“Hollywood & Indian Country’s Biggest Night for American Indian & Indigenous Voices”™
Cementing Native Indigenous at the forefront of the Entertainment Industry

Hollywood has Oscar, Broadway has Tony, Television has the Emmy, and Indian Country has the Red Nation Film Award of Excellence™

And the Winners Are:

Best Picture

Bones of Crows – WINNER
Four Souls of Coyote
Café Daughter
The Unknown Country
Gift Of Fear

Achievement in Directing

Marie Clements for Bones of Crows – WINNER
Áron Gauder for Four Souls of Coyote
Shelley Niro for Café Daughter
Morrisa Maltz for The Unknown Country
Katy Dore, Jack Kohler for Gift Of Fear

Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Grace Dove for Bones of Crows – WINNER
Carla-Rae for Bones of Crows
Gail Maurice for Bones of Crows
Violah Beauvais for Café Daughter
Lily Gladstone for The Unknown Country
Laura Vallejo for Gift Of Fear
Isa Antonetti for Gift Of Fear

Outstanding Performance by an Actor in Leading Role

Phillip Forest Lewitski for Bones of Crows – WINNER
Glen Gould for Bones of Crows
Lorne Cardinal for Four Souls of Coyote
Richard Ray Whitman for The Unknown Country
Justin Johnson Cortez for Gift Of Fear

Outstanding Performance by an Actress in Supporting Role

Michelle Thrush for Bones of Crows – WINNER
Summer Testawich for Bones of Crows
Alyssa Wapanatahk for Bones of Crows
Star Slade for Café Daughter
Sera-Lys McArthur for Café Daughter

Best Original Screenplay

Marie Clements for Bones Of Crows – WINNER
Áron Gauder, Géza Bereményi for Four Souls of Coyote
Shelley Niro, Kenneth T. Williams for Café Daughter
Lily Gladstone, Morrisa Maltz, Lainey Bearkiller Shangreaux, Vanara Taing for The Unknown Country
Carly Kohler, Jack Kohler for Gift Of Fear

Best Documentary Feature

Common Ground – WINNER
Aitamaako’tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun – WINNER
Navajo Nation USA
Custodians – A Story of Ancient Echoes
The Nature of Healing
Guadalupe
True Story
A Boy Called Piano

Best Doc Short

NATIVE HOPE CHAMPIONS: Riding for the Missing – WINNER
Keepers of the Land
Mauri Tu Mauri Ora
Pe ataju jumali / Hot Air
Where Do I Belong
Many Moons
I am Kānaka
Malignasquelluki (To Live in Harmony)
A Reflection of Life: Voices of Our Youth
pî-kiwîk
Abaznoda (basket)
Handgames in the Delta
Wounded Knee Survivors Run
Lily Gladstone: Far Out There

Best Live Action

Borders
Hatarimuy (Rise Up)
Ohskennón:ten Owí:ra (Little Deer)
Musk.
The Handsome Man – WINNER
THE MARTYRDOM OF SAINT ETHEL: Patron Saint of the Santee, Bloody Fourth, and Gitmo Bay
Happy Thanksgiving
Urpi: Her Last Wish