The jury of the Student Academy Awards have announced 14 winners for the 50th annual edition, winnowed out of roughly 2,500 entries. Three winners in the worldwide Animation category have been selected from eight finalist films. The Gold, Silver and Bronze medal placements will be announced at the in-person award ceremony on Tuesday, October 24, 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Medalists in the Student Academy Awards are automatically qualified for the Best Animated Short Film Oscar category at the main Academy Awards. While an SAA winner has yet to take home the Oscar, animation medalists turned nominees include An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It by Lachlan Pendragon (Griffith Film School, Australia) this year, Daughter by Daria Kashcheeva (FAMU, Czechia) in 2019 and 9 by Shane Acker in 2005.
SAA Animation Winners:
Gabriel Augerai, Romain Augier & Yannick Jacquin, Boom, École des Nouvelles Images (France)
A couple of dumb birds try their best to protect its eggs from a volcano eruption. (CGI)
César Luton, Achille Pasquier & Clémence Bailly, Diplomatie de l’Éclipse / The Diplomacy of the Eclipse, MoPA 3D Animation School (France)
At the moment of alignment, of total eclipse, humanity will vanish, this was the message sent by the Sun and the Moon. The World Council decides to send his best negotiator to stop the end of the world. (CGI)
Lisa Kenney, Mum’s Spaghetti, National Film and Television School (United Kingdom)
MC mastermind Poppy and her beatboxing border terrier Snoop are the new kids in town — and they’re ready to make their reputation known. Straight As and bubble baths are their way of life — but when confronted by an older crew en route to her first day at school, Poppy quickly changes her tune. (Stop-Motion)
