Sep 18, 2023

Academy Announces 2023 Student Academy Award Winners

The Student Academy Awards jury has announced the 14 winners of this year's 50th annual awards.

According to the Academy, this year it received 2,443 submissions from 720 universities around the world. Ten animated short films were nominated this year.

By winning the Student Academy Award, each film qualifies for the next Academy Awards. Last year, Lachlan Pendragon's "An Ostrich Told Me The World Is Fake And I Think I Believe It" went from winning a Student Academy Award to an Academy Award nomination.

This year's 14 winners will be invited to an awards ceremony on October 24 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, where they will learn who the gold, silver, and bronze winners in each category are.

This year's Student Academy Award winners include. [Boom, Gabriel Augerai, Romain Augier, Yannick Jacquin, École des Nouvelles Images (France)

Two dumb birds try to save their eggs from a volcanic eruption. This is the first time a film from the École des Nouvelles Images has won a student academy.

Diplomatie de L'Éclipse, Cesar Luton, Achille Pasquier, Clémence Bailly, MoPA 3D Animation School (France)

Humanity receives a notification from the sun and moon that at a straight line moment, a total solar eclipse, humanity annihilation at a linear moment of totality. The World Council dispatches its best negotiators to prevent that outcome.

"Mom's Spaghetti," Lisa Kenny, National Film and Television School, UK

Master MC Poppy and her beatboxing border terrier Snoop try to make themselves known in a new neighborhood and a new community. But is it as hard as they imagine...