AWARD Winners

Best Realistic Prop: 

• Layla Daoud, "Bird's Eye"

Best Drone Footage: 

• Dan Razvan Coman, "Crossing Through The Highlands of Iceland"

Best Costume Design - Eco/Green Design:

• Georgina Curtis, "THE OXYGEN GARDEN"

Best Costume Design - Original:

• Georgina Curtis, "THE OXYGEN GARDEN"

Best Costume Design - Modern: 

• Angeliki Pardalidou, "Be Like Angel Pardalos"

Best Fantasy Prop:

• Gabi Hartmann, "Page."

Best Animated Prop:

• Abby O'Malley, "Split!"

Best AI Film:

• Mai Bui, "Utopce"

Best Built Set:

• Douglas Cook, "Honens 2025 'The Complete Artist' - Teaser Reels"

Best Visual Special Effects:

• Douglas Cook, "'12 Chains'" by ATOMIS"

Best Sound Special Effects:

• Catherine Kasima Kanda, "The Crone"

Best Makeup: 

• Eric Ayala, "THE MANSION (short)"

Best Gore/Horror Makeup:

• Catherine Kasima Kanda, "The Crone"

Best Use of New Technology: 

• T.J. Morehouse, "FOOL'S GOLD"

Best Use of Old Technology:

• Alfred Hernandez, "The Making of Surburban RED"

Best Stop-Motion:

• Ethan Anderson, "A Guest From Elsewhere"

Best VR Game Video:

• Mariusz Borzyszkowski, "The Contrast or illusion"

Best 2D Video Game Cutscene

• Haoyun Zhang, "Shepherds"

Best Puppet Design:

• Douglas Cook, "Float Away"

Best Stunt Performance:

• Bryan Uvaldo, "Playin' Around"

Best MISC

• Joseph Sernio, "Horsepower TV Pilot"

Best in Show:

• Jason Davenport, "Pool Toys"

Best Realistic Prop: 

• Ben Nixon, "Chomp"

Best Set or Backdrop Design: 

• Fanny Cerdan, "Night Journey"

• Ariel Hulfachor, "Sun Rubber Plexus"

Best Sound Special Effects:

• Crispi Lord, Raj Padmanabh; "Titus Puppet Vengeance"

Best Drone Footage: 

• Carlos Manuel Pinota, "Portugal from above"

Best Costume Design - Original: 

• Luke Ring, "7 Flames Till Death: The Pit and the Pendulum"

Best Costume Design - History: 

• Yue Zhu, "Per Aspera…"

Best Costume Design - Modern: 

• Maddie Chavez, Jake Carpenter, "Doppelgänger"

Best Fantasy Prop:

• Kaleigh Brown, "Sunbeam"

Best Visual Special Effects:

• Brady O'Sullivan, "Sydney 2078"

Best Makeup: 

• Georgia Didier, "comPUNKtion"

Best Use of New Technology: 

• Mary Hawkins, "Love Letters for the Subway"

Best Use of Old Technology:

• Ben Senior, "Spolu"

Best Stop-Motion:

• Michael Granberry, "Les Bêtes"

Best Game Video:

• David Or, "CLAW Arena"

• Lynn Rogoff, "Endanger Game Series"

Best Puppet Design:

• Meghan G. Graham, "Roadkill Jamboree"

Best Stunt Performance:

• Bryan Uvaldo, "Love Bomb Baby"

Best Realistic Prop: 

• Sajjad Abdollahi, "The Archive"

• Shahin Jabbarzadeh, "A few strands of hair"

Best Set or Backdrop Design: 

• Colin Francis Costello, "Storage"

• Michael Calobrisi, "Small Victories"

Best Sound Special Effects:

• Aya Walraven, "Found in the Fjords"

• Luke Masella, Aaron Latta-Morissette; "Up And Down"

Best Drone Footage: 

• Nicole Wensel, "Supermodel"

Best Costume Design - Original: 

• William Wayne, "We're All The Same"

Best Costume Design - History: 

• Asel Abakirova, "Traces on the wall"

Best Costume Design - Modern: 

• David Joseph Higgins and Joseph Sernio, "LOVED"

Best Fantasy Prop:

• Sajjad Abdollahi, "The Archive"

Best Makeup:

• Colin Francis Costello, "Storage"

Best Visual Special Effects:

• Jiayi Zhao, Ili a None; "Algae"

• Gabe Grende, "Forever A Short Film"

Best Use of New Technology: 

• Aya Walraven, "Found in the Fjords"

• Dan Chen, "ENTROPY"

Best Visual Special Effects: 

• Alexander Griffin, "VECTOR"

Best Stop-Motion:

• Benjamin Capps, "CIVET"

Mystery Category:

• Giorgi Tkemaladze, "I'm Yours"

Best in show - Feature:

• Kevin Interdonato, "The Bastard Sons"

Best in show - Short:

• Colin Francis Costello, "Storage"