Palm Springs International Comedy Festival Announces Their 2020 Winners!

PSICF Stanley Kramer Mad World Comedy Award

‘The Comeback Trail’

Director - George Gallo

Robert DeNiro, Morgan Freeman, Tommy Lee Jones, Eddie Griffin, Zach Braff, Emile Hirsch, Kate Katzman.

PSICF Comedian of the Year Award

Eddie Griffin

PSICF Lifetime Achievement Award

Judy Tenuta

PSICF Trailblazer in Comedy Award

Bianca Del Rio

PSICF Breakthrough in Comedy Award

Luenell

PSICF Pioneer in Comedy Award

Randy Rainbow

PSICF Diversity in Comedy Award

Selene Luna

PSICF Rising Star Award

Ryan Kelly

PSICF Hall of Fame Award Recipients

Laraine Newman, Alan Zweibel, Jon Lovitz, Jimmie Walker

PSICF Best of the Fest – Stand-up Winner

Maxim Swinton

PSICF Audience Favorite Stand-up Winner

(Twins) Lauren and Sierra Tothero

Best Feature Film
'2 Below'
Director - Tim Cash

Best Foreign Feature Film 
'Brighton'
Director - Stephen Cookson

Audience Favorite Feature Film
'The Bellmen'
Director - Cameron Fife

Starring - Willie Garson, Adam Ray, Jonathan Kite, Thomas Lennon, Richard Kind, Kelen Coleman, Josh Zuckerman, Anjali Bhimani, Alphonso McAuley,

Best Documentary - 'Kaufmania'
Director - Kevin Michaels

Starring - Fred Willard

Audience Favorite Documentary
'Mentally Al'
Director - Joshua Edelman

Starring - Al Lubel, Judd Apatow, Sarah Silverman

Best Short Film (Tie)

‘Becoming Eddie’

Director - Lilan Bowden (Disney Star)

And…
'The Improv Guru '
Director - Max Barbakow (Director of ‘Palm Springs’ with Andy Samberg)

Best Foreign Short Film
From the U.K.
'The Last Mermaid'
Director - Fi Kelly

Janey Godley

Audience Favorite Short Film
'Beginners Luck'
Director - Casey Feigh
Lauren Lapkus, Rebecca Lee Robertson, Mary Holland, Peter Banifaz, Ego Nwodim, Mathew Gray Gubler, Ali Ghandour, Betsy Sodaro, David Theune.

Best TV Pilot 'Loop Group' 

Director - Sophie Simpson

Starring - Laraine Newman, Ed Begley Jr., Wendy Malick,

Best Foreign TV Pilot (Tie)

'Staying Alive' 

Director - Bradley Wayburne

And....

Best Foreign TV Pilot 

Canada's
'Talent Drivers'
Director - Kire Papputs

Audience Favorite TV Pilot
'Border Patrol'
Director - John Lopez

Best Webseries - Louey & Bri TV '

Director - Oliver Ponce

Starring - Luis Guzman

Best Animated Web-series
'Pawla Dean's - White House Kitchen' 

Director Alexander Kern, Neil Blakemore

Best Animated Foreign Webseries (Tie)

'Tino Pizza'
Director - Benoit Cr'eac'h, Julia Gaudard 

And...

Princessa de Woking' - U.K.
Big Red Button Productions

Audience Favorite Web-series 
'Hollywounded' 

Director - Charlie Bellerose, Sophie Gailbert

Best Music Video 

'Palm Springs Bitch' 

Popstar Nima

Best Foreign Music Video
'Two Arms Apart'
Director  - Elizabeth Usher

Audience Favorite Music Video (Tie)
'The Perfect Date for Every Woman' Director  - Carrie Daniel
And....
'Hit You In Your Hotspot'
Director  - Kemp Baldwin
Best Sketch Comedy

Best Sketch Comedy 

'20th Century Faux Short Films'
Director - Jake Bradbury
Will Blank

Best Foreign Sketch Comedy
'Close Friends' -
Director John Cavallaro

Audience Favorite Sketch Comedy (Tie)

'The Annex'
Director - Garth Kravits and Evan Daves
And...
'Cuntry'
Director - Coley Campany