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Simon Ellis

26 wins & 44 nominations

Aspen Shortsfest

  • Notes from Planet Three (2025)
    2026 Nominee Best Documentary
    • Jury Award for Documentary
    • Notes from Planet Three

Bermuda International Film Festival

  • 10 Again (2002)
    2003 Winner Bermuda Shorts Award - Special Mention
    • 10 Again

BAFTA Awards

  • Soft (2006)
    2008 Nominee BAFTA Film Award
    • Best Short Film
    • Soft
    Shared with: Jane Hooks

Dresden Film Festival

  • Jam Today (2011)
    2012 Nominee Golden Horseman
    • Best Short Fiction Film - International Competition
    • Jam Today

Edinburgh International Film Festival

  • Soft (2006)
    2007 Winner Prix UIP Edinburgh (European Short Film)
    • Soft

European Film Awards

  • Soft (2006)
    2007 Nominee European Film Award
    • European Short Film
    • Soft
    Prix UIP Edinburgh

Manhattan Short Film Festival

  • Soft (2006)
    2007 Winner Best Editing
    • Soft

St. Petersburg Message to Man Film Festival

  • Soft (2006)
    2007 Winner Centaur Award
    • Best Short Fiction
    • Soft

Palm Springs International ShortFest

  • Soft (2006)
    2007 Winner Best of the Festival
    • Soft

International Film Festival Rotterdam

  • Sammy T. Dobson in Public Sex (2009)
    2009 Nominee Tiger Award
    • Public Sex

Sundance Film Festival

  • Soft (2006)
    2008 Winner Short Filmmaking Award
    • International
    • Soft

Capalbio Cinema

  • Soft (2006)
    2007 Winner Best Direction
    • Soft

Geneva International Film Festival - Tous Écrans

  • Soft (2006)
    2007 Winner Best Short Film
    • Soft

Hamburg International Short Film Festival

  • Notes from Planet Three (2025)
    2025 Nominee Hamburg Short Film Award
    • Best International Short Film
    • Notes from Planet Three
  • Notes from Planet Three (2025)
    2025 Nominee Hamburg Short Film Award
    • Best International Short Film
    • Notes from Planet Three
  • The Terminator (2023)
    2023 Winner Triple Axel Award
    • Triple Axel
    • The Terminator
  • World War Cup (2016)
    2016 Nominee Hamburg Short Film Award
    • Best International Short Film
    • World War Cup
  • Stew & Punch (2013)
    2013 Nominee Hamburg Short Film Award
    • Stew & Punch

Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival

  • Soft (2006)
    2007 Winner Best Live-Action Short
    • Soft

Imago - International Young Film and Video Festival

  • Soft (2006)
    2007 Winner Young Jury Award
    • Soft

Tribeca Film Festival

  • Stew & Punch (2013)
    2014 Nominee Jury Award
    • Best Narrative Short
    • Stew & Punch

Regensburg Short Film Week

  • Ostrich Theory (2020)
    2025 Nominee Best International Short Film
    • International Competition
    • Ostrich Theory

Milan Film Festival

  • Soft (2006)
    2007 Winner Students Jury Award
    • Soft

Flickerfest International Short Film Festival

  • Notes from Planet Three (2025)
    2026 Nominee Best Documentary Short Film
    • Best Documentary Short
    • Notes from Planet Three
  • Soft (2006)
    2008 Winner Special Jury Prize
    • Best Short Film
    • Soft

Tehran International Short Film Festival

  • Notes from Planet Three (2025)
    2025 Nominee International Competition
    • Best Short Film
    • Notes from Planet Three

Ludwigsburg European Short Film Biennale

  • Soft (2006)
    2007 Winner Promotional Prize
    • Soft
    For special achievements in the field of screenplay.

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

  • Stew & Punch (2013)
    2013 Nominee Sleepwalkers Jury Prize
    • International
    • Stew & Punch

New York City Short Film Festival

  • Soft (2006)
    2007 Winner Festival Award
    • Best Drama
    • Soft
  • Soft (2006)
    2007 Nominee Audience Award
    • Audience Choice Program D
    • Soft

Encounters International Film Festival

  • Notes from Planet Three (2025)
    2025 Winner Children's Jury Award
    • Documentary Encounters
    • Notes from Planet Three
  • Stew & Punch (2013)
    2013 Nominee Best of British Award
    • Live Action
    • Stew & Punch
  • Jam Today (2011)
    2012 Winner Brief Encounters Best of British Award
    • Jam Today
  • Jam Today (2011)
    2011 Winner Brief Best of British Award
    • Jam Today
  • Soft (2006)
    2007 Winner Brief Encounters Best of British Award
    • Soft

Tirana International Film Festival, AL

  • Jam Today (2011)
    2011 Winner Ron Holloway Award
    • Best First Short Film
    • Jam Today
    As a attribute of one of the oldest partecipant of TIFF, which continues shooting short films without falling in the commercialism, by always supporting the innovation and originality.

