Maverick Movie Awards

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The Maverick Movie Awards annually honors films and screenplays. They were founded as the New Haven Underground Film Festival in 2004, and became known as Maverick Movie Awards in 2008.^[1] The awards are given out by a panel of judges working in the film industry.^[2] Its winners include both big-budget studio films as well as low budget independent films.^[3] An international film competition and awards event, MMA has received submissions for awards consideration from many notable filmmakers including Academy Award-nominee Sue Goffe, Academy Award-nominee Grant Orchard, Academy Award-nominee Pierre Coffin, and BAFTA Award-winners Bart Layton and Dimitri Doganis.^{[4][5][6][7][8]} Additionally, numerous films submitted to Maverick Movie Awards have featured the work of notable actors such as Academy Award-winner Jim Broadbent, Doug Jones (actor), Ross Marquand, and Golden Globe-nominees Lee Meriwether and Judd Nelson; as well as the work of acclaimed cinematographers such as Academy Award-winner Vilmos Zsigmond and the original scores of composers such as Grammy Award-winner Thom Yorke, Academy Award-nominee Philip Glass, and Academy Award-nominee Johann Johannsson.^[9][10][11] Many Maverick Movie Award-winning films have gone on to receive other prestigious awards and nominations including A Morning Stroll (Academy Award-nominee; BAFTA Award-winner), The Imposter (2012 film) (BAFTA Award-winner; Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize-nominee), Lost and Found (TV Movie 2008) (BAFTA Award-winner), and Varmints (BAFTA Award-nominee).^{[12][13][14][15][16]}

• Best Picture: Lost In Apocalypse
• Best Director: Ben Rider and Xavier Baeyens, Blood and Bones

• Best Screenplay: Navjyot Bandiwadekar, Quarter

• Best Picture: Outlaw Painter
• Best Documentary: The Children of the Noon
• Best Animation: Three Days Drowning
• Best Director: Vassilis Mazomenos, Lines
• Best Screenplay: Occupant, Julia Camara
• Best Cinematography: Ben Rider, Our Little Haven
• Best Editing: Sam Szafrans / Outlaw Painter
• Best Music: Forever Tomorrow
• Best Special FX: Teleios
• Best Actress: Alfeeya Shaikh in Jihad
• Best Actor: Fedja van Huet in J. Kessels
• Best Supporting Actress: Anu Hasan in IS THIS NOW
• Best Supporting Actor: Arish A. Khan in Fags in the Fast Lane

• Best Picture: 1400
• Best Documentary: All the World in a Design School
• Best Animation: The Hunting of the Snark
• Best Director: Stephen Chen, Silent City
• Best Screenplay: Restraint, Adam Cushman
• Best Cinematography: Russ De Jong, Badsville
• Best Editing: Gordon Antell, Badsville
• Best Music: The Barn
• Best Special FX: Virtual Revolution
• Best Actor: Michael Padraic Scahill, Cowards Do It Slow
• Best Actress: Caitlyn Folley, Restraint
• Best Supporting Actor: Hoyt Richards, Dumbbells
• Best Supporting Actress: Gabrielle Rose, The Birdwatcher
• Best Ensemble Performance: Legend Of The Lich Lord
• Special Achievement: Arbitrary Fairytales

• Best Picture: Bridge and Tunnel (Director: Jason Michael Brescia)
• Best Director: Alexander Tuschinski (for: Break-Up)
• Best Screenplay: Time Lapse (Bradley King & B.P. Cooper)
• Best Chronicle: chicagoGirl The Social Network Takes on a Dictator (Director: Joe Piscatella)
• Best Cinematography: Kauboji (Predrag Dubravcic)

• Best Picture: Concrete/Night (Director: Noe Weil)
• Best Director: Joshua Hinkson (for [ [sic]])
• Best Screenplay: The Funeral (Yehudah Jez Freedman)
• Best Chronicle: Project: Shattered Silence (Director: Colleen Sparks Hamilton & Jared O'Roark)
• Best Cinematography: By My Hand (Tucker Macdonald)

Best Director: Dimitris Athanitis (for: Three Days Happiness)

• Best Picture: Mousse (Director: Jason Michael Brescia)

• Best Picture: The Imposter (Director: Bart Layton)

• Best Picture: Tumbleweed! (Director: Jared Varava)
• Best Actor: Dylan Smith (in Hangnail)^[23]
• Best Original Score: Atom^[24]
• Best Director Micah Magee for COMING HOME

• Best Soundtrack: Beatboxing - The Fifth Element of Hip Hop (Director: Klaus Schneyder)

• Best Picture: On a Carousel of Sound, We Go Round Nicholas Kleczewski
• Best Director: Scream of the Bikini Kiff Scholl
• Best Screenplay: Lunopolis Matthew J. Avant
• Best Chronicle: When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun Dirk Simon
• Best Cinematography: When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun Jeff Pointer and Robert Muratore
• Best Actor: Lovers in a Dangerous Time Mark Hug
• Best Actress: Dirty Step Upstage Nova Reid
• Best Supporting Actor: The Dispensables André Hennicke
• Best Supporting Actress: Charlie Valentine Valerie Dillman
• Best Performance: On a Carousel of Sound, We Go Round The Snake the Cross the Crown
• Best Editing: On a Carousel of Sound, We Go Round Nicholas Kleczewski
• Best Original Score: When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun Philip Glass, Thom Yorke, and Damien Rice
• Best Soundtrack: Pig Hunt Les Claypool and Robert Mailer Anderson
• Best Sound Design/Editing: Scream of the Bikini Darrett Sanders and Brian Warwick
• Best Production Design: I Am Somebody/No Chance in Hell Aki Aleong, Conchita Culanding Aleong, and Caravan West
• Best Special Effects: Deadland Ralf Leeb
• Best Special Effects Make-up: Pig Hunt Erik Jensen, Danny Wagner, and Kerner Optical
• Best Stunts: Pig Hunt Justin Sundquist, Spiro Razatos, and Rex Reddick

One thing is clear, the festival circuit has to be taken back for those it was originally meant to serve: filmmakers and audiences. MMA is a group whose mission is so in line with what needs to be done in this ever-changing landscape.

— Sandy Cioffi, director of Sweet Crude, quoted on website of Maverick Movie Awards^[27]

The Maverick Movie Awards puts credibility and intrigue back into the word 'maverick.'

— Les Claypool, frontman of Primus, quoted on website of Maverick Movie Awards^[28]

• Official Website
• IMDB-Event-Page
• Article on Moviemaker Magazine