Student Academy Awards

Student Academy Awards
Awarded for	Excellence in cinematic achievements
Country	United States
Presented by	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
First awarded	1973
Official website	oscars.org/saa

The Student Academy Awards is the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' annual competition for college and university filmmakers.^[1]^[2]

The awards were originally named the Student Film Awards and were first presented in 1973. Since 1975, the awards have been given annually, usually in June. The current name was adopted effective in 1991.

The awards offer prizes in four categories: alternative (experimental film), animation, documentary, and narrative. Gold, silver, and bronze awards may be given in each category, with accompanying cash grants of $5,000, $3,000, and $2,000, respectively, as of 2005. Since 1981, a separate award has been given annually to a student filmmaker from outside the United States.

Several award winners have gone on to significant achievement as filmmakers, including Robert Zemeckis, Bob Saget, Spike Lee, Trey Parker, and John Lasseter. Some of the award-winning student films have themselves been nominated for Academy Award in the short film categories, including Chicks in White Satin, The Janitor, Karl Hess: Toward Liberty, The Lunch Date, 9, Quiero ser (I Want to Be...), The Red Jacket, On the Line (Auf der Strecke), God of Love and The Confession.

To extend the impact and honor beyond the competition, a compilation presentation of the gold medal award-winning films is circulated each year free of charge to educational and non-profit organizations nationwide.

Winners

1970s

1st Annual Student Film Awards – December 20, 1973

Animation: Anti-matter, Lewis Hall, Carlos Guiterrez-Mena – University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles)
Documentary: You See, I've Had a Life, Ben Levin, Mort Jordan – Temple University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Dramatic: Manhattan Melody, Reuben Trane, Ken Wiederhorn – Columbia University (New York City)
Special Jury (Dramatic): Norman Nurdelpick's Suspension: A Tribute to Alfred Hitchcock, Bob Dahlin – Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois)

2nd Annual Student Film Awards – July 1, 1975

Animation: Euphoria, Vincent Collins – San Francisco Art Institute (San Francisco)
Documentary: Men's Lives, Josh Hanig, Will Roberts – Antioch College (Yellow Springs, Ohio)
Dramatic: Swag, Bruce Postman – New York University School of the Arts (New York City)
Experimental: Architecture of the Petroleum Age, Scott Thomas – Rice University (Houston, Texas)
Special Jury (Dramatic): A Field of Honor, Robert Zemeckis – University of Southern California (Los Angeles)

3rd Annual Student Film Awards – June 23, 1976

Animation: Fame Mark Kirkland, Richard Jefferies – California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, California)
Documentary: What the Notes Say Karen Grossman, Richard O'Neill – Adelphi University (Garden City, New York)
Dramatic: The Preparatory, Terence Cahalan – University of Southern California (Los Angeles)
Experimental: After Lumiere, Joan Laine – University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles)
Special Jury (Documentary): The American Love Affair, Lee M. Rhoads, Jr. – University of Southern California (Los Angeles)

4th Annual Student Film Awards – May 22, 1977

Animation: The Muse, Paul W. Demeyer – California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, California)
Documentary:
- Achievement: The Last of the Little Breweries, Frank H. Binney – University of Texas at Austin (Austin, Texas)
- Merit: Guitar Craft, Rob Williams – Western States Film Institute and Metropolitan State College of Denver (both in Denver, Colorado)
Dramatic: Sixteen Down, Carol L. Dysinger – New York University (New York City)
Experimental: TRANSCENdance, Philip W. Pura – Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts)

5th Annual Student Film Awards – May 21, 1978

Animation: Mother Goose, David Bishop – University of Southern California (Los Angeles)
Documentary:
- Achievement: The Sixth Week, John Simeon Block – New York University (New York City)
- Merit: Like Any Child, Only More So, Catherine Allan, Maile Ornellas – University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, California)
- Merit: Through Adam's Eyes, Robert Saget – Temple University, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Dramatic: Button, Button, Burton Lee Harry – University of Bridgeport (Bridgeport, Connecticut)
Experimental: Triptych, Matthew Patrick – Hampshire College (Amherst, Massachusetts)

6th Annual Student Film Awards – June 3, 1979

Animation:
- Achievement: Lady and the Lamp, John Lasseter – California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, California)
- Merit: The Walrus and the Carpenter, Tomas Gasek, Malcolm G. Spaull – Rochester Institute of Technology (Henrietta, New York)
Documentary:
- Achievement: Since '45, Michael David Korolenko – Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts)
- Merit: Cotton Candy and Elephant Stuff, Jan Krawitz, Thomas Ott – Temple University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- Merit: Everybody Needs a Forever Home, Mike Simpson – University of Texas at Austin (Austin, Texas)
Dramatic: The Writers, Harriotte H. Aaron – New York University (New York City)

1980s

7th Annual Student Film Awards – June 8, 1980

Animation: Nitemare, John Lasseter – California Institute of the Arts
Documentary:
- Achievement: Karl Hess: Toward Liberty, Roland Hallé, Peter W. Ladue – Boston University
- Merit: Crossroads/South Africa: The Struggle Continues, Jonathan Wacks – University of California, Los Angeles
Dramatic:
- Achievement: Candy Store, Claude Kerven – New York University
- Honorary: Happy Birthday, Randall Fried – University of Southern California
- Merit: Murder in a Mist, Lisa Gottlieb – Columbia College Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
Experimental: Sections, Sean Phillips – University of Southern California

