2022

Chicago Script Awards Winners
2022 Winter Edition

Grand Prix: Best Feature Script
Six Impossible Things (Amanda Nitsa Oz, USA)
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Grand Prix: Best Short Script
Hugh Was Here (Montgomery Burt, Canada)
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Grand Prix: Best Super Short Script
The Point of No Return (Ethan William Gough, USA)
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Best Feature Script
Gender Perfect ( Brian Wapole, USA)

Honorable Mention
An Unfamiliar Life (Toni D'Antonio, Mitch del Monico, USA)
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Best Short Script
Van girl´s (Francesco Piotti, Italy)

Honorabe Mention
The Chance ( Terry Luke Podnar, USA)
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Best Television Script - Pilot
Blood Relations (Viv Young, UK)

Honorable Mention
The Newells: The Creaking Floorboard (Pilot) (Stephen Garry, Canada)
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Best First-Time Screenwriter (short script)
Cross the River (USA)
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Best First-Time Screenwriter (feature script)
Lucid (DeAndre Harris, USA)

Honorable Mention
Single At Christmas (Joseph Anthony Francis, USA)
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Best Drama Screenplay
Orpheus with his lyre (Ruth Finnegan, UK)
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Best Comedy Screenplay
SNIP (Seth Jarrett, USA)

Honorable Mention
The Mobsters Boss (pilot script) (Dana Maree Olita, USA)
THE CHRISTMAS CON (Madeline Hombert, Michael Markus, Canada)
Confessions of a Horny Teenager (Nick Abdo, USA)
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Best Horror Screenplay
The Sin Eater Chronicles (Anthony Catino, USA)
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Best Thriller Screenplay
No Man's Property (James P Brosnahan, USA)

Honorable Mention
Doughtery ( Jared Becker, USA)
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Best LGBT Screenplay
Quick Quick Slow ( Jett Garrison, USA)
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Best Female Screenwriter
No Adress (Julia Verdin, James Papa, USA)
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Best Sci-fi Screenplay
Project Abaddon: RISE OF THE DESTROYER (Pete Borreggine, Gary Hauger, USA)
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Best Historical Screenplay
Diminuendo (Paul Gross, Australia)
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Best Crimi Screenplay
Tables - A Violent World Story (Roberto J. Gomez, Marc Alan Kropfl, USA)
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Best Fantasy Screenplay
Lady Crimson ( Iannis Aliferis, Greece)
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Best Young Screenwriter (under 25)
Crimes of Passion (Tate Havlovitz, USA)
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Chicago Screenplay
Life.Love.You! (Bogdan Nicolae Groza, USA)
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American Screenplay
Obsession (Jason Andrew White, USA)
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Foreign Screenplay
MARYAM & VARTO (Gorune Aprikian, France)

Chicago Script Awards Winners
2022 Autumn Edition

Grand Prix: Feature Script
NICE EGGS (Sandi Farkas, USA)
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Grand Prix: SHORT SCRIPT
Karma is a Bitch (STEPHANIE WHITMOYER, USA)
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Best Feature Script
Worth The Weight (Peter Panagos, USA)
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Best Short Script
God Works at Harrison's Roast Beef (Laura Kindred, USA)
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Best Super Short Script
KATIE’S LAST DANCE (Madeline Hombert, Canada)
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Best Television Script - Pilot
The Private Sector (Benjamin King, USA)
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Best First-Time Screenwriter (Short Script)
I Can't Remember (Sarah Markowitz, USA)

Honorable Mention
A Package of Dreams (Bradley M. Look USA)
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Best First-Time Screenwriter (Feature Script)
LAST ISLAND (former "Big Bang and back") (Manfred Winter, Austria)

Honorable Mention
The Arrangement (Kátia Kieling, USA)
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Best Drama Screenplay
A Siren's Sweet Whisper (Fred G Stemme , USA)
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Best Comedy Screenplay
HOOF HEARTED ( Lloyd Stevens, UK)
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Best Horror Screenplay
Breather (Barry Staff, UK)
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Best Thriller Screenplay
The White Witch Of Rose Hall (Shaunia McKenzie, USA)
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Best LGBT Screenplay
Haphazard (Kitty Harper, UK)
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Best Female Screenwriter
Heartbreak Under a Neon Streetlight (Jen McAuliffe, Australia)

Honorable Mention
TOUCHED (CJ Morrison, USA)
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Best Sci-fi Screenplay
Honorable Mention
Bad Love Tigers (Kevin L. Schewe, USA)
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Best Historical Screenplay
Suzanne Valadon: The Sin I Will Commit Again (Mikelle Kruger and Patrick O. McKenna, UK)

