AMPAS votes on student winners

The Academy received a record number of entries this year — 1,686 films from 282 US and 93 international colleges and universities — which were voted upon by a record number of Academy members.

The American Film Institute acheived a clean sweep in the narrative categoy.

Previous winners include Inside Out director Pete Docter, Disney animation chief John Lasseter, Spike Lee, South Park co-creator Trey Parker and Robert Zemeckis, whose The Walk will receive its world premiere at the New York Film Festival.

The winners listed alphabetically by film title are:

ALTERNATIVE

Chiaroscuro – Daniel Drummond, Chapman University, California; and
Zoe – ChiHyun Lee, The School Of Visual Arts, New York.

ANIMATION

An Object At Rest – Seth Boyden, California Institute Of The Arts;
Soar – Alyce Tzue, Academy of Art University, San Francisco; and
Taking the Plunge – Nicholas Manfredi and Elizabeth Ku-Herrero, The School Of Visual Arts

DOCUMENTARY

Boxeadora – Meg Smaker, Stanford University;
I Married My Family’s Killer – Emily Kassie, Brown University; and
Looking At The Stars – Alexandre Peralta, University of Southern California.

NARRATIVE

Day One – Henry Hughes, American Film Institute, California;
Stealth – Bennett Lasseter, American Film Institute; and
This Way Up – Jeremy Cloe, American Film Institute.

FOREIGN FILM

Everything Will Be Okay… – Patrick Vollrath, Filmakademie Wien, Austria;
Fidelity – Ilker Catak, Hamburg Media School, Germany; and
The Last Will – Dustin Loose, Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany.

Students will arrive in Los Angeles for a week of industry activities that will culminate in the awards ceremony on September 17 in Beverly Hills.

The medal placements – gold, silver and bronze – in the five award categories will be announced at the ceremony.

First-time honours go to Chapman University in the Alternative category and Filmakademie Wien in the Foreign Film competition. Academy members voted the winners from a field of 33 finalists, announced last month.