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STUDENT ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Marni Banack and JB Sugar, students last term at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, won the Gold Medal in the Narrative Category for their film, JOH ,at the 1999 Student Academy Awards, which were presented in June at the Academy. TRUE CONFESSIONS OF A SUSHJ ADDICT, a film by Kimberly Harwood of ew York University, took the Silver Medal and Thomas Wade Jackson of Florida State University in Tallahassee won the Bronze for his film, SLOW DANCIN' DOWN THE AJSLFS OF THE QUICKCHECK. The Narrative Category awards were presented by writer / director Curtis Hanson, who received three Academy Award nominations in 1997 and won the Oscar for his I screenplay of L.A. CONFIDENTIAL. Academy Award-nominated actress Lynn Redgrave (GEORGY GIRL, GODS AND MONSTERS) presented the awards in the Alternative Category, and actor Steve Guttenberg presented the awards in the Documentary and Animation categories. ,4., '.' i' ~ Winners in the other categories were: ~ t1. " • . Alternative Category \.'" !$' Gold Medal, TREE SHADE, Lisa Collins, Columbia University, New York. Winner JB..2r, s~(ond frolllat, wift "· - Silver Medal, THE PIECE, Jordan Waid, The New School, New York. mother,!lonnl~ and A(adem"tWident Robert Bronze Medal, ATOMIC TABASCO, Jim Cox, New York University. Rehme and his wife, Kay.
Animation Category Gold Medal, A LETTER FROM THE WESTERN FRONT, Daniel M. Kanemoto, NYU Silver Medal, BETWEEN THE LINES, Jamie Maxfield, California Institute of the Arts. Bronze Medal, SHADOW OF A DROUGHT, Daniel Kutner and Brian Emerson, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Documentary Category Gold Medal, MAN AND DOG, Randolph Benson, North Carolina School of the Arts. In addition to the above awards, the Honorary Foreign Student Award was presented by Oscar-nominated writer and past president of the Academy, Fay Kanin, to Marc Andreas Bouchert of the Hochschule fur Film und Fernsehen "Konrad Wolf" in Germany , for his film SMALL CHANGE (KL EINGELD) . Bochert's IS-minute film was selected from an original field of 28 entries from 21 countries. This is the third year in a row and the fifth time overall that a German student film .~ 4f has won the Honorary Foreign Student Award, although each of the five winners has represented a different school. Germany now holds the record for the number of times a • ~~< student has won the award, followed by England, which has been represented four times. .~ ~ . The Directors Guild of America's Student Film Award was presented by Hanson to A(ademylj.riters Bramh go~er~ ~ ame Marni Banack, the director of JOHN, winner of the arrative Gold Medal. Pefri!".e, ~4rfIt~ with winner B'tian E mma~ .... """~ f _____.... ,. And, for the first time, the American Society of Cinematographers' Student A ward was presented at the Academy event to David A. Armstrong of the American Film Institute. Armstrong was the cinematographer on the Narrative Category Gold Medal winning film, JOHN. Academy Award-winning cinematographer Russell Carpenter (TITANIC) presented Armstrong with a commemorative ASC plaque and the award's $1,000 prize. One of this year's recipients, Jamie Maxfield, is now a two-time Student Academy Award winner. He was previously recognized in 1993 with a Gold Medal for his animated film ABOVE AVERAGE. Only three other people in the history of the competition have received two awards, though Maxfield has a span of six years between them; the others received their awards in consecutive years.
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