AI CINE AWARDS

Categories & Notes

Best AI Visionary Film

Awarded to a film that establishes a bold artistic vision and a distinctive visual identity made possible through AI. This includes innovations in cinematography, design, color, texture, and cinematic language.

Best AI Enhanced Performance

Awarded to films where AI expands acting, identity, voice, or embodiment — while respecting ethical transparency.

Best AI Narrative Film

Recognizes works where AI meaningfully deepens narrative structure, character journey, pacing, or emotional expression.

Best AI Documentary / Experimental Film

Honors nonfiction, hybrid, or experimental works where AI is used to reconstruct history, visualize invisible realities, explore memory, generate evolving forms, or push cinematic structure beyond convention.

AI Film of the Year

Awarded to the film that most powerfully unites artistry, innovation, emotional depth, and cultural impact.

What We’re Looking For : We seek works that expand cinematic language, deepen emotional expression, and demonstrate authentic human authorship guided by thoughtful and responsible AI use.

Categories & Notes

Best AI Music Video of the Year

Awarded to the music video that most successfully unites artistry, innovation, emotional resonance, and cultural impact through human–AI collaboration.

Best AI Creative Direction / Collaboration

Recognizes directors, musicians, designers, and AI practitioners who co-create a unified artistic vision — where AI is woven into storytelling, identity, or emotional tone.

Best AI Visual & Technical Achievement

Honors music videos that push the boundaries of AI-powered motion, style, composition, sound design, or animation pipelines. Focus is on execution quality, innovation, and technical artistry. 

Best AI Pop Music Video

Celebrates music videos where AI enhances melody, rhythm, visual energy, persona-building, and performance style within Western or globally mainstream pop aesthetics.

Best AI Global / World Music Video

Recognizes music videos from K-pop, J-pop, Latin, Afrobeat, Bollywood, and other regional genres where AI supports cultural storytelling, translation, and identity expression with respect and authenticity.

What We’re Looking For : We value works where sound, image, rhythm, performance, and human intention merge through AI-driven imagination.

Categories & Notes

Best AI-Driven Brand Film

Recognizes short-form brand films (30 sec–10 min) where AI contributes meaningfully to narrative, world-building, tone, and emotional expression.

Best AI Creative Campaign

Honors multi-format campaigns where AI enables personalization, dynamic creative, adaptive messaging, or participatory audience experience.

Best AI Visual & Sound Craft

Celebrates advertisements where the standout creative force is AI-powered cinematography, design, motion, music, or voice performance — executed with precision and artistry.

Best AI Technical Innovation

Awarded to work demonstrating new AI production workflows — real-time generation, procedural asset systems, automated editing, adaptive narrative engines, etc.

AI Advertising Grand Prix

Awarded to the work (film or campaign) that achieves the strongest overall synthesis of: Brand storytelling, AI innovation, Emotional resonance, Craft excellence, Ethical responsibility.

What We’re Looking For: Clear message and emotional resonance, authentic brand storytelling, thoughtful and transparent use of AI, craft precision and cultural awareness.

Categories & Notes

Best AI Short-Form Film (Under 1 Minute)

Recognizes short-form films where AI enhances visual language, emotion, structure, or narrative punch, optimized for mobile or social feed contexts.

Best AI Social / Viral Clip

Awarded to short-form pieces that achieve high resonance, remixability, or memetic influence — where AI meaningfully shapes style, humor, rhythm, or narrative hook.

Best AI Interactive / Immersive Short

Honors works involving viewer choice, AR filters, personalization, or real-time generative response, designed to engage audiences actively rather than passively.

Best AI Motion Design & Visual Craft

Recognizes excellence in AI-driven motion graphics, title sequences, kinetic typography, visual loops, or stylized compositing — where craft is the core achievement.

AI Short-Form of the Year

Awarded to the short-form work that most successfully synthesizes: Artistic clarity, AI innovation, visual / sonic identity, platform performance, cultural or emotional impact.

What We’re Looking For : We celebrate short-form works that use AI to amplify emotion, rhythm, identity, and immediacy — whether cinematic, social, or experimental.

Categories & Notes

AI Game Awards

Best AI Narrative & Behavior Design

Recognizes games where AI meaningfully shapes story progression, character emotion, decision-making, or adaptive world states.

Best AI Visual, Audio & World Design

Honors exceptional use of AI in environment design, level generation, soundscapes, style transfer, or art direction that defines the game’s identity.

Best AI Co-Creation / Player Collaboration

Awarded to games where players and AI co-author worlds, characters, strategies, or stories in real time.

Best AI Technical & System Innovation

Recognizes innovations in procedural generation, adaptive gameplay engines, reinforcement learning agents, or real-time simulation pipelines.

Best AI Game of the Year

Awarded to the game that most powerfully synthesizes artistry, gameplay depth, systemic AI design, and cultural impact.

XR & Interactive Media Awards

Best AI Immersive Story / Performance Experience

Recognizes XR experiences where AI deepens emotional presence, character embodiment, or scene transformation in real time.

Best AI Collaborative / Social Interactive Experience

Honors works where AI enables collective participation, shared world-building, or social adaptation across multiple users.

Best AI Technical Achievement in Interactive Media

Awarded to projects pushing technical boundaries in simulation, tracking, procedural environment construction, or agent-based interaction.

Best AI Interactive Media of the Year

Recognizes a project that redefines interactive expression, merging AI presence, environment, performance, and user agency into a cohesive experience.

What We’re Looking For : We seek games and interactive experiences where AI acts as a true creative partner—shaping behavior, world-building, emotion, and player co-creation with thoughtful and responsible design.

The AI Technology & Innovation Awards honor the innovators—developers, startups, and research teams—whose technologies make AI-driven creativity possible.

Categories & Notes

Best AI Tool of the Year

A software platform or application that significantly empowers creators (filmmakers, interactive media artists, advertisers, short-form creators) in their workflow via AI.

Best Startup in AI Creative Tech

Early-stage company (<5 years) whose product/service is innovating in the AI-creative media space.

Best Video-Generated Tool / App

A tool/app focused on generating or editing video content via AI.

Best Image / Graphics-Generated Tool / App

AI platforms for image generation, illustration, motion graphics, design assets used in media production.

Best Audio-Generated Tool / App

AI platforms generating or enhancing audio/sound design workflows for creators.

Best Music-Generated Tool / App

Rewards breakthroughs in AI-driven composition and sound innovation.

Best Interactive / Real-Time AI Experience Platform

Platforms powering interactive media (games, AR/VR, XR, real-time storytelling) using AI in the loop.

Ethical AI Award

Recognises a developer/team whose work exemplifies ethical AI in creative media—transparency, human-AI collaboration, fairness, impact for good.