2025 Nominations

Subject to change, we are still updating this section… Only 1 winner per category

Best Actor, Feature Film

Best Actor, Ohio Film

Best Actor, Short Film

Best Actress, Feature Film

Best Actress, Ohio Film

Best Actress, Short Film

Best Cinematography, Feature Film

• The Punk Rocker’s Ghost
• Ladybug
• Blood on the Bleachers
• Straight on till Morning
• The Forest Through The Trees
• SHAKESPEARE: THE TEMPEST
• The Forest Through The Trees

Best Cinematography, Ohio Film

• Bury the Cat
• Photophobia
• Infernalis
• Helping Hand

Best Cinematography, Short Film

• October Roses – Director’s Cut
• Help, I’m Alien Pregnant
• The Night Within
• THE ITCH
• TIME-LAPSE

Best Director, Feature Film

• Straight on till Morning
• The Forest Through The Trees
• Ladybug
• Blood on the Bleachers

Best Director, Ohio Film

• Helping Hand
• Bury the Cat
• Photophobia
• Infernalis

Best Director, Short Film

• The Night Within
• THE ITCH
• TIME-LAPSE
• Marie’s ambition
• Distant Blueshift

Best Editing, Feature Film

• The Observance
• Blood on the Bleachers
• Straight on till Morning
• Ladybug

Best Editing, Ohio Film

• Helping Hand
• Bury the Cat
• OVATION
• Come Out and Play
• Infernalis

Best Editing, Short Film

• The Night Within
• THE ITCH
• TIME-LAPSE
• Marie’s ambition
• Distant Blueshift
• Salt Soup
• The Inspector
• Choose Your Fate

Subject to change

FEATURE – SUSPENSE/THRILLER

• The Observance
• The Forest Through The Trees
• The Punk Rocker’s Ghost
• Strange Harvest: Occult Murder in the Inland Empire
• Son

• Straight on till Morning
• Ladybug

• Air Fryer Slaughter
• Mr. Buzzkill
• The Unchained 

• SHAKESPEARE: THE TEMPEST

FEATURE – HORROR-COMEDY

• Air Fryer Slaughter
• SHAKESPEARE: THE TEMPEST
• Staycation
• The Only Ones
• CHOKE

• Straight on till Morning
• Mr. Buzzkill
• Ladybug
• The Forest Through The Trees
• Strange Harvest: Occult Murder in the Inland Empire

FEATURE – HORROR INTERNATIONAL

• Chainsaws Were Singing
• Some Kind of Rot

MICRO FILM HORROR COMEDY

• Do You Live Here?
• Clown-Lander

MUSIC VIDEO

• Medicine (Black & Blue)
• Mama Rose’s Pound Cake

TRAILER

• B. O. O.

TV PILOT

• Dark Files Episode 1- Atrox Factory, Leeds, AL

SHORT – HORROR

• THE ITCH
• The Night Within
• Helping Hand
• October Roses
• Where the Shadows Feast

SHORT – HORROR SLASHER

• The Night Within
• Il Colore della Notte
• The Itch
• The Butcher of Thane
• Marie’s Ambition

SHORT – HORROR INTERNATIONAL

• Marie’s Ambition
• The Butcher of Thane
• The Inspector

SHORT – HORROR-COMEDY

• UNALIVED
• Breathe
• @livingb3n
• Pluck
• Everyday Dread: Strangers

SHORT – HORROR-COMEDY INTERNATIONAL

• Dungeon of Death
• The Inspector
• Help, I’m Alien Pregnant
• Demons, Judgement Day

SHORT – SCI-FI

• My Sister’s an Alien
• Photophobia
• Choose Your Fate

SHORT – SCI-FI INTERNATIONAL

• LITHIUM
• TIME-LAPSE
• Distant Blueshift

SHORT – SUSPENSE/THRILLER

• The Butcher of Thane
• Tier 3
• Black Mass
• Trēt
• Don’t Touch That Dial

SHORT – OHIO

• Infernalis
• Helping Hand
• OVATION
• Bury the Cat
• Photophobia

FEATURE SCRIPT – OHIO

• Come Out and Play
• Wave of Destruction
• The Dyer Curse 

FEATURE SCRIPT – HORROR INTERNATIONAL

• My Child
• Scream If You Need Me!

FEATURE SCRIPT – HORROR

• Greenville Society
• Come Out and Play
• Beatrice
• Support Group
• METAMORPHOSIS

FEATURE SCRIPT – LGBTQ+

• Eternal Scarring (aka Witches-n-Stitches)
• METAMORPHOSIS
• House of Flies
• Greenville Society

FEATURE SCRIPT – SCI-FI

• Belial

FEATURE SCRIPT – SUSPENSE – THRILLER

• Greenville Society
• THE DEVIL AT BAY
• METAMORPHOSIS
• Come Out and Play

SHORT – FANTASY SCRIPT

• Prey

SHORT – HORROR SCRIPT

• COCODRIL a.k.a. SEE YOU LATER
• Locker 13
• Pinned
• Eat Me
• Dover

SHORT – HORROR SCRIPT INTERNATIONAL

• MSG
• DOG EAT MAN
• Fresh Meat

SHORT – HORROR-COMEDY SCRIPT

• My Roommate Is a Vampire
• Eat Me

SHORT – HORROR-COMEDY INTERNATIONAL SCRIPT

• MSG

SHORT – SCI-FI SCRIPT

• The Other Side
• Dover
• Incarnations

SHORT – SUSEPNSE/THRILLER SCRIPT

• Behind You
• Prey
• The Starlight Veil

SHORT – LGBTQ+ SCRIPT

• No Faces
• Pinned
• Graveyard Dirt

SHORT SCRIPT – OHIO

• Blood Sugar
• Night of the Living Diwali

Monologue Competition

Visual FX and Makeup

Screen Queen and King

Film Score Competition

• Imari Hill
• Kanako Neale
• Leonard Barkley
• Nick Mallon
• Tim Whiteford
• Cedric Chanet