Performance Nominations: December 2025

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Best Female Director

Ama Anane for Cottonmouth (USA)

Celeste Chaney for Connie & Clyde (USA)

Pilar Egüez Guevara for Tarpuna: Keepers of Cacao — Part 1: Water (Ecuador)

Sijin Liu for Oopsy! (Taiwan/UK)

Wendy Eley Jackson for The Other Roe (USA)

Best Male Director

Brendyn Gilbert for Mesmera (USA)

Joe Bandelli for The Sequence (USA)

JP Pullings for Thank you for the Ride, Aileen (USA)

Mitch Yapko for Watching Walter (USA)

Riley Robbins for Where The Shadows Wait (USA)

Best Student Female Director

Megan Rothwell and Paris Ruiz for Shatter Me Into a Thousand Pieces (USA)

Mengxiao Gao for The Sour Apple Murder Case (China)

Zixuan Xiang for Strange Ava (China)

Best Student Male Director

Andréas Freisse Correa for On The Other Side (France)

Jackson William Casteel for Perfect Imperfections (USA)

Johannes Küchler for Full Metal Pizza (Germany)

Best First Time Female Director

TBA

Best First Time Male Director

Ashkan Nasseri for Magas (Fly) (USA)

Igor Poptsov for Let There Be Light (Russia)

Josh Coates for Cane Creek (USA)

Steven Kunis for Meet Frankie (UK)

Suresh G for Ditto (India)

Best Actress

Katie Parker for The Sequence (USA)

Lauren Call for Connie & Clyde (USA)

Samantha Slater for You Still See Dead People (USA)

Best Actor

Evan Geary for Dad Bod (USA)

Garrett McKenna for The Bee (USA)

Jacob Hodges for Perfect Imperfections (USA)

Kaz Kobayashi for Shin Rashomon (Japan/USA)

Phillip Andre Botello for You Still See Dead People (USA)

Best Acting Duo

Alison Bruce and Renee Lyons for The Worth of Things (New Zealand)

Austin Archer and Lauren Call for Connie & Clyde (USA)

Carter Sirianni and Ross Turner for Mesmera (USA)

Drew Fonteiro and Maya Days for The Missing Piece (USA)

Sarah Swift and Gerrianne Genga for Bad Fences (USA)

Best Ensemble Cast

Anthony Calf, Imogen Stubbs, David Michaels, and Øystein Lode for Meet Frankie (UK)

D’Monroe, Keoki Trask, Rafael Zubizarreta, Dylan Santos, Bertrand Wang, and Pete Freeland for Windward Spirits: Tides of Hope (USA)

Juliet Chevelle, Trinity Johnston, Georgia Horton, and Elena Kent for Wake Up, Dolores! (USA)

Keatyn Kurtz, Sadie Dorst, Makyla Riggs, Ricky Castro, Joseph McLaughlin, Sidney Ghaffary, and Jim O’Heir for 3 To Die (USA)

Lydia Westhoff, Shaun Stone, Tom Rope, John Gilbert, Evan Emanuel, Kevin Neil Crook, Fleur Montanaro, Bea Gonzalez, Angel Johnson, Chris Beldain, Damian Preis, and Ben Tingey for A Lamb, Drowning (Italy/UK)

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