8th Annual Student Film Awards – June 7, 1981

Animation: A Bird's Eye View, Deborah Jo Short – San Francisco State University
Documentary:
- Achievement: I Remember Barbra, Kevin J. Burns – Boston University
- Merit: Jazz, Albert Magnoli – University of Southern California
Dramatic:
- Achievement: A Man Around the House, Caroline Emmons – New York University
- Merit: Willie, Coleen Higgins, Ghasem Ebrahimian – State University of New York at Purchase
Experimental: Commuter, Michael M. Patterson – California Institute of the Arts
Foreign Student Film: Maedeli la brèche, Jaco Van Dormael – Institut National Superieur, Belgium

9th Annual Student Film Awards – June 6, 1982

Animation:
- Achievement: Guess Who's for Dinner, Kathy Zielinski – California Institute of the Arts
- Merit: The Taming, Bill Jarcho – Emerson College
Documentary: Face Value, Michael Kriegsman, Dan Montopoli – New York University
Dramatic: For Heaven's Sake, Ken Kwapis – University of Southern California
Foreign Student Film: Zone Surveillee (Monitored Zone), Olivier Langlois – Institut National Superieur, Belgium

10th Annual Student Film Awards – June 5, 1983

Animation: No One for Chess, Richard Rosser – Washington and Lee University
Documentary:
- Achievement: The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?, Christopher McLeod, Glenn Switkes – University of California, Berkeley
- Merit: El Matador, Arturo Ruiz Esparza – University of Texas at Austin
- Merit: Where Did You Get That Woman, Loretta Smith – Columbia College (Chicago, Illinois)
Dramatic:
- Achievement: American Taboo, Steve Lustgarten – Portland State University
- Merit: Children of the Corn, John Robert Woodward, Johnny Stevens – University of Texas at Austin
- Merit: Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads, Spike Lee – New York University
Experimental: Somnolent Blue, Monica Kendall – School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Foreign Student Film: Over My Dead Body, Ingrid Oustrup Jensen – National Film School of Denmark

11th Annual Student Film Awards – June 10, 1984

Animation:
- Achievement: The White Gazelle, Anthony Laudati – State University of New York at Purchase
- Merit: Mr. Gloom, William G. Kopp – California Institute of the Arts
Documentary:
- Achievement: Rodin's Balzac, Marilyn Waterman – Stanford University
- Merit: The Wizard of the Strings, Alan Edelstein, Peter Friedman – New York University
Dramatic:
- Achievement: Minors, Alan Kingsberg – New York University
- Merit: The Lottery Rose, Gregory Popp, Frank Military – Northwestern University
Experimental: Tuscola Moon, Dan Reed – University of Illinois at Chicago
Foreign Student Film: Mother's Wedding, Jenny Wilkes – National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England

12th Annual Student Film Awards – June 16, 1985

Animation: Observational Hazard, William G. Kopp – California Institute of the Arts
Documentary:
- Achievement: Burley: Growing Tobacco in America, Robert Henson, Doron Schlair – New York University
- Merit: On the Rocks, Kathryn Johnston, Iain C. Stobie – University of Colorado at Boulder
- Merit: Witness to Revolution: The Story of Anna Louise Strong, Lucy Ostrander – Stanford University
Dramatic: Heroes, Camille Thomasson – University of Southern California
Foreign Student Film: The Leahys: Music Most of All, Peter Weyman – York University, Toronto, Canada

13th Annual Student Film Awards – June 8, 1986

Animation:
- Achievement: Housecats, Peg McClure Moudy – De Anza College, Cupertino, California
- Merit: Mangia!, Sheila Sofian – Rhode Island School of Design
Documentary:
- Achievement: Songs of Wool: Vena Tipton's Hooked Rugs, Cathey Edwards – California Institute of the Arts
- Merit: The Flapper Story, Lauren Lazin – Stanford University
- Merit: Sam, Aaron D. Weisblatt – New York University
Dramatic:
- Achievement: Jenny, John Travers – University of Bridgeport, Connecticut
- Merit: Chicken Thing, Todd Holland – University of California, Los Angeles
Experimental: The Three Cornered Hat, Angel Gracia – Miami Dade Community College
Foreign Student Film: Come, I Have a Story To Tell You, Frederic Roullier-Gall – Institut National Superieur des Arts du Spectacle et Techniques de Diffusion, Belgium

14th Annual Student Film Awards – June 7, 1987

Animation: Husband of Rat's Daughter, Karen McCoy Fremuth – Rhode Island School of Design
Documentary:
- Achievement: Silver into Gold, Lynn Mueller – Stanford University
- Honorary: Living with AIDS, Tina DiFeliciantonio – Stanford University
- Merit: In the Wee Wee Hours, Izak Ben-Meir – University of Southern California
Dramatic:
- Achievement: Bird in a Cage, Antonio Zarro – CBN University
- Merit: Prelude, James Spione – State University of New York at Purchase
Experimental: Zebu, William Mitchell – Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
Foreign Student Film: See You at Wembley, Frankie Walsh, Mark Herman – National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield, England

15th Annual Student Film Awards – June 12, 1988

Animation:
- Achievement: Cat & Rat, James Richardson – Columbia College (Chicago, Illinois)
- Merit: Artistic Vision, Richard Quade – University of California, Los Angeles
- Merit: Cat's Cradle, Temah Nelson – Rhode Island School of Design
- Merit: Why Suzanne Dimant – California Institute of the Arts
Documentary:
- Achievement: Gang Cops, Thomas B. Fleming, Daniel Marks – University of Southern California
- Merit: Norma Jean, John H Behnke – Southern Illinois University
Dramatic:
- Achievement: Part VII, Thomas Wallin, Steve Wang – New York University
Experimental:
- Achievement: The Anti-Video, Gary Rosenthal – Ithaca College
Foreign Student Film: Schmetterlinge (Butterflies), Wolfgang Becker – Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin, Berlin, West Germany

