50th Crown Award Winners

Best Picture

Gold Crown Award Winner: Sight: David Fischer, Producer and Andrew Hyatt, Director

Best Comedy

Bronze Crown Award Winner: For Prophet: Mark Stewart Iverson Producer, Director, Writer 

Silver Crown Award Winner: Stealing the Show: Nathan Blair Director 

Gold Crown Award Winner: Game Changer: Joel DeVisser Writer, Producer

Best Music/Worship

Bronze Crown Award Winner: I Believe: Jurgen Peretzki & Stacey Peretzki Producers 

Silver Crown Award Winner: Break Every Chain: Steph Carse Performer, Producer 

Gold Crown Award Winner: It is Well With My Soul: Grooters Productions, John Grooters Director, Judy Grooters Producer

Best Children’s Program

Bronze Crown Award Winner: Dot Conner: Webtective: Huff Media Productions, Andrew Huff Director, Marc Matthews Producer 

Silver Crown Award Winner: Torchlighters: The Richard Allen Story: Vision Video, Bill Curtis Producer, Robert Fernandez Director 

Gold Crown Award Winner: Beyond the Bayou: Wild Brothers Productions, Morgan, Kian, Asher & Hudson Wild Producers

Best Documentary Under $50,000

Bronze Crown Award Winner: Greening Israel: The Battle for Israel’s Trees: Benjamin Hilton Director, Luke Hilton Producer 

Silver Crown Award Winner: Station Identification; The Story of WTLW-TV: John Ondo Producer, Director 

Gold Crown Award Winner: The Wild Brothers: Islands of the Four Kings: Wild Brothers Productions, Morgan Wild Producer

Best Documentary Over $50,000

Bronze Crown Award Winner: Morningstar: Murdo Macleod, Director/Producer

Silver Crown Award Winner: 7 Yards: The Chris Norton Story: Katie Norris Producer, Jonathon Link Director

Gold Crown Award Winners: Return to Palau: Michelle Hamel Director/Producer
The Listening Road: Neil Tomba, Writer/Actor, Jonathon Link, Director  

Best Foreign Film

Bronze Crown Award Winner: Christmas is a Person: Celebrate Christmas in Singapore LTD, Nora Fong Producer 

Silver Crown Award Winner: Rebecca: Nigeria: Grooters Productions, John Grooters Director, Judy Grooters Producer 

Gold Crown Award Winner: Empty Church: Maxim Maximov & Andrey Lipov Producers, BELARUS  

Best Short Film

Bronze Crown Award Winners: The Peace of Christmas: Huff Media Productions, Andrew Huff Director, Joshua Kimmis ,Jae Huff, Cadeau Juraschek Producers
Candlelight: GemStone Media- James Meyer Director, Sara Meyer Producer

Silver Crown Award Winner: Rebecca: Nigeria: Grooters Productions, John Grooters Director, Judy Grooters Producer

Gold Crown Award Winner: Uncommon Negotiator: Brian Glassford Director/Producer

Best Series

Bronze Crown Award Winner: Cyprian: International Media Ministries, Denise Godwin Director, Matt Nelson & Mikaela Bruce Producers 

Silver Crown Award Winner: Learning the 5 Love Languages: Grooters Productions John Grooters Director, Judy Grooters Producer

Gold Crown Award Winner: The Chosen Season 2: Dallas Jenkins Director/Writer, Chad Gundersen & Chris Juen Co-Producers  

Best Television Production

Bronze Crown Award Winner: Beyond the Bayou: Wild Brothers Productions, Morgan, Kian, Asher & Hudson Wild Producers

Silver Crown Award Winner: Cross View: Sehyun Park / Director, Haeun Lee / Producer, Hyokyeong Kim / Reporter, Joohyung Jung / Co-Producer, Halim Park/Co-Producer

Gold Crown Award Winner: The Chosen Season 2: Dallas Jenkins Director/Writer, Chad Gundersen & Chris Juen Co-Producers  

Best Non-Theatrical Release

Bronze Crown Award Winner: Empty Church: - Maxim Maximov, Director/Producer, Andrey Lipov, Producer, BELARUS

Silver Crown Award Winners: An Unlikely Angel: Durrell Nelson Director, Rebecca Rogers Nelson, Screenwriter
Let me Have My Son: Messenger Films, Cristobal Krusen Director, Greg Silker Producer

Gold Crown Award Winner: Testament: The Parables Retold: roarlight, Paul Syrstad, Director

Best Theatrical Release

Bronze Crown Award Winner: Running the Bases: UP2U Films, Marty Roberts & Jimmy Womble Directors, Johnnie Scroggins Producer

Silver Crown Award Winner: The Mulligan: Rick Eldridge Producer

Gold Crown Award Winner: Sight: David Fischer Producer, Andrew Hyatt Director

Best Evangelistic Film

Bronze Crown Award Winner: An Unlikely Angel: Durrell Nelson , Director, Rebecca Rogers Nelson, Screenwriter 

Silver Crown Award Winner: The Chosen Season 2: Dallas Jenkins Director/Writer, Chad Gundersen & Chris Juen Co-Producers 

Gold Crown Award Winner: Running the Bases: UP2U Films, Marty Roberts & Jimmy Womble Directors, Johnnie Scroggins Producer  

Best Male Actor in a Leading Role

Bronze Crown Award Winners: Brett Varvel as Luke Brooks in” Running the Bases “
Chris Norton as Himself in” 7 Yards: The Chris Norton Story”
Terry Chen as Dr. Ming Wang in” Sight”

Silver Crown Award Winner: Pat Boone as Will Dunn “The Old Pro” in The Mulligan

Gold Crown Award Winner: Cristóbal Krusen as Ben Whitmore Sr. in “Let me Have My Son”

Best Female Actor in a Leading Role

Bronze Crown Award Winner: Christine Jones as Ingrid Amblin in “Healing River”

Silver Crown Award Winner: Valentina Garcia as Archangel Raphael in “For Prophet”

Gold Crown Award Winner: Karen Abercrombie as Eden in “Angels Unaware”

Best Student Film

Bronze Crown Award Winners: A Drop of Water: TheVit Media, Dong-hee Ahn Director, Jennice Producer
Tango Para Vida: Taylor University, Heidi Dalton Director, Kim Ferrell Producer

Silver Crown Award Winner: Beyond the Bayou: Wild Brothers Productions, Morgan, Kian, Hudson, Asher Wild Producers

Gold Crown Award Winner: The Wild Brothers: Islands of the Four Kings: Wild Brothers Productions, Morgan Wild Producer  

Best Soundtrack

Bronze Crown Award Winner: The Mulligan: Rob Pottorf, Composer

Silver Crown Award Winner: A Peep Behind the Scenes: The Academy of Arts Logos Theatre, Nicole Stratton Director

Gold Crown Award Winner: Kathie Lee Gifford Presents The Way: - Rock Road and Rabbi Trust, Kathie Lee Gifford Director/Writer, Aaron Greene & Christine Gardner Producers

Best Cinematography

Bronze Crown Award Winner: A Cross in the Desert: Hadzi-Aleksandar Djurovic, Director of Photography

Silver Crown Award Winner: Sight: Michael Balfry, Director of Photography

Gold Crown Award Winner: 7 Yards: The Chris Norton Story: David White Director of Photography