Awards Watch

Our alumni and faculty win Oscars, Emmys, Tonys and many other honors. UCLA students compete with veterans for the same prestigious awards.

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Academy Awards

• 2009
  • WINNER — Best Writing (Original Screenplay): Milk, Dustin Lance Black `96
  • Best Picture nominee: The Curious Case of Bdenjamin Button, producer, Executive Board Member Frank Marshall `68
  • Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) nominee: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, alumnus Eric Roth
  • Best Sound Editing nominee: Wanted, asst. sound editor Jane A. McKeever MFA `07
  • Best Animated Short nominee: Oktapodi, co-director, student Emud Mokhberi
• 2008
  • WINNER — Best Documentary Feature: Taxi to the Dark Side, writer/director/co-producer alumnus Alex Gibney

American Film Institute

• 2009
  • WINNER — Top Ten Award: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, producer Executive Board member Frank Marshall `68, writer alumnus Eric Roth
  • WINNER — Top Ten Award: Milk, writer Dustin Lance Black '96

Aniboom!

• 2009
  • WINNER — Grand Jury and Community, Sebastian's Voodoo, director Joaquin Baldwin

Art Directors Guild Awards

• 2009
  • Episode of a Half Hour Single-Camera Television Series nominee: The Office: Weight Loss, art director Matt Flynn MFA `94

ASIFA-Hollywood 2008 ANNIE Awards

• 2009
  • Best Animated Short nominee: Sebastian's Voodoo, director, student Joaquin Baldwin
  • Best Animated Television Production nominee: The Simpsons, director David Silverman `79, MFA `83; director, Professor Chuck Sheetz `83; co-producer Mike B. Anderson MFA `90; co-producer Richard Sakai `77, MFA `80; starring Nancy Cartwright `81; starring Harry Shearer `64

ASIFA-Hollywood 2008 Student Animation Awards

• 2009
  • WINNER — Emile Cohl Award for Best Animated Short: Sebastian's Voodoo, director Joaquin Baldwin
  • WINNER — Best Visual Storytelling: Love on the Line, director Melissa Graziano
  • WINNER — Best Technical Achievement: Way Home, director Erick Oh
  • WINNER — Judges Choice: A Caffeine Headache, director Jessica Forer MFA `08

Association of Library Collections & Technical Services

• 2008
  • WINNER — The Margaret Mann Citation, Cataloging supervisor: Martha Yee, UCLA Film & Television Archive

Association of Moving Images Archivists Awards

• 2007
  • WINNERS — AMIA scholarship: Dino Everett (CFI Sid Solow Scholarship), James Gamble (Sony Pictures Scholarship), Oki Miyano (Rick Chace Foundation Scholarship), Stephanie Sapienza (Mary Pickford Scholarshpi), Timothy Wilson (Image Preservation Scholarship)

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Berlin International Film Festival

• 2009
  • WINNER — Golden Bear, Best Script: The Messenger, co-writer Alessandro Camon MA `94
  • WINNER — Crystal Bear, Best Feature: My Suicide, co-producer/writer/editor Jordon J. Miller `08, cinematographer Lisa Wiegand MFA `98

Boston Society of Film Critics

• 2009
  • WINNER &mdash Best Original Screenplay: Milk, Writer, Dustin Lance Black `96

British Academy Film Awards

• 2009
  • Best Film nominees: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, screenwriter alumnus Eric Roth; Milk, screenwriter Dustin Lance Black `96
  • Best Screenplay (Adapted) nominee: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Eric Roth
  • Best Screenplay (Original) nominee: Milk, Dustin Lance Black `96

Broadcast Film Critics's Critics Choice Awards

• 2009
  • Best Supporting Actor nominee: James Franco, Milk
  • Best Original Screenplay nominee: Milk, Dustin Lance Black `96
  • Best Adapted Screenplay nominee: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Eric Roth