16th Annual Student Film Awards – June 11, 1989

Animation:
- Achievement: Sand Dance, Richard Quade – University of California, Los Angeles
- Merit: All in Your Mind, Richard C. Zimmerman – Southern Illinois University
- Merit: The Chore, Joe Murray – De Anza College
Documentary:
- Achievement: Leila, Shawn Maurer – Loyola Marymount University
- Merit: Just Like It Was, Dave Burkhardt – Bob Jones University
- Merit: No Hunger in My Home, Nancy Brink – Stanford University
Dramatic:
- Achievement: The Yuppie, John H. Behnke, James M. Peterson – Southern Illinois University
- Merit: Summer Rain, Howard Slavitt – University of Southern California
Experimental:
- Achievement: The Lost Treasure of Captain Cornelius "Deadeye" Tuckett, John Michael Di Jiacomo – New York University
- Merit: The Computer Analyst, Gary Rosenthal – Ithaca College
Foreign Student Film: Ropáci (Oilgobblers), Jan Sverák – Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Prague, Czechoslovakia

1990s

17th Annual Student Film Awards – June 10, 1990

Animation:
- Achievement: Watunna, Stacey Steers – University of Colorado at Boulder
- Merit: The Yodel Contest, Andrew Artz – University of California, Los Angeles
Documentary:
- Achievement: Clowning Around, Kelly Clement, Ellen Osborne – San Francisco State University
- Merit: Alf Landon: My Talk with Papa, Richard Kassebaum – University of Southern California
- Merit: Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia, Ellen Bruno – Stanford University
Dramatic:
- Achievement: The Lunch Date, Adam Davidson – Columbia University, New York City
- Merit: The Blue Men, Denise McKenna, Mark Squier – American Film Institute, Los Angeles
- Merit: Go to Hell, Suzanne V. Johnson – Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Foreign Student Film: Alaska, Mike van Diem – Netherlands Film and Television Academy (Amsterdam, Netherlands
Directors Guild of America Student Award: Adam Davidson

18th Annual Student Academy Awards – June 9, 1991

Animation:
- Gold Medal: Ode to G.I. Joe, Gregory P. Grant – Brooks Institute
Documentary:
- Gold Medal: Twinsburge, OH: Some Kind of Weird Twin Thing, Sue Marcoux – Stanford University
Dramatic:
- Gold Medal: The Dog Ate It, Steve Pearl – Loyola Marymount University
- Silver Medal: Turtle Races, Jim Lincoln, Lisa Swain – Regent University
- Bronze Medal: Andy's Got a Girlfriend!, Dan Moran, Joel Kuchan – Columbia College Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
Foreign Film Award: Once Upon a Time, Zsuzsa Böszörményi – Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest, Budapest
Directors Guild of America Student Award: Steve Pearl

19th Annual Student Academy Awards – June 14, 1992

Animation:
- Gold Medal: Next Door, Peter H. Docter – California Institute of the Arts
- Silver Medal: Five Female Persuasions, Peter Hixson – American University
- Bronze Medal: Fur and Feathers, Celia Kendrick – Rhode Island School of Design
Documentary:
- Gold Medal: Beyond Imagining: Margaret Anderson and the Little Review, Wendy Weinberg – Temple University
- Silver Medal: Dolphins: Minds in the Water, Christopher C. Carson – Loyola Marymount University
- Bronze Medal: In and Out of Time, Elizabeth Finlayson – Stanford University
Dramatic:
- Gold Medal: The Lady in Waiting, Christian M. Taylor – New York University
- Silver Medal: Eagle Against the Sun, John Akahoshi, Steve Foonberg – University of Southern California
- Bronze Medal: Gold Mountain, Rachel Saltz, Kryssa Schemmerling – Columbia University
Experimental Award:
- Gold Medal: In the Aquarium, Robert Beebe – University of California, Los Angeles
Foreign Film Award: This Boy's Story, John Roberts, Michele Camarda – National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield, England
Directors Guild of America Student Award: Christian M. Taylor

20th Annual Student Academy Awards – June 13, 1993

Animation:
- Gold Medal: Above Average, Jamie Maxfield – Rhode Island School of Design
- Silver Medal: American History, Chris Graves, Trey Parker – University of Colorado at Boulder
- Bronze Medal: The Wind, Drew King – California Institute of the Arts
Documentary:
- Gold Medal: Living Forward, Looking Back, Stephanie L. Hill – New York University
- Silver Medal: Chicks in White Satin, Elaine Holliman – University of Southern California
Dramatic:
- Gold Medal: A Children's Story, Graham Justice – New York University
- Silver Medal: Silent Rain, Martin Curland – University of Southern California
Experimental Award:
- Gold Medal: The Strange Case of Balthazar Hyppolite, Ethan Spigland – New York University
- Silver Medal: Seven Lucky Charms, Lisa Mann – California Institute of the Arts
Foreign Film Award: The Last New Year, Javier Bourges – Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, Mexico City, Mexico
Directors Guild of America Student Award: Graham Justice

21st Annual Student Academy Awards – June 12, 1994

Animation:
- Gold Medal: The Janitor, Vanessa Stella Schwartz – California Institute of the Arts
- Silver Medal: Foodchain, Brian P. Dowrick – University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Documentary:
- Gold Medal: Genbaku Shi: Killed by the Atomic Bomb, Casey G. Williams – University of Utah
- Silver Medal: Portrait of Boy with Dog, Robin Hessman, James Longley – Brown University, Wesleyan University
- Bronze Medal: Street Songs: Pittsburgh Street Singer Bill Dorsey, Craig McTurk – California Institute of the Arts
Dramatic:
- Gold Medal: Red, Gary Nadeau – New York University
- Silver Medal: Outside, Matt Danciger – Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
- Bronze Medal: The Make, Stephen James – Columbia University
Foreign Film Award: Abgeschminkt (Makin' Up), Katja von Garnier – University of Television and Film Munich, Munich, Germany
Directors Guild of America Student Award: Matt Danciger

