SF51 Award Nominees & Winners

Winners are announced during the Festival

  • Best Feature Film

    • √ After Us, the Flood

    • Dream Theater

    • Infinite Husk

    • Time Helmet 

  • Best Short Film

    • Blindsided 

    • Em and Selma Go Griffin Hunting

    • The Gun

    • √ The Lord of All Future Space and Time

    • Forbidden Valentine 

  • Best Actor

    • Peter New, Time Helmet 

    • Hugo Komaro, After Us, the Flood 

    • √ Natali McCleary, The Air We Breathe (Short)

  • Best-First Time Director 

    • Nathan Hertz, Thinestra

    • Gualter Pupo Filho, Tired of Being a Nerd

    • √ Travis Dubridge, Hyberburn (Short) 

  • Best Screenplay 

    • √ Time Helmet 

    • The Black Hole

    • Forbidden Valentine (Animated Short)

  • Best Documentary

    • The Ether Ship

    • Saber 

    • √ The Space Architect (Short) 

  • Best Production Design

    • The Black Hole

    • √ Em & Selma Go Griffin Hunting (Short)

  • Best Editing 

    • Thinestra 

    • √ Blindsided (Short)

SPECIAL AWARDS

  • Festival Director’s Award

    • √ Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die?  Director Gore Verbinski

  • CHRONONAUT AWARD (Best Time Travel) √ TIME HELMET

  • The Shannon Moloney Award; for those who embody the best of our community.

    • For 2026, it is “Major” Tom Chennelle