New York Movie AwardsInternational Monthly Film Festival

WINNERS -MAY 2026

Official results as published by the festival.

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  • Best Picture
  • Best Sci-Fi
  • Best Sound Design (Adam Trull)

RESET

Michael Mullen

United States

(alphabetical order by Film's title)

  • Best Comedy

3 WORLDS 1 MODERN ROMANCE

Max Freiman

United States
  • Best AI Film

A BLACK HORROR MOVIE (AI)

Law Jones

United States
  • Honorable Mention

A LIFE WORTH LIVING?

MrVenus

United States
  • Silver Award: Short Script

A WOMAN DISAPPEARED

Written by Catherine Stanley

United States
  • Gold Award: Super Short Film

MY FEAR: THE APPLICATION

Michael Kwan

United States
  • Best Horror
  • Silver Award: Comedy
  • Silver Award: Producer (Kathryn Muir)
  • Silver Award: Director
  • Silver Award: Actress (Alicia Martin)
  • Gold Award: Web/Tv Series
  • Gold Award: Screenplay (John Kenneth Muir)
  • Gold Award: Cinematography (Tony Mercer)
  • Gold Award: Editing John (Kenneth Muir)
  • Gold Award: Sound Design (Tony Mercer)

ABNORMAL FIXATION: "DER GEIST"

John Kenneth Muir & Tony Mercer

United States
  • Gold Award: Short Documentary

ABOUT CITIES TANGOS FERRIES AND THE STRANGE DIFFICULTY OF REMAINING CLOSE TO ANYTHING

Kostiantyn Mishchenko

United States
  • Silver Award: Feature Film
  • Gold Award: Indie Feature Film

ALIEN AGENDA

Bob Jones

United States
  • Best Drama

ANOTHER FIRST DATE

Giuseppe D'Orsi

taly\ Lithuania
  • Honorable Mention

ARE YOU OK?

Written by Eric Lotter

United States
  • Gold Award: Feature Script

AT LAST

Bradley Nathanson

United States
  • Silver Award: Indie Short Film

BLIND SPOT

Summer Rhodewalt

United States
  • Gold Award: Comedy

BRUISERS

Ashley Hayes

United States
  • Silver Award: Music Video

CELESTIAL CURRENTS: ACT 1 - TEMPORAL LUMINANCE

Walter Holland

United States
  • Gold Award: Thriller

CENTRAL'S BABY

Cornell Hubert Calhoun iii

United States
  • Honorable Mention

CHARLES DARWIN ¬ THE DANGEROUS IDEA (AI)

Shmuel Magal

Israel
  • Best Short Film

CHLOROPHYTUM

Rita Pasqualoni

Italy
  • Silver Award: Short Film

CRIMINAL MIND

Christy Marchuk

Canada
  • Gold Award: Short Film

CURTAIN CALL

Lesley Manning

United Kingdom
  • Silver Award: Short Documentary

DANCE: GENERATIONS

Dawn Gifford Engle

Spain
  • Best Thriller

DIGITAL DETOX

iCLIC Collective

Italy
  • Best Animated Film

FALL OF HAMMERDOME

Berdian Torres

United States
  • Best Inspirational Film

FAN FAVORITE ON TWO WHEELS A MOTOAMERICA JOURNEY. MAX FLINDERS MID-OHIO 2025

Jeff Heiser

United States
  • Best Music Video
  • Best Original Song (William Danton aka Dogg's Noggin)

FIDDLESTICKS

William Danton

United States
  • Silver Award: Drama

FRONTLINE RESILIENCE

Robert Haufrecht

United States
  • Honorable Mention

GIRLS GONE WILD: NYC

Peter Meng

United States
  • Silver Award: Animated Film

HOODOO

bellopropello

Switzerland
  • Silver Award: AI Film

HOPE - EPISODE 1

Brice Weber

France
  • Honorable Mention

HOT CHOCOLATE AT CHRISTMAS

William Whyte Samson

United Kingdom
  • Silver Award: Sci-Fi

INTO YOUR SOUL

Katsuhide Yamago

Japan
  • Silver Award: Short Documentary

INVISIBLE ROOTS - IN THE SHADOW OF FEMICIDE

Stefania Cugia

Italy
  • Best Drama

JOYEUX ANNIVERSAIRE

Julien Bourges

France
  • Best Indie Short Film

KUPALA

Kate Parr

United States
  • Best Feature Documentary

KUPUNA ÄINA

Zaya Benazzo & Maurizio Benazzo

United States
  • Best Indie Feature Film
  • Gold Award: Feature Film

LAST SUPPER

Sonny Corona III

United States
  • Gold Award: Drama

LIFE IS 4 ½ METRES

Jeevan Singh

United Kingdom
  • Best Cinematography (Francisco Reyes)
  • Best Screenplay
  • Best Editing (Francisco Reyes y Camilo "Kapi" Sampayo)
  • Silver Award: Feature Documentary
  • Silver Award: Sound Design (Francisco Reyes y Camilo "Kapi" Sampayo)
  • Gold Award: Producer
  • Gold Award: Director
  • Gold Award: Original Score (Kapi One)