22nd Annual Student Academy Awards – June 11, 1995

Alternative:
- Gold Medal: Picasso Would Have Made a Glorious Waiter, Jonathan Schell – New York University
Animation:
- Gold Medal: Card Trick, Robert Herrick Russ – University of California, San Diego
Documentary:
- Gold Medal: Their Own Vietnam, Nancy D. Kates – Stanford University
- Silver Medal: Playing the Part, Mitch McCabe – Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Dramatic:
- Gold Medal: La Ciudad (The City), David Riker – New York University
Foreign Film Award: Scarborough Ahoy!, Tania Diez – National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England
Directors Guild of America Student Award: David Riker

23rd Annual Student Academy Awards – June 9, 1996

Animation:
- Gold Medal: Patronized, Zachary Lehman – Dartmouth College
- Silver Medal: Return of the Sun Devil, Steven Ayromlooi – Rhode Island School of Design
Documentary:
- Gold Medal: Independent Little Cuss, Jeff Patterson – Loyola Marymount University
- Silver Medal: Just for the Ride, Amanda Micheli – Harvard University
- Bronze Medal: Spirits Rising, Ramona S. Diaz – Stanford University
Dramatic
- Gold Medal: The Water Carrier, Patricia Cardoso – University of California, Los Angeles
- Silver Medal: Short Change, Jon Andrews – Yale University
- Bronze Medal: Around the Time, Phil Bertelsen – New York University
Alternative:
- Gold Medal: Eclipse, Jason Ruscio – New York University
- Silver Medal: Memories of Matthews Place, Daniel Bova – New York University
Foreign Film Award: Grænsen (Never), Reza Parsa – National Film School of Denmark
Directors Guild of America Student Award: Patricia Cardoso

24th Annual Student Academy Awards – June 8, 1997

Alternative:
- Gold Medal: Erosion, Robert Gelber – New York University
- Silver Medal: My Divorce, Andrea Clark – New York University
Animation:
- Gold Medal: Unborn Baby Blues, Mark Dale Levine – University of California, Los Angeles
Documentary:
- Gold Medal: Walk This Way, Chris Sheridan – Scottsdale Community College
- Silver Medal: Miriam Is Not Amused, Kim Roberts – Stanford University
- Bronze Medal: The Mirror Lied, Jennifer Haskin-O'Reggio – University of Southern California
Dramatic:
- Gold Medal: Christmas in New York, Mark Millhone – Columbia University
- Silver Medal: Waiting in the Wings, Charles R. Uy – School of Visual Arts, New York City
- Bronze Medal: Mr. October, Chris Angel – University of Southern California
Foreign Film Award: An Ordinary Mission, Raymond Boy – Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany
Directors Guild of America Student Award: Charles R. Uy

25th Annual Student Academy Awards – June 14, 1998

Alternative
- Gold Medal: Sombra, Robin Larsen – University of California, Los Angeles
Animation:
- Gold Medal: Jataka, Peter Choe, Neal Nellans – Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida
- Silver Medal: Switchback, Kyle Clark – University of Southern California
- Bronze Medal: Put On a Happy Face, Suzanne Lee Twining – University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Documentary:
- Gold Medal: Fighting Grandpa, Greg Pak – New York University
- Silver Medal: Occidental Encounters, Yuriko Gamo Romer – Stanford University
- Bronze Medal: Wayne Freedman's Notebook, Aaron Lubarsky – Stanford University
Dramatic:
- Gold Medal: Bleach, Bill Platt – New York University
- Silver Medal: My Body, Joel Moffett, Matthias Visser – American Film Institute
- Bronze Medal: Intermezzo, Dana H. Glazer – New York University
Foreign Film Award: Rochade, Thorsten Schmidt – Film Academy Baden-Württemberg (Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
Directors Guild of America Student Award: Bill Platt

26th Annual Student Academy Awards – June 13, 1999

Alternative:
- Gold Medal: Tree Shade, Lisa Collins – Columbia University, New York City
- Silver Medal: The Piece, Jordan Waid – The New School, New York City
- Bronze Medal: Atomic Tobasco, James Cox – New York University
Animation:
- Gold Medal: A Letter from the Western Front, Daniel M. Kanemoto – New York University
- Silver Medal: Between the Lines, Jamie Maxfield – California Institute of the Arts
- Bronze Medal: Shadow of a Drought, Daniel Kutner, Brian Emerson – University of California, Santa Barbara
Documentary:
- Gold Medal: Man and Dog, Randolph Benson – North Carolina School of the Arts
Narrative:
- Gold Medal: John, Marni Banack, J. B. Sugar – American Film Institute
- Silver Medal: True Confessions of a Sushi Addict, Kimberly Harwood – New York University
- Bronze Medal: Slow Dancin' Down the Aisles of the Quickcheck, Thomas Wade Jackson – Florida State University
Foreign Film Award: Kleingeld (Small Change), Marc-Andreas Bochert – Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen "Konrad Wolf", Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany
Directors Guild of America Student Award: Marni Banack
American Society of Cinematographers Student Award: David A. Armstrong

