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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.
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- Centro de Capacitacion Cinematografica. Founded in 1975, Mexico’s most prestigious film school counts as alums The Irishman cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto as well as Elisa Miller, the only Mexican woman to take home the short film Palme d’Or in Cannes, for 2007’s Watch It Rain.
- Centro Sperimentale De Cinematografia. Italy’s National School of Cinema offers a wide array of three-year courses across all film disciplines for anyone who speaks Italian (but with only six places per class).
- ECAM. The Madrid school this year bolstered its syllabus with a new master’s program in color and digital grading, bringing in professors including Hollywood colorist Walter Volpatto (Dunkirk, Star Wars: The Last Jedi).
- Filmakademie Wien. Austria’s leading film school just added another acclaimed filmmaker — 2021 Cannes Jury member Jessica Hausner (Little Joe) — to its impressive faculty, which already includes Oscar winner Michael Haneke.
Are you young and looking to unlock your potential? The studies at the Icelandic Film School is an individually aimed, 2-year diploma program that opens the door to the ever growing world of the film industry. The program is entirely taught in English.
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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. “...
Nov 4, 2021 · The College’s Visual and Media Arts program was once again included in the entertainment industry publication The Wrap’s top 50 film schools list, jumping ahead from #15 last year to #6 in 2021. Highlights in its ranking write up include the first Academy Award win for alum Erik Messerschmidt ’02 for Best Cinematography on “Mank” in ...
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...
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