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The Short Film Awards

    • 2020s
    • 2010s
    • 2024202220212020

    SOFIE

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    Best Actor in a Short Film

    • Freddie Wise
      Winner
      • Freddie Wise
      • Reappear
    • Gorman Ruggiero
      • Gorman Ruggiero
      • Calf Rope

    Best Actress in a Short Film

    • Winner
      • Véronique Picciotto
      • The Role of a Lifetime
    • Danielle Dallas Roosa
      • Danielle Dallas Roosa(actress)
      • APPyness
    • Isabelle Allen at an event for Les Misérables (2012)
      • Isabelle Allen
      • Where the Witches Live

    Best Animated Short Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Oeil pour oeil

      7.4 (77)
      Thomas Boileau(director)
      Alan Guimont(director)
      Robin Courtoise(director)
      Mathieu Lecroq(director)
      Malcolm Hunt(director)
      François Briantais(director)
    • [object Object]

      Kite

      7.8 (12)
      Hongwei Wang(director)

    Best Comedic Short Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      APPyness

      6.7 (66)
      Ryan Turner(director)
      Danielle Dallas Roosa(producer)
      Tanner Sawitz(producer)

    Best Director of a Documentary Short Film

    • Ky Dickens at the New York Premiere of Zero Weeks
      Winner
      • Ky Dickens
    • [object Object]

      The City Behind Us: The Story of the Elmora Troopers

    Best Director of a Dramatic, Narrative or Comedic Short Film

    • Marc Saez
      Winner
      • Marc Saez(director)
      • The Role of a Lifetime

    Best Documentary Short Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The City Behind Us: The Story of the Elmora Troopers

    Best Dramatic Short Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Ada

      8.4 (14)
      Steven Kammerer(director)
      Amanda Konkin(producer)
      Camille Hollett-French(producer)
      Julie Bruns(producer)
      Michael Khazen(producer)
      Otto Mak(producer)

    Best Editing in a Comedic Short Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Uber Thoughts

    • [object Object]

      ChromaVirus

      J.D. Boxley
      Late Start Films

    Best Editing in a Documentary Short Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Mastering the Mountains

      Jason Adair(editor)

    Best Editing in a Dramatic or Narrative Short Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      In Orbit

      7.7 (19)
      Katie McNeice
      Hardback Films
    • To kern (2020)
      • To kern
      • 1971
      • Catalyst
      • Home: A Story of Forced Adoptions in America
      • House of La Reine
      Jingxi Zhu(editor)
      Magnus Häll(editor)
      Brooke Yunis(editor)
      Mojtaba Mirshekari(editor)
      Christie Conochalla(editor)

    Best Long Short Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Turnaround

      Jahmal Holland(director)
    • [object Object]

      The Tell-Tale Heart: A Musicabre

      Danny Ashkenasi
      Edward Elder
      Henry Borriello
    • [object Object]

      Calf Rope

      8.8 (53)
      Sarah Hawkins(Producer)
      Ryan Geesaman(Co-Producer)
      Lauren Zehr(Co-Producer)
      Brenda Ellis(Associate Producer)
      Greg Ellis(Associate Producer)
      Ginger Greenfield(Associate Producer)
      Gorman Ruggiero(Associate Producer)
      Jackie Walker(Associate Producer)
      William Weik(Associate Producer)
      Bradley Hawkins(Executive Producer)
      Dadley Productions
    • [object Object]

      Mom

      8.1 (14)
      Austin Foxx(Director)
      Lifeline Entertainment
      Wynning Film Productions

    Best Narrative Short Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      1971

      7.2 (15)
      Magnus Häll
    • [object Object]

      In Orbit

      7.7 (19)
      Katie McNeice
      Hardback Films

    Best Supporting Actor in a Short Film

    • Glenn Plummer
      Winner
      • Glenn Plummer
      • The Turnaround
    • Vernon Dobtcheff
      • Vernon Dobtcheff
      • Where the Witches Live

    Best Supporting Actress in a Short Film

    • Klára Spilák
      Winner
      • Klára Spilák
      • Your Turn
      • Charlotte McLellan
      • Where the Witches Live

