2022 Sci-On! Winners

Area 51 Award            The Gift / Farbod Ardebili / United States
Artistic Excellence Award        Respirations / Rémi Tournier / France
Best Animated Short Film        S.A.D.-The Movie / Guilherme Gehr / Brazil & Italy
Best Animated Student Film     Tab ur et / Cate Chereches / Romania
Best Astronomy Short Film        Zenith / Thomas Dalen / Norway
Best Documentary Short Film    Take Up Space / Britt Adkins / United States
Best Life Sciences Short Film    To Breakthrough / Grace McNally / United States
Best Live Action Short        To Err / Nanci Cruz / United Kingdom
Best Live Action Student Short    Madeleine / Alain Kulmburg / France
Best Space Film            My Life as a Piece of Space Debris / Damien Donnelly / Ireland    
Critics’ Choice Award        The Ladder / Emilio Miguel Torres / United States
Directors’ Choice Award        The Reincarnated Giant / Han Yang / China
Rising Star / First-Time Filmmaker Award    Erased / Gabriela Loza / Australia    
Sci-On! Science+Imagination Award    Monocellular / Nate Dorr & Farah Abdul-Rahman  / United States

2022 Roddenberry Audience Choice Award
Best Short Film of the Year
To Err / Nanci Cruz / United Kingdom

2021 Sci-On! Award Winners

Area 51 Award            Transmission / Carleton Rodgers / Northern Ireland

Artistic Excellence Award        Painting by Numbers / Radheya Jegatheva / Australia

Best Animated Film            Silent Space / Mariia Konopatova / Russian Federation

Best Animated Student Film     Palindromo / Paolo Amadini / UK

Best Documentary Film        The Unisexuals / Katie Garrett / US

Best Life Sciences Documentary    Sky Islands / Catalina Giraldo / Colombia

Best Live Action Short        Moon Drops / Yoram Ever-Hadani / Israel

Best Music Video            Allinputs BLACKPITCH / Creative Arthur / Germany
    
Best Nevada Film               Exploring the Universe / Great Basin Observatory / US

Best Space Travel Film        A Long Walk to the Moon / Connie Tais / US

Best Virtual Reality            Everything is growing… / Max Seeger / Germany

Critics’ Choice Award        viewers:1 / Daigo Hariya, Yosuke Kobayashi / Japan

Directors’ Choice Award        33 Floors / Chris Austen / UK

Rising Star / First-Time Filmmaker Award    METEOR Genesis / Quentin Dognon / France    

Sci-On! Science+Imagination Award    The Phantom Particle / Giuseppe William Lombardo / Italy

2021 Roddenberry Audience Choice Award
for Best Short Film
Moon Drops / Yoram Ever-Hadani / Israel

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2020 Sci-On! Award Winners

Area 51 Award            Bodyhackers / Dale Metz & T.L. Westgate / US

Artistic Excellence Award        Stardust Odyssey / Tibo Pinsard / France

Best Animated Student Film    The Quiet / Radheya Jegatheva / Australia

Best Animated Short        Cosmic Fling / Jonathan Langager / US

Best Comedy Short            Gum / Jacob Reed / US

Best Documentary Film        Terror and Hope: The Science of Resilience / Ron Bourke / US

Best Life Sciences Documentary    Fertile Waters / Jennifer Kent / US

Best Live Action Student Film    SENTIENCE / Guillaume Bierry / France
    
Best Live Action Short        Help3 / Janek Tarkowski / France

Best Medical Documentary        Mood Atlas / Mia Mullarkey / Ireland

Best Music Video            Konowoulen / Geoffroy Virgery / France
    
Best Nevada Film               Mineral Monday with Vera: Ichthyosaurs / Jennifer Kent / US

Best Planetarium Film        Touch the Stars / Luke Ployhar / US

Best Space Exploration Film        How OSIRIS-REx Will Steer Itself To Sample an Asteroid /
                    James Tralie / US

Best Virtual Reality            Immerse / Jason McGuigan and Rick Miskiv / US

Critics’ Choice Award               Life Support / Shayan Ebrahim / US

Directors’ Choice Awards        Adam & Eve Mk II / Sebastian Kuder / UK / Escape Studios
                    Joe / Callum Reeve / UK / Escape Studios    