2000s

27th Annual Student Academy Awards – June 11, 2000

Alternative:
- Gold Medal: Helicopter, Ari Gold – New York University
- Silver Medal: Dear Sir: Letters to a Union Soldier, Michael Mullan, Jessica Lakis – University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Animation:
- Gold Medal: Al Tudi Tuhak (Long, Long Ago), Tod Polson – California Institute of the Arts
- Silver Medal (tie): The Bad Plant, Amy Winfrey – University of California, Los Angeles
- Silver Medal (tie): Luz, Jose Javier Martinez – University of California, Los Angeles
Documentary:
- Gold Medal: Iron Ladies, Kennedy Wheatley – University of Southern California
- Silver Medal: Slender Existence, Laura C. Murray – Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
- Bronze Medal: Between Two Fires, Douglas Noel Smith – Regent University, Virginia, Virginia
Narrative:
- Gold Medal: One Day Crossing, Joan L. Stein – Columbia University
- Silver Medal: Homeland, Doug Scott – New York University
- Bronze Medal: 6 Miles of 8 Feet, Ben Tomlin – New York University
Foreign: Quiero ser, Florian Gallenberger – University of Television and Film Munich, Germany
Directors Guild of America Student Award: Joan L. Stein

28th Annual Student Academy Awards – June 10, 2001

Alternative:
- Gold Medal: Warmth, Michael Schaerer – School of Visual Arts, New York City
Animation:
- Gold Medal: Boobie Girl, Brooke Keesling – California Institute of the Arts
- Silver Medal: The Yellow Umbrella, Victor Robert, Rodney Hom – Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
- Bronze Medal: That Special Monkey, Sean McBride – University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Documentary:
- Gold Medal: XXXY, Porter Gale, Laleh Soomekh – Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
- Silver Medal: Green, Laura Dunn – University of Texas at Austin
- Bronze Medal: Undesirables, Marianna Yarovskaya – University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Narrative:
- Gold Medal: Zen and the Art of Landscaping, David Kartch – Columbia University
- Silver Medal: The Confession, Carl Pfirman – University of California, Los Angeles
- Bronze Medal: Lector, Greg Marcks – Florida State University, Tallahassee
Foreign Film Award: The Eye on the Nape (El ojo en la nuca), Rodrigo Pla – Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (Mexico City, Mexico)

29th Annual Student Academy Awards – June 9, 2002

Alternative:
- Gold Medal: For Our Man, Kazuo Ohno – Columbia University
- Silver Medal: Island to Island, Soopum Sohn – New York University
Animation:
- Gold Medal: Passing Moments, Don Phillips, Jr. – Ringling School of Art and Design
- Silver Medal: The Velvet Tigress, Jen Sachs – California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
- Bronze Medal: Shadowplay, Dan Blank – New York University
Documentary:
- Gold Medal: Moving House, Pin Pin Tan – Northwestern University
- Silver Medal: Family Values, Eva Saks – New York University
- Bronze Medal: Revolutions Per Minute, Thomas Burns – Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
Narrative:
- Gold Medal: The Wormhole, Jessica Sharzer – New York University
- Silver Medal: Barrier Device, Grace Lee – University of California, Los Angeles
- Bronze Medal: Sophie Helen, Haeyoung Lee – University of Texas at Austin
Foreign Film Award: Feeding Desire, Martin Strange-Hansen – National Film School of Denmark, Denmark

30th Annual Student Academy Awards – June 8, 2003

Alternative:
- Gold Medal: The Projects Lumiere, Waleed Moursi – California Institute of the Arts
Animation:
- Gold Medal: Perpetual Motion, Kimberly Miner – Rochester Institute of Technology
- Silver Medal: Bert, Moonsung Lee – Academy of Art College, San Francisco.
- Bronze Medal: A Work in Progress, Wes Ball – Florida State University, Tallahassee
Documentary:
- Gold Medal: Left Behind, Christof Putzel – Connecticut College
- Silver Medal: Indiana Aria, Elizabeth Pollock – University of California, Berkeley
- Bronze Medal: Those Who Trespass, Renee Fischer – Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
Narrative:
- Gold Medal: La Milpa (The Cornfield), Patricia Riggen – Columbia University
- Silver Medal: Jesus Henry Christ, Dennis Lee – Columbia University, New York City
- Bronze Medal: Fine., Michael Downing, Philip Svoboda – American Film Institute, California
Foreign Film Award: The Red Jacket, Florian Baxmeyer – University of Hamburg, Germany

31st Annual Student Academy Awards – June 13, 2004

Alternative:
- Gold Medal: The Storyboard of My Life, Robert F. Castillo – School of Visual Arts
- Silver Medal: Focus, Bill Ridlehoover, Nilanjan Neil Lahiri – Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia
Animation:
- Gold Medal: Rex Steele: Nazi Smasher, Alexander Woo – New York University
- Silver Medal: Rock the World, Sukwon Shin – School of Visual Arts, New York City
- Bronze Medal: Lemmings, Craig Van Dyke – Brigham Young University, Utah
Documentary:
- Gold Medal: Cheerleader, Kimberlee Bassford – University of California, Berkeley
- Silver Medal: When the Storm Came, Shilpi Gupta – University of California, Berkeley
- Bronze Medal: Cuba: Illogical Temple, David Pittock, Lindsey Kealy – University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Narrative:
- Gold Medal: A-Alike, Randall Dottin – Columbia University
- Silver Medal: Zeke, Dana Buning – Florida State University, Tallahassee
- Bronze Medal: The Plunge, Todd Schulman – Florida State University, Tallahassee
Foreign Film Award: Between Us, Laurits Much-Peterson – National Film School of Denmark, Denmark

