Official Results

January 2021 Winners

Official results for the January 2021 New Jersey Film Awards competition.

Official Winners

The complete official January 2021 winners list.

15 awards

Best Feature Film Yellow Scare

Best Documentary Feature Leave Nothing Behind

Best Short Film Matty Groves

Best Drama Short Fathers and Sons

Best Comedy Short MarriageFit

Best Horror Short The Acquisition

Best Sci-Fi Short The Assassin’s Apprentice

Best LGBT Short Becoming Me

Best Animation Short Deck the Halls

Best Documentary Short The States of Emergency New York & New Jersey

Best Web Series/TV Pilot The Honey Trapper (Season 2)

Best Music Video Knocking on Your Door

Best New Jersey Short Regrets

Best College Short Not Your Doll

Best High School Short Farm

5 awards

Best Actor in a Feature Sam Platizky (Yellow Scare)

Best Supporting Actor in a Feature Alexandre Triaca (Guilty Prejudices)

Best Supporting Actress in a Feature Laura Folger-Lopez (Yellow Scare)

Best Actor in a Short Oswaldo Salas (Holestepper)

Best Actress in a Short Jabriah Anderson (Regrets)

5 awards

Best Director of a Feature Jean-Philippe Tranvouez (Guilty Prejudices)

Best Director of a Short Justin Morfin (Looking Through the Trees)

Best Cinematography Naomi Gonzalez (The Gallery)

Best Editing Sebastian Heinath (Black and Nothingness)

Best Original Score Artem Grebenshchikov (The Making of: LOVING ARMS)

4 awards

Best Feature Screenplay Sweet Cuisine by Danté Orange

Best Feature Screenplay — Honorable Mention The Shakespeare Plays by Martin Keady

Best Short Screenplay The Lesson by Vincent Scuro

Best Short Screenplay — Honorable Mention At Dawns Early Light by Tommy Anderson & Susie Schafer