylmer Canas Vargas & Mung Pi

    The Battle of Heaven and Earth

  • Best Original Music

    Jackson Wells

    Daywalker

  • Best Sound

    John Zuppo

    The Things We Do For The Things We Like

  • Best Actor

    Taufik Abdul-Jaleel

    Only Allah Knows

  • Best Actress

    Keira Stein

    Extraordinarily Famous

  • Best Documentary

    Owen Dean Matthews & Sagun Acharya

    Places Hold Memories

  • Best Animation

    Sickie

    Rozie Brewster

  • Best Music Video

    Desmond Sampson

    New Flavors

  • Audience Award

    John Zuppo

    The Things We Do For The Things We Like

  • Best Screenplay

    My Last Words

    Taufik Abdul-Jaleel

  • Best Professor

    Rodney Stringfellow