AMPAS Crowns 2025 Student Academy Award Winners
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has crowned its winners of the 52nd Student Academy Awards competition, which includes students from the United Kingdom, the United States and Denmark.
This year, the competition received 3,127 entries from 988 colleges from universities worldwide. Past winners include Patricia Cardoso, Pete Docter, Spike Lee, Patricia Riggen and Robert Zemeckis.
The ceremony for the annual international student film awards will be held on Oct. 6 at 6 p.m. ET at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in New York City during the New York Film Festival.
All student award-winning films will be eligible to compete for the 98th Oscars in the animated short film, live action short film or documentary short film categories. Past winners have received 69 Oscar nominations and have won (or shared) 15.
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The Student Academy Awards were created in 1972 to “provide a platform for emerging global talent by creating opportunities within the industry to showcase their work,” according to the Academy.
See below for a full list of winners, listed alphabetically by category.
Alternative/Experimental
Mati Granica, flower_gan, London College of Communication, United Kingdom
Xindi Zhang, The Song of Drifters, University of Southern California
Vega Moltke-Leth, Without Perfection, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Animation
Sofiia Chuikovska, Loïck du Plessis D’Argentré & Maud Le Bras, The Shyness of Trees, Gobelins, France
Tobias Eckerlin, A Sparrow’s Song, Film Academy Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Lucas Ansel, The 12 Inch Pianist, Rhode Island School of Design
Documentary
Rebeka Bizubová, Confession, Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia
Jane Deng, I Remember, New York University
Tatiana McCabe, Tides of Life, University of the West of England Bristol, United Kingdom
Narrative
Meyer Levinson-Blount, Butcher’s Stain, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Jan Saczek, Dad’s Not Home, Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School, Poland
Zefan Wang, Kubrick, Like I Love You, Columbia University
