Sep 23, 2022

Academy announces 2022 Student Academy Award winners

The Academy of Film Arts and Sciences announced the winners of this year's Student Academy Awards on Thursday night and several animation filmmakers were recognized.

This year, the Student Academy Awards received 614 applications from 1,796 universities worldwide.

Lachlan Pendragon, from Griffith Film School in Australia, was also admitted for her short ostrich telling me the world was fake. In the animation department, everything changes when Jan Gadermann and Sebastian Gadow from Konrad Wolf Film University Of Babelsberg meet Laika & Nemo, an astronaut with his own unique suit, in a short Laika & Nemo about a boy who feels left behind for not wearing a diving suit.

The trio of yanis Belaid, Eliott Benard and Nicolas Mayeur from Pôle3D Digital & Creative School in France were the 3rd and last Oscar winners in the animation category. Their film "Tears of the Seine" began in 1961 when "Algerian workers" took to the streets to protest against the mandatory curfew imposed by the police.

Olivia Peace was the only winner in the alternative/experimental category for her work Against Reality. The University of Southern California dissertation project of the Piece is an autobiographical short story. Created using AI art generation tools, the work also appeared at this month's Toronto International Film Festival.

For the first time since 2019, student winners will be invited to a face-to-face ceremony in Los Angeles on Thursday 10/20. The placement of medals (gold, silver, copper) will be announced there.

The ceremony is free and open to the public, but advance tickets are required. Tickets are available here.

Alternative/Experimental

Animation