Best of Fest winners were Benjamin Cleary and TJ O’Grady Peyton , for their film '' Wave , '' the story of a man who wakes from a coma speaking a fully formed but unrecognisable language , which also went on to win the Best Drama Award . Cleary was also awarded the Best of Fest in 2015 for '' Stutterer '' , which later went on to receive the Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film at the 88thAcademy Awards
88thAcademy Awards
88th Academy Awards
Aesthetica Short Film Festival