Honorable Mention
The Last Bombshell (Lawrence H Stern, USA)
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Best Young Screenwriter (under 25yo)
Black Dawn (Letizia Arcaleni, Italy)
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Best Chicago Screenplay
Broad Shoulders (Samson Ari Ziegelman, USA)
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Best American Screenplay
EATING RHODE ISLAND (Lawrence Thelen, USA)

Chicago Script Awards Winners
2022 Summer Edition

Grand Prix: Feature Script
The Trial of Jean Gump (Joan Kufrin, USA)

Grand Prix: SHORT SCRIPT
A Stretching Moment (Ashley Bligh Dighton, Australia)

Honorable Mention: Feature Script
LIKE FATHER LIKE SON (Barry Jay, USA)

Honorable Mention: Feature Script
The Real World of Money (Patrick J Timpone, USA)

Honorable Mention: Short Script
Mother Liberty (Francis Bruno, USA)

Best Super Short Script
Old Friends (Sian Walker, UK)

Honorable Mention: Super Short Script
A Mother's Love (Darrin Friedman, USA)

Best Television Script - Pilot
AWFUL EXES (Victor C Dean, USA)

Honorable Mention: Television Script – Pilot
Burning Daylight Episode One (Eric Johnson, Timothy Ryan, USA)

Best First-Time Screenwriter (short script)
A Chat Over Death (Kirsty Masefield, Mike Felix, New Zealand)

Best First-Time Screenwriter (Feature script)
Chicken Tenderized (Bonnie Tunick, USA)

Best DRAMA SCREENPLAY
Anna Incognito (Laura Preble, USA)

Honorable Mention: Drama Screenplay
All That Glitters (Mike Meier, USA)
MANO NERA (BLACK HAND) (Samantha Caprio-Negret, Richard Price Sorin, USA)

Best COMEDY SCREENPLAY
Le Tour Kashmir (David H Miller, USA)

Honorable Mention: Comedy Screenplay
Dirty Laundry (Ron Podell, USA)

Best HORROR SCREENPLAY
Happily Never After (Alec Cuddeback, USA)

Best THRILLER
Simon Says… (J. Barrick Griffiths)

Best LGBT Screenplay
La Famiglia ( The Family ) (Frank Gaimari, USA)

Best Female Screenwriter
Super Zeros (Jaye Blohm, USA)

Honorable Mention: Female Screenwriter
When in Rome (Amy Amani, UK)

Best Sci-fi Screenplay
Forever After (Emil Faithe, USA)

Best Chicago Screenplay
ShinyTown Crime Stories. (Pilot) (Susan Divita-Langenfeld, USA)

Best American Screenplay
Bearing Witness (Windsor Bilby Racine, USA)

Best Foreign Screenplay
THE SKIN OF A DOG (Linda Fejzaj Jaupaj, Albania)

Chicago Script Awards Winners
2022 Spring Edition

Grand Prix: Best Short Script
Edgar and the Undead (Montgomery Burt, Canada)

Best Feature Script
Dear Eszter (Alex Balassa, Marisol Mijares, Alejandro Orozco, Mario Pacheco Szekely, Chile)

Honorable Mention: Feature Script
Litten's Passion (Arik Bjorn, Debi King McMartin, Evelyn "Lyn" Morgan, USA)

Honorable Mention: Short Script
Appearances (Joan Tofteland, Canada)

Best Super Short Script
Graham-Land (Colleen Frances Franklin, USA)

Best Television Script - Pilot
ALIENAZION - The Conquest of Space (ANTONIO BELLIDO MARIN, Spain)

Best First-Time Screenwriter (Short script)
The Deaf Girl (Novella Bex, USA)

Best First-Time Screenwriter (Feature script)
Bloodlines: The Mogadishu Diaries 1992-1993 (Eddie Clay Thompkins III, USA)

Best Drama Screenplay
Good Morning Sunshine (Mariah Larocque, USA)

Best Comedy Screenplay
MIC CHECK; KARAOKE LOVE (Gregory Bonds, USA)

Honorable Mention: Comedy Screenplay
Adult Adolescent (Persia White, USA)

Best Horror Screenplay
The Shadow Falls (Clay Callender, USA)

Best Thriller Screenplay
The Contractor (Casey Costello, USA)

Best LGBT Screenplay
S.T.A.R. (Yael Deynes, USA)

Best Female Screenwriter
Amy and Angel (Julia Verdin, Deedee Benkovich, USA)

Best Scí-fi Screenplay
Fujiyama 2060 (Brandy Seymour, Gin Wills, Crystal Ash, Liz Richie, USA)

Best Young Screenwriter (under 25)
Social Work (Greg Davidson, USA)

Best Chicago Screenplay
Dine With Me (Monica Keaton, USA)

Best American Screenplay
CODE 10 (Matthew Margo, USA)

Best Foreign Screenplay
No biscuits in heaven (Ruth Finnegan, UK)

Honorable Mention: Foreign Screenplay
Shades (Dionne Wilson, Canada)