    Best Web Series

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Square Root

      Misti Boland(director)
      Jeremy Osbern(director)
      Patty Ann Dillon(producer)
      Chris Blunk(producer)
    • [object Object]

      Graham Ave

    • [object Object]

      Chronik Fiction - Le Coroner

      8.4 (22)
      Fabio Soares(director)
      Mike Zonnenberg(director)
    • [object Object]

      Or So the Story Goes

      8.2 (41)
      Theresa Labreglio
      Outtake Productions

    Best Writing in a Comedic Short Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Mimi's Revenge

      Ken MacLaughlin(writer)
    • [object Object]

      APPyness

      6.7 (66)
      Ryan Turner(writer)
      Danielle Dallas Roosa(writer)
      Kathleen Roosa(writer)
    • [object Object]

      Another Homecoming

      J.D. Boxley
      Late Start Films

    Best Writing in a Documentary Short Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Good Life

      Carolyn Wilson
    • [object Object]

      The City Behind Us: The Story of the Elmora Troopers

    Best Writing in a Dramatic or Narrative Short Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Halwa

      7.9 (22)
      Gayatri Bajpai(writer)
      Nirav Bhakta(writer)
    • [object Object]

      Calf Rope

      8.8 (53)
      Jake Stetler
      Bradley Hawkins

    Outstanding Styling in a Short Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Ada

      8.4 (14)
      Steven Kammerer(director)
      Amanda Konkin(producer)
      Camille Hollett-French(producer)
      Julie Bruns(producer)
      Michael Khazen(producer)
      Otto Mak(producer)
    • [object Object]

      The Gifted Ones

    • [object Object]

      The Tell-Tale Heart: A Musicabre

      Danny Ashkenasi
      Nicholas W. Callais
      Anthony Paul-Cavaretta
    • [object Object]

      Léa

      Jay Palmieri Jr.(director)
      Ginger Sharp(producer)
      Shirley Palmieri(producer)
      Danielle Earle(producer)
    • [object Object]

      Le chirurgien de l'Empire

      Guillaume Main
    • [object Object]

      The Prize

      William Jody Ebert(director)
      William Wilusz(producer)
      Daryn Davidson(producer)
      Mara Ebert(producer)

    Outstanding Technical Work in a Short Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Tell-Tale Heart: A Musicabre

      Danny Ashkenasi(director)
      Jason Chua(cinematographer)
      Stolis Hadjicharalambous(editor)
      Todd Maki(sound)
      Austin Lepri(coloring/VFX)
    • [object Object]

      In Orbit

      7.7 (19)
      Katie McNeice(director)
      Hardback Films
    • [object Object]

      Catalyst

      Bryson Lima(director)
      Emily Croke(producer)
    • [object Object]

      The City Behind Us: The Story of the Elmora Troopers

      Iwonka Swenson(director)
      Bob Burnett(director)
      Robert Shore(producer)
    • [object Object]

      House of La Reine

      7.2 (12)
      Lisa Marie Tedesco(director)
      Christie Conochalla(producer)

    SOFIE Cares

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Promise Me

      8.0 (49)
      Kevin Machate
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Love Prevails

      Jacob Watson(director)
    • Phosphene (2019)
      Christopher Stokes, Kj Renfroe, Josh Roskowsky, Robert Neal Marshall, Michael David Anderson, Dan Whitehead, Athena Arnold, Will Pfeifer, Greg St. Clair Jr., and Patrick Howard in Life Undefined (2020)
      • Phosphene
      • Life Undefined

    Best Short Film from the Vault

    • [object Object]

      Hush

      9.3 (23)
      Joseph McGovern
      Constance Reshey
      Joseph Fuoco
      Christine J. Noble
      Frank Formica

    Honorable Mention

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    Best Director of a Dramatic, Narrative or Comedic Short Film

    • Austin Foxx in Murder Made Me Famous (2015)
      Winner
      • Austin Foxx
      • Mom

    Best Long Short Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      A Deadly Charter

      8.1 (20)
      Hank Slaughter
      Ocho Films

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