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Cannes Film Festival

• 2002
  • Premiere: About Schmidt, director/co-writer alumnus Alexander Payne

Casting Society of America Artios Awards

• 2009
  • WINNER — New York Apple Award: Thomas Schumacher `80

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Directors Guild of America Awards

• 2009
  • WINNER — Film Foundation's John Huston Award: Robert Rosen
  • WINNER — Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series Night: Daniel Attias MFA `83, The Wire: Transitions
  • Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical Variety nominee: Louis J. Horvitz `68, The 80th Annual Academy Awards
  • Outstanding Directorial Achievement nominee, Daytime Serials: Herb Stein `70, Days of Our Lives

Directors Guild of America, Student Film Awards (West Coast)

• 2009
  • WINNER — Best African American Student Filmmaker: Hezekiah Lewis MFA `08, Warrior Queen
  • WINNER — Honorable Mention, African American: Anthony Onah, The Cure
  • WINNER — Latino: Adriana Montenegro MFA `08, From the Core
  • WINNER — Women: Miranda Yousef MFA `07, Collectibles
  • WINNER — Honorable Mention, Women: Alexandra Fisher MFA `08, Desert Wedding
  • WINNER — Honorable Mention, Latino: Roberto Gudino, Below the Fold: The Pulitzer that Defined Latino Journalism
• 2007
  • WINNER — Asian-American: Juli Kang, Damn the Past!
  • WINNER — Women: Nicole Haeusser MFA `07, The Death Strip
  • WINNER — Honorable Mention, Women: Thouly Dosios MFA `06, House of Olives

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Emmy Awards

• 2009
  • WINNER — Outstanding Directing (Variety, Music or Comedy Program): director Louis J. Horvitz `68, The 80th Annual Academy Awards
  • WINNER — Outstanding Animated Program: The Simpsons, director, Professor Chuck Sheetz `83

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Feminist Majority Foundation's Global Women's Rights Awards

• 2009
  • Alumna Mariska Hargitay for "educating television audiences concerning violence against women"

Film Independent's Spirit Awards

• 2009
  • Truer Than Fiction Award nominee: Professor Sacha Gervasi, Anvil: The Story of Anvil
  • Best First Screenplay nominee: Milk, screenwriter Dustin Lance Black `96
  • Best Supporting Male Actor nominee: James Franco `08, Milk
• 2008
  • WINNER — John Cassevetes Award: August Evening, Chris Eska MFA '03:

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Golden Globe Awards

• 2009
  • Best Motion Picture (Drama) nominee: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, producer, Exec. Board Member Frank Marshall `68, screenwriter, alumnus Eric Roth
  • Best Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) nominee: Mamma Mia!, producer, Executive Board Member Rita Wilson
  • Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) nominee: James Franco `08, Pineapple Express
  • Best Screenplay (Motion Picture) nominee: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, screenwriter, alumnus Eric Roth
  • Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series (Drama) nominee: Mariska Hargitay, Law And Order: Special Victims Unit

• 2008
  • Motion Picture Nominees (Drama category): American Gangster, edited by Pietro Scalia '82, MFA '85, and The Great Debaters, co-starring Stephen Rider MFA '05
  • Animated Film Nominee: The Simpsons Movie, director David Silverman '79, MFA '83 . Bruins on the Simpsons team include director Mike B. Anderson MFA '90, writer Don Payne '87, MFA 91 and voice performers Nancy Cartwright '81 and Harry Shearer '64.
  • Best Actor Nominee :In "Charlie Wilson's War,"Tom Hanks, Dean's Advisory Board Member

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Humanitas Prize

• 2009
  • WINNER — Sundance Feature: A Raisin In The Sun, screenwriter Paris Qualles MA `78
  • WINNER — David & Lynn Angell Student Comedy Fellowship: Cameron Porsandeh

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International Documentary Association

• 2009
  • WINNER — Preservation and Scholarship Award: Professor Marina Goldovskaya

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LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards

