Results Season 10 | Cinema Of The World

WINNERS & NOMINEES
Season 10

2023

Cinema of the World International Film Festival

While big movie studios are hunting for new stories, many of us are just hunting for jobs. If you have a movie idea in mind that no one has made, why not be the one to write it into reality?

- Quentin Tarantino

“If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.”

~ Stanley Kubrick

WINNER - BEST WRITER

Recognizing outstanding storytelling and the ability to craft compelling narratives

Best Writer

Best Producer

We don't make Movies to make more Money. We make Money to make MORE Movies.

- Walt Disney

WINNER - BEST PRODUCER

"A big round of applause for those who put education and well-being before self-interests"

Best Director (Fiction)

A Director must be a Policeman, A Midwife, A Psychoanalyst, A Sycophant and A Bastard.

- Billy Wilder

WINNER - BEST DIRECTOR

those filled with exceptional talent and vision who brought words to life

When I looked at life through the Camera, I felt like I could finally see it.

- Katherine Howe

WINNER - BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER

Commending the artistry and technical expertise in capturing visually stunning moments; those who delivered the 'emotions'

When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit.

- Robert Rodriguez

WINNER - BEST IN OTHER CATEGORIES

tribute to those whose efforts raised the bars of the following films

Be so good they can’t ignore you.

— Steve Martin

NOMINATED FOR "BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ARTIST" AWARD - FEATURE

performances which captivated the audiences

Best Artist (Feature)

If you know you’re going to fail, then fail gloriously!

— Cate Blanchett

WINNER - BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ARTIST (FEATURE)

Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.”

—Maggie Smith

NOMINATED FOR "BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ARTIST" AWARD - SHORT

Don’t aspire to make a living; aspire to make a difference.”

—Denzel Washington

Best Artist (Short)

WINNER - BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ARTIST (SHORT)

"Study, find all the good teachers and study with them, get involved in acting to act, not to be famous or for the money. Do Plays. It's not worth it if you're in it for the money. You have to love it."

— Phillip Seymour Hoffman

NOMINATED FOR "BEST MOTION PICTURE" AWARD

Best Film (Feature)

“Don’t give me any money, don’t give me any people, but give freedom, and I’ll give you a movie that looks gigantic.”

— Robert Rodriguez

WINNER - BEST MOTION PICTURE (FEATURE)

Best Film (Short)

“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”

— Ingmar Bergman

WINNER - BEST MOTION PICTURE (SHORT)

In Feature films the Director is God; in Documentary film God is the Director.

- Alfred Hitchcock

NOMINATED FOR "BEST DOCUMENTARY" AWARD

Best Documentary

“Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.”

— Werner Herzog

WINNER - BEST DOCUMENTARY

I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's a documentary it has to be deadly serious - it has to be like medicine that you're supposed to take. And I think it's what keeps the mass audience from going to documentaries.

— Michael Moore

Best Director (Documentary)

WINNER - BEST DIRECTOR (DOCUMENTARY)