Student Academy Awards Reveal 2024 Gold, Silver and Bronze Placements

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the Gold, Silver and Bronze placements for the 51st Student Academy Awards during a ceremony held last night at London’s ODEON Luxe Leicester Square, in partnership with Rolex.

The 2024 competition drew 2,683 entries from 738 colleges and universities worldwide, with 15 student filmmakers honored across four categories: Alternative/Experimental, Animation, Documentary and Narrative.

Academy CEO Bill Kramer and president Janet Yang delivered remarks at the ceremony, while Academy board members Chris Sanders (The Wild Robot) and Jason Reitman (Saturday Night) presented the awards.

This year marked first-time wins for the National Institute of Design in India, Digital Hollywood University in Japan, and the Filmová Akademie Miroslava Ondříčka v Písku in the Czech Republic.

All winning films are now eligible for Oscar consideration in the Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film and Documentary Short Film categories at the 97th Academy Awards.

Hers is the full list of 2024 Student Academy Award placements:

Alternative/Experimental

• Gold: Birdy Wei-Ting Hung, “A Brighter Summer Day for the Lady Avengers,”
  San Francisco State University
• Silver: Dori Walker, “In Living Memory,”
  Brown University
• Bronze: Akshit Kumar, “bonVoyage pour monVoyage,”
  National Institute of Design, India

Animation

• Gold: Florian Maurice, Maxime Foltzer & Estelle Bonnardel,
  “Au Revoir Mon Monde,” MoPA 3D Animation School, France
• Silver: Kei Kanamori, “Origami,”
  Digital Hollywood University, Japan
• Bronze: Spencer Baird, “Student Accomplice,”
  Brigham Young University

Documentary

• Gold: Hannah Rafkin, “Keeper,”
  School of Visual Arts
• Silver: Aaron Johnson, “The 17%,”
  Chapman University
• Bronze: Rishabh Raj Jain, “A Dream Called Khushi (Happiness),”
  New York University

Narrative

• Gold: Pavel Sýkora & Viktor Horák, “The Compatriot,”
  Filmová Akademie Miroslava Ondříčka v Písku, Czech Republic
• Silver: Jens Kevin Georg, “Crust,”
  Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Germany
• Bronze: Robin Wang, “Neither Donkey nor Horse,”
  University of Southern California