MADRID GRAFFITI. ORIGINS

Francisco Reyes

Spain
  • Best Feature Script

MONITOR

Eric Lotter

United States
  • Gold Award: Horror

NOTION OF A SHARED LIFE

Elijah Rappaport

Not Specified
  • Best Super Short Film

PAANI

Akshita Vashisht

United States
  • Silver Award: Web/Tv Series

POSERS (2026) PILOT EPISODE

Rob Tode

United States
  • Gold Award: Actress (LauraLove Tode)

POSERS (2026) PILOT EPISODE

Rob Tode

United States
  • Gold Award: Experimental

REFLECTIONS OF ENTANGLEMENT

Alice Karveli

United Kingdom
  • Best Comedy

RELATIONSHIP RESUMES

Hanieh Iravanian

United States
  • Silver Award: Super Short Film

REST

Kyle Wnuck

United States
  • Gold Award: Short Script

ROCKFORD STREET

Written by John Norris Ray

United States
  • Silver Award: Drama

SCARLET

Alejandro Carbajal

United States
  • Gold Award: Drama

SCENES FROM AN ITALIAN MARRIAGE

Paul Almeida

Canada
  • Best Feature Film
  • Best Director
  • Best Actress

SECOND LIFE

Ching-hung an

Taiwan
  • Silver Award: Drama

SECRETS

Sherry Halperin

United States
  • Silver Award: Experimental Film

SHIFT+COMMAND+B(ODIES)

Mimi Garrard

United States
  • Honorable Mention

SOMETHING IN THE BLOOD

Talya Lotan

United States
  • Gold Award: Animation

SYMPHONY OF THE MORNING RUSH

Eva Gifford

United Kingdom
  • Best Short Script

TATTOO ODSSEY

Written by Mark John Alden

Not Specified
  • Gold Award: Feature Documentary

THE BALTIC STATES 1944

Tom Jüri Mae & Reet Mae

Canada
  • Best Experimental

THE DANCE OF VEILS

Miguel Raymond

Canada
  • Honorable Mention

THE DEVIL'S CUT

Eric Lotter

United States
  • Honorable Mention

THE DEVIL'S RANCH

Zack Van Eyck

United States
  • Best Short Documentary
  • Best Original Score (Manu Martin & Joi Barua)
  • Gold Award: Sci-Fi
  • Gold Award: Director
  • Gold Award: Original Song (Joi Barua & Susan Lim)

THE INSPIRATION FOR A CONFETTI STORM - FROM STUDIO TO STAGE.

Susan Mey Lee Lim & Samudra Kajal Saikia

Singapore
  • Silver Award: Original Song
  • Gold Award: Music Video

THE LAST PILGRIMAGE: MAYBE THE RAVENS

Stanislav Skricka

Czechia
  • Silver Award: Feature Script

THE LAST ROOMMATE

Zack Van Eyck

United States
  • Gold Award: Short Documentary

THE MAKING OF STAR AMONG THE COSMIC CLOUDS : FROM SONG TO SYMPHONY

Susan mey lee Lim

Singapore
  • Gold Award: Inspirational Film

THE NECKLACE (2026 REMASTERED VERSION)

Peter Korday

France
  • Silver Award: Super Short Film

THE NEGRO MOTHER

Keith A Thompson

United States
  • Gold Award: Actress (Maggie Grant)

THE PHONE

Maggie Grant

United States
  • Best Producer

THE SEA AND SHE

Tyler Shortt

United States
  • Best Web/Tv Series

THE TRAGEDY OF KILLER MOTH - DC FAN AUDIO DRAMA

Nicholas Alkobi

United States
  • Gold Award: AI Film

TIMBERLAND AI VIDEO

Soslan Chekhoev & Alexander Zarshchikov

United States
  • Gold Award: Indie Short Film

VALE ROAD

Glenda Cimino

Ireland
  • Gold Award: AI Film

WONDERLAND SYNDROME

Luke Mazey

United States