Oscars: 2024 Student Academy Awards Winners Revealed

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today revealed 15 winners of its 2024 Student Academy Awards competition, culled from nearly 2,700 entries spanning 738 colleges and universities around the world. See the list below.

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Gold, silver and bronze placements in the four award categories will be announced at the 51st awards ceremony, which is set for October 14 at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in London. The event is moving for the first time after being held at Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills for the past half-century.

Winners will have exclusive access to Academy members to support their career advancement, the Academy said. Past Student Academy Award winners include Spike Lee, Robert Zemeckis, Pete Docter, Patricia Riggen and Patricia Cardoso.

Here are the winners of the 2024 Student Academy Awards:

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

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

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

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

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