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The Student Academy Awards is an international student film awards program. Each year, college and university film students from all over the world submit films for consideration in the following categories: Animation, Documentary, Live Action Narrative and Alternative/Experimental.
Past Student Academy Award winners have gone on to receive 69 Oscar nominations and have won or shared 15 awards. Past SAA winners include Pete Docter, Robert Zemeckis, Patricia Riggen, Patricia Cardoso and Spike Lee.
In partnership with Rolex, the 52nd annual Student Academy Awards will be held in New York during the New York Film Festival at the Ziegfeld Ballroom on Monday, October 6, 2025. Watch the 2025 livestream here.
