The 18th annual Angel Film Awards — the jury of the Monaco International Film Festival unveiled the full list of winners on Sunday.
Usually held in the Principality of Monaco, the independent non-profit festival takes place online from December 11-14 this year, but that hasn’t stopped the festival from honoring this year’s winners.
As a consolation, this year’s festival jury will return for hopefully next year’s festival in person, where all of this year’s winners will be invited back for out-of-competition screenings and red carpets in 2022.
The 2021 jury includes a playwright, director and A clockwork orange actor Steven Berkoff as jury president; Stanley a man of variety director and producer Stephen Cookson; Hollyoaks actress Victoria Atkin and Transformers: Age of Extinction actor Andreas Beckett.
The festival prizes are divided between feature films and short films. The feature films that have won the most awards this year are the American film Two two and Belgian film Adam and Eve.
Two two won Best Feature Film, Best Female Actor for Morgan Makana, Best Original Score for Jun and Husky Hoskulds, and Best Visual Effects in a Feature Film for Mark Larranaga. Adam and Eve won Independent Spirit Awards for a Feature Film, Best Male Actor in a Feature Film for Bob De Moore, Best Male Actor in a Feature Film for Marijus De Valck, and Best Female Actor in a Feature Film for Annabelle Van Maderghem.
The short film that won the most awards this year is Egypt’s Tuk-Tuk, which won Best Short Film, Best Producer for Sherine Alaa and Mohamed Kheidr, Best Female Actor for Elham Wagdi, Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role for Marie Guergess, and Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role for Omar Rashed.
See the full list of winners below or on the festival website here.
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CHARACTERISTICS
Best Feature Film
Two two (UNITED STATES)
Best Female Actor – Feature Film
Morgan Makana – TwoTwo (USA)
Best Male Actor – Feature Film
Bob De Moore– Adam and Eve (Belgium)
Best Original Musical Score – Feature
Jun and Husky Hoskulds – Two two (UNITED STATES)
Best Visual Effects – Feature
Marc Larranaga- Two two (UNITED STATES)
The Price of Independent Spirit – Feature
Adam and Eve (Belgium)
Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role – Feature Film
Marijus de Valck – Adam and Eve (Belgium)
Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role – Feature Film
Annabelle Van Maderghem – Adam and Eve (Belgium)
Best Production Design – Feature
Emmanuel Réveillère – A fish affair in Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France)
Best Costume Design – Feature
Delphine Poiraut – A fish affair in Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France)
Best Sound Mixing – Feature
Mathieu Gauriat & Céline Mauge – A fish affair in Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France)
Best Director – Feature Film
Bogomil Kalinov – Ashes on the Sun (Bulgaria)
Best Producer – Feature Film
Kalinov Brothers – Ashes Over the Sun (Bulgaria)
Best Film Editing – Feature Film
Donka Ivanova – Ashes Over the Sun (Bulgaria)
Best Cinematographer – Feature Film
Daichi Mikasa – She Q (Japan)
Best Feature Screenplay
Tomoaki Yanai – She Q (Japan)
Best Ensemble Cast – Feature Film
Esnedy Milán Herrera, Alexey Fuentes Gusmán, Dennis Pérez Ramírez, Liusmila Díaz Río, Luis Ricardo Faura – La Machetera (Cuba/Italy)
Best Original Score – Feature
Carlos Telles Espino, Marco Lo Russo – La Machetera (Cuba/Italy)
SHORT FILMS
Best Short Film
Tuk-Tuk (Egypt)
Best Producer – Short Film
Tuk Tuk – Sherine Alaa, Mohamed Kheidr (Egypt)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Short Film
Tuk-Tuk – Omar Rashed (Egypt)
Best Female Actor in a Short Film
Tuk-Tuk – Elham Wagdi (Egypt)
Best Male Actor in a Short Film
The outlines of love – Ricardo Castro – (United Kingdom)
Best Supporting Actress in a Short Film
Tuk-Tuk – Marie Guergess (Egypt)
Best Inspirational Short Film
Lotus (France)
Best Visual Effects – Short Film
A tale of three trees – Jadon Barnes (USA)
Best Director – Short Film
The silence – Juraj Stepka (Slovakia)
Best Ensemble Cast – Short Film
The silence – Michael Kubovcik, Ondrej Hraska, Michaela Majernikova (Slovakia)
Best Costume Design – Short Film (Slovakia)
The Silence – Diana Strausz (Slovakia)
Better Environmental Awareness – Short Film
Joyful – Simantini Chakraborty (USA)
Angel Peace Award – Short Film
Wild is the spring – Adla Massoud – (USA)
Best Cinematographer – Short Film
Wild is the spring – Aaron R. Phillips – (USA)
Humanitarian Angel Award – Short Film
My name is Saliha (Belgium)
Best Art House – Short Film
simulacrum (Japan)
Best Male Narrator – Short Film
A tale of three trees – Michael Nicolosi (USA)
Best Original Story – Short Film
Reappear – Tommy Clarke (UK)
The Independent Spirit – Short Film
just like water (Greece)
Best Film Editing – Short Film
The Living – Azuma Fujitani – (Japan)
Best Short Film Script
The alive – Azuma Fujitani – (Japan)
Best Production Design – Short Film
The alive – Satoshi Nonogaki – (Japan)
Best Newcomer – Short Film
Leila’s violin – Sofia Rosinsky (USA/UK/Azerbaijan)
Best Sports Documentary Short
Oyáte un Itówapi (UNITED STATES)
Best Original Score – Short Film
I am a gypsy – Ame a Roma – Zoi Florosz, Vadim Kolpakov – (Hungary)
Special mention – Short film
20 DB sound boost (Japan)
Main image: Monaco during the festival in December, courtesy of the Monaco International Film Festival.
