UCLA Awards Watch (Updated Regularly)

November 7, 2008

Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards

All the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards this year went to young artists from UCLA.

• First Place: “Self Help” by Austin Formato
• Second Place: “Odd Man Out” by Robyn Paris
• Third Place (tie): “Out of Road” by JJ Nelson
• Third Place:“The Hole in the Brain of Phineas Gage” by Richard Rapoza
• Honorable Mention: “Spin Cycle” by Suzie Bohannon

October 24, 2008

AARP/TFT “Stolen Dreams” Competition

Anthony Onah‘s short film "The Cure" was named the winner of the Stolen Dreams competition and presented with the $7,500 grand prize.

October 20, 2008

Princess Grace Foundation

Princess Grace Awards went this year to director and performance artist Patrick Kennelly, an MFA directing candidate at the School, who received a scholarship at the Foundation’s awards gala in New York. Alumna Sheila Callaghan MFA ’97, a playwright who has been widely produced and published in the U.S. and abroad, received a Princess Grace Works in Progress Award.

September 23, 2008

Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

Alums Louis J. Horvitz '68 and Chuck Sheetz ’83 won directing awards at this year’s Emmys, for "Outstanding Directing For a Variety, Music or Comedy Program" and “Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour), " respectively.

September 18, 2008

DGA Student Film Awards

A record six young filmmakers attending the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television were prize winners and honorable mentions in the Directors Guild of America’s annual Student Film Awards for 2008. Cited were:

• Hezekiah Lewis MFA ’08, winner in the category Best African American Student Filmmaker for “Warrior Queen.”
• Second-year MFA candidate Anthony Onah, Honorable Mention, African American, for “The Cure.”
• Adriana Montenegro MFA ’08, winner, Latino, for “From the Core.”
• Miranda Yousef MFA ’07, winner, Women, for “Collectibles.”
• Alexandra Fisher MFA ’08, Honorable Mention, Women, for “Desert Wedding.”
• Second-year MFA candidate Roberto Gudiño, Honorable Mention, Latino, for "Below the Fold: The Pulitzer that Defined Latino Journalism.”

July 2, 2008

Los Angeles Film Festival

Described as the most heart-warming movie ever made about heavy metal music, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, directed by “Terminal” screewnriter and TFT alumnus Sacha Gervasi, won the audience award as Best Documentary Feature at the 2008 Los Angeles Film Festival.

June 26, 2008

Festroia Festival

Justin Lerner MFA '07 won the top prize at Setubal Portugal’s Festroia Festival with his Spotlight-winning film "The Replacement Child."

February 24, 2008

80th Academy Awards™

Alumnus Alex Gibney, Writer/Director/Co-Producer, Taxi to the Dark Side, Best Documentary Feature.

February 23, 2008

Film Independent’s Spirit Awards

Chris Eska MFA ’03, Writer/Director, August Evening, John Cassevetes Prize for a film made for under $500,000.

February 21, 2008

2008 Association for Library Collections & Technical Services

Martha Yee, cataloging supervisor, UCLA Film & Television Archive: The Margaret Mann Citation for outstanding professional achievement in cataloging or classification.

February 20, 2008

Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

College TV Award finalists: Nicole Haeusser MFA ’07, Writer/Director, and Ulrich Schwarz MFA ’06, Producer, The Death Strip (Drama); Eli Akira Kaufman MFA ’07, Writer/Director California King (Drama); Justin Lerner MFA ’07, Writer/Director, The Replacement Child (Drama); Michelle Banta Tessier ’01, MFA ’07, Writer-Director, Camp Bean (Children’s Programming). Awards dinner March 15.

February 10, 2008

2008 Writer’s Guild of America Awards

Alex Gibney, Documentary Screenplay, Taxi to the Dark Side

February 2, 2008

Producers Guild of America Awards

Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall ’68, David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures

January 22, 2008

80th Academy Award™ Nominations

Scott Farrar ’72, MFA ’75: Best Achivement in Visual Effects, Transformers

Alex Gibney: Best Documentary Feature, Taxi to the Dark Side.

January 11, 2008

Directors Guild of America Award Nominations

Alex Gibney: Documentary, Taxi to the Dark Side.

