And the nominees are…
Best Shorts Director - Male
Salman Alam Khan - No Beloved
Naman Gupta - Coming Out With The Help of a Time Machine
Bakul Matiyani - Smile Please
Harsh Mahadeswar + Shawn Parikh - Is This Mrs. Varma?
Tushar Tyagi - Lappad
Best Shorts Director - Female
Akanksha Cruczynski - Close Ties to Home Country
Vijayeta Kumar - Kicking Balls
Fawzia Mirza - The Syed Family Xmas Eve Game Night, Noor & Layla, Auntie
Indrani Ray - A Short Hello, Dinner in Lockdown, Tea and a Rose
Gurinder Singh - Rising Lotus
Best LGBTQ Short Film
Best Diaspora Short Film
Best South Asian Short Film
Best Child Actor
Shreeja Mishra - Shankar’s Fairies
Rishabh Karmakar - Smile Please
Rudraksh Jaiswal - The Tenant
Jude Michael Rodricks - Rising Lotus
Arihant Angad Nayak - Lappad
Bhavin Rabari - Last Film Show
Best Actor
Karan Soni - Coming Out With The Help of a Time Machine
Jaihind Kumar - Shankar’s Fairies
Vaibhav Tatwawadi - Nirmal Patak Ki Ghar Wapsi
Adil Hussain - Tea and a Rose
Raghubir Yadav - Master Ji
Dilip Prabhavalkar - It’s Time To Go
Best Actress
Aizzah Fatima - Americanish
Sangeeta Agrawal - Coming Out With The Help of a Time Machine
Shamita Shetty - The Tenant
Ami Sheth - Rising Lotus
Radhika Hindgwade - Is This Mrs. Varma?
Rohini Hattangadi - It’s Time To Go
Best Director
Iman Zawahry - Americanish
Irfana Majumdar - Shankar’s Fairies
Sushrut Jain - The Tenant
Ananth Narayan Mahadevan - It’s Time To Go
Pan Nalin - Last Film Show
Best Feature