32nd Annual Student Academy Awards – June 12, 2005

Alternative:
- Gold Medal: Knock Knock, Jaron Henrie-McCrea – Ball State University
- Silver Medal: Your Dark Hair Ihsan, Tala Hadid – Columbia University
Animation:
- Gold Medal: 9, Shane Acker – University of California
- Silver Medal: Frog, Christopher Conforti – School of Visual Arts, New York City
- Bronze Medal: Things That Go Bump in the Night, Joshua G. Beveridge – Ringling School of Art and Design, Florida
Documentary:
- Gold Medal: The Life of Kevin Carter, Dan Krauss – University of California
- Silver Medal: Unhitched, Erin Hudso, Ben Wu – Stanford University
- Bronze Medal: Listen, Kimby Caplan – Southern Methodist University, Texas
Narrative:
- Gold Medal: Wednesday Afternoon, Alonso Mayo – American Film Institute
- Silver Medal: Victoria Para Chino, Cary Fukunaga – New York University
- Bronze Medal: Charm, Melissa Rossi – Florida State University, Tallahassee
Foreign Film Award: The Runaway, Ulrike Grote – University of Hamburg, Germany

33rd Annual Student Academy Awards – June 10, 2006

Alternative:
- Gold Medal: Perspective, Travis Hatfield, Samuel Day – Ball State University
- Silver Medal: 6 A.M., Carmen Vidal Balanzat – City College of New York
Animation:
- Gold Medal: The Possum, Chris Choy – California Institute of the Arts
- Silver Medal: The Dancing Thief, Meng Vue – Ringling School of Art and Design
- Bronze Medal: Turtles, Thomas Leavitt – Brigham Young University
Documentary:
- Gold Medal: Reporter Zero, Carrie Lozano – University of California, Berkeley
- Silver Medal: The Women's Kingdom, Xiaoli Zhou – University of California, Berkeley
- Bronze Medal: Three Beauties, Mak Hossain – Purdue University
Narrative:
- Gold Medal: Christmas Wish List, Sean Overbeeke – University of North Carolina
- Silver Medal: El Viaje (One Day Trip), Cady Abarca-Benavides – Columbia University
- Bronze Medal: Pop Foul, Moon Molson, Jennifer Handorf – Columbia University
Foreign Film Award: Elalini, Tristan Holmes – South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance, South Africa

34th Annual Student Academy Awards – June 9, 2007

Alternative:
- Gold Medal: Fission, Kun-I Chang – School of Visual Arts
Animation:
- Gold Medal (tie): Arts Desire, Sarah Wickliffe – New York University
- Gold Medal (tie): Mirage, Youngwoong Jang – School of Visual Arts
- Silver Medal: A Leg Up, Bevin Carnes – Ringling College of Art and Design
Documentary:
- Gold Medal: Cross Your Eyes Keep Them Wide, Ben Wu – Stanford University
- Silver Medal: Ladies of the Land, Megan Thompson – New York University
- Bronze Medal: Lumo, Bent-Jorgen S. Perlmutt, Nelson Walker III – Columbia University
Narrative:
- Gold Medal: Rundown, Patrick Alexander – Florida State University
- Silver Medal: High Maintenance, Phillip Van – New York University
- Bronze Medal: Screening, Anthony Green – New York University
Foreign Film Award: Nevermore, Toke Constantin Hebbeln – Film Academy Baden-Württemberg, Germany

35th Annual Student Academy Awards – June 7, 2008

Alternative:
- Gold Medal: Viola: The Traveling Rooms of a Little Giant, Shih-Ting Hung – University of Southern California
- Silver Medal: Circles of Confusion, Phoebe Tooke – San Francisco State University
Animation:
- Gold Medal: Zoologic, Nicole Mitchell – California Institute of the Arts
- Silver Medal: Simulacra, Tatchapon Lertwirojkul – School of Visual Arts, New York City
- Bronze Medal: The Visionary, Evan Mayfield – Ringling College of Art and Design, Florida
Documentary:
- Gold Medal: As We Forgive, Laura Waters Hinson – American University, Washington, D.C.
- Silver Medal: Unattached, J.J. Adler – Columbia University
- Bronze Medal: If a Body Meet a Body, Brian Davis – University of Southern California
Narrative:
- Gold Medal: A Day's Work, Rajeev Dassani – University of Southern California
- Silver Medal: The State of Sunshine, Z. Eric Yang – Florida State University
- Bronze Medal: Pitstop, Melanie McGraw – University of Southern California
Foreign Film Award: On the Line (Auf der Strecke), Reto Caffi – Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany

36th Annual Student Film Awards – June 13, 2009

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 City
Animation:
- Gold Medal: Pajama Gladiator, Glenn Harmon – Brigham Young University
- Silver Medal: Sebastian’s Voodoo, Joaquin Baldwin – University of California, Los Angeles
- Bronze Medal: Kites, Jed Henry – Brigham Young University
Documentary:
- Gold Medal: The Last Mermaids, Liz Chae – Columbia University
- Silver Medal: The Wait, Cassandra Lizaire, Kelly Asmuth – Columbia University, New York City
- Bronze Medal: A Place to Land, Lauren DeAngelis – American University, Washington, D.C.
Narrative:
- Gold Medal: Kavi, Gregg Helvey – University of Southern California
- Silver Medal: The Bronx Balletomane, Jeremy Joffee – City College of New York
- Bronze Medal: Bohemibot, Brendan Bellomo – New York University
Foreign Film Award: Elkland, Per Hanefjord – Dramatiska Institutet, Sweden