Family Favorite            Low Down Larry Conquers the Moon Men / Sammy Verni

Fan Film Favorite            Breaking Point / Stevan Filipovic / Serbia

First Time Filmmaker Award    Premise / Eric Shultz / US                    

Science+Imagination Award    The Carbon Farmer / Andy Clark / UK / 8m

Technology Award            My Operator / Bruce Barker / US

2020 “Roddenberry Audience Choice Award” for Best Short Film
SENTIENCE / Guillaume Bierry / France

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2019 Sci-On! Awards
Area 51 Award                Sven / Chad Costen / Canada / 16 m
Artistic Excellence Award        The Spirit Seam / Ashley Gerst / US / 15 m
Best Animated Sci-Fi Short        For Lorn / Hoo Yan Han & Im Eun Sue / Singapore / 5 m        
Best AR Project            Mars Community Builder AR / Challenger Center / US
Best Documentary Short        Streetlights of the Universe / Bryan Nelson / US / 10 m
Best Life Sciences Short        Sylvia’s Leaf Frog / Katie Garrett / UK / 12 m
Best Medical Short            A Tiny Spark / Niamh Heery / Ireland / 27 m
Best Live Action Short            Lavender / Henry Boffin / Australia / 14m
Best Music Video            Leading Me Straight / Burke Heffner / US / 8 m
Best Nevada Film            Join the Crew / Dominic Sanguinetti / US / 1 m    
Best Space Travel Film        Alora / Nicholas Muthersbaugh / US / 10 m
Best Student Film            The Update / Mor Hanay / Israel / 24 m
Best Virtual Reality            Future Warfare Simulator / Jason Trembath / Australia / 9 m
Science + Imagination Award        Eva: A CRISPR Story / Puneet Bharill / Germany / 22 m
Critics’ Choice Award            This Is Fine / Roth Rind / US / 7 m
Directors’ Choice Award        Chronopath / Jayk Gallagher / US / 6 m

2019 Roddenberry Audience Choice Award    
for Best Short Film of the Year
Virtually / P. Patrick Hogan / US / 21 m

2018 Audience Choice Winners & Jury Awards

Award for Artistic Excellence:    Beneath the Surface / Mark Hansen and Mikkel Tengvad / Denmark

Best Animation:            iRony / Radheya Jegatheva / Australia

Best Documentary Short:    Zebrafish: Practically People / Jennifer Manner / USA

Best Music Video:               A Million Lights (Stellar Seismology) / Michael W. Smith / USA

Best Nevada Film:        Enthusiasm Abounds / Mark Ross / USA

Best Sci-Fi Short:        Time, and Again / Kel Webster and Steve Lawson / UK

Best Space Film:        A Million Lights (Stellar Seismology) / Michael W. Smith / USA
    
Best Live-Action:        Jasper / Scarlett Urbano / USA

Best Virtual Reality:        Lost in Time / Adriano Perez Gil / Spain

Critics’ Choice Award:           Strange Beasts / Magali Barbe / UK

Directors’ Choice Award:        mi-fi / David Mair / USA

Science + Imagination Award:    The Gallery of Lost Trades / Willi Kubica / Germany

2018 Roddenberry:        The Class Analysis / Webb Pickersgill / USA
Audience Choice Award
for Best Short Film of the Year

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    2017 Winners!

    Area 51 Award                    InTransit
    Best Animation                    Green Light
    Best Animated Student Film            Attractive Force
    Best Digital Dome Show                Seeing
    Best Documentary                Trek Nation
    Best Future Tech                (A)utomated (I)rritation
    Best Live Action Short                María Fernanda in Time
    Best Live Action Student Film            Synchronous
    Best Music Video                Deadpool: The Musical
    Best Nevada Film                TMPST 2112
    Best Science Exhibit                Be the Astronaut
    Best Sci-Fi Film                    FTL
    Best Sci-Fi Trailer                Eddie
    Best Space Feature                Hidden Figures
    Best Space Travel Film                The Cradle
    Best VR Experience                Inferno
    Best Virtual Reality Software            Star Trek Bridge Crew
    Critics’ Choice Award                InTransit
    Directors’ Choice Award                The Onlookers
   Award for Excellence in Science+Imagination        White Lily
   Roddenberry Audience Choice Award        Green Light