Annie Award for Best Student Film

Annie Award for Best Student Film
Awarded for	Excellence in animated films by students
Country	United States
Presented by	ASIFA-Hollywood
First award	2012
Currently held by	Adiós (2024)
Website	annieawards.org

The Annie Award for Best Student Film is an Annie Award given annually to the best animated films by students, the category was first presented at the 40th Annie Awards.

According to ASIFA-Hollywood, in order to be eligible for this award, "the submitted production must be entirely the work of an individual student or team of students from an accredited post-secondary, degree granting program anywhere in the world". ^[1]

Winners and nominees

2010s

Year	Film	Studient(s)	Alma mater
2012 (40th) [2]
	Head Over Heels	Timothy Reckart
	Can We Be Happy Now	Tahnee Gehm
	Defective Detective	Avner Geller & Stevie Lewis
	I Am Tom Moody	Ainslie Henderson
	Ladies Knight	Joseph Rothenberg
	Origin	Jessica Poon
	The Ballad of Poisonberry Pete	Adam Campbell, Elizabeth McMahill, Uri Lotan
	Tule Lake	Michelle Ikemoto
2013 (41st) [3]
	Wedding Cake	Viola Baier (Director), Iris Frisch (Producer)	Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg
	Chicken or the Egg	Christine Kim, Elaine Wu	Ringling College of Art and Design
	The Final Straw	Ricky Renna
	Kellerkind	Julia Ocker (Director), Anna Matacz (Producer)	Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg
	Miss Todd	Kristina Yee	National Film and Television School
	Move Mountain	Kirsten Lepore	California Institute of the Arts
	Trusts & Estates	Jeanette Bonds
	Semáforo	Simón Wilches-Castro	University of Southern California
2014 (42nd) [4]
	My Big Brother	Jason Rayner	Savannah College of Art and Design
	After School	Junyi Xiao	Beihang University / University of Southern California
	Dead Over Heels	Jose Matheu	Savannah College of Art and Design
	Frog's Legs	Katie Tamboer
	El Coyote	Javier Barboza	University of Southern California
	Tiny Nomad	Toniko Pantoja	California Institute of the Arts
2015 (43rd) [5] [6]
	Ed	Taha Neyestani	Sheridan College
	Can I Stay?	Katie Knudson, Onyee Lo, Paige Carter	Ringling College of Art and Design
	Dodoba	Yon Hui Lee	California Institute of the Arts
	Life Smartphone	Xie Chenglin	China Central Academy of Fine Arts
	Mother	Joan Chung, Stephanie Chiew, Ana Gomez, Dadi Wang, David Du, Rui Hao, Matthew Fazari, Nicholas Nason, Jessica Jing, Seeyun Lee	Sheridan College
	The Casebook of Nips & Porkington	Melody Wang
	Nice to Meeteor You	Yizhou Li	University of Southern California
	Shift	Maria Cecilia Puglesi, Yijun Liu	School of Visual Arts
2016 (44th) [7] [8]
	Citipati	Andreas Feix (director), Francesco Faranna (producer), Petteri Sainio (music), Michael Boeger (Sounddesign), Natalia Alencar (Texturing)	Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg
	Fishwitch	Adrienne Dowling	National Film and Television School
	The Wrong End of the Stick	Terri Matthews
	The Abyss	Liying Huang, Wu Zheng	Communication University of China
	Twiddly Things	Adara Todd	Middlesex University
2017 (45th) [9] [10]
	Poles Apart	Paloma Baeza (director), Ser En Low (producer), All Student Crew	National Film and Television School
	Cradle	Devon Manney	University of Southern California
	Elsewhere	Junyi Xiao
	Godd Night, Everybuds!	Benedikt Hummel (director), Lena Beck (sound design & mix), Andreas Pfeiffer (music), Stefan Michel (producer)	Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg
	Once a Hero	Xia Li	USC School of Cinematic Arts
2018 (46th) [11] [12]
	Best Friend	Nicholas Olivieri, Yi Shen, Juliana de Lucca, Varun Nair, David Feliu	Gobelins, l'École de l'image
	A Blink of an Eye	Kiana Naghshineh	Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
	Facing It	Sam Gainsborough	National Film and Television School
	Hors Piste	Oscar Malet, Léo Brunel, Camille Jalabert, Loris Cavalier	École des Nouvelles Images
	Sister	Siqi Song	California Institute of the Arts
2019 (47th) [13] [14]
	The Fox & The Pigeon	Michelle Chua, Aileen Dewhurst, Sharon Gabriella, Viktor Ivanovski, Sang Lee, Tyler Pacana, Sikyung Kevin Sung, Morgan Thompson, Matt Walton, Steven Wang, Chelsea van Tol	Sheridan College
	Con Fuerza	Andrés Eduardo, Alejandro M. Siegert	Savannah College of Art and Design
	Gravedad	Matisse Gonzalez, Toufik Abdedaim	Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
	Un Diable Dans la Poche	Antoine BONNET, Mathilde LOUBES	Gobelins, l'École de l'image

