2026 Award Nominees
Web Series, Films, and Pilots

Best Actor in a Comedy

• Brandon Darcel - Crater Heights

• David Winning - The Mid Life Crisis

• Drew Grant - No Witnesses

• Kevin Michael Brennan - The Cineplex

• Dylan Skolnik - Could Be Worse

• Jose Acevedo - The Disruption

• Joshua Pangborn - The Art of Blowing It

• Nils Hognestad - Fort Macbeth

• Wayne Tunks - The Rooty Hill Musical Society Presents

Best Actress in a Comedy

• Laura Dowling Shea - Great Expectations

• Bryn Berg - Middle Age Inappropriate

• Malena Sadaka - Upside Down on Long Island

• Angela Stevenson - Crater Heights

• Sarah Cleveland - Love in All The Small Places

• Alison Wien - The Fuckboy Diaries

• Sadie Parker - Stealing the Show

• Olvido Rodríguez - Olvido Linares

Best Actor in a Drama

• Dan Gregory - Archangel

• Gaston Lepage - Devenir Margot

• Neal McDonough - The Writer

• George Deihl Jr. - After Sunset

• Angelo Acevedo - Sideblinded

• Gavin Ward - Sorry, Chef

• Oliver Feaster - Plant Based

• Alonge Hawes - Good Black Man

Best Actress in a Drama

• Sophia Twohig - Carved

• Catherine Rogala - After Sunset

• Allie Dunbar - Cows Come Home

• Marika Lhoumeau - Devenir Margot

• Ro Milani - Exile

• Abbey Hafer - Play Date

• Jennifer Monk - Mummy Needs a Minute

• Hannah Ballot - Nurses Station: Glass Houses

Best Actor in a Thriller, Sci-Fi, or Fantasy

• Jim Thalman - A Son's Burden

• Daryl Marks - Illuminagents

• Steve Lichtenstein - Never Too Late

• Andy Slepman - Nuclear Daydreams

• Tiago Plourde Asenjo - Hide and Seek

• Michael W. Gaines - Don't Forget to Pray

• Brandon Engel - Puke Bitch

• Daniel Martin Berkey - A Son's Burden

Best Actress in a Thriller, Sci-Fi, or Fantasy

• Christina Leonard - Illuminagents

• Lyndsay Smart - The Resurrection of Ophelia

• Daïna Lachance-Raymond - Hide and Seek

• Lily Willcocks - Eyes in the Woods

• Sarah Seeds - Bathed in the Night

• Léanne Désilets - Mukbang

• Kimberly Cruchon Brooks - Puke Bitch

• Aela Herbert - Eyes in the Woods

Best Supporting Actor

• Christian Keiber - Archangel

• Andrew Meikle - Love in all the Small Places

• Daniel Ison - The Fuckboy Diaries

• Simon Feil - Margo For Real

• Kelsey McClarnon - The Cineplex

• David Ogrodowski - The Day the World Fell Apart

• Desmond Thorne - The Disruption

• Vandit Bhatt - Never Too Late

Best Supporting Actress

• Jessica Sherr - Great Expectations

• Julie Winer - Silent Harmony

• Anna Grace Young - My Robot Roommate

• Jacinta Moses - The Rooty Hill Musical Society Presents

• Susan Bolt - Plant Based

• Sherri Saum - The Writer

• Emma DeWitt - The Cineplex

• Natalie Roy - The Spilling

• Simone Ochalek - Clout Castle

Best Host

• Caris Vucjec - Push

• Jennifer Monk - Who Are You Talking To?

