The 2023 Awards results are:
INDUSTRY AWARDS
Best Screenplay
WINNER - Stay Human
HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Cruel Tale, Shelter Monday & Bestie
Best Cinematography
WINNER - Adam Kirkey for Greed & Gore
HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Antonio Morra, Luca De Benedetti, Gabriele Sanzio and Daniel Palluca for Stay Human & Jeff Zwicker for In the Shadow of God
Best Original Score
WINNER - AGATHA
HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Blades in the Darkness & The Ratcatcher’s Daughter
Best Special Effects
WINNER - Maryla
HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Holy Mother & EMBRACE
Best Performance from an Actor in a Non-Human Role
WINNER - Amaia Sagasti for La Nueva
HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Alyssa Aiello for Shared Vessel & Aurore Streich for Declin
Best Beast
WINNER - Jim Bryson, Adam Jeffcoat & Matt Lyon for The Ratchatcher’s Daughter
HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Austin Birtch for Les Dents De La Maison (Paws) & Basile Vallet Petit for EMBRACE
Filmmaker to Watch
WINNER - Julie Neira Campoverde
HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Zeddy Chevron & Olivia Loccisano
Best Short Film
WINNER - English Tutor
HONOURABLE MENTIONS - La Nueva & Maryla
Best Micro Film
WINNER - EMBRACE
HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Exercised; Perfection; & Day of the Dead
Best Student/Emerging Film
WINNER - Declin
HONOURABLE MENTIONS - First Blood & The Valravn
Best Supporting Performance
WINNER - Brandon Shamerhorn for UNDERNEATH: An Anthology of Terror
HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Eihi Shiina for Holy Mother & Jean-Pierre Pouvreau for Cruel Tale, Shelter Monday
Best Leading Performance
WINNER - Sara Canning for In the Shadow of God
HONOURABLE MENTIONS -Do Eun Lee for English Tutor & Scott Osborne for Chuckles
Best Feature
WINNER - Blades in the Darkness
HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Holy Mother & UNDERNEATH: An Anthology of Terror
JURORS’ CHOICE AWARDS
Grossest Gag
WINNER - Eyeball stab from Greed & Gore
HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Wolf monster scissoring from Holy Mother & Gore eating from First Blood
The Bram Stoker Award
WINNER - Holy Mother
HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Greed & Gore & Day of the Deb
The Mary Shelley Award
WINNER - Bestie
HONOURABLE MENTIONS - WHY IT MAKES US SHATTER & Horror Story
The Edgar Allan Poe Award
WINNER - Maryla
HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Shared Vessel & Predation
VIEWERS’ CHOICE AWARDS
Viewers’ Choice Award
WINNER - Chuckles
HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Just My Type & Slash/Back
Favourite Non-Human in Film
WINNER - Sunnie Bunn for Day of the Deb
HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Kayla Cabral for Slash/Back & Robert Allan Hughes and Scott Osborne for Chuckles
Favourite Beast
WINNER - Nina (Monster Form) in The Ratchatcher’s Daughter
HONOURABLE MENTIONS - The Melting Man in The Color of Outerspace & Merlin in Les Dents De La Maison (Paws)
Best Kill
WINNER - Emily Joyce-Dial for AGATHA
HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Merlin for Les Dents De La Maison (Paws) & Scott Osborne for Chuckles
Best Death
WINNER - Matthew Bell and Nick DeWolfe for Greed & Gore
HONOURABLE MENTIONS - Jose Pereira for Just My Type & Scott Osborne for Chuckles