NICE Winners 2025

Best Hair & Makeup

Chouzenji

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Best Foreign Language Feature Film

Chouzenji

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Best English Language Feature Film

How I Spent My Summer Vacation

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Best Actress

How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Raquel Sciacca

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Best Short Film

Avocado Heart Girl

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Best Director of a Short Documentary

I’m waiting for you my love
Gabriel Otero

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Best Editing of a Short Film

BEFORE THE FREEZE Director’s Cut
Tenly eken

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Best Director of a Short Film

Ashes to Ashes
Holly Duff

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Best Actress in a short film

Kelly Stables
Ashes To Ashes

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Best Costume

Higa Ochi Ru

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Best Foreign Language Feature Film

Higa Ochi Ru

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Historical interest Award

Ugly Little Monkeys – A True American Story

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Best Foreign Language Feature Film

ENESCU, skinned alive

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Best Picture of the Festival

FUTATA VILLA 3

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Best Editing of a Documentary

My Native America

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Best Documentary

My Native America

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Best Editing of a Foreign Language Film

HERMAPHRODITO

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Historical interest award

The Michoacan File

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Best Sound Design

Shadow Flame, Shadow Gold; Winds of the West

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Best Cinematography in a Documentary

Last Ride Home

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Best Originally Recorded Song

A BEAST TOUCH THE MOUNTAIN: Mountain Valley Pipeline and the Fight for Appalachia

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Best Unproduced Script

The Wild Waves
Deborah Hadfield

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Best Actor

FUTATA VILLA 3
KATSUYA SHIBAYAMA &
RYO TAMURA

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Best Director

Chinese Whispers
Deborah Hadfield

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Outstanding Actor in a Foreign Language Film

FUTATA VILLA 3
YUUDAI UENISHI

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Best Director of a Foreign Language Feature Film

Lidongs Summer
Weijun Zhang

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Best Director of a Foreign Language Feature Film

Lidongs Summer
Nannan Bai

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Best Set Design

NEXT UP

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Best Short

Next up
Marion Von Loewenstern

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Outstanding Actor in a Short Film

Ashes to Ashes
Calum Grant

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Best Cinematography

Rasavathi – The Alchemist