Winners of the New York Script Awards

2023 Spring Edition

Best Super Short Script
Winner
Postage Due (Janna Jones, USA)
Honorable mention
WINTER (Roberto Romano, Italy)

Best Short Script (under 40 pages)
Winner
This Is The Life (D Warren Rose, USA)
Honorable Mention
The Pact (Margo Jane Kinney-Petrucha, USA)

Best Feature Script
Winner
Billy Boudinot (Philip Bryan Lombardi, USA)
Honorable Mention
Saint Catherine's Boys (John Ravitz, USA)
Pearl Fisher (Suzanne Birrell, USA)

Best Television Script - Pilot
Winner
Rhodes (Michael Gascon, USA)
Honorable Mention
BROTHERLY GRUDGE! (Ray Dan Klein, Alan Drew Davis, USA)
Smiles (Laurel Hatfield, USA)

Best Best Synopsys
Winner
Leonardo (Fabiola Medici, Italy)

Best First-Time Screenwriter (Feature)
Winner
The Wounds Time Didn’t Heal (Brande Chantell Clark, USA)

Best First-Time Screenwriter (Short)
Winner
Abstract of Love (Scott James Cook, USA)

Best Drama Screenplay
Winner
The Dash Between (Ray Leslie Bell, USA)

Best Comedy Screenplay

Winner
I'll Be Doggone (Robert Cole, USA)

Best Thriller
Winner
Three For Hire: Tombstone, The Lethal Connection (Dan Robert Burle, USA)

Best Horror
Winner
Han (Esther Um, USA)

Best LGBT Screenplay
Winner
The Adagio (Gerald C Wood, USA)

Best Female Screenwriter
Winner
HIGHLAND DRIVE Pilot (Rosalyn Rosen, USA)

Best Male Screenwriter
Winner
Black and White (Benjamin Burgess Jr., USA)

Best Fantasy Screenplay
Winner
Pevron the Puny (Emma Marie Oliver, USA)

Best Crimi Screenplay
Winner
Fuchsia Fox (Nilgoon Askari, James Leon, USA)

Best Psychological Screenplay
Winner
TWINKS (Keith Soforic, USA)

Best Stage Play
Winner
The Sexton (David Rousculp, USA)

Best New York Screenplay
Winner
MOKSHA (Saurin Lakhia, USA)

American Screenplay
Winner
A Picture Worth Every Word (Pat Stone, USA)

Foreign Screenplay
Winner
Am I Dead (Ke DeSol, Australia)

Best Emotional Investment
Winner
Until You are Loved (Dashiell Finley, USA)

Best Character
Winner
Wicked Wives (Nina Naval, Natalie Valdez, USA)

Special Jury Award for Best Concept
WE-MEN (Julie Simone, Jill Sorensen, USA)

Best Dialogue
Winner
JESÚS OF NAZARETH (Wayne Allen Gibson, USA)

Special Jury Award for Story
Morituriosis (Jesse Dorian, USA)