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CIO Bulletin
07 October, 2025
The 52nd Student Academy Awards are awards of merit that recognize and award analyses of animation, live-action films, and documentary shorts of remarkable caliber.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences applauded the 52nd Anniversary of its Student Academy Awards, where initiatives of the film industries were praised on outstanding college-age filmmakers worldwide. With Rolex, Held was held in New York City at the Ziegfeld Ballroom with Gold, Silver, and Bronze Awards in a variety of different forms, including animation.
This year the competition had 3,127 entries, in which 988 colleges and universities around the world entered this competition. All the winning films of the awards can be nominated to the 98th Oscars under the Animated/Live Action or Documentary Short Film category. Winners in the previous years have proceeded to get 69 Oscar nominations and 15 Oscar awards, which demonstrates that this is an important avenue that can foster upcoming talent.
Tobias Eckerlin won the Gold Medal in animation with A Sparer Lied (Germany) at the AnimationInstitut - Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg. Lucas Ansel of the Rhode Island School of Design was given the Silver Medal in The 12 Inch Pianist and the Bronze Medal in The Shyness of Trees was shared among Sofiia Chuikovska, Loick du Plessis D'Argentre and Maud Le Bras of Gobelins, France.
The awards served global student provision, as evidenced by Academy officials, President Lynette Howell Taylor and CEO Bill Kramer. Make another commemoration in the history of the Student Academy Awards this year; three outstanding works of animation power are set to be the successors to the successful movie-making of today and immortality.