2009 Student Academy Award Winners
Alice’s Attic (top); Pajama Gladiator (2nd from top); Bohemibot (2nd from bottom); Elkland (bottom)
The 2009 Student Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, will be held on Saturday, June 13, at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Twelve students from eight U.S. colleges and universities have been named winners in the competition. One film student from Sweden has been voted the Honorary Foreign Film Award.
The U.S. winners know they will each receive an award, but their placement – Gold, Silver or Bronze – will be revealed only at the June 13 ceremony. Gold Medal winners receive cash grants of $5,000, Silver Medal winners receive $3,000, and Bronze Medal winners receive $2,000. The Honorary Foreign Film winner will receive a $1,000 cash grant.
The winners are (listed alphabetically by film title within category):
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Alice’s Attic, Robyn Yannoukos, University of California, Los Angeles
Matter in a Quiescent State, Prepares Itself to Be Transformed, Kwibum Chung, School of Visual Arts, New YorkAnimation
Kites, Jed Henry, Brigham Young University
Pajama Gladiator, Glenn Harmon, Brigham Young University
Sebastian’s Voodoo, Joaquin Baldwin, University of California, Los AngelesDocumentary
The Last Mermaids, Liz Chae, Columbia University
A Place to Land, Lauren DeAngelis, American University, Washington, D.C.
The Wait, Cassandra Lizaire and Kelly Asmuth, Columbia UniversityNarrative
Bohemibot, Brendan Bellomo, New York University
The Bronx Balletomane, Jeremy Joffee, City College of New York
Kavi, Gregg Helvey, University of Southern CaliforniaHonorary Foreign Film
Elkland, Per Hanefjord, Dramatiska Institutet, Sweden
The U.S. students first competed in one of three regional competitions. Each region was permitted to send as many as three finalist films in each of four award categories. Academy members then screened the finalists’ films and voted to select the winners.
Elkland, the Honorary Foreign Film winner, was selected from a pool of 57 entries representing 39 countries.
The Academy established the Student Academy Awards in 1972 "to support and encourage excellence in filmmaking at the collegiate level." As per the Academy’s press release, past Student Academy Award winners have gone on to receive 37 Oscar nominations and have won or shared six awards.
Two former Student Academy Award winners were nominated for the 2009 Academy Awards: Pete Docter, who earned a Student Academy Award in 1992, received his fourth nomination for the Original Screenplay for WALL-E, while Reto Caffi, last year’s Honorary Foreign Film award winner, received his first nomination for the live action short film Auf der Strecke (On the Line).
Tickets for the 2009 Student Academy Awards ceremony, at which the Gold Medal-winning films and the Honorary Foreign Film will be screened in their entirety, are free and available now. A maximum of four tickets may be requested online at www.oscars.org, in person at the Academy box office, by mail, or by calling the Student Academy Awards department at (310) 247-3000, ext. 130.
The ceremony will be held on Saturday, June 13, at 6 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater, located at 8949 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills. Doors open at 5 p.m. All seating is unreserved.
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