The 51st Student Academy Awards ceremony on October 14 will be held at the ODEON Luxe Leicester Square in London.
This year, the Student Academy Awards competition received 2,683 entries from 738 colleges and universities worldwide. The 2024 winners join the ranks of such past Student Academy Award® winners as Patricia Cardoso, Pete Docter, Spike Lee, Patricia Riggen and Robert Zemeckis.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have named 15 winners for the 51st Student Academy Awards, making those student films eligible to compete for the 2024 Oscars.
Five of the 15 winning films come from international film schools in India, Japan, France, Czech Republic and Germany, while the remainder come from film schools in the U.S., including USC, NYU, Chapman, Brigham Young University, Brown, the School of Visual Arts and San Francisco State University.
Three of the international schools — the National Institute of Design in India, Digital Hollywood University in Japan and Filmová Akademie Miroslava Ondříčka v Písku in the Czech Republic — are winning Student Academy Awards for the first time.
Alternative/Experimental
- Akshit Kumar, “bonVoyage pour monVoyage,” National Institute of Design, India
- Birdy Wei-Ting Hung, “A Brighter Summer Day for the Lady Avengers,” San Francisco State University
- Dori Walker, “In Living Memory,” Brown University
Animation
- Florian Maurice, Maxime Foltzer & Estelle Bonnardel, “Au Revoir Mon Monde,” MoPA 3D Animation School, France
- Kei Kanamori, “Origami,” Digital Hollywood University, Japan
- Spencer Baird, “Student Accomplice,” Brigham Young University
Documentary
- Rishabh Raj Jain, “A Dream Called Khushi (Happiness),” New York University
- Hannah Rafkin, “Keeper,” School of Visual Arts
- Aaron Johnson, “The 17%,” Chapman University
Narrative
- Pavel Sýkora & Viktor Horák, “The Compatriot,” Filmová Akademie Miroslava Ondříčka v Písku, Czech Republic
- Jens Kevin Georg, “Crust,” Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Germany
- Robin Wang, “Neither Donkey nor Horse,” University of Southern California
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All Student Academy Award-winning films are eligible to compete for 2024 Oscars® in the Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film or Documentary Short Film category. Past winners have gone on to receive 67 Oscar® nominations and have won or shared 15 awards.
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.
