Performance Nominations: November 2025

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Best Female Director

Isabella Mancioli for Chuño y Mote (Italy)

Karmen Dann for Yard Sale (USA)

Wen Jiang for Meet Me at Flipside (China)

Best Male Director

Andre Dixon for Kinfolk (USA)

Grant M Johnson for A King’s Curtain (USA)

James Coyne for Sorry, Constance (USA)

Best Student Female Director

Lily Daroff for Just A Girl (USA)

Sofi Dawalibi for Yellow Brick Road (USA)

Sophia Rossetti for Replicon (USA)

Best Student Male Director

Mason Leaver for Hecuba (USA)     

Toby Griffin for One More Day (UK)

Xiaoyi Li for The Pen (China)

Best First Time Female Director

Ayisha Siddiqi for 1 April (Netherlands)

Carling Ernstzen for The Last Rehearsal (UK)

Hanna DiLorenzo for Behind Closed Doors (USA)

Best First Time Male Director

Joey Brooks for The Application (USA)

Orson Levy-Langeveld for Eskimo (Netherlands)

Roland Wehap for A Film by Roland Wehap (Austria)

Best Young Female Filmmaker

TBA

Best Actress

Arica Anderson for Kinfolk (USA)

Piercey Dalton for Hecuba (USA)

Pinky Albea for The Sharp Point of Time (USA)

Best Actor

Carl Welch for The Last Rehearsal (UK)

Jacob Flores for Whitley Heights (USA)

Michael Wamara for Where Love Once Was (Canada)

Best Supporting Actor

Anthony Jhade for Where Love Once Was (Canada)

David Guthrie for Whitley Heights (USA)

Serhii Tolstoi for Imperfect Plan (USA)

Best Acting Duo

Andrew Gerstenblatt and Arthur Goldbart for The Extraordinaries (USA)

Elisa Annenberg Paglia and Brandon Berg for Your Turn (USA)

Katie Ryan and Dana Fares for Yard Sale (USA)

Maria Dragus and Milton Welsh for The Application (USA)

Peter Maple and Sarah Jane Starr for Pest Kontrol (Australia)

Best Ensemble Cast

Alina Isenia, Shaista Isenia, Shanti Mehilal, Ayisha Siddiqi, Atifa Isenia, Kim Aikman, Roeqayyah Kariman, Vanja Rukavina, and Lakaaysha van Ewijk for 1 April (Netherlands)

Christian Levatino, Darien Michael Garey, Joseph Schwartz, Patrick Hume, and Edgar Berrun for Sorry, Constance (USA)

Mary-Clare Bone, Christopher Watts, Brooke Moeller, and Dalton Causey for Eric’s Last Drop (USA)

Michael Bertrando, Kathleen M Darcy, James Palombo, Mariza Esperanza, Jose Bernard, and Joe Wittholn for Magnet Brain (USA)

Stephen McKinley Henderson, Austin Pendleton, Veanne Cox, Charles E. Gerber, and Allison Dayne for A King’s Curtain (USA)

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