2026 BFF award Nominees

GRAND JURY AWARD

  • Callback

  • La Esperanza

  • Scam Slave: From Hell To Home

  • The Fall From High to You

  • Won't Be Displaced

  • You Could've Been a Nurse

BEST DRAMA

  • The Fall from High to You

  • You Could've Been a Nurse

  • His House, Home

  • Finding Pá

  • Survival, Forever

  • Won't Be Displaced

BEST COMEDY

  • Part Timers

  • The New Gardener

  • Callback

  • But I'm a Shoe

  • Buzz Buzz

  • She's Nonbinary

BEST ANIMATION

  • Survival, Forever

  • A Grieving Heart

  • Melon Skin

  • Sunspark

  • But I'm A Shoe

  • Lost Soul

  • King Karno

  • Hustle Go Pay

BEST SCI-Fi / HORROR

  • Delivery Driver

  • S.O.S

  • Vampire Therapy

  • Scissors

  • Never Too Late

  • Jam Boy

BEST DOCUMENTARY

  • Scam Slave: From Hell to Home

  • La Esperanza

  • Witnessing

  • The Gift

  • Hello, Beautiful

  • American Echo

BEST CONNECTICUT FILM

  • American Echo

  • Delivery Driver

  • Finding Pá

  • Happy Birthday, Scandalous

  • Level 3

  • Mad Summer

BEST STUDENT Film

  • BINDINGS

  • A Grieving Heart

  • Clucky's

  • Fireball

  • Fools of Nature

  • Running Against All Odds

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

  • The Burial Of the Black Cat

  • Kaya

  • His House, Home

  • Digital Detox

  • Italiano

  • KISMET

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

  • Being Here

  • The House of Seven Gables

  • Still Calling

  • The Fall from High to You

  • Getar Hero

  • Between Dog and Man

BEST EDITING

  • The Application of Love

  • Meet Amal

  • Vampire Therapy

  • Hustle Go Pay

  • Kaya

  • Buzz Buzz

ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING

  • Something Good Going On

  • Callback

  • Meet Amal

  • Jam Boy

  • Betta Fish

  • She's Nonbinary

ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING (DOCUMENTARY)

  • Witnessing

  • Scam Slave: From Hell to Home

  • The Gift

  • The Letter

  • La Esperanza

  • Amish Country Queer

ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING (NARRATIVE)

  • Callback

  • She's Nonbinary

  • The Fall from High to You

  • You Could've Been a Nurse

  • About Face

  • Harbor

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE (DRAMA/HORROR)

  • S.O.S — Christopher Sky

  • Getar Hero - Shashank Arora

  • Mad Summer — Isabella Nossa

  • House of Seven Gables - Mike Pratt

  • Jam Boy — Sriram Emani

  • Delivery Driver - Toni Belafonte

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
(COMEDY)

  • Meet Amal — Sophia Alawi

  • The New Gardener - Guy Branum

  • But I'm a Shoe — Janet Varney

  • Plush Monkey - CW Headley

  • ...oh — Jamie Linn Watson

  • Wanna Be A Star - Diane Harrington

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
(DRAMA/HORROR)

  • Scissors — Ethan Embry

  • You Could've Been a Nurse - Rose Almario

  • Vampire Therapy — Tonia E. Anderson

  • Something Good Going On - Kaidy Kuna

  • Take Me Home — Laura Patalano

  • America - Marc Gellar

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
(COMEDY)

  • The New Gardener —Johnny Sibilly

  • Stakeout - Bill Wiltsie

  • Corsano's Roach — Eric Towne

  • Clucky's - Max Weisz

  • The Application of Love — Hayley Batson

  • Wanna Be A Star - Jeanine Bartel

BEST ENSEMBLE

  • The Wizard's Apprentice

  • S.O.S

  • Part Timers

  • Fireball

  • America

  • Clucky's