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The 49th Student Academy Awards Ceremony took place on Thursday, October 20, at the David Geffen Theater in Los Angeles. That evening, the winners received their medal placements – gold, silver, bronze – in the four award categories. Gold medal-winning films were screened after the ceremony.
#StudentAcademyAwards is an international student film competition, established in 1972. Each year, college and university film students from all over the world compete for awards and cash grants, with films being judged in the following categories: Animation, Documentary, Live Action Narrative and Alternative/Experimental. Past Student Academy Award winners have gone on to win 11 Oscars, and receive 63 Oscar nominations. Past SAA winners include Pete Docter, Robert Zemeckis, Patricia Riggen, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Patricia Cardoso and Spike Lee.
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