2009 Student Academy Awards
Alice’s Attic (top); Pajama Gladiator (2nd from top); Kavi (2nd from bottom); Elkland (bottom)
The final order of the winners of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 2009 Student Academy Awards — gold, silver, and bronze medal recipients — was announced earlier this evening at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Actor Gary Oldman, director John Landis, animator Andreas Deja, and Academy first vice president Robert Rehme took part in the ceremony.
The winners are:
Alternative*
Gold Medal: Alice’s Attic, Robyn Yannoukos, University of California, Los Angeles
Silver Medal: Matter, in a Quiescent State, Prepares Itself to Be Transformed, Kwibum Chung, School of Visual Arts, New York
* Only two medals were awarded in the Alternative category.
Animation
Gold Medal: Pajama Gladiator, Glenn Harmon, [...]
by Andre Soares | June 14, 2009
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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 [...]
by Andre Soares | June 10, 2009
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2009 Honorary Foreign Film Award Finalists
Five finalists will be vying for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ 2009 Honorary Foreign Film award in the 36th Annual Student Academy Awards competition. The five finalists were selected from a record 57 entries representing 39 countries. The winning student filmmaker will be brought to Los Angeles to join U.S.-based Student Academy Award winners "for a week of industry-related activities and social events," including the awards ceremony on Saturday, June 13, in Beverly Hills.
The finalists are (listed alphabetically by film title):
Elkland (above, center photo), Per Hanefjord, Dramatiska Institutet, Sweden
Face-to-Face Confrontation, Igor Khomsky, Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, Russia
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by Andre Soares | May 4, 2009
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