Best Director Short Film
This is Gay (Kirk Flash, UK)
Honorable Mention
Under Offer (Vincenzo Pellegrino, UK)
The Two Gambits (Matthew Hazandras, UK)
JONI (Gregory Nice, Jack Stanton, UK)
Typical? (Sarah Leigh, UK)
Jellyfish and Lobster (Yasmin Afifi, UK)
COPE (Anthony Sutcliffe, UK)

Best Director Short Documentary
TOGETHER ALONE (Dorith Mous, USA)
Honorable Mention
The Women Inside (Bethany Ann McDonald, UK)
Behind the Smile (Vanessa Williamsen, USA)
ALFRED (Nikolas Meyberg, Germany)
Enduring Spirit (Suyorukun, Japan)
Rugby Town (James Mellor, UK)
Best Director Feature Film
I KNOW YOU (Laura Angiulli, Italy)
Honorable Mention
Afterwards (Stephen Wallis, Canada)
Forever Young (Henk Pretorius, UK)
Passing Through (David Walter Hall, UK)
THE LOST MANTLE OF ELIJAH (LEWIS CRITCHLEY, UK)

Best  Director Feature Documentary 
One Pint at a Time (Aaron Hosé, USA)
Honorable Mention
From Zero to a Hundred (Matteo Banfo, USA)
SOGNI DI CARTA (PAPER DREAMS) (Claudio D'Elia, Italy)

Best Director Super Short Film (under 10 min) 
Blunt Objects ( (Marcel de Luca, UK))
Honorable Mention
Ten out of Ten (Imre Mazlo, Hungary)
Plastic Gourmet (Peter Kuhtz, Germany)
Oscar's lovers (Lottie Andersen, Germany)
The Visitor (Bahram Pourghadiri, UK)

Best First-Time Director (Short/Feature)
Halves of Three (Zsoly Vatany, UK)
Honorable Mention
People Like Me Never Change (John Gustav Teodor Sundvall , Sweden)
43 York Road (Alex Figueiredo, Charleen Elea, UK)
Red Ash (David Arthur, UK)

Best Director Student Film
Video Store (Tanguy Pichon, Switzerland)
Honorable Mention
Belonging and The scene (Monica Dhaka, UK)
You (Xiaotong Guo, China)
Saving Art (Remi R.M. Moses, UK)
Guguto Memeto (Branislav Stosic Jeza, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Calf (Tuur Oosterlinck, Belgium)

Best Female Director
Little Fantasies (Alissa Autschbach, UK)
Honorable Mention
VANITY (Alzbeta Bulikova, UK)
Rescapé (Vanessa Minacapelli, Denmark)
House of silence (Simone Geißler, Germany)
Mourners (Azita Damandan, Australia)

Best Director Music Video
Picture This - Leftover Love ( Ross Syner, UK)
Honorable Mention
Slow Down - AlanMichael featuring Dawn Richard (Vanessa Marzaroli, USA)
Ren - Money Game P3 (Ren GIll, Samuel Perry-Falvey, UK)
"Heart Shaped Box" The Curse of KK Hammond (KK Hammond, UK)
FRIENDS (Jules Tardif, France)

Best Director Drama
Morning Star (Zara Balfour, UK)
Under the Blue (Linda Ludwig, James Curle, UK)
Ill Fares The Land (Patrick Ireland, UK)
Ugolino (Manuele Trullu, Italy)
The Old Lady and The Boxer (Camilo Diaz, USA)

Best Director Comedy
Disconnected (Diego Rougier, Chille)
Honorable Mention
Who Gives a S***!? (Isaac Morantus, Dominican Republic)
The Nun Slayer (Ben Bovington-Key, UK)

Best Director Sci-fi
Synesthesia (Wesley James Trisnadi, USA)
Honorable Mention
The Shepherd (Ilya Plyusnin, Armenia)
ABBA (Fabiana Lupo, Italy)
Awake (Jono Hall, South Africa)

Best Director War
Time Is Not (Marian Gabriel Weber)

Best Director Fantasy
Echo (Jo Southwell, UK)
Honorable Mention
The Light Thief (Eva Daoud, Spain)
ELM (Kay Qiao, USA)
Tranzit (Karolos Zonaras, Greece)
TETHERED (Stephen T Lally, Ireland)

Best Director Animation Film
Dim and Dimmer (Agnishikha Ray, UK)
Honorable Mention
MoMo & LuLu (Anita Kwiatkowska-Naqvi, Poland)
FORTRESS (ZALESKY'S Slawek Zalewski, Poland)
Hiraeth (Rianne Stremmelaar, Netherlands)
The Wolf of Custer (Tanya J Scott, UK)

Best Director Indie Feature Film
Tomorrow if all goes well (Ivan Goldschmidt, Belgium)
Honorable Mention
BLOCK (Todor Matsanov, Bulgaria)
Critic (Richard Perryman, UK)

Best Director Indie Short Film
Vardo (Kostas Kaloudiotis, Greece)
Honorable Mention
Unconquered (John Parr, UK)
Solitary Waves (Thomas Dubois, France)

Best Director Web/TV Series
The Witches of Hampstead (Maria Busz, Delphine Volny, ?)
Honorable Mention
No Mercy Sweetheart (Antonio Piras, UK)
Sunflower Care (Debi Yazbeck, USA)

Best Director Horror
The Little Girl Eater (Tizian Herzberger, Germany)
Honorable Mention
Lily (Mark Karafin, USA)
Within (Joby Stephens, UK)

Best Director Thriller
Stay Quiet (Sean Connolly, UK)
Honorable Mention
TALES OF BABYLON (Pelayo de Lario, UK)

Best Director Psychological Film
Gravy, Baby ( Nicholas Masters-Waage, UK)

Best Director LGBTQ
Making Up (Ryan Paige, UK)
Honorable Mention
Birthday Boy (Leo Lebeau, UK)
Every Waking Moment (Jacob Elliott Dufton, UK)
By the water (Marta Mojal Fusté, Spain)
TOSKA (Tommaso Barba, Italy)
Could You Take My Equipment? (Sheila Warren, Canada)

Best Director Action
SDI: Secret Department of Intervention (Sébastien BACCALA, Thomas KHAWAM, France)
Honorable Mention
Ribbon and Dagger (Lukan Zakrzewski, Arek Detmer, Poland)
Shattered Remedy (Dmitry Kulak, Ukraine)

Best Director Psychological Film
LA VIE EN ROSES (Patrice CORDONNIER, France)
Honorable Mention
Abilene ( John Cash Carpenter, USA)

Best Young Director (under 25 y.o.)
English Rose (George S. Evans, UK)
Honorable Mention
The Bridges We Cross (Iris van Dongen, UK)
End of the Line (Cynthia Liu, UK)
Mother's Day (Theo Kaufman, UK)

Best Adult Director (26-50y)
Process (Patrick Gather, UK)
Honorable Mention
Ugolino (Manuele Trullu, Italy)
Rumore (Alex Romanello, Italy)

Best Senior Director (51y and more)
The eagle and the worm (GUITA SCHYFTER, Mexico)
Honorable Mention
Cabbage (MORDECHAI VARDI, Israel)

Best Art Director
The Other Half (Alina Stefania Ilin, UK)
Honorable Mention
Infinitum (Alfonso Otero Mireles, Mexico)

Best Director of Photography
The Leerie (Joseph Daly, UK)

Best European Director
She-Wolves (Lucie Cabon, France)

Best American Director
Sweetwater (Martin Guigui, USA)
Honorable Mention
Out of My Comfort Zone (Ivy Vale, USA)

Best Asian Director
SCISSORS (Tanweihua weihua Tan, China)
Honorable Mention
FLY ME TO THE SEA (ROX KEXIN LI, China)

Best Australian Director
Final Broadcast (Anthony Igra, Australia)

Best South American Director
THE EARTH’S SHADOW (Marcelo Domingues, Brasil)

Best London Film Director
Held (Toby Wharton, UK)
Honorable Mention
A London Boy in Ukraine (Oliver Freeston-Wilkes, UK)

Best British Director
The Auteur (Bethany White, UK)
Honorable Mention
Rain is a City (Thomas David Jones, UK)

Best Spain Director
Flamin Hot
(Cláudia Romeo Casado, Paula Othmer Pérez, Alícia García Iniesta, Adrià Carballada Mallofré, Leanora Schnog Barriga, Bernardo Oliveira Mesquita, Marlon Anthony Hugi Zapata, Pol Corcoles, Sergi Mora Murciano, Pablo Matas Solera, Spain)
Honorable Mention
IT'S TOO LATE (PEDRO MORAELCHE, Spain)

Best Italian Director
L'homme qui collectionne les élastiques - L'uomo che raccoglie gli elastici
(carlo ghioni, Italy)

Best Script (short)
Unconquered (John Parr, UK)
Honorable Mention
Exit Stage Left (Elliot Stanton, UK)
The Bench ( Tammy Boyer, Canada)

Best Script (Feature)
#instaboys (Matthew Rodney Chess, USA)
Honorable Mention
A Boy Called Freddie (Sophie Rose Neville, UK)
Pretty Boy Towing Company (Kirk Ray Shannon-Butts, USA)