Oscar-nominated Student Academy Award Winners
Win indicated by an asterisk (*)
Shane Acker
Short Film (Animated) – “9” (2005)
Florian Baxmeyer
Short Film (Live Action) – “The Red Jacket” (2003)
Izak Ben-Meir
Documentary (Short Subject) – “In the Wee Wee Hours...” [Dr. Frank Daniel and Izak Ben-Meir, Producers] (1987)
Marc-Andreas Bochert
Short Film (Live Action) – “Kleingeld” (“Small Change”) [Marc-Andreas Bochert, Gabriele Lins] (1999)
Reto Caffi
Short Film (Live Action) – “Auf der Strecke” (“On the Line”) (2008)
Adam Davidson
*Short Film (Live Action) – “The Lunch Date” (1990)
Pete Docter
Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) – “Toy Story” [Screenplay by Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow; Story by John Lasseter, Peter Docter, Andrew Stanton, Joe Ranft] (1995)
Animated Feature Film – “Monsters, Inc.” [Pete Docter, John Lasseter] (2001)
Short Film (Animated) – “Mike’s New Car” [Pete Docter, Roger Gould] (2002)
Writing (Original Screenplay) – “WALL-E” [Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon; Original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter] (2008)
*Animated Feature Film – “Up” (2010)
Alan Edelstein
Documentary (Short Subject) – “The Wizard of the Strings” (1985)
Thomas B. Fleming and Daniel Marks
Documentary (Short Subject) – “Gang Cops” [Thomas B. Fleming and Daniel J. Marks, Producers] (1988)
Florian Gallenberger
*Short Film (Live Action) – “Quiero Ser” (“I want to be...”) (2000)
Ulrike Grote
Short Film (Live Action) – “Ausreisser” (“The Runaway”) (2005)
Roland Hallé
*Documentary (Short Subject) – “Karl Hess: Toward Liberty” [Roland Hallé and Peter W. Ladue, Producers] (1980)
Documentary (Short Subject) – “Urge to Build” [Roland Hallé and John Hoover, Producers] (1981)
Gregg Helvey
Short Film (Live Action) – “Kavi” (2010)
Elaine Holliman
Documentary (Short Subject) – “Chicks in White Satin” [Elaine Holliman, Jason Schneider] (1993)
Dan Krauss
Documentary (Short Subject) – “The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club” (2005)
Peter W. Ladue
*Documentary (Short Subject) – “Karl Hess: Toward Liberty” [Roland Hallé and Peter W. Ladue, Producers] (1980)
John Lasseter
Short Film (Animated) – “Luxo Jr.” [John Lasseter and William Reeves, Producers] (1986)
*Short Film (Animated) – “Tin Toy” [John Lasseter, William Reeves] (1988)
Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) – “Toy Story” [Screenplay by Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow; Story by John Lasseter, Peter Docter, Andrew Stanton, Joe Ranft] (1995)
Special Achievement Award – To John Lasseter, for his inspired leadership of the Pixar “Toy Story” team, resulting in the first feature-length computer-animated film. (1995)
Animated Feature Film – “Monsters, Inc.” [Pete Docter, John Lasseter] (2001)
Animated Feature Film – “Cars” (2006)
Lauren Lazin
Documentary (Feature) – “Tupac: Resurrection” [Lauren Lazin and Karolyn Ali] (2004)
Spike Lee
Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) – “Do the Right Thing” (1989)
Documentary (Feature) – “4 Little Girls” [Spike Lee, Sam Pollard] (1997)
James Longley
Documentary (Feature) – “Iraq in Fragments” [James Longley and John Sinno] (2006)
Documentary (Short Subject) – “Sari’s Mother” (2007)
Daniel Marks
Documentary (Short Subject) – “Gang Cops” [Thomas B. Fleming and Daniel J. Marks, Producers] (1988)
Luke Matheny
*Short Film (Live Action) – “God of Love” (2010)
Amanda Micheli
Documentary (Short Subject) – “La Corona” (“The Crown”) [Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega] (2007)
Lynn Mueller
Documentary (Short Subject) – “Silver Into Gold” (1987)
Trey Parker
Music (Original Song) – “Blame Canada” from “South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut” [Music and Lyric by Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman] (1999)
Vanessa Stella Schwartz
Short Film (Animated) – “The Janitor” (1994)
James Spione
Short Film (Documentary) – “Incident in New Baghdad” (2011)
Joan Stein
Short Film (Live Action) – “One Day Crossing” [Joan Stein, Christina Lazaridi] (2000)
Martin Strange-Hansen
*Short Film (Live Action) – “This Charming Man” (“Der Er En Yndig Mand”) [Martin Strange-Hansen, Mie Andreasen] (2002)
Christian M. Taylor
Short Film (Live Action) – “The Lady in Waiting” (1992)
Wendy L. Weinberg
Documentary (Short Subject) – “Beyond Imagining: Margaret Anderson and the ‘Little Review’” (1992)
Aaron Weisblatt
Documentary (Short Subject) – “Sam” (1986)
Max Zähle
Short Film (Live Action) – “Raju” (2011)
Robert Zemeckis
Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) – “Back to the Future” [Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale] (1985)
*Directing – “Forrest Gump” (1994)
Foreign Language Film Award
In the Foreign Language Film award category, the country is the nominee and winner, rather than the filmmakers.
Student Academy Award winners Jan Sverák and Mike van Diem have both directed films that have received nominations in the Foreign Language Film category. Sverák directed the 1991 Foreign Language Film nominee “The Elementary School,” representing Czechoslovakia, and the 1996 award winner “Kolya,” representing the Czech Republic. Van Diem directed the 1997 Foreign Language Film award winner “Character,” representing The Netherlands.
