The Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences introduced its pupil winners from faculties and universities all over the world on the 52nd Scholar Academy Awards ceremony on Monday, October 6, 2025. Gold, Silver and Bronze placements have been introduced and trophies offered throughout a ceremony held on the Ziegfeld Ballroom in New York Metropolis.
The Scholar Academy Awards have been established in 1972 to offer a platform for rising international expertise by creating alternatives throughout the trade to showcase their work. All Scholar Academy Award-winning movies are eligible to compete for the 98th Oscars within the Animated Quick Movie, Reside Motion Quick Movie, or Documentary Quick Movie classes. The 2025 winners be part of the ranks of such previous Scholar Academy Award winners as Spike Lee, Robert Zemeckis, Patricia Riggen, Pete Docter, and Patricia Cardoso. Final yr, 5 2024 Scholar Academy Award-winning movies made the Oscar shortlists. Previous winners have gone on to obtain 69 Oscar nominations in complete, and have received or shared 15 awards.
This yr, the Scholar Academy Awards competitors acquired 3,127 entries from 988 faculties and universities worldwide. With remarks by Academy CEO Invoice Kramer and Academy President Lynette Howell Taylor, the evening’s class presenters included Academy Actors Department Governor Lou Diamond Phillips and filmmakers Craig Brewer, Jon M. Chu and Alex Woo. The 2025 ceremony is out there to view on the Oscars YouTube web page.
The 2025 Scholar Academy Award placements are:
Different/Experimental
Gold: Xindi Zhang, “The Tune of Drifters,” College of Southern California
Silver: Vega Moltke-Leth, “With out Perfection,” College of Copenhagen, Denmark
Bronze: Mati Granica, “flower_gan,” London Faculty of Communication, United Kingdom
Animation
Gold: Tobias Eckerlin, “A Sparrow’s Tune,” Movie Academy Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Silver: Lucas Ansel, “The 12 Inch Pianist,” Rhode Island College of Design
Bronze: Sofiia Chuikovska, Loïck du Plessis D’Argentré & Maud Le Bras, “The Shyness of Timber,” Gobelins, France
Documentary
Gold: Tatiana McCabe, “Tides of Life,” College of the West of England Bristol, United Kingdom
Silver: Rebeka Bizubová, “Confession,” Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia
Bronze: Jane Deng, “I Bear in mind,” New York College
Narrative
Gold: Jan Saczek, “Dad’s Not Dwelling,” Krzysztof Kieślowski Movie College, Poland
Silver: Meyer Levinson-Blount, “Butcher’s Stain,” Tel Aviv College, Israel
Bronze: ZEFAN, “Kubrick, Like I Love You,” Columbia College
First-time honors go to the College of Copenhagen, Gobelins, Krzysztof Kieślowski Movie College, Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, London Faculty of Communication and College of the West of England Bristol.
