May 4, 2014

2014 Student Academy Award finalists

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has announced the finalists for the 41st Student Academy Awards. The awards ceremony will take place on Saturday, June 7, at the DGA Theater in Hollywood. Among the five categories, one of them is dedicated entirely to animation, and another category-Alternative-includes animated films in it, too.

Here are the nominees in those two categories:

AnimationBaxter, Ty Coyle, Savannah College of Art and Design, GeorgiaGoodnight Boon, Jeremy Jensen, New York UniversityHigher Sky, Teng Cheng, University of Southern CaliforniaMarcel, Eric Cunha and Seung Sung, School of Visual Arts, New YorkOwned, Daniel Clark and Wesley Tippetts, Brigham Young University, UtahRoadkill Redemption, Karl Hadrika, Ringling College of Art and Design, FloridaTwo Ghosts, Amy Lee Ketchum, University of Southern CaliforniaUmbra, Pedro Jesus Atienzar Godoy, Pratt Institute, New YorkYamashita, Hayley Foster, Loyola Marymount University, California

AlternativeDreamers, Joseph Dwyer, Boston UniversityEntropic Apogee, Bill Manolios, Art Institute of California – San FranciscoJaspa' Jenkins, Robert Carnilius, Columbia College ChicagoOscillate, Daniel Sierra, School of Visual Arts, New YorkPasser Passer, Louis Morton, University of Southern CaliforniaPerson, Drew Brown and Ramona Ramdeen, The Art Institute of Jacksonville, FloridaThe Private Life of Fenfen, Leslie Tai, Stanford UniversityStaircases, Steinar Bergoy Nedrebo, School of Visual Arts, New York

According to the Academy:

Congratulations to all the nominees, and an extra-special congrats to Louis Morton, whose nominated film Passer Passer was also a selection in Cartoon Brew's 2013 Student Animation Festival.