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- New York University. NEW YORK CITY. NYU was an undeniable presence in the virtual 2021 awards season. Grad school alum Chloé Zhao made history as the first woman of color to win the Oscar for best director for Nomadland, while Zhao’s NYU classmate Shaka King was a part of the first all-Black producing team to be nominated for best picture for Judas and the Black Messiah.
- American Film Institute. LOS ANGELES. At the conservatory, attended by just 327 grad students in 2021, 12- to 14-hour days for six days a week is not an uncommon schedule during a fellow’s first year.
- USC School of Cinematic Arts. LOS ANGELES. Despite challenges the pandemic wrought on job prospects, USC’s First Jobs Program claims to have assisted more than 300 recent alumni with securing entry-level jobs.
- Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. ORANGE, CALIFORNIA. Diversity is a priority at Dodge, where 25 professors of color were hired in the past year and a mentorship program for underrepresented high schoolers will kick off in 2022.
The Icelandic Film School offers the only internationally recognized filmmaking education in Iceland. The establishment has been a member of CILECT, an international coalition of the most prestigious film schools in the world, since 2011. EXPLORE THE POSSIBILITIES.
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There are movie studios that wish they had the filmmaking resources of the USC School of Cinematic Arts, and no film school can rival its impact on the industry. In fact, it’s part of Hollywood — if you can make it through SCA’s brutal Darwinian microcosm, you’ll be equipped to do battle in the larger movie world. Its First Jobs Program claims to h...
Small, elite AFI and gargantuan, elite USC perpetually duel for top honors on best-film-school lists — last year AFI came out on top here — and the fact is that the David to USC’s Goliath actually does just fine in bridging the gap between the academy and the industry. AFI grads have earned more than 140 Oscar honors, including nine nominations and...
Sure, NYU’s film program (now Tisch School of the Arts’ Kanbar Institute of Film and Television) brought you Cannes jury president (now NYU prof) Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, Joel Coen, Chris Columbus, Morgan Spurlock, Ryan Fleck (“Captain Marvel”), cinematographer Rachel Morrison (“Black Panther”), Vince Gilligan (“Breaking Bad”), Damon Lindelof (“...
Plenty of schools gave the pandemic lip service, but Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts recently spent $4 million upgrading classrooms and $750,000 on COVID protections, compliance supervisors and a full-time COVID officer. The better to sustain Dodge’s run of good fortune — after years getting less than its due thanks to its...
CalArts’ School of Film/Video, enriched by its multi-art school context, has programs in film/video production, directing and character and experimental animation. Its Hollywood rep rests on the 900-pound gorillas it unleashed on animation: Tim Burton, Brad Bird, Andrew Stanton, John Lasseter, Henry Selick, Rich Moore and Pete Docter, head of Disne...
During COVID, alum Norman Lear and Bob Newhart Zoomed in to instruct Emerson’s 1,700 Visual and Media Arts students. Lear was one of five Emerson Emmy winners this year, and Erik Messerschmidt won the cinematography Oscar for “Mank,” on top of his first Emmy nomination in 2020 for Netflix’s true-crime drama “Mindhunter.” Emerson undergrads studied ...
For a small film program, Columbia University School of the Arts looms remarkably large on the New York and national film scenes. Students make impressive films, the writing programs are extraordinary and grads report that when they walk into a Hollywood writer’s room, they fit right in and prosper. Roar-ee the Lion (Columbia’s mascot) had much to ...
UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television accepts just 4% of undergrad applicants and 14% of grad applicants. They’re all aiming to become iconic, like grads Francis Ford Coppola, Alexander Payne, Alex Gibney, Allison Anders, Charles Burnett and Justin Lin, whose ninth “Fast and Furious” film made $592 million. Four alums got 2021 Oscar noms, 1...
LMU’s hot School of Film and Television hit a bump when film dean Peggy Rajski, who helped prepare the report on UCLA TFT’s strife, was herself sacked after reports of abrasive behavior. She was replaced by interim dean Bryant Keith Alexander, who remains as overall dean of LMU’s College of Communication and Fine Arts. He’s a big-deal educator with...
Judging from UNCSA’s illustrious record of success, the film world would benefit by giving women more power. UNCSA’s last two incoming film classes were majority female, and with longtime film dean Susan Raskin off to AFI, she’s succeeded by new dean Deborah LaVine, who ran CalArts’ grad directing program and developed European exchange programs. “...
- American Film Institute. LOS ANGELES. “If you’re at AFI, you’ve earned that spot, but so has the talented individual sitting next to you,” says alum and Tár director Todd Field.
- USC. LOS ANGELES. The storied school offers the traditional directing and screenwriting routes but has curriculum and equipment alternatives for students who decide to pivot to other roles.
- NYU. NEW YORK CITY. As a part of a massive donation from the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation, NYU will begin construction on the Martin Scorsese Virtual Production Center (the filmmaker earned two degrees from the school), a 45,586-square-foot space with two soundstages and two television production studios on a Brooklyn waterfront.
- Chapman University. ORANGE, CALIFORNIA. Just an hour’s drive from Hollywood, Chapman’s Dodge College takes advantage of the proximity by bringing in A-list talent, including the likes of Brendan Fraser, Michelle Yeoh and Colin Farrell, to speak to students.
Apr 15, 2021 · 2021’s Top 50 Film Schools Around the World. By. Antonio Ferme, Haley Bosselman, Ethan Shanfeld, Todd Gilchrist. Each year, Variety curates a list of the top film school programs and...
Jan 31, 2023 · MovieMaker presents our annual survey of the best film schools in the U.S. and Canada destined to unlock your moviemaking talents.
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Aug 24, 2020 · With both entertainment and higher education deeply impacted by the COVID-19 shutdown, top film schools across the U.S. spent the summer break reassessing established curricula.
