2024 NEW YORK SCRIPT AWARDS WINNERS

Live Table Readings - Screenplay Competition
Winner
Good (Monte Albers de Leon, USA)

 Grand Prix: Feature Script
Winner
Shadowbox (Joslyn Rose Lyons, USA)

Honorable Mention
HEARTSTONE (Michael Williams, Robert Biheller, Phillip Margolin, USA)

Grand Prix: Television Script Pilot
Winner
The Genesis Project (Joseph Anthony Francis, USA)
Honorable Mention
Toxic, Needy (Anna Wright, UK)
My Favorite Narcissist (Diane Thomassin, Michael Miceli, USA)

Grand Prix: Short Script

Winner
Taxidermy ( Sonni Carpenter, UK)

Honorable Mention
Fatherhood (Robin De Vernon Ryding, Lauren Wade, UK)
Agwajiing the Sanatorium (Michael O'Rourke, USA)
The Precipice (Teja BenAmor, Usa)

Grand Prix: Super Short Script (under 10 pages)
Winner
WINDSWEPT (Nova Hynes, Ireland)
Honorable Mention
P E E K A Boo (Per Hampton, USA)

Grand Prix: First Time Screenwriter (Feature)
Winner
Finding Jaden (Justin M. Thomas, USA)

Honorable Mention
Minding Therapy (Ros C Johnson, USA)

Grand Prix: First Time Screenwriter (Short)
Winner
The Estate (Rachel D Griffiths, UK)

Honorable Mention
The Little Death (Jessica Christine Moncrief, Christopher Moses Shaibi)
The Great Dances at the Estate of Excellence: Summer Rêverie (Adriana Mancuso, Canada)

BEST FIRST 10 PAGES (for feature screenplays)
Winner
Pool Boy (Joseph Anthony Francis, John Logan McGee, USA)

Best Young Screenwriter (Under 30)
Winner
Sunny Side Up (Melissa Ann Archer, USA)

Honorable Mention
Confident (Dara Weinstein, Caitlyn Letterii, USA)

Best New York Screenplay
Winner
XOVA7 (Quanah Jay Hicks, USA)

Best American Screenplay
Winner
The Language of Wolves (Nan Schmid, USA,)

Honorable Mention
DRAG QUEENS OF EMERALIS (KEVIN MICHAEL IRVINE, USA)

Best Foreign Screenplay
Winner
A Lonely Dreamer (Jana Dolezalova Montorio, CZ)
Honorable Mention
Selling Off (Harris W Freedman, Italy)
Skirt That Bleeds (Abhishek Mishrra, India)

Best Drama Screenplay
Winner
Somewhere to Run (Gary J Klavans, USA)

Best Comedy Screenplay
Winner
Just a Hitch (Kate Powis, New Zaeland)

Honorable Mention
Sleepers, Awake (Ali Kiani, USA)
Unhinged: Nut In Me (Gabriella Shamah, USA)

Best Male Screenwriter
Winner
Christmas Conundrum (Joseph Anthony Francis, USA)

Best Female Screenwriter
Winner
Revenge of the Servants of the Gods (Judy Elizabeth Brulo, UK)

Best Horror Screenplay
Winner
The Shadow Falls (Clay Callender, United States)

Honorable Mention
Marah From Eilat (Leiter Daniellson, USA)

Best Thriller Screenplay
Winner
The Hitchcock Murders (Andy Maycock, USA)

Best  Scifi Screenplay
Winner
Traces of Eden (Barbara West, Ireland)

Honorable Mention
Pegasus (Robert Alan Wagner, USA)
Pocketful of Mondays (Lindsey Morrison Grant, USA)

Best Action Screenplay
Winner
The World Turned Upside Down (Dennis O'Flyng, USA)
Honorable Mention
Ruby Ridge (Lawrence Kane, USA)

Best War Screenplay
Winner
PRIAM'S LEGACY: A TROJAN WAR STORY (Peter Kapasakis, Peter Kapasakis, USA)

Honorable Mention
Another 5 Minutes (Nilesh Yagnik, USA)

Best Stage Play
Winner
"For The Birds" (Jeffrey Edmond, USA)

Honorable Mention
Escalator Wit (Louise Schwarz, USA)
Made in Heaven (Steven Keith Bogart, USA)

Best Book
Winner
Whiskey Mountain Days (Bill Walker, USA)

 Crimi Screenplay
Winner
Alternative Education (Sandra Jane Moonias, Canada, )


Film Screenplay for Kids/Family Screenplay/Fairy Tale
Winner
The Winter Wolves (Mark Kelly, USA)

Honorable Mention
Theodore's Plate (Stephen Wade Nebgen, Anthony Severe, Jr., USA)

Best Synopsis
Not Awarded

Best Characters
Winner
Princess Di and the Lesbians (Lesley Hoyt-Croft, USA)

Honorable Mention
Omakase (Alena Alova, UK)

Best Conflict
Winner
NeverMind Episode 1 (Dennis Chamberlin, USA)

Best Dialogue
Winner
BOGIE & BACALL (Helise Stamos, USA)

Best Emotional Investment
Not Awarded

Best Theme/Premise
Winner
Music Therapy (Michael Andrew Fitzer, USA)

Best Pacing
Winner
Poor Players (Ronald Kaehler, USA)

Best Structure/Plot
Winner
Another 5 Minutes (Nilesh Yagnik, USA)

Best Concept
Winner
Good (Monte Albers de Leon, USA)

Best Marketability/Outlook
Winner
The Falconer - Alsaqarin (John Matthew Tyson, USA)

Honorable Mention
From Homeless to Hollywood (Shaneen Charese Bonner, USA)

Best Tone
Winner
The Cutting Room (Toby Smith, UK)