{"id":2181,"date":"2016-08-31T14:38:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T12:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2016-08-31T14:38:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T12:38:03","slug":"academy-reveals-2016-student-academy-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2016\/08\/31\/academy-reveals-2016-student-academy-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Academy Reveals 2016 Student Academy Award\u00ae Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Academy has voted 17 students as winners of the 43rd Student Academy Awards<\/a>\u00ae competition. The Academy received a record number of entries this year \u2013 1,749 films from 286 domestic and 95 international colleges and universities \u2013 which were voted by a record number of Academy members. The 2016 winners join the ranks of such past Student Academy Award winners as Pete Docter, Cary Fukunaga, John Lasseter, Spike Lee, Trey Parker and Robert Zemeckis.<\/p>\n

The winners are (listed alphabetically by film title):<\/p>\n

Alternative
\n\u201cAll These Voices,\u201d David Henry Gerson, American Film Institute
\n\u201cCloud Kumo,\u201d Yvonne Ng, City College of New York
\n\u201cThe Swan Girl,\u201d Johnny Coffeen, Maharishi University of Management<\/p>\n

Animation
\n\u201cDie Flucht,\u201d Carter Boyce, DePaul University
\n\u201cOnce upon a Line,\u201d Alicja Jasina, USC
\n\u201cThe Wishgranter,\u201d Echo Wu, Ringling College of Art and Design<\/p>\n

Documentary
\n\u201cFairy Tales,\u201d Rongfei Guo, New York University
\n\u201c4.1 Miles,\u201d Daphne Matziaraki, University of California, Berkeley
\n\u201cFrom Flint: Voices of a Poisoned City,\u201d Elise Conklin, Michigan State University<\/p>\n

Narrative
\n\u201cIt\u2019s Just a Gun,\u201d Brian Robau, Chapman University
\n\u201cNocturne in Black,\u201d Jimmy Keyrouz, Columbia University
\n\u201cRocket,\u201d Brenna Malloy, Chapman University<\/p>\n

Foreign Narrative
\n\u201cInvention of Trust,\u201d Alex Schaad, University of Television and Film Munich (Germany)
\n\u201cTenants,\u201d Klara Kochanska, The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School (Poland)
\n\u201cWhere the Woods End,\u201d Felix Ahrens, Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF (Germany)<\/p>\n

Foreign Animation
\n\u201cAyny,\u201d Ahmad Saleh, Academy of Media Arts Cologne (Germany)<\/p>\n

Foreign Documentary
\n\u201cThe Most Beautiful Woman,\u201d Maya Sarfaty, Tel Aviv University (Israel)<\/p>\n

First-time honors go to Maharishi University of Management, DePaul University, Michigan State University, The Polish National Film, Television and Theater School.<\/p>\n

All Student Academy Award-winning films are eligible to compete for 2016 Oscars\u00ae in the Documentary Short Subject, Animated Short Film or Live Action Short Film category. Past Student Academy Award winners have gone on to receive 49 Oscar\u00ae nominations and have won or shared eight awards in several categories, including Writing, Directing, Documentary Feature and Animated Feature Film.<\/p>\n

Students will arrive in Los Angeles for a week of industry activities that will culminate in the awards ceremony on Thursday, September 22, at 7:30 p.m., at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The medal placements \u2013 gold, silver and bronze \u2013 in the seven award categories will be announced at the ceremony.<\/p>\n

New this year, the Foreign Film category has been expanded to include separate awards for narrative, animation and documentary entries. Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal awards will be given in the Foreign Narrative category; Gold Medal awards will be given in the Foreign Animation and the Foreign Documentary categories. The U.S. competition categories remain the same: Alternative, Animation, Narrative and Documentary. Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal awards will be given in each.<\/p>\n

The 43rd Student Academy Awards ceremony on September 22 is free and open to the public, but advance tickets are required. Tickets may be obtained online at oscars.org<\/a> starting today. Any remaining tickets will be made available at the door on the evening of the event. The Samuel Goldwyn Theater is located at 8949 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Academy has voted 17 students as winners of the 43rd Student Academy Awards\u00ae competition. The Academy received a record number of entries this year \u2013 1,749 films from 286 domestic and 95 international colleges and universities \u2013 which were voted by a record number of Academy members. The 2016 winners join the ranks of… Continue reading Academy Reveals 2016 Student Academy Award\u00ae Winners<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}