Performance Nominations: October 2026

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Best Female Director

Shaunagh Connaire for Brown Bread (Ireland)

Sonya Kanevskaya for Full Time (UK)

Hollis Fox for Seasons of the Witch (USA)

Colleen Kresoja for Unimaginable (USA)

Erika Jones for Wolves Six (UK)

Best Male Director

Dale Fabrigar for Boatlift 9/11 (USA)

Charles Hornsby for Deadication (USA)

Philip Bache for Last Chance (USA)

Sam Menell for The Influence (USA)

Steven Soria for The Unfortunate Side Effects of Drinking with a Crippling Want (USA)

Best Student Female Director

Yuxuan Wang for Before We Go Home (China)

Francesca Gamba for Mi Hija (USA)

Courtney Haraguchi for Somewhere Else (USA)

Best Student Male Director

Yalun Liu for Paper Airplane (China)

Quinn Ortega O’Neill for Someday, Somewhere (USA)

Javier Maverick Tristan for The Diaspora and the State: Legacy of the Chinese in Bandung (Indonesia)

Best First Time Female Director

Kelly Kauter for Bright Smile (USA)

Sharon Breslau for Buy It! (USA)

Shuangci Jin for Dream Nocturne (USA)

Kylie Cunningham for Honey by a Thread (USA)

Chaya Doswell for Sliver (USA)

Best First Time Male Director

Paul Veluzat for American Odisea (USA)

Sam Rix for Boxing (UK)

Joshua A. Shah for Initiation (USA)

Mark Soares for Localhost (USA)

Wilberto Torres, Jr. for Reels (USA)

Best Young Female Filmmaker

Peiyi Yao for A Black Box (China)

Kayla Derakhshan for Blind to the Wind (USA)

Wenxi Zhu for Half a Summer at Thirteen (China)

Best Young Male Filmmaker

Yunzhi Sun for Hidden Password (China)

David Zheng for Out-Casted (USA)

Aiden Rohrbach for Reminiscence (USA)

Best Actress

Noelle Fillepone for Deadication (USA)

Rebecca Baker for Drowning (UK)

Katelyn Mills for Honey by a Thread (USA)

Annamaria Tolstrup for Our Last Drive (Denmark)

Roshni Datta for Saving Private Patel (USA)

Best Actor

TBA

Best Supporting Actress

TBA

Best Young Actress

TBA

Best Acting Duo

Gemmy Quelliz and Kaliani Chanelle for Mi Hija (USA)

Hunter Emery and Natalie Austin for Sliver (USA)

Watanabe Ayano and Madoka Suda for Tatami no Seigi (Japan)

Paul Albertson and Billy Price for The Last Day (UK)

Tiana Sharp and Soren McVay for The Night That Became Morning (USA)

Best Ensemble Cast

Fionnula Flanagan, Katie McGrath, and Dermot Crowley for Brown Bread (Ireland)

Noah Andre, Hechan Da Silva, Giselle Garza, and Max Vector for The Monster’s Club The Aftermath (USA)

Colleen Kresoja, Jazi Ayala, Jenelle Lynn Randall, Carmella Diaz-Lolar, Maurine Nuezca, Gregory A. Thompson, and Scott Travis for Unimaginable (USA)

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