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American Golden Picture International Film Festival

    • 2020s
    • 2010s
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    Festival Award

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    Best Cinematography

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Like Son, Like Father

      Mark C. Andrews(cinematographer)
      Blue Ascot Media
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Shaakuntalam

      4.3 (1.9K)
      Joseph V. Sekhar(director of photography)
      Gunaa Teamworks
      Sri Venkateshwara Creations
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      In the Backseat

      8.1 (18)
      Lance Eliot Adams
      Edgewater Film Productions
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      One Second at a Time

      9.5 (36)
      Tim Searfoss
      Fire Pillar Entertainment
      Searfoss Productions
    • [object Object]

      Hysteriofunk: All the pretty little horses

      6.3 (26)
      Gerard Ponce

    Best Composer

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The American Good Samaritans

      9.6 (14)
      Artashes Kartalyan(composer)
      Man Pictures Production
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Like Son, Like Father

      Max Richter(composer)
      Blue Ascot Media

    Best Directing

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The American Good Samaritans

      9.6 (14)
      Ara Mnatsakanyan(Director)
      Man Pictures Production

    Best Director

    • Winner
      • Janssen Swent(director)
      • Death by King Cake
      Best of Luck Comedies
      • David 'Chirock' Moreno
      • Hysteriofunk: All the pretty little horses

    Best Documentary Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The American Good Samaritans

      9.6 (14)
      Manvel Saribekyan(Producer)
      Ara Mnatsakanyan(Director)
      Man Pictures Production
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      One Second at a Time

      9.5 (36)
      Tim Searfoss
      Fire Pillar Entertainment
      Searfoss Productions

    Best Documentary Short

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Road to Learning

      Helene Zhuge(producer)
      Bon Film Tv

    Best Editing

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The American Good Samaritans

      9.6 (14)
      Tigran Baghinyan(Editor)
      Man Pictures Production
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      In the Backseat

      8.1 (18)
      Harry Waldman
      Edgewater Film Productions

    Best Feature Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Shaakuntalam

      4.3 (1.9K)
      Gunasekhar(director)
      Gunaa Teamworks
      Sri Venkateshwara Creations

    Best Feature Narrative Long

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Shaakuntalam

      4.3 (1.9K)
      Gunasekhar(Director)
      Gunaa Teamworks
      Sri Venkateshwara Creations

    Best Fiction Short

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Heartbreak Under a Neon Streetlight

      Jen McAuliffe
      Victoria Nieves
      Curry Whitmire
    • [object Object]

      Just a Kiss

      4.4 (19)
      Brandon Cela(director)
      305 Film Studios
    • [object Object]

      Tickets

      Jacob Poag
      Tris Thompson
      Grace Fettinger
      S.T.E.P. Studio
    • [object Object]

      Shooting Your Own Shadow

      Joseph Parisi
      A2X Productions

    Best Fiction Short Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Abs of Steel

      Shivan Giri
      Cheat Meal Productions
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Like Son, Like Father

      Mark Bethea(director)
      Matthew Monelli(producer)
      Blue Ascot Media
    • [object Object]

      The Danny Walker Walker

      Bobby Lacer(director)
      Donald Ralph Lampton(writer)
      Little Chicago Pictures

    Best First Time Filmmaker

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      El Hipnotizador

      Ignacio Marín Aedo(director)
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Gammelgormium: First Contact

      4.2 (30)
      Craig Philip Peterson(Director)

    Best Lead Actor

    • Winner
      • Joe Esbenshade
      • Syzygy
      New Media Comedy Productions
    • Edward Neequaye
      Winner
      • Edward Neequaye(actor)
      • Like Son, Like Father
      Blue Ascot Media

    Best Lead Actress

    • Amanda Nicholas
      Winner
      • Amanda Nicholas
      • Syzygy
      New Media Comedy Productions

    Best Music Video

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Hysteriofunk: All the pretty little horses

      6.3 (26)
      David 'Chirock' Moreno

    Best Screenplay

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Like Son, Like Father

      Mark Bethea(writer)
      Blue Ascot Media

    Best Sound

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Like Son, Like Father

      James DeVore(sound designer)
      Blue Ascot Media
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      In the Backseat

      8.1 (18)
      William Ray
      Edgewater Film Productions
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Like Son, Like Father

      Joseph Rivas
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Saras

      Stp Samy
      August 2023
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Boundless Imagination

      Julie Hu

    Best Student Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Season 21

      Tamar Schwarz(Director)
      Noy Emilia Efrati(Co-Director)

    Best Supporting Actor

    • Robert Cunniff
      Winner
      • Robert Cunniff
      • Syzygy
      New Media Comedy Productions

    Best Supporting Actress

    • Winner
      • Lara Starr Rigores
      • Syzygy
      New Media Comedy Productions

