THE 2026 HOLLYSHORTS AWARD NOMINEES

🏆 TOP 10 LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM FINALISTS

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Echoes
FAUX BIJOUX
I Am the Prize
Life Goes On
Meeting Your Maker
Never Give Up
Pale Sun
Talk Me
VULTURES

🎬 2026 AWARD NOMINEES
 

BEST ANIMATION

Apart
Captives
Gauze
Saba
With Tapes and Toasts in the Car
 

BEST DOCUMENTARY

I Got My Brother
The Chimney Sweeper
The Second Life of Freddie Nole
The Time My Grandmother Was Held Hostage by Bank Robbers
When the Revolution Doesn’t Come
 

BEST DRAMA

Copy, Save
For Niko
Gobstopper
 

BEST COMEDY

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Disc
The Oracle
 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Hyena
Shutterspeed
The Kalgan Horse
 

BEST EDITING

A Crime Across Four Landscapes
How Brief
Hyena

BEST HORROR

Banshee
Benny’s Second Birthday
Thick Skin
 

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Betty St. Clair
King of the Iron Will
La Lucha de Lucia
 

BEST STUNTS

Floor
kaya (ᜃᜌ)
The Impression
 

BEST INTERNATIONAL

FAUX BIJOUX
Souvenir
VULTURES
 

BEST MIDNIGHT MADNESS

MORTY
Thanks to Meet You!
The Seeing Eye Dog Who Saw Too Much
 

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

Archbishop Harold Holmes
The Macks – Dually of Man x The Modern Grape
Weval — Open Up That Door
 

BEST PERFORMANCE

Down the Length
I Am the Prize
Katya
 

BEST PRODUCER

Bobby
Last Stand at Butte City
Laundreams
 

SAGINDIE AWARD

Them That’s Not
FarEye
Woman Land
 

SOCIAL IMPACT AWARD

AMERICA
EXTREMIST
Water Cooler
 

BEST SCI-FI

EUROPA
Imprint
Infinite Rifts
 

BEST STUDENT FILM

Crisis Actor
Pankaja
See You, Soon

HOLLYSHORTS × FILMIO STUDIOS

HollyShorts and Filmio Studios have also revealed the Top 10 finalists for the Audience Short Film Discovery Partnership, with five winners set to share $15,000 in cash prizes.
 

Another Day in New York - Adam & Sean Pine
Anxiety - Vladyslav Fidryk
Christmas Angels - Remington Hoffman
DOMINO SPRINGS - Dan Hertzog
From Way Up Here - Celeste Chaney
Girl | Dad - Lianzi Fields
Jes and Lora - Patrick Coleman Duncan
Naughty Maids - Rommel Rojas
Size Queen - Kenny Fierro
The POP - Eric J. Rodriguez

🎞️ KODAK AWARDS

KODAK BEST SHOT ON FILM - 35MM

It Comes in Waves
Kink
Signal

KODAK BEST SHOT ON FILM - 16MM

El Tiguere
FAUX BIJOUX
Gobstopper

AND THE WINNERS ARE...

Almost here.
 

Join us Sunday, August 23 for the 22nd Annual HollyShorts Awards Gala, as we celebrate this year’s filmmakers and reveal the 2026 winners.

Until then, there are still films to see, filmmakers to meet and a few more days of HollyShorts to experience in Hollywood.

Congratulations to all of this year’s nominees and finalists.