The Academy has voted 19 students as winners of the 45th Student Academy Awards® competition.  This year, the Student Academy Awards competition received a total of 1,582 entries from 278 domestic and 122 international colleges and universities, which were voted upon by a record number of Academy members.  The 2018 winners join the ranks of such past Student Academy Award winners as Patricia Cardoso, Pete Docter, Cary Fukunaga, John Lasseter, Spike Lee, Trey Parker, Patricia Riggen and Robert Zemeckis.

Read the full list of the 2018 Student Academy Awards finalists below and learn more about our program at http://oscars.org/saa.

Alternative (Domestic Film Schools)

Sang Hyoun Han aka DOMCAKE, "Emunah," School of Visual Arts
Shae Demandt, "Reanimated," Florida State University
Natalia Hermida, "Transient Passengers (Experiment Number NÜN)," Chapman University

Animation (Domestic Film Schools)

Winners Eligible for Oscars

The Academy is now accepting entries for its 2018 Student Academy Awards® competition.  All Student Academy Award® winners become eligible for Oscars® consideration.  The entry deadline for submissions is Friday, June 1.

The U.S. competition is open to all full-time undergraduate and graduate students whose films are made within the curricular structure of an eligible accredited institution. 

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences tonight honored 17 student winners from colleges and universities around the world at the 44th Student Academy Awards® ceremony, held at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal awards were announced and presented by actors Amber Tamblyn and Andy Serkis, producer DeVon Franklin and director Jennifer Yuh Nelson.

The 2017 Student Academy Award winners are:

Alternative (Domestic Film Schools)

Gold: “Opera of Cruelty,” Max R. A. Fedore, New York University

Actors Amber Tamblyn and Andy Serkis, producer DeVon Franklin and director Jennifer Yuh Nelson will be presenters at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 44th Student Academy Awards® on Thursday, October 12, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.  The awards ceremony caps a week of industry activities for the 17 winning student filmmakers from the U.S. and abroad.

ALL WINNING FILMS NOW ELIGIBLE FOR OSCARS®

See our the full list of the 2017 Student Academy Awards finalists below and learn more about our program at http://oscars.org/saa.

Alternative (Domestic Film Schools)

Zhaoyu Zhou, "Last Dance," USC 
Amanda Tasse, "Mira," USC
Max R. A Fedore, "Opera of Cruelty," New York University
Terrance Daye, "The Colored Hospital: A Visual Poem," Morehouse College

Animation (Domestic Film Schools)

New Expanded International Eligibility Winners Eligible for Oscars

The Academy is now accepting entries for its 2017 Student Academy Awards competition.  All Student Academy Award winners become eligible for Oscars consideration.  The entry deadline for submissions is Thursday, June 1.

Actors Joel Edgerton, Lucy Liu, Daisy Ridley and Parker Sawyers will be presenters at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 43rd Student Academy Awards® on Thursday, September 22, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.  The awards ceremony caps a week of industry activities for the 17 winning student filmmakers from the U.S. and abroad.