AWARDS
Massimiliano Mauceri won 144 awards (47 first places) around the world.
He realized, as director and screenwriter, eight short films and one commercial video and he won 89 awards (31 first places). He wrote three feature-length scripts, which won 55 awards (16 first places).
THE MIRROR
BEST PICTURE - Autumn Film Festival (Barcelona, Spain)
WINNER - Seattle’s Open Screening
BEST MICROFILM - Festigious International Film Festival (Los Angeles)
BEST MICROFILM - Olympus Film Festival (Los Angeles)
BEST MICRO SHORT - Venus Italian International Film Festival (Las Vegas)
BEST DIRECTOR MICRO SHORT - Venus Italian International Film Festival (Las Vegas)
BEST THRILLER MICROFILM - The Indie Gathering International Film Festival (Cleveland, USA)
BEST SUPER SHORT FILM - Five Continents International Film Festival (Caracas, Venezuela)
BEST SUPER SHORT FILM - UK Monthly Film Festival
BEST SUPER SHORT FILM - Orion IFF (Australia)
BEST MICROFILM - Los Angeles Film Awards
BEST DIRECTING BRONZE WINNER - Latitude Film Awards
BEST DIRECTOR - Independent Horror Movie Awards
BEST THRILLER - Top Shorts
BEST SUPER SHORT HORROR/THRILLER - Berlin Flash Film Festival
HONORABLE MENTION VFX - Five Continents International Film Festival (Caracas, Venezuela)
HONORABLE MENTION - Berlin Flash Film Festival
BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS - Gold Movie Awards (London)
BEST EDITOR - Direct Monthly Online Film Festival
BEST ACTRESS IN A THRILLER - Actors Awards (Los Angeles)
BEST ACTRESS MICRO SHORT - Venus Italian International Film Festival (Las Vegas)
BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTRESS - 300 Seconds Short Film Festival (Toronto, Canada)
WRITING THE END (screenplay)
WINNER Best Screenplay Feature - Hollywood Boulevard Film Festival (Los Angeles, USA)
WINNER Best Script - Paris Play Film Festival (Paris, France)
WINNER Best Screenplay - Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards (Los Angeles, USA)
WINNER - Indie Film Festival (Switzerland)
WINNER Best Feature Screenplay - iHolly Indie Film Festival (Hollywood, USA)
WINNER - Near Nazareth Festival (Nazareth, Israel)
Winner 2nd place (Thriller Category) - Las Vegas Screenplay Contest (Las Vegas, USA)
Winner 3rd place (Thriller Category) - Depth of Field International Film Festival (Nassau, Delaware, USA)
Golden Palm Award - Mexico International Film Festival (Mexico)
Gold Award Winner - International Independent Film Awards (Los Angeles, USA)
Gold Award Winner - L.A. Neo Noir Novel Film and Script Festival (Los Angeles, USA)
Gold Award Winner - Filmmakers World Festival (Jakarta, Indonesia)
Silver Award - California Film Awards (San Diego, USA)
Honorable Mention - The American Film Award (New York, USA)
Honorable Mention - International Horror Hotel Film Festival (Cleveland, USA)
Honorable Mention - Los Angeles Reel Film Festival (Los Angeles, USA)
Honorable Mention - The Indie Gathering International Film Festival (Hudson, Ohio, USA)
Honorable Mention - Los Angeles New Wave International Film Festival (Los Angeles, USA)
Bronze Remi Award (Thriller Category) - WorldFest Houston (Houston, Texas, USA)
LUTHER'S GANG / NASTY GAMES (screenplay)
WINNER Best Cross/Genre Screenplay - Chicago Genre Screenplay Festival (Chicago, USA)
WINNER (Action Category) - The Indie Gathering International Film Festival (Hudson, Ohio, USA)
WINNER (Action Category) - Film Crash Screenplay Competition (Los Angeles, USA)
WINNER Best Award - Wild Rose Independent Film Festival (Des Moines, Iowa, USA)
Winner 2nd place - Digitalmation Awards (USA)
Winner 2nd place (Thriller Category) - Depth of Field International Film Festival (Nassau, Delaware, USA)
Diamond Award - California Film Awards (San Diego, USA)
Gold Winner - International Independent Film Awards (Los Angeles, USA)
Platinum Award - European Independent Film Award (Europe)
Silver Award Action Category - Trinidad Independent Film Festival (Trinidad, Colorado, USA)
Silver Remi Award (Action Category)- WorldFest Houston (Houston, Texas, USA)
Bronze Palm Award - Mexico International Film Festival (Mexico)
Award of Merit - Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood (Los Angeles, USA)
Merit Award - International New York Film Festival (New York, USA)
