Oscar's Little Brother: Academy Unveils Student Kudos

Posted by Peter Debruge:
While Anne preps her next dispatch from Cannes, I thought I might give a shout out to this year's Student Academy Award winners. The list is alphabetical, as final rankings won't be announced until June 7 (unlike the Oscars, the student categories are given gold, silver and bronze honors). I've added links so you can see the trailers, official sites or, in some cases, the full shorts where available (Simulacra, for example, seems to complement Pixar's upcoming Wall-E). Click through for the goods.

Narrative
- A Day’s Work, Rajeev Dassani, University of Southern California
- Pitstop, Melanie McGraw, University of Southern California
- The State of Sunshine, Z. Eric Yang, Florida State University

Animation
- Simulacra, Tatchapon Lertwirojkul, The School of Visual Arts
- The Visionary, Evan Mayfield, Ringling College of Art and Design, Florida
- Zoologic, Nicole Mitchell, California Institute of the Arts

Documentary
- As We Forgive, Laura Waters Hinson, American University, Washington, D.C.
- If a Body Meet a Body, Brian Davis, University of Southern California
- Unattached, J.J. Adler, Columbia University

Alternative
- Circles of Confusion, Phoebe Tooke, San Francisco State University
- Viola: The Traveling Rooms of a Little Giant, Shih-Ting Hung, University of Southern California

Honorary Foreign Film
- On the Line (Auf der Strecke), Reto Caffi, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany