The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has voted 14 students as winners of the 49th Student Academy Awards competition. This includes three international winners in the Animation category, which as with the other categories this year no longer distinguishes between U.S.-based and non-U.S. based schools.
This year, the Student Academy Awards competition received a total of 1,796 entries from 614 colleges and universities around the world. The 2022 winners join the ranks of such past Student Academy Award winners (est. 1972 as Patricia Cardoso, Pete Docter, Spike Lee, Patricia Riggen and Robert Zemeckis.
The winners are:
Animation
- Jan Gadermann and Sebastian Gadow, Laika & Nemo, Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg, Germany
- Lachlan Pendragon, An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It, Griffith Film School, Australia
- Yanis Belaid, Eliott Benard and Nicolas Mayeur, The Seine’s Tears, Pôle 3D Digital & Creative School, France
This is the first SAA win for Pôle 3D.
All Student Academy Award-winning films are eligible to compete for 2022 Oscars in the Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film or Documentary Short Film category. Past winners have gone on to receive 65 Oscar nominations and have won or shared 14 awards.
For the first time since 2019, students will participate in an in-person award ceremony on Thursday, October 20, at 7:30 p.m., at the David Geffen Theater in Los Angeles. The medal placements — gold, silver and bronze — in the four award categories will be announced at the ceremony.
The 49th Student Academy Awards ceremony on October 20 is free and open to the public, but advance tickets are required. Tickets may be obtained online at oscars.org starting today. The David Geffen Theater is located at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures at 6067 Wilshire Boulevard.