Kodiak Award - Alaska International Film Festival (Anchorage, Alaska, USA)
Honorable Mention - Williamsburg Film Festival (New York, USA)
Honorable Mention - Barcelona Film Festival (Barcelona, Spain)
Award Of Excellence - NYLA International Film Festival (New York - Los Angeles, USA)
Top Seven Finalists Cannes Screenplay Contest (Cannes, France)
Best Screenplay Nomination - California Independent Film Festival (Moraga, California, USA)
Top Three Finalists - Big Star Screenwriting Competition (Dallas, USA)
Top Ten Finalists - Gasparilla International Film Festival (Tampa, Florida, USA)
Top Ten Finalists - IFQ Film Festival (Beverly Hills/Hollywood, USA)
Top Twelve Finalists - Silent River Film Festival (Irvine, California, USA)
Nomination - London International Film Festival (London, UK)
OFFERTA DI LAVORO / THE JOB OFFER (screenplay) (optioned)
WINNER Best Screenplay - The Ukrainian International Film Festival (Kiev, Ukraine)
WINNER Best Screenplay - Polish International Film Festival (Warsaw, Poland)
WINNER Best Screenplay - Temecula International Film Festival (Temecula, USA)
WINNER Best Screenplay - Mac Underground Screenplay Contest (Manaus, Brazil)
WINNER (Thriller Category) - Finow Film Festival and Script Contest (Eberswalde, Germany)
WINNER (Thriller Category) - Depth of Field International Film Festival (Nassau, Delaware, USA)
Northern Lights Emerging Talent Award - Alaska International Film Festival (Anchorage, Alaska, USA)
Silver Award - California Film Awards (San Diego, USA)
Silver Award Thriller Category - Trinidad Independent Film Festival (Trinidad, Colorado, USA)
Silver Palm Award - Mexico International Film Festival (Mexico)
Platinum Award - Cinerockom International Film Festival in Beverly Hills (Los Angeles, USA)
Platinum Winner - International Independent Film Awards (Los Angeles, USA)
Honorable Mention - Honolulu Film Awards (Honolulu, Hawaii, USA)
Honorable Mention - Canada International Film Festival (Vancouver, Canada)
Honorable Mention - The Los Angeles Movie Award (Los Angeles, USA)
Honorable Mention - Urban Mediamakers Film Festival (Norcross, Georgia, USA)
Honorable Mention - Los Angeles International Underground Film Festival (Los Angeles, USA)
4th Place Award Thriller Category - The Indie Gathering International Film Festival in Hudson
Top Ten Finalists - Awareness Film Festival (Santa Monica, California, USA)
Top Twelve Finalists - Silent River Film Festival (Irvine, California, USA)
Top Nineteen Finalists - The Writers Place Screenplay Contest (USA)
Nomination - London International Film Festival (London, UK)
TUTTO E' GIA' QUI
WINNER festival Felino Video in Felino
Special Award of the Jury Festival del Corto in Sabina
MI MANCHI
WINNER Sulmona Cinema Film Festival (Silver Little Nose - Audience Award)
WINNER Gran Gala' Corti In Cantina - Firenze (Audience Award)
Special award of the Jury CortoPalo Film Festival in Portopalo
Special award of the Jury Festival del Cortometraggio in Pergola
Best Soundtrack Piccante Film Festival in Diamante
ADOZIONE A DISTANZA
WINNER International Jonio Film Festival
C'ERA UNA VOLTA UN RE / ONCE UPON A TIME A KING
WINNER (Golden Marzocco) Festival Valdarno Cinema Fedic
WINNER Bassano Corto Festival
WINNER Wilton Fall Foliage Film Festival (Wilton, New Hampshire, USA)
WINNER Festival Cortofiction in Chianciano Terme
WINNER festival Schermi Irregolari in Florence
WINNER festival Felino Video in Felino
WINNER Transdimensional Film Festival (Long Beach, California, USA)
WINNER contest Corti a Firenze Premio CGS in Florence
WINNER Festival del Corto Qui Brescia
WINNER Artsfest Film Festival (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA)
WINNER Global Art Film Festival Tour (Los Angeles, California, USA)
WINNER Clorofilla Film Festival di Festa Ambiente
WINNER Occhio al Corto Film Festival
WINNER ex-aequo Rassegna Nazionale Cortometraggio Lino Micciche'
BEST FOREIGN FILM Red Bank International Film Festival (Red Bank, New Jersey, USA)
BEST FOREIGN FILM Gulf Coast Film and Video Festival (Nassau Bay, Texas, USA)
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM Atlanta Underground Film Festival (Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
Grand Goldie Film Award Festival Goldie Film Awards (Palatka, Florida, USA)
