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Festival Award Nominees - 2026

Best Feature

  • Crystal Cross
  • SENDER
  • The Plan

Best Animated Feature

  • Memory Hotel
  • Big City Pizza
  • Lure of the Ponies – a spellbound attic mystery

Innovation Award - Documentary

  • BurnerSphere
  • Halcyon Daze: The Final Voyages of Disney’s Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser
  • Reality Looks Back 
  • IMMOTION’s: Dinosaur Evolution
  • A Man Who Takes Pictures of Flowers
  • You Play Too Much

Grand Prize in Animation

  • To be announced August 23rd 

Innovation Award - Animation

  • The Crown with a Shadow & The Search for Self
  • Pistis Poiesis
  • Tender
  • How to Walk, a guide for fun and profit 
  • Encyclopedia Galactica
  • Traveler’s Introspection

Best Animated Short Film - Long Form

  • The Toast Trip
  • Epic Yarn
  • The Gun
  • Hello Maggie
  • reTIRED
  • The Epic of Enkidu
  • ¿Necesitas Ayuda?

Best Animated Short Film - Mid-Length

  • Sundays
  • My Dog: The Paradox
  • Grain
  • Worm’s-Eye View of the Bird
  • Wishing Trees
  • Creatures of Chaos
  • 1981

Best Animated Short Film - Short Form

  • Su perisi
  • Just One Peek
  • At Night
  • Hope
  • Who’s Waiting for You?
  • Ici ça plante

Best Extended Narrative Short

  • Rodrigo
  • Defne
  • Man and Mattress
  • Pretty Boys
  • Focal Point
  • Em & Selma Go Griffin Hunting

Best Sci-Fi Short

 
  • NO NATION
  • The Door
  • Focal Point
  • Dante’s Inferno – The Ascension
  • Don Quixote against the evil forces of hell

Best Narrative Short Film

  • Play Date
  • Astronot
  • This is Private
  • Bus
  • Recall Me Maybe
  • The Vale – Origins

Innovation Award - Full Dome

  • Astranova
  • Negative Breach
  • Traveler’s Introspection
  • 5055
  • Mountain Nocturne

Best Documentary Short

  • Oh Whale
  • The Elk
  • My Burning Pianist
  • Elders of Time

Best Documentary Dome Film

  • Last Symphony of Light
  • She Whom the Moon Ruled
  • Reality Looks Back
  • Encounters in the Milky Way
  • One Step Back: A Journey to Mars

Best Experimental Animation

  • In the Eyes of the Worm
  • Heat up!
  • REST
  • Deluge
  • Rain, Rain, Go Away
  • Perfect City: The Mushroom

Best Virtual Reality Film

  • Moment’s Apart
  • IMMOTION’s: Dinosaur Evolution
  • CALL OF SY
  • Reality Looks Back
  • Performative Salvation
  • BurnerSphere
  • Apporter La Vie

Best Series

  • The Dollop: The Animated Series – Ep 01: The Rube
  • Tales from Outer Suburbia
  • Jorel’s Brother – 5th Season – Episode “Mermaid Boy”
  • The Human, Will
  • The EKSPATS – We’re Going to Africa
     
     

Best Animated Children's Short

  • The Dandelion
  • Clay Bird
  • Church Hat
  • Koffee Kat, Lost and Refund
  • Sunspark
  • Epic Yarn

Best Animated Children's Microshort

  • Family Dinner
  • Glowberry
  • Fluff & Furious
  • She Creates Change: Dewmini
  • Me in a Nutshell
  • Golden French Fries 

Best Fantasy Animated Short

  • Hexapod
  • KÖLEÑKE
  • Tribe
  • Bloom
  • Yugen
  • Paper Daughter

Best Student Stop-Motion Film

  • MRI
  • Death’s Peak
  • Wizarding Woes
  • Before Long
  • Glowberry
  • Happy Pig Brand
  • Princess Dina Bo Bina

Best 2D Student Animated Short Film

  • One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six
  • Balance
  • Project Selkie
  • Schemes’
  • Shapes of Us
  • The Bard of the Mountain Valley

Best Student Animated Microshort

  • Next Gourd Neighbor
  • CHAI
  • Come Home
  • Mariposa
  • Puppeteer’s Assistant
  • Franken Struck
  • Waltz of the Smorbs

Best Animated Comedy

  • Prout
  • The Dollop: The Animated Series – Ep 01: The Rube
  • Koffee Kat, Lost and Refund
  • My Dog: The Paradox
  • Baby Ray 2: Daddy Con Carny

Best Stop-Motion Mid-Length Film

  • The Farmer’s Daughter
  • Paper Daughter
  • A Man Who Takes Pictures of Flowers
  • You Play Too Much
  • Down in the Dumps

Best Stop-Motion Short Film

  • Aller & Retour
  • Yugen
  • Death’s Peak
  • Playing God

Best Stop-Motion Micro-Short

  • A Better Kind of Crying
  • She Creates Change: Dewmini
  • Hell
  • Action Bog
  • Foil Guy vs ANVIL
  • What They Say About Carmen

Best Comedy Short

  • We Were Here
  • Bus
  • Man and Mattress
  • Astronot
  • Hostile Work Environment

  • Te Seguiré a la Oscuridad

Best Animated Comedy Microshort

  • Sweet Enough to Eat
  • Legs
  • Car Park
  • To Have and to Hold
  • There’s a Party (Let’s Go)
  • Bad Day for the Worm 

Best Sci-Fi Animated Short

  • Max Q
  • Iridescent
  • Gravity
  • The Fifth Moon of Anres
  • Unboxed
  • THE GUN
  • MISSION ACCOMP*****D

Best Music Video

  • Tender
  • Edge Dance
  • Fuzzysurf’s “Don’t Go Overboard”
  • Looking for You
  • Krill “Other I”
  • Long Long Time
  • The High King’s Daughter
  • 1.21 Gigawatts (Director’s Cut)

Best Portland Animation

  • The Well in the Woods
  • How to Walk, a guide for fun and profit
  • She Creates Change: Dewmini
  • You Play Too Much
  • Baby, That’s All I Need 
  • The Epic of Enkidu

Special Jury Award- Boundary Breaker

TBA August 23rd

Special Jury Award for Innovation in Immersive Media

TBA August 23rd 

Special Jury Award for a First Time Filmmaker

TBA August 23rd

Special Jury Award for Artistic Achievement

TBA August 23rd

Special Jury Award for Visionary Storytelling

TBA August 23rd

Spirit of Independent Animation Award

TBA August 23rd