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2023 Sci-Fi Miami Awards

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THE OFFICIAL 2023 AWARDS . . . updated 5/21/2023…

Audience Award Feature –
Audience Award Short – Fugitive
Best Actor Fan Film – Pablo Montenegro – Last Trial
Best Actor Feature – Alexandre Bailly – The Herald
Best Actor Short – Michael Shanahan – Earthrise
Best Actress Feature – Veronica Wylie – Beneath the Green
Best Actress Short – Marina Avogadri – I XXXX MY SEX DOLL
Best Afro-Futurism – The Last Survivor
Best Animated Comedy Short – Stalled Trek: The City On the Edge of Foreclosure
Best Child Actress Short – Leene Vugts – The Rise
Best Children’s Film – The Rise
Best Cinematography Short – Bunker: The Last Fleet
Best Color grading Feature – Beneath the Green
Best Color Grading Short – Jamin Scotti, CONEXION
Best Comedy Short – Hair Of The Dog
Best Concept Series – Freeman Hospitality, Michael Cooke
Best Costume Design, Short-Radio Telescope, Christina Bushner
Russell Bates Award – Bunker: The Last Fleet
Russell Bates Award – N’xaxaitkw
Russell Bates Award – Closed System
Best Dark Fantasy / Supernatural – Red Gaia
Best Director Fan Film – Marino Darés – Last Trial
Best Director Feature – Theodore Ushev – Phi 1.618
Best Director Short – YOUR SKIN IS THE GALAXY – Jose Domingo
Best Documentary – Isaac Asimov – Mathias Théry
Best Editing Thriller, Feature – BENEATH THE GREEN – Jason Georgiades
Best Editing, Short – The Fourth, Brandon Metcalf
Best Ensemble Cast – Dark Cell – Juliette Tresanini, Jonathan Pineau Bonetti, Pol White, Eric Debrosse, Christel Wallois
Best Erotic SciFi Short – I XXXX MY SEX DOLL
Best Fantasy Short – Strings
Best Game Engine Children’s Film – Blue
Best Horror Short – # No Filter
Best Made in Florida Short – MISSIYA
Best Monster SciFi Short – The Last Ride – Nyle Cavasos Garcia
Best Music Video – Sleep
Best Musical Score – Your skin is the galaxy
Best Narrative Music Video – Jude Hazel The Blacked Out Project
Best Practical Effects Feature – Space Wars: Quest For The Deepstar
Best Practical Effects Short –
Best Zero Budget Film – Lifecell
Best Practical Effects Zero Budget – Wakener
Best SciFi Animated Short – Fugitive – Adis Kutkut
Best SciFi Feature – PHI 1.618 – Theodore Ushev
Best SciFi Horror Animation Short – Beacon
Best SciFi Horror Short – Wakener
Best SciFi Thriller Short – Time Spent
Best Set Design – Radio Telescope, Michael Laymon & James Preston
Best Silent SciFi – tRUTH
Best Sound Design – Short – Bunker
Best Soundtrack Animation – Short – Fugitive
Best Soundtrack Short – Dark Cell
Best Stop Motion – The Dark Odyssey 2, Michael Lavine – Ice Nexus
Best Student Film Short – A LOVELY DEATH – Miguel del Campo
Best Student Game Engine Animation – Mira – Francesca Armstrong
Best Stunts – Feature – Sarah French,  Space Wars: Quest for the Deepstar
Best Stunts – Short – Welcome to Candy’s
Best Supporting Actor Feature – Garland Scott – Beneath the Green
Best Supporting Actor Series, Short – Lauren Hough
Best Supporting Actor Short – Alexis Silvestre – The Fourth
Best Supporting Actress Short – Jennifer Sklias-Gahan
Best Supporting Actress Series, Short Barin Nelyse
Best Supporting Actress, Feature – Anahit Setian – Space Wars: Quest For The Deepstar
Best Supporting Child Actor Short – Justin De La Cruz – INVADE
Best Thriller Feature – BENEATH THE GREEN
Best Screenplay Adaptation –Donovan Emery, The Android and Himself by Jesse Dorian
Best Political SciFi Screenplay Long – First AI President by Bernard S. Smith
Best Short Screenplay Pilot – Transport by Shea E. Butler
Best Long Screenplay Pilot – Voudoun by Stuart Alan Creque
Best Time Travel Screenplay Long – TSA: Teleportation Security Administration by Kevin J. Howard
Best Visual Effects – ANIMATED Short – SPACE PARADOX – SeungRae Kim, YoungSeop Kim
Best Visual Effects Short – #NO FILTER
Best AI Generated Content – Music Video – Gorkem Gulan
Best Visual Effects Short – New Air
Best Wardrobe Animation – The Dark Odyssey 2 – Ice Nexus
Made in Florida Honorable mention –
The Decadal Award – T.L. Westgate
The Dilectio Sapientiae Award – Dr. George Gonzalez
The Dilectio Sapientiae Award – Is Afrofuturism Beyond SciFi – Jeff Carroll
The Dilectio Sapientiae Award – Thesis: Andor Is A Star Wars Masterpiece From 1978, Sean Rogers
The Mythopoeia Award – The Dark Odyssey 2 – Ice Nexus
Visitors Among Us Award – Cosmic Playtester
Best SciFi Line Of The Decade – Jennifer Sklias-Gahan & Stephen Bradbury – Cosmic Playtester
Best VISUAL EFFECTS, for monsters/creatures visual effects for monsters/creatures – Wakner
Best Special Effects Makeup – Wakner

Sci-Fi Citizenship provided to all Attendees

2023 Awards Party was Sunday, April 30th.

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