Silver Tag, as 2nd place, ForestTheaterFilmFestival (Forest Grove, Oregon, USA)
Silver Scatto, as 2nd place, Confracorti Film Festival in Udine
Award Solero, as 2nd place, Festival Quargnento
Award Cinema del Corallo, as 2nd place, Festival Riviera in Gallura
Silver Videocorto, as 2nd place, Nettuno Film Festival
3rd Place Award Festival Cortometraggi da Sogni di Ravenna
3rd Place Award Video Festival di Canzo
Best Direction Jalari in Corto
Best Direction Festival Opere Nuove in Bolzano
Best Photography Festival Tagliacorto in Florence
Special award of the Jury Festival Pratometraggi in Prato
Special award of the Jury Palermo Film Festival
Special award of the Jury Festival Bassa In Corto
Special award of the Jury at the contest of Cinema in Lioni
Special award of the Jury Festival Idee In Corto in Aquino
Award Fidelio Sphere Festival Cortopotere in Bergamo
Gold Bear Festival Der Nationen (Ebensee, Austria)
Best Actor Lead Confracorti Film Festival in Udine
Best Actress Lead Nettuno Film Festival
Best Actress Lead Festival Per Un Pugno di Corti
Troisi Award Nettuno Film Festival
Audience Award Festival Fiaticorti in Istrana
Audience Award, 2nd place, Chlotrudis Film Festival (Brookline, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)
LINE-UP OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
Over 80 Italian Festivals
Tribeca Underground Film Festival, among 10 finalist - New York (USA)
Back Alley Festival - Tucson (Ariziona, USA)
Filmstock - Luton (Inghilterra)
Independents' Film Festival - Tampa (Florida, USA)
Indiefest Film Festival and Market - Chicago (Illinois, USA)
Film Fest New Haven - New Haven (Connecticut, USA)
Woodstock Film Festival – Hunter, Rhinebeck, Woodstock (New York, USA)
Motor City International Film Festival - Detroit (Michigan, USA)
Freedom Film Festival - Indianapolis (Indiana, USA)
Freedom Film Festival - Las Vegas (Nevada, USA)
Big Mini-Dv Film Festival – Brooklyn (New York, USA)
Kurz Film Festival – Nurnberg (Germany)
Tour Ohne Kohle- Mainz (Germany)
Euroshorts Film Festival – Varsavia (Poland)
Miami Short Film Festival – Miami (Florida, USA)
One Take Film Festival – Zagreb (Croatia)
Spiritual Film Festival – Goa (India)
The Saratoga Film Forum - Saratoga Springs (New York, USA)
Chicago Short Film Fest – Chicago (Illinois, USA)
Sopot Film Festival - Sopot (Polonia)
Global Art Film Festival Tour - Los Angeles (California, USA)
Con-Can Movie Festival - Tokyo (Japan)
Nickel Independent Film Festival - St. John's (Newfoundland, Canada)
Valley Arts Festival – Amherst (Massachusetts, USA)
Zeitgeist International Film Festival – San Francisco (California, USA)
Free Range Film Festival - Wrenshall (Minnesota, USA)
Festival Du Cinema De Bruxelles – Bruxelles (Belgium)
VideoLab Coimbra - Coimbra (Portugal)
Eksperimento Film e Video Festival - Manila (Philippines)
VideoLab Film Festival - Sackville - Saint John (Canada)
Ellensburg Film Festival - Ellensburg (Washington, USA)
Ovarvideo 05 Film Festival - Ovar (Portugal)
SNOB Film Festival - Concord (New Hampshire, USA)
Videolab Lagos Film Festival - Algarve (Portugal)
LA SCACCHIERA
WINNER festival Tracce audiovisive in Bellizzi
WINNER (Golden Dolphin) in Venice, festival el leon en moleca in Mestre
Best principal actor (Pier Luigi Zollo) at the contest Tracce audiovisive in Bellizzi
3rd Award Visiva Festival Of Rome in Campidoglio
Best editing (Valerio Bonelli) at the contest Inventa un Film in Lenola 2001
UOMINI IN CODA
Merit award at the first edition of the national contest Cinema in Umbria
Best editing Festival opere nuove in Bolzano
Best photography Festival opere nuove in Bolzano
Best direction at the contest Visiva Roma Fiction
TWIST
Selected from N.I.C.E. for International Festival in New York and in Los Angeles
Best screenplay Festival opere nuove in Bolzano
Silver tag Festival in Casteggio
Special award of the Jury at the contest Fuoricentro in Florence
LA FANTASIA E' SOLO UNA BUGIA
WINNER Festival opere nuove in Bolzano
4th award Festival in Orzinuovi
Special award of the Jury Festival in Casteggio
Award of the Jury Festival in Fano
Kodak tag for best photography Festival of Lastra a Signa
Special award of the Jury for the best editing Festival of Lastra a Signa
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