2020s

Year	Film	Studient(s)	Alma mater
2020 (48th) [15] [16]
	La Bestia	Marlijn Van Nuenen, Ram Tamez, Alfredo Gerard Kuttikatt	Gobelins, l'École de l'image
	100,000 Acres of Pine	Jennifer Alice Wright	The Animation Workshop
	Coffin	Yuanqing Cai, Nathan Crabot, Houzhi Huang, Mikolaj Janiw, Mandimby Lebon, Théo Tran Ngoc	Gobelins, l'École de l'image
	Latitude du Printemps	Sylvain Cuvillier, Chloé Bourdic, Théophile Coursimault, Noémie Halberstam, Maŷlis Mosny, Zijing Ye	Rubika
	O Black Hole!	Renee Zhan, Jesse Romain	National Film and Television School
2021 (49th) [17] [18]
	Night of the Living Dread	Ida Melum, director; Danielle Goff, producer	National Film and Television School
	A Film About a Pudding	Roel Van Beek, director; Jack Pollington, producer	National Film and Television School
	HOPE	Ryoma Leneuf & Gabriel Martinez, directors; Nicolas Daguin, Guillaume Uchoa, Arthur Bollia, Benjamin Autour; producers	New3dge
	I Am a Pebble	Yasmine Bresson and Maxime Le Chapelain, directors; Coline Moire, producer	ESMA
	Slouch	Michael Bohnenstingl, director and producer	Film Academy Baden-Württemberg
2022 (50th) [19]
	The Soloists	Mehrnaz Abdollahinia, Feben Elias Woldehawariat, Razahk Issaka, Celeste Jamneck, Yi Liu, directors	Gobelins, l'école de l'image
	Au revoir Jérôme !	Adam Sillard, Gabrielle Selnet, Chloé Farr, directors	Gobelins, l'école de l'image
	Birdsong	Michelle Cheng, director and producer	California Institute of the Arts
	Synchronie Passagère	Julia Le Bras-Juarez, director	Supinfocom Rubika
	The Most Boring Granny in the Whole World	Damaris Zielke, director; Jiayan Chen, producer	Film Academy Baden-Württemberg
2023 (51st) [20] [21]
	The Little Poet	Justine King, director and producer	California Institute of the Arts
	From The Top	Rich Farris, director; Martina Buendia Silva, producer	National Film and Television School
	Kolaj	Besen Dilek, director and producer	Filamakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH
	La quête de l'humain	Mélina Ienco, Lucie Juric, Caroline Leibel, Faustine Merle, and Claire Pellet, student team	Gobelins, l'école de l'image
	Quem Salva	Laure Devin, Maxime Bourstin, Nathan Medam, Charles Hechinger, and Titouan Jaouen, student team	Supinfocom Rubika
2024 (52nd) [22] [23]
	Adiós	José Prats, director; Bernardo Angeletti, producer	National Film and Television School
	El Ombligo de la Luna	Sara António, Julia Grupińska, Bokang Koatja, Tian Westraad, Ezequiel Garibay, directors	Gobelins
	Pear Garden	Shadab Shayegan, director and producer	Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH, Animationsinstitut
	Polliwog	Julia Skala, director; Max Pollmann, producer
	Turmspringer	Oscar Bittner, director; Andra Berila, producer

References

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External links

• Annie Awards: Legacy