All the World Is a Stop-Motion Animation – Just Ask the Ostrich
Filmmaker Lachlan Pendragon talks about his extremely meta Oscar-nominated short film, ‘An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It.’
Filmmaker Lachlan Pendragon talks about his extremely meta Oscar-nominated short film, ‘An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It.’
Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal awards were presented by Oscar-winning filmmaker and 1992 Student Academy Award winner Pete Docter at a virtual ceremony now available to view.
Pilar Garcia-Fernandezsesma’s 2D animated short takes top Domestic Film Schools honor as medalists are announced at the 47th annual awards ceremony, held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
18 student winners were chosen from 1,474 entries; medal placements in the seven award categories will be announced in a virtual program on Wednesday, October 21.
16 directors, including four from animated films, will receive medals at upcoming October 17 ceremony.
Student Academy Award winners eligible for Oscars consideration; deadline for entries is June 1, 2019.
Short film debut from Student Academy Award winner Shaofu Zhang and veteran Disney animators Bobby Pontillas and Andrew Chesworth won the Audience Choice Award at this year’s SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival.
19 directors, including eight from four animated films, will receive medals at upcoming October 11 ceremony.
Winners will convene in Los Angeles for a week of industry events, culminating in an awards ceremony Oct. 12.
CalArts, China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Filmakademie, Kingston University, Ringling, SVU and USC represented in U.S and international animation categories.
2016 Student Academy Award for best foreign animation goes to Ahmad Saleh's Academy of Media Arts Cologne graduation film ‘Ayny’; film to be presented Friday, September 23rd at the Goethe-Institut in Los Angeles.
Awards ceremony held on Thursday, September 22 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills caps a week of industry activities for the 17 winning student filmmakers from the U.S. and abroad.
‘Die Flucht,’ by Carter Boyce at DePaul University, ‘Once upon a Line,’ by Alicja Jasina at USC, and ‘The Wishgranter,’ by Echo Wu from Ringling College of Art and Design, named winners at the 2016 Student Academy Awards.
Students from DePaul University, Pratt Institute, Ringling, SVU and USC are selected as finalists in the animation category of the 2016 Student Academy Awards; winners to be honored on September 22.
Foreign film category is expanded to include separate awards for narrative, animation and documentary entries.
Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-nominated sci-fi drama ‘Interstellar’ wins the Oscar for Best Achievement in Visual Effects.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honors fifteen student winners from colleges and universities around the world at the 41st Student Academy Awards ceremony, with ‘Owned,’ by Daniel Clark and Wesley Tippetts, awarded the gold medal for Animation.
Forty-one students from 23 U.S. colleges and universities as well as 10 students from foreign universities are selected as finalists in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 41st Student Academy Awards competition.