UVFF 2026 Award Nominees
UVFF 2026 Award Nominees
UVFF 2026 Awards
Best Web Series - To be announced on the night
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Best Short Script (not filmed)
Undetectable (Dylan Patrick Costello)
I’ve Got Lung Cancer (Roy Scintei)
Lab Partners (Tommy Britt)
Imagine (Kirby Gilshamoch)
Scrape (Julie Bower)
Empty Glasses (Jonathan Skinner)
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Best Sound
Domestic
The Humbug
Homonym
Good Behaviour
Care
Where There’s Light
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Best Soundtrack
Dressed to the Nines
The Weight
Emiko Jones
The Painting & The Statue
Tell Your Face
The Humbug
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Best Make Up
Beauty Sleep
Grandma is Thirsty
The Painting & The Statue
Plastic Surgery
Uncle Artoo
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Best Costume Design
Beauty Sleep
The Painting & The Statue
Emiko Jones
Vegetables Have Sugar
Grandma is Thirsty
Homonym
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Best Foreign Short Film
Bag People
Hide
The Trophy King
Forever, Liam
The Secret Assistants
Made From Leakproof Plastic
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Best Foreign Feature Film
About My Mom
The Legend of Juan Jose Mundo
Small Gods
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Best Editing
Magid / Zafar
Every Time I See A Yellow Car
Big Breakfast
The Weight
The Painting & The Statue
Dressed to the Nines
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Best Screenplay (filmed)
Truckload
Gone For Milk
Good Behaviour
In the Clouds
Starboy
The Truth About Space
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Best Cinematography
Beauty Sleep
Magid / Zafar
Every Time I See A Yellow Car
The Painting & the Statue
The Humbug
Big Breakfast
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Open Screen London Award - To be announced on the night
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Best Director (Documentary)
Jack Hancock-Fairs (The Dying Trade)
Roberto Duque (Voice Shift)
Nicholas Jones (Esme Boggart)
Phoebe Cottam (When You Were Young Were You Afraid of The Moon?)
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Best Documentary Short Film
Seekers
When You Were Young Were You Afraid of The Moon?
Houdini II: A Beautiful Way to Die
Esme Boggart
Voice Shift
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Best Documentary Feature Film
The Banjo Boys
The Dying Trade
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One to Watch Award
Lily Mellor (Weight of Feeling)
Eliab Gabressilase (Route Cause)
Shanti Scalpello (Where You At)
Ben Norris (Toad in the Hole)
Olive Pascha (Carrot Cake)
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Best Comedy
Odd Socks
Uncle Artoo
Easy Sell
The Man That I Wave At
Toad in The Hole
Egg Timer
Gone For Milk
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Si Spencer Award
Dressed to the Nines
Vegetables Have Sugar
Tell Your Face
The Truth About Space
Odd Socks
Rule, Britannia
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The Free at Last TV Award
Between the Piers
Indignitas
I Am The Prize
Homonym
Starboy
The Truth About Space
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Best Actor (Short Film)
Daniel Weyman (Uncle Artoo)
Russell Tovey (I Am The Prize)
Antonio Aakeel (Good Behaviour)
Eben Figueiredo (Magid / Zafar)
Ty Tennant (Everytime I see a Yellow Car)
Theodore K. Emile Rodney (At This Moment, It’s Us)
Winner:
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Best Actor (Feature)
Richard Glover (The Old Man)
Daniel McNamee (Breakwater)
Steve Hodgetts (How to Make Her Leave)
Daniel Copeland (Invincible)
Rajdeep Choudhury (A Teacher’s Gift)
Burak Dakak (About My Mom)
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Best Actress (Short Film)
Olivia D’Lima (Tell Your Face)
Leila Farzad (Overtones)
Evie Jones (Truckload)
Frances Mayli McCann (Domestic)
Hanako Footman (Emiko Jones)
Juliet Cowan (Toad in the Hole)
Winner:
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Best Actress (Feature)
Samantha Seager (Invincible)
Anjali Patil (A Teacher’s Gift)
Ellie Rose Boswell (How to Make Her Leave)
Cimpaye Florence Mariserena (Small Gods)
Rachel Barry (The Old Man)
Anna Mirodin (The Legend of Juan Jose Mundo)
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Best Director (Short Film)
Darcia Martin (Indignitas)
Aella Jordan-Edge (Truckload)
Luís Hindman (Magid / Zafar)
Matt Chandler (Every Time I See A Yellow Car)
Stephen Gallager (Blackpool)
Jill Worsley (Tell Your Face)
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Best Director (Feature Film)
Artur Ribeiro (A Teacher’s Gift)
Marc Hardman (The Old Man)
Max Morgan (Breakwater)
Emma Croft (Invincible)
Asher Rosen (Small Gods)
Michael Boccalini & Che Grant (How To Make Her Leave)
Winner:
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FESTIVAL DIRECTOR’S CHOICE AWARD - To be announced on the night
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Best UK Short Film
Largo
Truckload
Magid / Zafar
Rule, Britannia
Care
Good Behaviour
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Best UK Feature Film
Invincible
The Old Man
Breakwater
How To Make Her Leave
A Teacher’s Gift
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