• Julie Gold - Slice of Life: Harbor of Hope

• Gary Galonek - Pinsetters Needed

Best Guest Star

• David Ogrodowski - Illuminagents

• Jennifer Plotzke - Nurses Station: Glass Houses

• Rev. Yolanda - The Art of Blowing It

• Mingo De Pasquale - Bad Romance

• Ron Lea - Love In All The Small Places

• Marcia Hopson - Margo for Real

• Pamela Jayne Morgan - World's Worst Passover Series

• Kevin Coubal - When Mary Met Betsy

• Caris Vucjec - Illuminagents

Best Direction in a Comedy

• Rebeka Herron, Sarah Cleveland - Love in All The Small Places

• Nick Pinelli - Write On

• Maureen Lee Lenker - When Mary Met Betsy

• Misha Calvert - The Fuckboy Diaries

• Rob Watt - No Witnesses

• Gustavo Garrafa - Okus Kero

• Desmond Thorne - The Disruption

• Ashley Monique Menard - The Art of Blowing It

Best Direction in a Drama

• Elena Moscatt & Johnny Alonso - Rosemary Street

• Tony Carpinelli - Sideblinded

• Meggy Laguda - Takahoa

• Nicholas Garr - Nurses Station: Glass Houses

• Debra Markowitz - Silent Harmony

• Avery Morton, Chan Polchies, Deviina Hajela, Livia Steeves, Shanthi Bell, Kayla-Renée Ossachuck, Anna Melanson, Dani Clayton - 8 Cafes

• Eric Blouin - Devenir Margot

• Renan Amaral - Exile

Best Direction in a Thriller, Sci-Fi, or Fantasy

• Quentin Lewis - Caesar The Ides of March

• Mark Clauburg - A Son's Burden

• Sam Tricomo - Puke Bitch

• Michael Pizzano - Bathed in the Night

• Larry Rosen - The Resurrection of Ophelia

• Morgan Ermter - Eyes in the Woods

• Alex Swetlitschnyj, Lorenzo Graziano - Nuclear Daydreams

• Colleen Davie Janes - Never Too Late

Best Writing (Comedic)

• Jennifer M. Kay - Certifiable

• Wendell Laurent - The Dumbletons

• Alison Wien - The Fuckboy Diaries

• Howard Bowler - The Mid Life Crisis

• Seth Chitwood & Mark Anthony Hardy - Listening In

• Bryn Berg - Middle Age Inappropriate

• Leonidas Stanescu - The Desk Files

• Seth Chitwood - World's Worst Passover Series

• Riley Fee - Mum's The Word

Best Writing (Dramatic)

• Gillien Goll & Dorothy Marcic - The Spilling

• Morgan Ermter & Alanna Schwartz - Eyes in the Woods

• Nicholas Garr - Nurses Station: Glass Houses

• Lindsey Middleton, Katie Uhlmann - Cows Come Home

• Robert Asencio - Don't Forget to Pray

• Monet Bailey-Ngatai, Meggy Laguda, Jess Sewell - Takahoa

• Gustavo Garrafa - Le Scale Invisibili

• Steve Lichtenstein - Never Too Late

Best Cinematography (Comedic)

• Parth Pandey - Love in All The Small Places

• Jared Pierson - Write On

• Alyssa Renzi - When Mary Met Betsy

• Piero Basso - Margo For Real

• Dylan Tollefson - No Witnesses

• Luisant Rodríguez - Olvido Linares

• Dan Goldsmith - World's Worst Passover Series

• Stephanie Fentzke - Clout Castle

• Jack Romashoff - The Mid Life Crisis

Best Cinematography (Dramatic)

• Josef Wright - Eyes in the Woods

• Andrew Kempski - Carved

• Bob Klein - A Son's Burden

• Nicholas Dilullo - Bathed in the Night

• Mitchell Benjamin Gall - Cows Come Home

• Lorenzo Graziano - Nuclear Daydreams

• Ben McBurnett - The Writer

• Daniel G. Stefanic - Sideblinded

Best Ensemble Cast (Comedic)

• Great Expectations

• The Rooty Hill Musical Society Presents

• Write On

• The Fuckboy Diaries

• Mum's The Word

• Stealing The Show

• The Cineplex

• Fort Macbeth

• Listening In

• World's Worst Passover Series

Best Ensemble Cast (Dramatic)

• The Spilling

• Nurses Station: Glass Houses

• Plant Based

• Hide and Seek

• Takahoa

• Observance

• Rosemary Street

• Good Black Man​