    Best Trailer

    • [object Object]

      They Call Me Marshal

      Carlos Leos
      3Wize Media

    Honorable Mention

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    Best Animation Short

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Out of Control

      Bellopropello(director)

    Best Cinematographer

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      A Brush with Death

      Ido Berlad
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Death by King Cake

      Travis Myers(cinematographer)
      Best of Luck Comedies

    Best Composer

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      A Brush with Death

      Sharon Farber

    Best Directing

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Enter the Room

      9.2 (42)
      Harry Waldman
      Edgewater Film Productions
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Abs of Steel

      Shivan Giri
      Cheat Meal Productions
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Road to Learning

      Helene Zhuge(director)
      Bon Film Tv
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Pieces of Mess

      Yansheng Zheng(Director)
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Hysteriofunk: All the pretty little horses

      6.3 (26)
      David 'Chirock' Moreno
    • [object Object]

      Riding Down A Moon Bean

      8.0 (16)
      Bobby Lacer(director)
      Little Chicago Pictures

    Best Documentary Long

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Gerry Cooney

      Richard Poche
      Poche Pictures

    Best Documentary Short

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Mom's war time stories

      James Chen(director)
      Shihyun Wang(writer)
      Pei-Hsin Hsuan(Actress)

    Best Editing

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Gerry Cooney

      Richard Poche
      Poche Pictures
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Enter the Room

      9.2 (42)
      Harry Waldman
      Edgewater Film Productions

    Best Feature Narrative Long

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Syzygy

      Jim Mendrinos(producer)
      John C. Guild(producer)
      Robert Cunniff(producer)
      Mike Langan(producer)
      John P. Rigores(producer)
      New Media Comedy Productions
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Syzygy

      Marco Berrios(producer)
      New Media Comedy Productions
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Pandemic Trilogy

      9.6 (7)
      Yan Cui(director)
      A Voice Films
    • [object Object]

      Walk

      9.4 (139)
      Nitin Kumar Gupta
      Neole Films

    Best Fiction Short

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Saras

      Jude Peter Damian
      August 2023
    • [object Object]

      Riding Down A Moon Bean

      8.0 (16)
      Bobby Lacer(director)
      Donald Ralph Lampton(writer)
      Little Chicago Pictures

    Best First Time Filmmaker

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Enter the Room

      9.2 (42)
      Harry Waldman
      Edgewater Film Productions

    Best Lead Actor

    • Tsahi Halevi
      Winner
      • Tsahi Halevi
      • A Brush with Death
    • Carlos Leos
      Winner
      • Carlos Leos
      • I Know a Stranger
      3Wize Media
    • Carlos Leos
      Winner
      • Carlos Leos
      • I Know a Stranger
      3Wize Media
    • Carlos Leos
      • Carlos Leos
      • I Know a Stranger
      3Wize Media
    • Carlos Leos
      • Carlos Leos
      • I Know a Stranger
      3Wize Media

    Best Lead Actress

    • Winner
      • Gabbie Robichaux(actress)
      • Death by King Cake
      Best of Luck Comedies
    • Neelima Rani
      Winner
      • Neelima Rani
      • Saras
      August 2023

    Best Screenwriter

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Death by King Cake

      David Luck(writer)
      Best of Luck Comedies

    Best Sound

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      A Brush with Death

      Lotan Scheinwald
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Enter the Room

      9.2 (42)
      Cody Adams
      Chris Colabella
      Edgewater Film Productions

    Best Trailer

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      They Call Me Marshal

      Carlos Leos
      3Wize Media

    Best child actor

    • Winner
      • Michaloni Pittman
      • I Know a Stranger
      3Wize Media
    • Winner
      • Chase Pittman
      • I Know a Stranger
      3Wize Media

    Short Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      A Brush with Death

      Ariel Lavi
      Yuval Sol Boker

    Best Original Music

    • [object Object]

      Riding Down A Moon Bean

      8.0 (16)
      Jerome Kurtenbach(composer)
      Little Chicago Pictures

    Golden Judges' Award

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    Best Editing

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      A meeting between two. The secret

      Yoram Marcus

    Best Lead Actor

    • Ofer Regirer
      Winner
      • Ofer Regirer
      • Impending Catastrophe

    Best Lead Actress

    • Winner
      • Ariel Yosef
      • Impending Catastrophe

    Best Quarantine Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Quarintineed

      Randy Memoli
      Nappi Films

    Best Trailer

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      A meeting between two. The secret

      Yoram Marcus

    Golden Audience Award

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    Best Feature Narrative Long

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      War Trap

      5.9 (377)
      David Aboucaya(director)
      David Aboucaya

    Festival Award - Annual Event

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    Best Fiction Short

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Like Son, Like Father

      Mark Bethea(Director)
      Blue Ascot Media

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