• 2007
  • Best Lead Actress in a Play: Judy Kaye '71 as Florence Foster Jenkins in Souvenir.
  • Best Featured Actress in a Play: Adjunct Assistant Professor Judith Moreland as Christine in Miss Julie, Fountain Theatre.
  • Best Musical, Large Theater: George Gershwin Alone, Geffen Playhouse. Also Best Lead Actor in a Musical, Hershey Felder; Best Lighting Design, Large Theater, Michael Gilliam; and Best Sound Design, Large Theater, Jon Gottlieb.
  • Best Touring Production: Jersey Boys, Ahmanson Theatre: Co-stars Taylor Sternberg '06.

London Film Critics Circle Awards

• 2009
  • Film of the Year nominee: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, producer Executive Board member Frank Marshall `68, writer alumnus Eric Roth
  • Film of the Year nominee: Milk, writer Dustin Lance Black `96
  • Screenwriter of the Year nominee: Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Los Angeles Film Critics Association

• 2009
  • WINNER — Best Actor (Sean Penn): Milk, writer Dustin Lance Black '96

Los Angeles Film Festival


• 2008
  • WINNER — Best Documentary Feature: Anvil, alumnus Scha Gervasi
• 2007
  • WINNER — Best Dramatic Feature: August Evening, writer/director Chris Eska MFA `03
  • WINNER — Outstanding Performance (Ensemble): August Evening, starring Walter Perez, Veronica Loren, Abel Becerra, Pedro Castaneda, Cesar Flores

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NAACP Image Awards

• 2009
  • WINNERS — Outstanding Motion Picture and Outstanding Direction (Motion Picture): The Secret Life of Bees, writer/director Gina Prince-Bythewood `91
  • Outstanding Writing (Motion Picture) nominees: The Secret Life of Bees, screenwriter Gina

    Prince-Bythewood `91; A Raisin in the Sun, screenwriter Paris Qualles MA `78

  • Outstanding Television Movie nominee: 24: Redemption, creator Joel Surnow `76

National Society of Film Critics

• 2009
  • WINNER — Special Film Heritage Award: Kent Mackenzie's 1961 film The Exiles restored by Ross Lipman, UCLA Film & Television Archive

New York Film Critics Circle

• 2009
  • WINNER &mdash Best Picture, Best Actor (Sean Penn), Best Supporting Actor (Josh Brolin): Milk, writer Dustin Lance Black `96

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Ovation Awards

• 2009
  • WINNERS - Best Play Intimate Theatre: The Quality of Life, Geffen Playhouse; best original play: Jane Anderson; best lead actress: Laurie Metcalf

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Palm Springs International Film Festival

• 2009
  • WINNER — Best of Fest: "American Primitive," screenwriter James Egan, staring Anne Ramsay `84

Princess Grace Awards



Producers Guild Awards

• 2009
  • Producer of the Year Award nominee: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, producer, Executive Board Member Frank Marshall `68
• 2008
  • Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall '68, David O.Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures
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Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards


• 2007
  • WINNER — First Place: Self Help, Austin Formato
  • WINNER — Second Place: Odd Man Out, Robyn Paris
  • WINNER — Third Place (tie): Out of Road, JJ Nelson
  • WINNER — Third Place (tie): The Hole in the Brain of Phineas Gage, Richard Rapoza
  • WINNER — Honorable Mention: Spin Cycle, Suzie Bohannon
  • WINNER — First Place: Sex and Sylvia Plath, student Jennifer O'Kieffe
  • WINNER — Second Place: Buckbee, student Michael Vukadinovich
  • WINNER — Third Place: Coup, Mark C. Humphrey `07

Santa Fe Film Festival Luminaria Tribute

• 2007
  • Professor Marina Goldovskaya, recieved a Luminaria Tribute for lifetime achievement at the Santa Fe Film Festival
  • Porsche David Award: TFT graduate directing student Austin Formato the finalist for the Porsche David Award