Louis J. Horvitz ’68: Musical Variety, The 79th Annual Academy Awards

January 11, 2008

Writers Guild of America Award Nominations

Caroline Williams MFA ’04: Comedy Series, The Office

“ : Episodic Comedy, “Phyllis’s Wedding” The Office

John Solomon ’92, MFA ’06: Comedy/Variety Series, Saturday Night Live

Jorma Taccone ’00: Comedy/Variety Series, Saturday Night Live

Dan Angels’90: Children’s Script- Long Form or Special, R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour: Don’t Think About It

January 6, 2008

2008 National Society of Film Critics Award

Ross Lipman, film preservationist at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, won the The National Society of Film Critics’s 2008 Film Heritage Award :for the restoration of Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep and other independent films.:

UCLA alumnus Charles Burnett ’68, MFA ’77, intended his 1976 thesis film for the School of Theater, Film and Television as a “neo-realist” response to the wave of violent “blaxploitation” crime films then flooding the nation’s grindhouses.

December 20, 2007

2008 Screen Actors Guild Award Nominations

Chris Gorham ’96 is a member of the nominated ensemble cast of the ABC comedy series Ugly Betty.

December 13, 2007

2008 Golden Globe Nominations

American Gangster, edited by Pietro Scalia ’82, MFA ’85, and The Great Debaters, co-starring Stephen Rider MFA ’05, are nominated in Motion Picture: Drama category.

The Simpsons Movie, a nominated Animated Film, was directed by 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.

Dean’s Advisory Board Member Tom Hanks is a Best Actor Nominee for Charlie Wilson’s War.

December 4, 2007

2008 Annie Awards

The Bruin-led team of writers, directors, animators and voice talent behind the culture-defining Simpsons TV show and feature film collected seven nominations for 2008 Annie Awards, presented by the Internatiuonal Animated Film Society (ASIFA). In addition to picking up a Best Animated Feature nomination for the summer hit The Simpsons Movie, David Silverman ’79, MFA ’83 was a nominee for Directing in an Animated Feature. The movie was also recognized for Voice Acting (Julie Kavner as Marge) and for Writing in an Animated Feature Production. The Simpsons TV show recieved writing and music nominations. Winners will be announced Friday, February 8, 2008, at a ceremony in Royce Hall on the UCLA campus.

December 1, 2007

Santa Fe Film Festival Luminaria Tribute

Professor Marina Goldovskaya, who heads the TFT documentary program, will recieve a Luminaria Tribute for lifetime achievement at the Santa Fe Film Festival, which runs from November 28-December 2. The Luminaria Tributes will be conferred during the Milagro Awards ceremony at 4 p.m. Saturday, December 1, at the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe, NM. Visit http://santafefilmfestival.com/.

2008 Film Independent’s Spirit Awards Nominations

Chris Eska MFA ’03: John Cassevetes Award, August Evening

Porsche David Award

TFT graduate directing student Austin Formato is a finalist for the Porsche David Award, the top prize in the fourth annual Porsche International Student Advertising Film Competition sponsored by the auto manufacturer. The winner ewill be announced at a ceremony on Thursday, November 15, at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsberg, Germany.

November 12, 2007

LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards

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.

November 8, 2007

David Silverman ’83, director, and Mike Anderson ’90, segment director, The Simpsons Movie, one of 12 features submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 80th Academy Awards.

October 29, 2007

Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards

TFT graduate student Jennifer O’Kieffe won first place for her script “Sex and Sylvia Plath.”

Second place went to graduate playwriting student Michael Vukadinovich for “Buckbee” and third place to Mark C. Humphrey ’07 for “Coup.”

October 24, 2007

Director’s Guild of America Student Film Awards

UCLA directing student Juli Kang, West Coast Winner, Asian-American, for “Damn the Past!;” Nicole Haeusser MFA ’07, West Coast Winner, Women, for “The Death Strip;” and Thouly Dosios MFA ’06 won West Coast Honorable Mention, Women, for “House of Olives.”

October 10, 2007

Association of Moving Images Archivists Awards

Five students in their final year of the School’s Master’s Degree program in Moving Image Archive Studies MIAS have won AMIA scholarships, the most for any program in the seven-year history of the awards. The honorees are: Dino Everett (CFI Sid Solow Scholarship), James Gamble (Sony Pictures Scholarship), Oki Miyano (Rick Chace Foundation Scholarship), Stephanie Sapienza (Mary Pickford Scholarshpi), and Timothy Wilson (Image Preservation Scholarship).

June 29, 2007

Los Angeles Film Festival

Best Dramatic Feature: August Evening, written and directed by Chris Eska MFA ’03. The film also won for Outstanding Performance (Ensemble): August Evening Walter Perez, Veronica Loren, Abel Becerra, Pedro Castaneda, Cesar Flores.

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