London Short Film Festival, UK

  • Notes from Planet Three (2025)
    2026 Nominee Best UK Short
    • Best UK Short
    • Notes from Planet Three

Aesthetica Short Film Festival

  • Notes from Planet Three (2025)
    2025 Nominee Festival Prize
    • Best Short Film
    • Notes from Planet Three

Dokufest International Documentary and Short Film Festival

  • Notes from Planet Three (2025)
    2025 Nominee International Shorts
    • Best Short Film
    • Notes from Planet Three
  • Ostrich Theory (2020)
    2021 Nominee Best Short Film
    • Best Short Film
    • Ostrich Theory
  • World War Cup (2016)
    2016 Nominee Best Short Film
    • Best Short Film
    • World War Cup

Sapporo International Short Film Festival and Market

  • Ostrich Theory (2020)
    2021 Nominee Jury Prize
    • Best Short Film
    • Ostrich Theory

Minimalen

  • Notes from Planet Three (2025)
    2026 Nominee International Competition
    • Best International Film
    • Notes from Planet Three
  • The Terminator (2023)
    2024 Nominee International Competition
    • Best International Film
    • The Terminator
  • Ostrich Theory (2020)
    2022 Nominee International Competition
    • Best International Film
    • Ostrich Theory

This is England Film Festival Rouen

  • The Terminator (2023)
    2024 Nominee Jury Award
    • Best Short Film
    • The Terminator

CineGlobe Film Festival, Switzerland

  • Notes from Planet Three (2025)
    2026 Nominee Jury Prize
    • Documentary
    • Notes from Planet Three

Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art

  • Stew & Punch (2013)
    2014 Winner Special Mention
    • International Competition
    • Stew & Punch

IndieCork

  • Notes from Planet Three (2025)
    2025 Nominee Best International Short Film
    • Best Short Film
    • Notes from Planet Three
  • World War Cup (2016)
    2025 Nominee Best World Short
    • World Short
    • World War Cup
  • Ostrich Theory (2020)
    2021 Nominee Best World Short
    • World Short
    • Ostrich Theory
  • World War Cup (2016)
    2016 Nominee Best World Short
    • World Short
    • World War Cup

PÖFF Shorts

  • Notes from Planet Three (2025)
    2025 Nominee Best Short Film
    • International Short Film Competition
    • Notes from Planet Three

Exground Filmfest

  • World War Cup (2016)
    2016 Nominee Festival Award
    • Best International short
    • World War Cup
  • Stew & Punch (2013)
    2014 Winner Festival Award
    • Best International Short
    • Stew & Punch

Beeston Film Festival

  • Notes from Planet Three (2025)
    2026 Nominee Beeston Film Festival Award
    • Best in Festival
    • Notes from Planet Three
  • The Terminator (2023)
    2024 Nominee Shorts
    • Short FIlm
    • The Terminator

Short Waves Festival

  • World War Cup (2016)
    2017 Winner International Competition Award
    • Third Award
    • World War Cup

Ekofilm festival

  • Notes from Planet Three (2025)
    2025 Nominee International Competition
    • Short and Green
    • Notes from Planet Three
  • Notes from Planet Three (2025)
    2022 Nominee International Competition
    • Short and Green
    • Notes from Planet Three

Seoul Eco Film Festival

  • Notes from Planet Three (2025)
    2026 Nominee Grand Prize
    • International Competition
    • Notes from Planet Three

International Short Film Festival of Cyprus (ISFFC)

  • Notes from Planet Three (2025)
    2025 Nominee International Short Film
    • International Competition Section
    • Notes from Planet Three

Stuttgarter Filmwinter

  • Notes from Planet Three (2025)
    2026 Nominee Jury Prize
    • International Short Film
    • Notes from Planet Three
  • The Terminator (2023)
    2025 Nominee Jury Prize
    • International Short Film
    • The Terminator
  • World War Cup (2016)
    2017 Nominee Jury Prize
    • International Short Film
    • World War Cup

British Shorts Film Festival, Berlin

  • Ostrich Theory (2020)
    2022 Nominee Jury Award
    • Best Film
    • Ostrich Theory

Message to Man International Film Festival

  • Ostrich Theory (2020)
    2021 Nominee Best Experimental Short Film
    • Best Experimental Short Film
    • Ostrich Theory

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