Winners of the New York Script Awards

2022/2023 Winter Edition

Best Super Short Script
Winner
The Animal (Vilma Kartalska, Bulgaria)
Honorable mention
Baby, You Can Drive My Car (Karla S Bryant, USA)
The Spider and the Fly (Carlos Perez, USA)
Medea (Cecilia Jane)

Best Short Script (under 40 pages)
Winner
Seven Minutes in Heaven (Melinda Marie Core, USA)
Honorable Mention
An Ordinary Day (Sergei Ryazantsev, USA)
Deadline To Death (Elliot Stanton, USA)
Van girl_s (Francesco Piotti, Italy)

Best Feature Script
Winner
Gender Perfect (Brian Wapole, USA)
Honorable Mention
The Four Of Us Are Dying (Jesse Dorian, USA)
My Other Son is a Vampire (Christopher Shields, USA)
The Wrecker (Jack Scott Hilkewich, Canada)

Best Television Script - Pilot
Winner
Windy City (Joseph Anthony Francis, USA)
Honorable Mention
My Dead Boyfriend (Bry Troyer, USA)
Sadist (Jennifer Jean Anderson, USA)

Best First-Time Screenwriter (Feature)
Sled Race (Kevin Jordan, USA)
Honorable Mention
GOING T*TS UP! (Jay Wheddon, UK)

Best First-Time Screenwriter (Short)
Winner
Adulting (Steph Kowal, USA)
Honorable Mention
Schalken the painter (Andrew Horne, Czech Republic)

Best Screenplay for Music Video
Winner
One Loving Person (Ruth Andrews Garnes, USA)

Best Drama Screenplay
Winner
An Unfamiliar Life (Toni D'Antonio, Mitch del Monico, USA)
Honorable Mention
Robbers In A Wheelchair (Bilal Hussain, Denmark)

Best Comedy Screenplay
Winner
Cesar and Max (Susan Klos, USA)

Best Thriller Screenplay
Winner
Safe House (Zeff Lawless, Spain)

Best Horror Screenplay
Winner
Daddy (Jake Ryan Zuccolotto, Australia)

Best LGBT Screenplay
Winner
A Christmas Karl (Harry Ewan, USA)

Best Female Screenwriter
Winner
-

Best Male Screenwriter
Winner
MARYAM & VARTO (Gorune Aprikian, France)

Best Young Screenwriter
Winner
-

Best Historical Screenplay
Winner
The Trial of Jean Gump (Joan Kufrin, USA)

Best Crimi Screenplay
Winner
A Chat Over Death (Mike Felix, Kirsty Masefield, New Zealand)

Best Sci-fi Screenplay
Winner
The Luminous Child (Cheryl Wade, USA)

Best War Screenplay
Winner
Steph (Oksana Prysiazhniuk, Ukraine)
Honorable Mention
A Siren's Sweet Whisper (Fred G Stemme, USA)

Best Psychological Screenplay
Winner
Six Impossible Things (Amanda Nitsa Oz, USA)

Best Young Screenwriter
Winner
Bit By Bit (Yi-Hong Yeh, USA)

Best New York Screenplay
Winner
Tabula Rasa (JEFFREY N MASSIE, USA)

Best American Screenplay
Winner
Enter the Room (Harry Waldman, USA)

Best Foreign Screenplay
Winner
Kapüy (Raul Walder, USA)

Winners of the New York Script Awards

2022/2023 Summer Edition

Grand Prix TV Pilot Screenplay  
In The Shadows of November (Pilot Script) (Bill Albert, USA)

Best Super Short Script

What If (RYAN CHONG-CHUN HUANG, USA)

Honorable Mention
Daughters of Sin (Alba Fernandez, Ireland)
Vulpes (Laura Hoffheimer, USA)
A Better Place (Tammy Lynn Boyer, Canada)

Best Short Script (under 40 pages)
Dear Agony (Xandar, USA)

Honorable Mention
Post-Mortem (Hal Straus, Matt Straus, USA)
BROKEN FACES (Carol Bell, UK)

Best Feature Script
For Da Love of Pizza (Christine Doyle, Mary Doyle, USA)

Honorable Mention
The Spiritualization of Jeff Boyd (Uwe Schwarzwalder, Switzerland)
The Fox (Marc Castaldo, Canda)
Handhaven (Kristen Wade, USA)
Devil's Delight (Bruce Edward Smith, USA)
"Flower Child" (Hal Straus, Matt Straus, USA)

Best Television Script - Pilot
The Sessions (Alexander Julian III, USA)

Honorable Mention
VOICES 'Wake Up' (Janine Pecenkova, USA)

Best First-Time Screenwriter (Feature)
Oar River (Jody McNicholas, USA)

Best First-Time Screenwriter (Short)
The First Man Cave (Teresa Carmody O'Shea, Ireland)

Honorable Mention
Blackbird (Pedro Maia, Brasil)

Best DRAMA SCREENPLAY
HEALED (Jeff Goldstein, USA)

Honorable mention
Christian Morris (J.A. Brown, USA)

Best COMEDY SCREENPLAY
Rare Disease (Hoang Vu Nguyen, USA)

Honorable Mention
Pep-Ronies (James Shanklin, USA)

Best Thriller
Dissension (Stacey Alan Spivey, USA)

Best Horror Screenplay
Honorable Mention
SACRED SUN (Michael Louis Gould, UK)

