Complete list of winners
By Mike Cidoni Lennox
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) --There was a decidedly international flavor to Saturday night’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 38th Annual Student Academy Awards, with top medalists hailing from homelands spanning the globe — from Norway to South Korea to Israel to Brazil.
“For the first time Foreign Film is not just an honorary category, as it has been for the past 31 years,” said event co-presenter, “Alias” actress Jennifer Garner. “The Student Award executive committee felt with all the quality work they were seeing each year from the schools outside America, it was about time to make to make Foreign Film a regular category.”
Garner noted that foreign students submitted 52 films from 32 different countries this year, and the winner of the new foreign prize was Norway’s Hallvar Witzo, director of “Tuba Atlantic.”
Even one of the top Hollywood-produced winners, narrative-category gold medalist “Thief,” had a foreign flair. It spun around a young Saddam Hussein, was set in Iraq and in Iraqi-Arabic with subtitles.
“This is just an incredible ride, a thrill ride,” ”Thief” director Julian Higgins said in a pre-ceremony interview Saturday afternoon. Higgins, a graduate of the American Film Institute, added, “We do have a mantel, for once in my apartment. So, that might be the choice. But, you’ll never know. I mean, I hear these are people that win the Oscars and they put it in their closet or in their office or something, I’ve never thought about it before. So, I guess I should start thinking.”
Other gold medal winners included New York director Zach Hyer’s “Correspondence” in the animation category and Chicago-based Wonjung Bae’s “Vera Klement: Blunt Edge” in the documentary category.
While all winners knew they would each receive an award, their placement __ Gold, Silver or Bronze __ was not revealed until the ceremony. Gold medalists received cash grants of $5,000. Silver medalists received $3,000. And Bronze medalists received $2,000.
The Academy established the Student Academy Awards in 1972 to support and encourage excellence in filmmaking at the collegiate level. Past Student Academy Award winners have gone on to receive 43 Oscar nominations and have won or shared eight awards.
Winners Saturday night in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 38th Annual Student Academy Awards:
Alternative category
– Gold Medal(*): “The Vermeers,” Tal S. Shamir, The New School, New York
(*)Only one medal was awarded in the Alternative category.
Animation category (tie for Gold Medal)
– Gold Medal: “Correspondence,” Zach Hyer, Pratt Institute, New York
– Gold Medal: “Dragonboy,” Bernardo Warman and Shaofu Zhang, Academy of Art University, California
– Bronze Medal: “Defective Detective,” Avner Geller and Stevie Lewis, Ringling College of Art and Design, Florida
Documentary category
– Gold Medal: “Vera Klement: Blunt Edge,” Wonjung Bae, Columbia College Chicago
– Silver Medal: “Imaginary Circumstances,” Anthony Weeks, Stanford University
– Bronze Medal: “Sin Pais (Without Country),” Theo Rigby, Stanford University
Narrative category
– Gold Medal: “Thief,” Julian Higgins, American Film Institute, California
– Silver Medal: “High Maintenance,” Shawn Wines, Columbia University
– Bronze Medal: “Fatakra,” Soham Mehta, University of Texas at Austin
Foreign Student Film category
– Gold Medal: “Tuba Atlantic,” Hallvar Witzo, The Norwegian Film School, Norway
– Silver Medal: “Bekas,” Karzan Kader, Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts, Sweden
– Bronze Medal: “Raju,” Max Zaehle, Hamburg Media School, Germany
Alec Baldwin Urges Judge To Stand By Dismissal Of Involuntary Manslaughter Case In “Rust” Shooting
Alec Baldwin urged a New Mexico judge on Friday to stand by her decision to skuttle his trial and dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against the actor in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of a Western movie.
State District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed the case against Baldwin halfway through a trial in July based on the withholding of evidence by police and prosecutors from the defense in the 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film "Rust."
The charge against Baldwin was dismissed with prejudice, meaning it can't be revived once any appeals of the decision are exhausted.
Special prosecutor Kari Morrissey recently asked the judge to reconsider, arguing that there were insufficient facts and that Baldwin's due process rights had not been violated.
Baldwin, the lead actor and co-producer on "Rust," was pointing a gun at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal when it went off, killing her and wounding director Joel Souza. Baldwin has said he pulled back the hammer — but not the trigger — and the revolver fired.
The case-ending evidence was ammunition that was brought into the sheriff's office in March by a man who said it could be related to Hutchins' killing. Prosecutors said they deemed the ammunition unrelated and unimportant, while Baldwin's lawyers alleged that they "buried" it and filed a successful motion to dismiss the case.
In her decision to dismiss the Baldwin case, Marlowe Sommer described "egregious discovery violations constituting misconduct" by law enforcement and prosecutors, as well as false testimony about physical evidence by a witness during the trial.
Defense counsel says that prosecutors tried to establish a link... Read More