Winners
winter 2026

Best SHORT Screenplay

Old Faces Glimmered Through the Doors

written by Alex Marsha Sylvia
United States
5 pages in total

Best FEATURE Screenplay

WILD BLOSSOMS

written by Karl Joseph Niemiec
United States
120 pages in total

Best Television Screenplay

Versus

written by Alex Marsha Sylvia
United States
63 pages in total

First time writer (feature screenplay)

The Pulling Game

written by Sue du Feu
The Channel Islands, Bailiwick of Jersey
109 pages in total

First time writer (short screenplay)

the ward

written by Órla Gilroy
Ireland
11 pages in total

Best OXFORD Screenplay

The Oxford Journal

written by Leanna Woodley
112 pages in total

Best SERIES EPISODE Screenplay

ELLA - Part I, "Pandora's Box"

written by Lawrence Wells
United States
44 pages in total

Best DRAMA Screenplay

SYVERTSEN'S COMPLEX

written by Marni Sullivan
United States
109 pages in total

Best COMEDY Screenplay

The Practice Marriage

written by Stewart A. Fergus
United Kingdom
105 pages in total

Best THRILLER Screenplay

La strada segnata

written by Michele Iovine
Italy
118 pages in total

Best HORROR Screenplay

Dispossessed

written by Clare Bethan Perry
United Kingdom
112 pages in total

Best LGBTQ Screenplay

Blue Idaho

written by Noah Zayn Mortier
Belgium
115 pages in total

Best SCI-FI Screenplay

GOLD MINE

written by Andrzej Ciesielski
United Kingdom
133 pages in total

Best ASIAN Screenplay

ESCAPE FROMCOLOR VILLAGE IOTS JOURNEY OF THE SOULU

written by Zhang Shulin
China
81 pages in total

Best HISTORICAL Screenplay

Gutenberg – Limited

written by Donna Hall
United States
377 pages in total

Best STAGE PLAY

one damned thing

written by Peter Eyre
United Kingdom
84 pages in total

Best WAR Screenplay

the linguist

written by Maggie Tsavaris
United States
103 pages in total

Best US Screenplay

Note Between Two Books

written by Daniel Arreola
United States
93 pages in total

Best ANIMATION Screenplay

dance

written by Mark Thomas Kelly
United States
82 pages in total