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Genre Categories: Nominations for January 2026
Best Female Director
Adriana Mourelle for Bayla (UK)
Cat Masterson and Emily Wildwood for Lady Toy (USA)
Zara Carter for Papa Bear (Australia)
Best Male Director
David Christopher Nelson and Connor Ryan for Memoria Obscura (USA)
Enrique Fivaller for Tale of a Memory (Spain)
Sam Iwata aka Liu for Melodies Of The Abyss (Australia)
Best Student Male Director
TBA
Best First Time Male Director
Dan Rathke for Wake Up, Dolores! (USA)
David Ernesto Herrera for Unruly. (UK)
Giorgi Avetisyan for Vanitas – Beyond Regret (USA)
Best Actress
Cat Masterson for Lady Toy (USA)
Juliet Chevelle for Wake Up, Dolores! (USA)
Kym Jackson for Melodies Of The Abyss (Australia)
Best Actor
Andrew Steel for Melodies Of The Abyss (Australia)
Olivier Barrette for Tale of a Memory (Spain)
Richard Brake for Unruly. (UK)
Best Supporting Actress
TBA
Best Acting Duo
TBA
Best Ensemble Cast
Jason Narvy, Stan Smith, Soji Arai, David “Duster” Duesterbeck, Melanie Rae Wendt, Gerald Penn Male, and Lex Langfor The Baku (USA)
Juliet Chevelle, Trinity Johnston, Georgia Horton, Elena Kent, Michaela Hartnett, Megan Lott, Jen Brown, and Todd Wallace for Wake Up, Dolores! (USA)
Pavel Dobrev, Ilian Karastoyanov, Yordan Georgiev, Deyan Dimitrov, Ivaylo Markov, Lyudmil Nikolov, Rumen Buyukliev, Krasimir Ivanov, Irena Markova, Nedelcho Todorov, Ina Ilcheva, Kaloyan Aladinov, and Yulian Rusev for Restavrazov (Bulgaria)
Best Original Screenplay
TBA
Best Cinematography
David Christopher Nelson for Memoria Obscura (USA)
Miquel RubÃs for Tale of a Memory (Spain)
Nicolás Torre Spika and Julián Kominek for Character Actor (USA)
Oleksandr Shvets for Lullaby (Ukraine)
Rahul Suresh for The Three Of Us (USA)
Best Editing
Blood in the Pines (USA)
Connor Ryan for Memoria Obscura (USA)
Felix Donahoo for Papa Bear (Australia)
Theo Hall for How the Body Heals Itself – Episode 1 (USA)
Zoe Marshall, Jack Schneiderman, and Todd C Wallace for Wake Up, Dolores! (USA)
Best Production Design
Adam Gus Powers for Melodies Of The Abyss (Australia)
Emma Skeet for Lady Toy (USA)
Enrique Fivaller for Tale of a Memory (Spain)
Kate Upton Jones for Papa Bear (Australia)
Wake Up, Dolores! (USA)
Best Set Design
TBA
Best Costume Design
TBA
Best Special Makeup
TBA
Best Special FX
TBA
Best Visual FX
TBA
Best Sound Design
Bea Brozek for Papa Bear (Australia)
Jack Schneiderman and Zoe Marshall for Wake Up, Dolores! (USA)
Johnny Yong Bosch for The Baku (USA)
Best Sound Editing
TBA
Best Sound Mixing
TBA
Best Original Score
Can Azbazdar for The Ones Who Can Fly in Their Dreams (Turkey)
Dan Rathke, Jack Schneiderman, Todd Wallace, and Zoe Marshall for Wake Up, Dolores! (USA)
Daniel Jones for The Sanguine (USA)
Geoff Ryan for Never Leave (USA)
Thibaut Falgairette for The Series 10K (USA)
Best Original Song
Heart of Black by The Band Called Sex, for The Job (USA)
Lullaby by Semen Khanin and Anna Khanina (Ukraine)
Soar Like an Eagle by Frank Louis Passalaqua (USA)
Genre Categories: Nominations for January 2026
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