2010s

37th Annual Student Film Awards – June 12, 2010

Alternative:
- Gold Medal: Surface: Film from Below, Varathit Uthaisri – Parsons The New School for Design
- Silver Medal: Multiply, Emily Henricks – University of Southern California
Animation:
- Gold Medal: Departure of Love, Jennifer Bors – Ringling College of Art and Design
- Silver Medal: Dried Up, Isaiah Powers and Jeremy Casper – Kansas City Art Institute
- Bronze Medal: Lifeline, Andres Salaff – California Institute of the Arts
Documentary:
- Gold Medal: Yizkor (Remembrance), Ruth Fertig – University of Texas at Austin
- Silver Medal: Rediscovering Pape, Maria Royo – City College of New York
- Bronze Medal: Dreams Awake (Suena Despierto), Kevin Gordon and Rebekah Meredith – Stanford University
Narrative:
- Gold Medal: God of Love, Luke Matheny – New York University
- Silver Medal: Down in Number 5, Kim Spurlock – New York University
- Bronze Medal: The Lunch Box, Lubomir Kocka – Savannah College of Art and Design
Foreign Film Award: The Confession, Tanel Toom – National Film and Television School, United Kingdom

38th Annual Student Film Awards – June 11, 2011

Alternative:
- Gold Medal: The Vermeers, Tal S. Shamir – The New School
Animation:
- Gold Medal: Dragonboy, Bernardo Warman and Shaofu Zhang – Academy of Art University
- Silver Medal: Correspondence, Zach Hyer – Pratt Institute
- Bronze Medal: Defective Detective, Avner Geller and Stevie Lewis – Ringling College of Art and Design
Documentary:
- Gold Medal: Vera Klement: Blunt Edge, Wonjung Bae – Columbia College
- Silver Medal: Imaginary Circumstances, Anthony Weeks – Stanford University
- Bronze Medal: Sin Pais (Without Country), Theo Rigby – Stanford University
Foreign Film Award:
- Gold Medal: Tuba Atlantic, Halvar Witzø – Norwegian Film School, Norway
- Silver Medal: Bekas, Karzan Kader – Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts, Sweden
- Bronze Medal: Raju, Max Zähle – Hamburg Media School, Germany
Narrative:
- Gold Medal: Thief, Julian Higgins – American Film Institute
- Silver Medal: High Maintenance, Shawn Wines – Columbia University
- Bronze Medal: Fatakra, Soham Mehta – University of Texas at Austin

39th Annual Student Film Awards – June 9, 2012

Alternative:
- Gold Medal: The Reality Clock, Amanda Tasse – University of Southern California
Animation:
- Gold Medal: Eyrie, David Wolter – California Institute of the Arts
- Silver Medal:The Jockstrap Raiders, Mark Nelson – University of California, Los Angeles
- Bronze Medal:My Little Friend, Eric Prah – Ringling College of Art and Design
Documentary:
- Gold Medal: Dying Green, Ellen Tripler – American University
- Silver Medal: Hiro: A Story of Japanese Internment, Keiko Wright – New York University
- Bronze Medal: Lost Country, Heather Burky – Art Institute of Jacksonville
Narrative:
- Gold Medal: Under, Mark Raso – Columbia University
- Silver Medal: Narcocorrido, Ryan Prows – American Film Institute
- Bronze Medal: Nani, Justin Tipping – American Film Institute
Foreign Film Award:
- Gold Medal: For Elsie, David Winstone – University of Westminster, United Kingdom
- Silver Medal: Of Dogs and Horses, Thomas Stuber – Film Academy Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- Bronze Medal: The Swing of the Coffin Maker, Elmar Imanov – Internationale filmschule köln, Cologne, Germany

40th Annual Student Film Awards – June 8, 2013

Alternative:
- Gold Medal: Bottled Up, Rafael Cortina – Occidental College
- Silver Medal: Zug, Perry Janes – University of Michigan
- Bronze Medal: The Compositor, John Mattiuzzi – School of Visual Arts
Animation:
- Gold Medal: Dias de los muertos, Lindsey St. Pierre and Ashley Graham – Ringling College of Art and Design
- Silver Medal:Will, Eusong Lee – California Institute of the Arts
- Bronze Medal: Peck Pocketed, Kevin Herron – Ringling College of Art and Design
Documentary:
- Gold Medal: A Second Chance, David Aristizabal – University of Southern California
- Silver Medal: Every Tuesday: A Portrait of the New Yorker Cartoonists, Rachel Loube – School of Visual Arts
- Bronze Medal: Win or Lose, Daniel Koehler – Elon University
Narrative:
- Gold Medal: Ol' Daddy, Brian Schwarz – University of Texas at Austin
- Silver Medal: Josephine and the Roach, Jonathan Langager – University of Southern California
- Bronze Medal: Un mundo para Raúl, Mauro Mueller – Columbia University
Foreign Film Award:
- Gold Medal: Miss Todd, Kristina Yee – National Film and Television School, United Kingdom
- Silver Medal: Parvaneh, Talkhon Hamzavi – Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Fachrichtung Film, Zurich, Switzerland
- Bronze Medal: Crossroads (Tweesprong), Wouter Bouvijn – RITS School of Arts, Erasmus University College, Belgium

41st Annual Student Film Awards – June 6, 2014

Alternative:
- Gold Medal: Person, Drew Brown – The Art Institute of Jacksonville
- Silver Medal: Oscillate, Daniel Sierra – School of Visual Arts
Animation:
- Gold Medal: Owned, Daniel Clark and Wesley Tippetts – Brigham Young University
- Silver Medal:Higher Sky, Teng Cheng – University of Southern California
- Bronze Medal: Yamashita, Hayley Foster – Loyola Marymount University
Documentary:
- Gold Medal: The Apothecary, Helen Hood Scheer – Stanford University
- Silver Medal: White Earth, J. Christian Jensen – Stanford University
- Bronze Medal: One Child, Zijian Mu – New York University
Foreign Film Award:
- Gold Medal: Nocebo, Lennart Ruff – University of Television and Film Munich, Germany
- Silver Medal: Paris on the Water, Hadas Ayalon – Tel Aviv University, Israel
- Bronze Medal: Border Patrol, Peter Baumann – Northern Film School, United Kingdom
Narrative:
- Gold Medal: Above the Sea, Keola Racela – Columbia University
- Silver Medal: Door God, Yulin Liu – New York University
- Bronze Medal: Interstate, Camille Stochitch – American Film Institute

42nd Annual Student Film Awards – September 17, 2015

Alternative:
- Gold Medal: Chiaroscuro, Daniel Drummond – Chapman University
- Silver Medal: Zoe, ChiHyun Lee – School of Visual Arts
Animation:
- Gold Medal: Soar, Alyce Tzue – Academy of Art University
- Silver Medal:An Object at Rest, Seth Boyden – California Institute of the Arts
- Bronze Medal: Taking the Plunge, Nicholas Manfredi and Elizabeth Ku-Herrero – School of Visual Arts
Documentary:
- Gold Medal: Looking at the Stars, Alexandre Peralta – University of Southern California
- Silver Medal: I Married My Family’s Killer, Emily Kassie – Brown University
- Bronze Medal: Boxeadora, Meg Smaker – Stanford University
Foreign Film Award:
- Gold Medal: Fidelity, Ilker Çatak – Hamburg Media School, Germany
- Silver Medal: The Last Will, Dustin Loose – Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
- Bronze Medal: Everything Will Be Okay, Patrick Vollrath – Filmakademie Wien, Austria
Narrative:
- Gold Medal: Day One, Henry Hughes, edited by Anisha Acharya – American Film Institute
- Silver Medal: This Way Up, Jeremy Cloe – American Film Institute
- Bronze Medal: Stealth, Bennett Lasseter – American Film Institute^[3]

43rd Annual Student Film Awards – September 22, 2016

Year	Award	Winners	Nominees	Ref.
2016
	Alternative	Gold: All These Voices – David Henry Gerson (American Film Institute) Silver: Cloud Kumo – Yvonne Ng (City College of New York) Bronze: The Swan Girl – Johnny Coffeen (Maharishi University of Management)	Made of Sugar – Kevin Rios (New York University) Nova Initia – Scott Thompson (Art Institute of Colorado)	^[4]^[5]
	Animation	Gold: Once Upon a Line – Alicja Jasina (USC) Silver: The Wishgranter – Echo Wu (Ringling College of Art and Design) Bronze: Die Flucht (The Escape) –Carter Boyce (DePaul University)	Cage – Pengpeng Du (Pratt Institute) Last Shot – Aemilia Widodo (Ringling College of Art and Design) The Controller – Bob Yong and Kang Yung Ho (Ringling College of Art and Design) The Moon is Essentially Gray – Hannah Roman (School of Visual Arts
	Documentary	Gold: 4.1 Miles – Daphne Matziaraki (University of California, Berkeley) Silver: Fairy Tales – Rongfei Guo (New York University) Bronze: From Flint: Voices of a Poisoned City – Elise Conklin (Michigan State University)	Gardeners of the Forest – Ceylan Carhoglu and Nicole Jordan-Webber (Chapman University) Looking for Trouble – Caroline Cuny and Bryan Campbell (Wake Forest University) The Assassin and Mrs. Paine – Max Good (Stanford University) The Search – Melina Tupa (UC Berkeley)
	Narrative	Gold: Nocturne in Black – Jimmy Keyrouz (Columbia University) Silver: It's Just a Gun – Brian Robau (Chapman University) Bronze: Rocket – Brenna Malloy (Chapman University)	100 Steps – Shahnawaz Zali (Northwestern University) Amelia’s Closet – Halima Lucas University of Southern California) A New Civilization – Williams Naranjo (New York University) Mutt – Chloe Aktas (New York University)
	Foreign Narrative	Gold: Invention of Trust – Alex Schaad (University of Television and Film Munich, Germany) Silver: Where the Woods End – Felix Ahrens (Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Germany) Bronze: Tenants – Klara Kochanska (The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School, Poland)	Beautiful Figure – Hajni Kis (Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest, Hungary) Flowers – Judita Gamulin (Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb, Croatia) Generation Mars – Alexander Turpin (Norwegian Film School, Norway) Peacock – Ondrej Hudecek (Film & TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts, Prague, Czech Republic)
	Foreign Animation	Gold: Ayny – Ahmad Saleh (Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany)	Eye for an Eye – Steve Bache and Mahyar Goudarzi (Film Academy Baden-Württemberg, Germany) I Come From Prairie – Arisbek Nuhan (Beijing Film Academy, China)
	Foreign Documentary	Gold: The Most Beautiful Woman – Maya Sarfaty (Tel Aviv University, Israel)	Tarfala – Johannes Östergård (University of Television and Film Munich, Germany) The Mute's House –Tamar Kay (The Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School, Israel)

References

↑ The New York Times
↑ Los Angeles Times
↑ http://deadline.com/2015/09/student-academy-awards-2015-winners-list-1201533243/
↑ "2016 STUDENT ACADEMY AWARDS FINALISTS ANNOUNCED - Congratulations to our new Student Academy Awards finalists! See the full list below. Keep checking back to Oscars.org to find out the winners and get more information about our awards ceremony on September 22, 2016.". Academy. August 1, 2016. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
↑ "ACADEMY REVEALS 2016 STUDENT ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS". 2016-08-29. Retrieved 2016-08-30.

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Student Academy Awards official site
Student Academy Awards at The Internet Movie Database
"Student Film Award Winners" (PDF). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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