Medalists for 2022 Pupil Academy Awards Introduced

The Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences honored scholar winners from faculties and universities around the globe on the forty ninth Pupil Academy Awards ceremony, which happened throughout an in-person ceremony at its David Geffen Theater in Los Angeles. The Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal awards have been introduced through the Academy’s first in-person ceremony since 2019. The night was hosted by actor and producer Terrence Jenkins.

This 12 months’s competitors acquired a complete of 1,796 entries from 614 faculties and universities around the globe. The 2022 winners be part of the ranks of such previous Pupil Academy Award winners together with Patricia Cardoso, Pete Docter, Spike Lee, Patricia Riggen and Robert Zemeckis, amongst others. Included on this 12 months’s winners are first-time honors being awarded to France’s Pôle 3D Digital & Artistic Faculty.

The 2022 Pupil Academy Award medalists are as follows:

Different/Experimental
Gold: “Towards Actuality,” Olivia Peace, College of Southern California

Animation
Gold: “An Ostrich Instructed Me the World Is Pretend and I Assume I Imagine It,” Lachlan Pendragon, Griffith Movie Faculty, Australia

Silver: “Laika & Nemo,” Jan Gadermann and Sebastian Gadow, Konrad Wolf Movie College of Babelsberg, Germany

Bronze: “The Seine’s Tears,” Yanis Belaid, Eliott Benard and Nicolas Mayeur, Pôle 3D Digital & Artistic Faculty, France

Documentary
Gold: “Discovered,” Shuhao Tse, New York College

Silver: “Right here to Keep,” Jared Peraglia, New York College

Bronze: “Seasons,” Gabriella Canal and Michael Fearon, Columbia College

Narrative
Gold: “Virtually Dwelling,” Nils Keller, College of Tv and Movie Munich, Germany

Silver: “Rooms,” Welf Reinhart, College of Tv and Movie Munich, Germany

Bronze: “Shedding Angels,” Freddy Macdonald, American Movie Institute

All Pupil Academy Award-winning movies are eligible to compete for 2022 Oscars within the Animated Quick Movie, Dwell Motion Quick Movie or Documentary Quick Movie class. Previous winners of Pupil Academy Awards have gone on to obtain 65 Oscar nominations, and have received or shared 14 awards.