Oxford Shorts 2023 Award Nominees

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This year’s nominees are as follows

Best Film:

  • A Few Steps Further
  • Fireworks
  • In Too Deep
  • Leave To Remain
  • Mask

Best Documentary:

  • Brotherness
  • Friday Night Blind
  • Hazelwood Alive
  • Interviewing Dad
  • The Storm Chaser

Best Director:

  • Ahmad Alyaseer (Our Males and Females)
  • Brian Fairbairn and Karl Eccleston (Tommies)
  • Margaret Kane-Rowe (Mask)
  • Mac Nixon (Jackdaw)
  • Yilmaz Özdil (The Banishment)

Best Actor:

  • Bamshad Abedi-Amin (Leave To Remain)
  • Graham Earley (Mask)
  • Keyhan Maleki (A Few Steps Further)
  • Michael Socha (Edicius)
  • Saman Mustefa (The Banishment)

Best Actress:

  • Charlotte Riley (Fireworks)
  • Janice Connolly (Linda)
  • Rachel Shenton (In Too Deep)
  • Sarah Winter (Tommies)
  • Teresa Del Olmo (Sola)

Best Young Performer:

  • Bonga Sizwe Nhlongo (Father’s Day)
  • Fatima Haghparast (Za Ra)
  • Joseph Davison (Wuss)
  • Lily Brooks O’Briant (Sharing The Floor)
  • Tom Mulheron (Brotherly Love)

Best Early Career Filmmaker:

  • Adam Thomas Wright (The End Of A British Summer)
  • Clàudia Orriols (Sola)
  • Connor Maclaren (Brotherly Love)
  • Lily Brooks O’Briant (Sharing The Floor)
  • Vanessa Stachel (A Bloody Graveyard Story)

Best Editing:

  • Brian Fairbairn and Karl Eccleston (Tommies)
  • John Smith ACE (Edicius)
  • Julia Elger (Brotherness)
  • Mike Brown and Nicholas Jon Beaubien (Get In)
  • Pani Scott (Fireworks)

Best Cinematography:

  • Andy Toovey (Jackdaw)
  • BLOK (A Dishonourable Death)
  • Dilsat Canan (The Banishment)
  • Khoroldorj ‘Hogo’ Choijoovanchig (Morin Khuur)
  • Will Billany (The Storm Chaser)

Best Music or Score:

  • Earthside (All We Knew and Ever Loved)
  • Kurt Rosenberg (The Moon Followed Me To Falmouth)
  • Olaf Taranczewski (Morin Khuur)
  • Sandy Lavallart (King of Sea)
  • Tommy Evans (Wake Up)

Best Sound:

  • A Dishonourable Death
  • Get In
  • Jackdaw
  • Our Males and Females
  • The Storm Chaser

Best Production Design:

  • A Dishonourable Death
  • Edicius
  • i THINK about KILLING you
  • Jackdaw
  • Tommies

Best Animation:

  • A Bloody Graveyard Story
  • All We Knew And Ever Loved: Earthside
  • King of Sea
  • The Moon Followed Me To Falmouth
  • The Well

Best Comedy:

  • A Dishonourable Death
  • Bingo
  • Bleep
  • Get In
  • Linda

Best Experimental Film:

  • …And Again The Bombs Fall
  • BeLly
  • I Spy With My Little Eye
  • i THINK about KILLING you
  • Nėædra

Best Horror, Science Fiction or Thriller:

  • Can I Help?
  • Edicius
  • Momento Mori
  • Takbir
  • The Well

Best Local Film:

  • A Mosaic of All Possible Greens
  • Echo
  • Her Castle
  • How To Cope With Oliver Pope
  • The End of a British Summer

Congratulations to all the nominees, and a big thank you to our Judging Panel.