Best LGBT Screenplay
Ziggy and Rachel (Michael Rispoli, Gregg Greenberg, USA)

Best Female Screenwriter
Losing It (Isabel O'Brien, USA)

Honorable Mention
Bulletproof Bette (Alida Michal, USA)
Max (Natalie Gomez, UK)

Best Young Screenwriter
Nora (Molly Kirschenbaum, Payson Whitwell, USA)

Best Crimi Screenplay
The Montana Men (Will Parker, USA)

Best Sci-Fi Screenplay
Swirl City (Larry E Coleman, USA)

Best New York Screenplay
Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge (Pierce W Young, USA)

Best American Screenplay
Dinoversity (Pierce W Young, Randall de Ruiter, USA)

Best Foreign Screenplay
Local-ized (Leonidas Stanescu, Singapore)

Winners of the New York Script Awards 2022

Grand Prix Feature Script
Another Love (Andrew Brannan, USA)

Best Feature Script

Headache (Asia Yen, USA)

Best Super Short Script
The Right Candidate (Tom Matthews, UK)

Honorable mention
Bed Time (A J Roberts, UK)
Guérisseur-Héros (Healer-Hero) (Danny Cotton, UK)

Best Short Script (under 40 pages)
MAN UP (Josh Alexander, UK)

Honorable Mention
END OF DAYS - SHORT (Danny Alex, USA)
LOAF THE CAT (Tatiana Edel, USA)
April and Mr. Stockman (Montgomery Burt ,Canada)

Best Feature Script
Searching for Michael (David Earle, USA)

Honorable Mention
Amy and Angel (Julia Verdin, Deedee Be, USA)
Tiny Vessels ( Saraphina Redalieu, USA)
Betrothed, a Crusades Romanance (Ruth Finnegan, UK)

Best
Television Script - Pilot
Club Drama (Kelly Cochran-Yzquierdo, USA)

Honorable Mention
The Trumps (Hoyt Hilsman, USA)
Two Cells (Terezia Kontova, Slovakia)

Best
First-Time Screenwriter (Feature)
Dear Eszter (Alex Balassa, Marisol Mijares, Alejandro Orozco, Mario Pacheco Szekely, Chile)

Honorable Mention
Roll the Tape - The Last Black Republican (Charles Jay Jones, USA)
A Nun And An Officer (James Anthony, USA)
GUYS ON SATURDAY NIGHT (A. P. Hello, USA)
L Section (Matthew Forbes, Canada)
Sour (Brett Davidson, USA)
Angel Inside The Fog (Bikram Rai, Andrew Allen, Roshan Subba, USA)


Best
First-Time Screenwriter (Short)
Headache (Asia Yen, USA)

Honorable Mention
Cut Off (Christy Price, USA)
Dine with me (Monica Keaton, USA)
TOKYO FROM AFAR (David Shuang Du, USA)

Best
DRAMA SCREENPLAY
It's Only Life ( Joseph Stephen Meadows, USA)

Honorable mention
Bloodlines: The Mogadishu Diaries 1992-1993 (Eddie Clay Thompkins III, USA)
Cut the Cord: The Hedgehog’s Leap (Kostan Chess, Russia)
Winds of Transition (Sil Brooks, USA)
The Storm Beneath (Alexandra Billington, United Kingdom)


Best
COMEDY SCREENPLAY
Master Speesa! (Rosie Malek-Yonan, Monica Malek-Yonan, USA)

Honorable Mention
MegaBall$ (Marc Baron, USA)
MIC CHECK; KARAOKE LOVE (Gregory Bonds, USA)

Best
Thriller Screenplay
Where the Leopards Dream (Fernando Paez, USA)

Honorable Mention
Misinformed Heart (Beverly Gandara, USA)

Best
Horror Screenplay
Cove (Thomas O'Malley, USA)

Honorable Mention
,A HEART LAID BARE - the Extraordinary Life of EA Poe (Pavel Cerny, USA)

Best
LGBT Screenplay
Sammy and Dave (Unlucky in Love) (Noel Anderson, USA)

Honorable Mention
Bug Chaser (Zak Horn, USA)
GUYS ON SATURDAY NIGHT (A. P. Hello, USA)
Cupid’s Chokehold (Allie Morgan, Mercedes White, USA)

Best Female Screenwriter
Aqua Tofana (Kate Lockwood, USA)

Honorable Mention
The Split (Nicola Green, Australia)
Kid Soldier (Kelly Jean Karam, USA)
Gotta Itch for Mitch (Janice Haas, USA)
Taboo Candy (Jean Galliano, USA)

Best Young Screenwriter
Prime Time (Raisa Oliveira, USA)

Honorable Mention
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE (Avi Elijah Nieves, USA)

Best
Sci-Fi Screenplay
LIGHT YEARS (JAROSLAW GOGOLIN, UK)

Honorable Mention
Hypertoad (Virginia Mariposa, USA)
Pleasure Girl (Estelle Asmodelle, Australia)
LightSpeed (Danny Alex, UK)

Best
New York Screenplay
The Fallin' (Eddy Sanchez, USA)

Best
American Screenplay
Wampus Cat (Jessica Wei, USA)

Best Foreign Screenplay
Wake-up Call - English (Alexandra Salkin, France)

Honorable Mention
Shutdown (Joel Cousins, Canada)
The Midwife's Case Notes in a Time of Contagion (James Fitzmaurice, Sara Read, UK)
The Greek Passage (Lorenzo Guarnieri, Italy)