2024

LAURELS ON FILMFREEWAY

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FEATURES

  • BEST FEATURE FILM 

Winner: Dirty Boy

NOMINEES

The Mysterious Events at the Lawrence Estate

The Kingdom By The Sea

Tokyo, I Love You

VINCENT – A Story Of Supernatural Friendship

  • ​BEST DOCUMENTARY

Winner: Black, Queer & Done

NOMINEES:

Manufacturing Madness

Iceland, On the Trail of Democracy

Forgetting the Many: The Royal Pardon of Alan Turing

DELA – The Making of El Anatsui

The Golden Chain of Mercy

  • BEST DIRECTOR

Winner: Orchid Moon

NOMINEES

The Kingdom By The Sea

L.A. 4ORCE

Wrong Numbers

Tokyo, I Love You

Dirty Boy

Traumnovelle

  • BEST SCREENPLAY

Winner: HOME FREE

NOMINEES

Black, Queer & Done

CountablyUncommon

Wallie’s Gals

The Mysterious Events at the Lawrence Estate 

It’s the Gravy

  • BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Winner: The Kingdom By The Sea

NOMINEES

August

Dirty Boy 

Traumnovelle

VINCENT – A Story Of Supernatural Friendship

Orchid Moon

  • BEST EDITING

Winner: Wrong Numbers

NOMINEES

Black, Queer & Done

The Lies We Tell Ourselves

I Heart Willie

Orchid Moon

  • BEST MUSIC

Winner: Traumnovelle

NOMINEES

Code Duello: From the Tithebanner Saga

VINCENT – A Story Of Supernatural Friendship

Orchid Moon

  • BEST SPECIAL FX

Winner: Dirty Boy

  • BEST ACTOR

Nicholas Ball, The Kingdom By The Sea

NOMINEES

Graham McTavish, Dirty Boy

Nikolai Kinski, Traumnovelle

Jake Waring, Orchid Moon

  • BEST ACTRESS

Winner: Cherie Belle Kerr, It’s the Gravy

NOMINEES

Emily Hall, Wrong Numbers

Tara Spencer-Nairn, HOME FREE

Jill Frappier, HOME FREE

  • BEST ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE

Winner: Wallie’s Gals

NOMINEES

Strange Games

L.A. 4ORCE

It’s the Gravy

Orchid Moon

  • SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT

Winner: Special Mention: Best Production Design – Bob’s Hops

  • BEST GENRE FILM 

Winner: MISSOURI BREAKS: The Ballad of Missouri Bill

NOMINEES

Code Duello: From the Tithebanner Saga

PAPER PLATES

The Farm Boy

I Heart Willie


SHORTS

  • BEST SHORT FILM 

Winner: The Albino Eagle

NOMINEES: A Promise to the Wind, Limited Slip, Capturing the Carbon, HEZUR BERRIAK, We Will Find YOU, Thunder, Baron Munchausen (Karl)

  • BEST DOCUMENTARY

Winner: Capturing the Carbon

  • BEST ANIMATION FILM

Winner: Nono

  • BEST DIRECTOR

Winner: A Promise to the Wind 

NOMINEES: The Message, Rocket Girl, Of Dypshoria and Blood, The Albino Eagle, Bottoms UP!, THE BOY, Thunder, Sugar Rush

  • BEST SCREENPLAY

Winner: HEZUR BERRIAK

NOMINEES: TORN by Emily Sewell, POI WILLIAM AMSBAUGH, Adam’s Killer Party, The After Party, Thunder, Almanach

  • BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

WInner: Lamb of Vengeance

NOMINEES: POI WILLIAM AMSBAUGH, The Albino Eagle, LAMENT, We Will Find YOU, Thunder, Small Rain Down, Burden, Ilhéus (Islanders)

  • BEST EDITING

Winner: Lamb of Vengeance

NOMINEES: LAMENT, Momentum, We Will Find YOU, YOU ARE SPECIAL, Sugar Rush

  • BEST MUSIC

Winner: Tierra del Fuego, 

NOMINEES: Jenny´s Absinthe, THE BOY, CONFESSION

  • BEST SPECIAL FX

WInner: Rocket Girl

NOMINEES: CR7, YOU ARE SPECIAL

  • BEST ACTOR

Winner: Nimrod Peleg, THE BOY

NOMINEES: 

Luke Styles, Beyond the Boundary, 

Gerardo Power, Charm of other times

Benjamin Hartwig, Almanach

Colin Miller, Danny

  • BEST ACTRESS

Winner: Chelsea LeSage, Jane 2687

NOMINEES: 

Sienna Sayer, Rocket Girl, 

Catherine Manwaring, Of Dypshoria and Blood

Görel Crona, Burden

  • BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Winner: Leslie-Ann Coles, The Curtain

NOMINEES​​: 

Chloe Karr, The After Party

Alexi Melvin, Jane 2687

  • BEST ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE

Winner: Limited Slip

NOMINEES: The Handbag, CR7, Outrun, We Will Find YOU

  • SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT

Winner: Special Mention: Best Medium-length Film – We Will Find YOU

Winner: Special Mention: Best Art Design: Baron Munchausen (Karl)

  • BEST GENRE FILM 

Winner: What Must Be Done

NOMINEES: Adam’s Killer Party, CONFESSION, Jane 2687, Playing Hooky, Danny


  • WEB SERIES

BEST WEB SERIES  
Winner: Touch the Sky | Nominees: Eagles, The Experimentalist


UNPRODUCED SCRIPT

  • MOST MAVERICK CONCEPT

Winner: Sayonara

NOMINEE

The Age of the Empath

  • BEST SCRIPT WITH FILMING POTENTIAL

Winner: Black Hole and Red Scarf

NOMINEES

Angst
Dandelion


  • POSTER (including all films, fiction and docs) 

Winner: Breaking Out | Nominees: Remi Milligan: Lost Director, The Handbag, Hands, The Hitmand and the Assasin, Forever What Must Be Done