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September 18, 2015
MEDALISTS UNVEILED AT THE 2015 STUDENT ACADEMY AWARDS
Photo: Actress Michelle Rodriguez prior to the 42nd Annual Student Academy Awards on Thursday, September 17, in Beverly Hills. Image Credit: Matt Petit / © Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Photo: Animated film winners Nicholas Manfredi (left) and Elizabeth Ku-Herrero prior to the 42nd Annual Student Academy Awards on Thursday, September 17, in Beverly Hills. Image Credit: Matt Petit / © Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
LOS ANGELES, CA - Thursday, September 17, 2015 — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences tonight honored 15 student winners from colleges and universities around the world at the 42nd Student Academy Awards ceremony, held at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal awards were announced and presented by actors Michelle Rodriguez and Jason Mitchell, Oscar-winning director John Lasseter, and the Oscar-winning team behind the animated feature “Big Hero 6,” Roy Conli, Don Hall and Chris Williams.
The 2015 Student Academy Award winners are:
Alternative
- Gold: “Chiaroscuro,” Daniel Drummond, Chapman University, California
- Silver: “Zoe,” ChiHyun Lee, The School of Visual Arts, New York
Animation
- Gold: “Soar,” Alyce Tzue, Academy of Art University, San Francisco
- Silver: “An Object at Rest,” Seth Boyden, California Institute of the Arts
- Bronze: “Taking the Plunge,” Nicholas Manfredi and Elizabeth Ku-Herrero, The School of Visual Arts
Documentary
- Gold: “Looking at the Stars,” Alexandre Peralta, University of Southern California
- Silver: “I Married My Family’s Killer,” Emily Kassie, Brown University
- Bronze: “Boxeadora,” Meg Smaker, Stanford University
Narrative
- Gold: “Day One,” Henry Hughes, American Film Institute, California
- Silver: “This Way Up,” Jeremy Cloe, American Film Institute
- Bronze: “Stealth,” Bennett Lasseter, American Film Institute
Foreign Film
- Gold: “Fidelity,” Ilker Catak, Hamburg Media School, Germany
- Silver: “The Last Will,” Dustin Loose, Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
- Bronze: “Everything Will Be Okay” Patrick Vollrath, Filmakademie Wien, Austria
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. Past Student Academy Award winners have gone on to receive 47 Oscar nominations and have won or shared eight awards.
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