San Francisco Film Critics Circle

• 2009
  • WINNER — Best Picture: Milk, writer Dustin Lance Black `96

Screen Actors Guild Awards

• 2009
  • Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series nominee: alumna Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Slamdance Film Festival 2009

• 2009
  • WINNER — Grand Jury Prize, Best Narrative Feature: A Quiet Little Marriage, writer/director Mo Perkins MFA `04, producer Angela Sostre MFA `04, producer Tamara Maloney MFA `04
  • WINNER — Audience Award (Best Narrative Feature); IndieRoad Award: Punching the Clown, director/co-writer, Professor Greg Viens, co-producer Corey Wish `05

St. Louis Film Critics Association

• 2009
  • WINNER — Best Picture: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, producer Executive Board member Frank Marshall `68, writer Eric Roth

Student Academy Awards


• 2009
  • WINNER — Animation: Gold Medal: "Alice's Attic," Robin Yannoukos
  • WINNER: Animation: Silver Medal: "Sebastian's Voodoo," Joaquin Baldwin
• 2005
  • WINNER — Animation: Gold Medal: "9," Writer-director Shane Acker MA '98, MFA '04
  • WINNER — Documentary: Gold Medal: "The Life of Kevin Carter," Dan Krauss
• 2002
  • WINNER — Narrative: Silver Medal: "Barrier Device," Grace Lee MFA '02
• 2001
  • WINNER — Narrative: Silver Medal: "The Confession," Carl Pfirman MFA '00
• 2000
  • WINNER — Animation: Silver Medal (tie): "The Bad Plant," Amy Winfrey MFA '00; "Luz," Jose Javier Martinez
• 1998
  • WINNER — Alternative: Gold Medal: "Sombra," Robin Larson
• 1997
  • WINNER — Animation: Gold Medal: "Unicorn Baby Blues," Mark Dale Levine '97
• 1996
  • WINNER — Dramatic: Gold Medal: "the Water Carrier," Patricia Cardoso MFA '94
• 1992
  • WINNER — Experimental: Gold Medal: "In the Aquarium," Robert Beebe '80, MFA '91
• 1990
  • WINNER — Animation: Merit: "The Yodel Contest," Andrew Artz
• 1989
  • WINNER — Animation: Achievement: "Sand Dance," Richard Quade MFA '90
• 1988
  • WINNER — Animation: Merit: "Artistic Vision," Richard Quade MFA '90
• 1986
  • WINNER — Dramatic: Merit: "Chicken Thing," Todd Holland MFA '90
• 1980
  • WINNER — Documentary: Merit: "Crossroads/South Africa: The Struggle Continues," Jonathan Wacks MFA '87
• 1976
  • WINNER — Experimental: "After Lumiere," Joan Laine MFA '76
• 1973
  • WINNER — Animation: "Anti-Matter," Lewis Hall '74 '87, Carlos Guiterrez-Mana

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Vilcek Foundation Prizes in the Arts

• 2009
  • WINNER — Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise: Ham Tran `03

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Writers Guild of America Awards

• 2009
  • WINNER — Comedy/Variety: Saturday Night Live, writer John Solomon `92, MFA `06, writer Jorma Taccone `00
  • WINNER — Best Original Screenplay; Paul Selwin Award: Milk, screenwriter Dustin Lance Black `96
  • Best Adapted Screenplay nominee: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, screenwriter, alumnus Eric Roth
  • Best Documentary Screenplay nominee: Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, screenwriter, alumnus Alex Gibney
  • Comedy Series nominee: The Simpsons, writer/co-executive producer Don Payne `87, MFA `91
  • New Series nominees: Fringe, writer/co-exec. producer, Professor Felicia D. Henderson `84, MFA `04; Life

    on Mars, writer, alumnus Scott Rosenberg

• 2008
  • Alex Gibney, Documentary Screenplay, Taxi To the Dark Side

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