American Screen Awards accept timeless films from any genres. The films submitted must either: contain American theme (any countries), filmed in one or more than one American countries, or made by American filmmakers.
We welcome students and newcomers to enter into emerging categories.
Films with languages other than English are welcomed but must be added with English subtitle (or it can be dubbed into English).
GENERAL CATEGORY BASED ON FILM LENGTH:
Fiction Films:
- American Short Film
American fiction film with duration less than 24 minutes
- American Fiction Featurette
American fiction film with 24–40 minutes in running time.
- American Feature Film
American fiction film with a duration longer than 40 minutes
DOCUMENTARY FILMS: Including docufiction and docudrama. (Docufiction refers to a cinematographic combination of documentary and fiction, and a docudrama relates to the documentary that includes dramatized re-enactments of actual events.
- American Short Documentary
American Documentary with a running time less than 24 minutes
- American Documentary Featurette
American documentary film with 24-40 minutes in running time
- American Documentary Feature
American documentary with a running time more than 40 minutes
- American Music Video
- Emerging American Director
- Emerging American Short Film
- Emerging American Feature Film
- Emerging American Documentary
American Script Awards:
(English language only, send your script in .pdf format)
- American Short Script
(5-60 Pages)
- American Feature Script
(> 60 Pages)
GENRES AWARDS:
- American Action film
- American Adventure film/documentary
- American Animation film/documentary
- American Biography film/documentary
- American Comedy film
- American Crime film/documentary
- American Drama film
- American Faith-Based film/documentary
- American Family film/documentary
- American Fantasy film/documentary
- American Film-Noir
- American History film/documentary
- American Horror film/documentary
- American Music film/documentary
- American Musical film/documentary
- American Mystery film/documentary
- American Romance film
- American Sci-Fi film/documentary
- American Sports film/documentary
- American Thriller film/documentary
- American War film/documentary
PERFORMANCE AWARDS:
PERFORMANCE IN AMERICAN FEATURE FILM:
- Actor
- Actress
- Supporting Actor
- Supporting Actress
- Couple Performance
- Ensemble Cast
- Newcomer
- Child Performance
PERFORMANCE IN AMERICAN SHORT FILM:
- Actor
- Actress
- Supporting Actor
- Supporting Actress
- Couple Performance
- Ensemble Cast
- Newcomer Performance
- Child Performance
PERFORMANCE IN AMERICAN EMERGING FILM:
- Actor
- Actress
- Supporting Actor
- Supporting Actress
- Couple Performance
- Ensemble Cast
- Newcomer Performance
- Child Performance
PERFORMANCE IN AMERICAN EMERGING DOCUMENTARY:
- actor
- actress
- supporting actor
- supporting actress
- couple performance
- ensemble cast
- newcomer performance
- child performance
PRODUCTION AWARDS:
PRODUCTION IN AMERICAN FEATURE FILM:
- director
- Cinematographer
- production designer
- costume designer
- sound
- music director
- editor
- screenplay
PRODUCTION IN AMERICAN SHORT FILM:
- director
- Cinematographer
- production designer
- costume designer
- sound
- music director
- editor
- screenplay
PRODUCTION IN AMERICAN EMERGING FEATURE FILM:
- director
- Cinematographer
- production design
- costume design
- sound
- music director
- editor
- screenplay
PRODUCTION IN AMERICAN EMERGING DOCUMENTARY FILM:
- director
- Cinematographer
- production design
- costume design
- sound
- music director
- editor
- screenplay
DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION:
AMERICAN DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:
- director
- cinematography
- editing
- sound
- music
- visual effects
- concept
AMERICAN SHORT DOCUMENTARY:
- short documentary film
- director
- cinematography
- editing
- sound
- music
- visual effects
- concept
- All winners are Official Selection and will receive Platinum, or Golden, or Silver Award.
- When attending the Awards Ceremony in Indonesia, winners will receive physical awards such as statue, certificate, sash, and other winning souvenirs.