2024 Awards | Newport Beach Film Festival

25th ANNUAL NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2024 AWARDS WINNERS

Best U.S. Narrative: “The Piano Lesson” (Director Malcolm Washington)

Best International Narrative: “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” (Director Mohammad Rasoulo

Best International Documentary: “The Last Journey” (Directors Filip Hammar & Frederick Wikingsson)

Best U.S. Documentary: “Music by John Williams” (Director Laurent Bouzereauat)

Best Animation: “Memoir of a Snail” (Director Adam Elliot)

Best Comedy: “A Real Pain” (Director Jesse Eisenberg)

Best Action Sports: “Shaping the Future” (Directors Robert Helphand & Tony Gentile)

Best Art, Architecture + Design: “Sono Lino” (Director Jacob Patrick)

Best Music: “I Need You: 53 Years of the Band America” (Directors Dustin Elm & David Breschel)

Best Irish Feature: “Fidil Ghorm / The Blue Fiddle” (Director Anne McCabe)

Best Short Narrative: “Scarlet” & “Hearts of Stone” (Tied)

Best Short Documentary: “SoCal Snowy Owl”

Best Short Animation: “Back to Normal”

Best Art, Architecture, + Design Short: “Weree”

Best Action Sport Short: “Motorcycle Mary”

Best Feature Narrative: “Mistura” (Director Ricardo de Montreuil)

Best Feature Narrative Screenplay: “Mistura” (Director Ricardo de Montreuil)

Best Feature Narrative Director: Matthew Rankin (“Universal Language”)

Best Feature Narrative Cinematography: Frank van den Eeden (“Small Things Like These”)

Best Feature Narrative Actor: John Leguizamo (“Bob Trevino Likes It”)

Best Feature Narrative Actress: Barbara Mori (“Mistura”)

Best Feature Narrative Ensemble Cast: “Jazzy” (Director Morrisa Maltz)

Best Documentary: “Housewife of the Year” (Director Ciaran Cassidy)

Exceptional Merit Documentary: “Porcelain War” (Directors Brendan Bellomo & Slava Leontyev)

Documentary Short: “A Swim Lesson”

Narrative Short: “Calf”

Animated Short: “Bottle George”

Outstanding Performance Female: Danielle Deadwyler (“The Piano Lesson”)

Outstanding Performance Male: Kieran Culkin (“A Real Pain”)

Outstanding Feature Narrative: “The Last Showgirl” (Director Gia Coppola)

Outstanding Documentary: “The Donn of Tiki” (Directors Alex Lamb & Max Well)

Outstanding International Feature Narrative: “Waves” (Director Jiří Mádl)

Outstanding Musical Score: Hans Zimmer (“Blitz”)

Outstanding Editing Feature: Hansjörg Weißbrich (“September 5”)

Outstanding Animated Short: “One Happy Customer”

Outstanding Action Sports Short: “Chasing Six Days | The Ride of a Lifetime”

Outstanding Short Doc: “We Can Get There From Here”

Outstanding Short Narrative: “Neither Donkey Nor Horse”