The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has revealed the winners of the 2025 Student Academy Awards.
Chosen from over 3,000 submissions from 988 colleges and universities worldwide, the winners will be presented with their prizes during the annual international student film awards ceremony on Monday 6 October.
They will join past winners and legendary filmmakers including Patricia Cardoso, Pete Docter, Spike Lee, Patricia Riggen and Robert Zemeckis as recipients of the award.
First-time honours go to students from the University of Copenhagen, Gobelins, Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School, Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, London College of Communication and University of the West of England Bristol.
Gold, silver and bronze placements in the four award categories will be announced at the ceremony.
Winners will also receive “a robust weekend of education programming, networking opportunities and exclusive access to Academy members to support their career advancement”, the Academy added.
All Student Academy 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 gone on to receive 69 Oscar nominations and have won or shared 15 awards.
The full list of winners are listed by category below.
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
