2019 Student Academy Award Winners Announced

16 directors, including four from animated films, will receive medals at upcoming October 17 ceremony.

‘Daughter,’ an animated short film directed by Daria Kashcheeva from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts, Prague, Czech Republic, winner in the Animation (International Film Schools) category. Kashcheeva also took home the Junior Jury Award for Graduation Film at this year’s Annecy Animation Festival.

LOS ANGELES, CA — The Academy has announced the list of 16 students voted as winners of the 46th Student Academy Awards competition. This year, the competition received a total of 1,615 entries from 255 domestic and 105 international colleges and universities, which were voted upon by a record number of Academy members. The 2019 winners join the ranks of such past Student Academy Award winners as Patricia Cardoso, Pete Docter, Cary Fukunaga, Spike Lee, Trey Parker, Patricia Riggen and Robert Zemeckis.

The winners are (listed alphabetically by film title):

Alternative/Experimental (Domestic and International Film Schools)
Georden West, Patron Saint, Emerson College

Animation (Domestic Film Schools)
Aviv Mano, Game Changer, Ringling College of Art and Design
Kalee McCollaum, Grendel, Brigham Young University
Emre Okten, Two, University of Southern California

Animation (International Film Schools)
Daria Kashcheeva, Daughter, Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts, Prague (Czech Republic)

Documentary (Domestic Film Schools)
Eva Rendle, All That Remains, University of California, Berkeley
Princess Garrett, Sankofa, Villanova University
Abby Lieberman and Joshua Lucas, Something to Say, Columbia University

Documentary (International Film Schools)
Yifan Sun, Family, The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School, Lodz (Poland)

Narrative (Domestic Film Schools)
Asher Jelinsky, Miller & Son, American Film Institute
Hao Zheng, The Chef, American Film Institute
Omer Ben-Shachar, Tree #3, American Film Institute

Narrative (International Film Schools)
Zoel Aeschbacher, Bonobo, Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL) (Switzerland)
Rikke Gregersen, Dog Eat Dog, Westerdals Kristiania University College (Norway)
Charlie Manton, November 1st, National Film and Television School (United Kingdom)

First-time honors go to Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL) in Switzerland, Westerdals Kristiania University College in Norway and Villanova University.

All Student Academy Award-winning films are eligible to compete for 2019 Oscars in the Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film or Documentary Short Subject category. Past winners have gone on to receive 62 Oscar nominations and have won or shared 12 awards. Students will arrive in Los Angeles for a week of industry activities that will culminate in the awards ceremony on Thursday, October 17, at 7:30 p.m., at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The medal placements – gold, silver and bronze – in the seven award categories will be announced at the ceremony.

The 46th Student Academy Awards ceremony on Thursday, October 17 is free and open to the public, but advance tickets are required. Tickets may be obtained online at oscars.org 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.

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: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences