The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored its student winners from colleges and universities around the world during the 50th Student Academy Awards ceremony. The gold, silver and bronze medals were announced and awarded in a private ceremony at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The 2023 Student Academy Award medal winners are:
Alternative/experimental
Gold: “Skin,” Leo Behrens, American Film Institute
animation
Gold: “Boom”, Gabriel Augerai, Romain Augier & Yannick Jacquin, École des Nouvelles Images, France
Silver: “Diplomatie de l’Éclipse”, César Luton, Achille Pasquier and Clémence Bailly, MoPA 3D Animation School, France
Bronze: “Mum’s Spaghetti”, Lisa Kenney, National Film and Television School, United Kingdom
documentary
Gold: “Wings of Dust,” Giorgio Ghiotto, New York University
Silver: “Duet,” Lyuwei Chen, New York University
Bronze: “Hasta Encontrarlos (Until We Find Them),” Jean Chapiro, Columbia University
Story
Gold: “Invisible Border”, Mark Gerstorfer, Vienna Film Academy, Austria
Silver: “Revisited”, Iain Aigin Stronach Forbes, Den Norske Filmskolen, Norway
Bronze: “Istina (Truth)”, Tamara Denić, Hamburg Media School, Germany
The first prize goes to the École des Nouvelles Images (France).
All student Academy Award-winning films are eligible for the 2023 Oscars in the Animated Short, Live Action Short or Documentary Short categories.
The Student Academy Awards were established in 1972 to provide a platform for emerging global talent by creating opportunities within the industry to showcase their work.
Source: Deadline
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