This page highlights some of the awards and scholarships conferred on students in the program.  More accolades can be found on the individual student pages found on the Student Projects link.

Student Academy Award

Student Emmy Award

National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Scholarships

Dore Schary Award

Fulbright Scholarship

Eastman Scholarship Award

Princess Grace Foundation Award

IDA/David L. Wolper Student Documentary Achievement Award

Angelus Award

UFVA Carole Fielding Student Grant

Director's Guild of America Award

The Caucus for Producers, Writers & Directors Foundation

The Robert Flaherty Film Seminar

CILECT

Student Academy Award
38th Annual Student Academy Awards -- June 11, 2011
Documentary: Silver Medal: Imaginary Circumstances: Anthony Weeks
Documentary: Bronze Medal: Sin País (Without Country): Theodore Rigby
37th Annual Student Academy Awards -- June 12, 2010
Documentary: Bronze Medal: Sueña despierto (Dreams Awake):
Kevin Gordon and Rebekah Meredith
34th Annual Student Academy Awards -- June 9, 2007
Documentary: Gold Medal: Cross Your Eyes and Keep Them Wide: Benjamin Wu
32nd Annual Student Academy Awards -- June 12, 2005
Documentary: Silver Medal: Unhitched: Erin Hudson and Benjamin Wu
30th Annual Student Academy Awards -- June 8, 2003
Documentary: Bronze Medal: Those Who Trespass: Renee Fischer
29th Annual Student Academy Awards -- June 9, 2002
Documentary: Bronze Medal: Revolutions Per Minute: Thomas Burns
28th Annual Student Academy Awards -- June 10, 2001
Documentary: Gold Medal: XXXY: Porter Gale and Laleh Soomekh
27th Annual Student Academy Awards -- June 11, 2000
Documentary: Silver Medal: Slender Existence: Laura C. Murray
25th Annual Student Academy Awards -- June 14, 1998
Documentary: Silver Medal: Occidental Encounters: Yuriko Gamo Romer
Documentary: Bronze Medal: Wayne Freedman's Notebook: Aaron Lubarsky
24th Annual Student Academy Awards -- June 8, 1997
Documentary: Silver Medal: Miriam Is Not Amused: Kim Roberts
23rd Annual Student Academy Awards -- June 9, 1996
Documentary: Bronze Medal: Spirits Rising: Ramona S. Diaz
22nd Annual Student Academy Awards -- June 11, 1995
Documentary: Gold Medal: Their Own Vietnam: Nancy D. Kates
19th Annual Student Academy Awards -- June 14, 1992
Documentary: Bronze Medal: In and Out of Time: Elizabeth Finlayson
18th Annual Student Academy Awards -- June 9, 1991
Documentary: Gold Medal: Twinsburg, OH: Some Kind of Weird Twin Thing: Sue Marcoux
17th Annual Student Academy Awards -- June 10, 1990
Documentary: Merit: Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia: Ellen Bruno
16th Annual Student Film Awards -- June 11, 1989
Documentary: Merit: No Hunger in My Home: Nancy Brink
14th Annual Student Film Awards -- June 7, 1987
Documentary: Achievement: Silver into Gold: Lynn Mueller
Documentary: Honorary: Living with AIDS: Tina DiFeliciantonio
13th Annual Student Film Awards -- June 8, 1986
Documentary: Merit: The Flapper Story: Lauren Lazin
12th Annual Student Film Awards - June 16, 1985
Documentary: Merit: Witness to Revolution: The Story of Anna Louise Strong: Lucy Ostrander
11th Annual Student Film Awards -- June 10, 1984
Documentary: Achievement: Rodin's Balzac: Marilyn Waterman

Student Emmy Award
First Prize, Documentary, Guguletu Ballet, Kristin Pichaske, 2003
Third Prize, Documentary, Drawbridge, Will Zavala, 1999
Documentary, Wayne Freedman's Notebook, Aaron Lubarsky, 1998
Documentary, Bound for Branson, Sue Faulkner, 1994
Documentary, Living with AIDS, Tina DiFeliciantonio, 1987
    (Also a National Emmy for Outstanding Cultural Program)

National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Scholarships
The Jerry Jensen Graduate Overall Excellence Scholarship, awarded by the San Francisco/Northern California Chapter, Paul Meyers, 2011
Loreen Arbus Focus on Disability Award, College Television Awards, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation, Anthony Weeks,  2011
“Miss Nancy" Besst Graduate Scholarship, Kevin Gordon, 2010

Sheldon "Shelly" Fay Memorial Videography Scholarship, awarded by Northern California Chapter of National Television Academy, Theodore Rigby, 2009
Peter J. Marino, Jr. Memorial Production Scholarship, awarded by Northern California Chapter of National Television Academy, Carolina Kondo, 2009
Sheldon "Shelly" Fay Memorial Videography Scholarship, awarded by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Northern California Chapter, Charlene Music, 2008
Peter J. Marino, Jr. Memorial Production Scholarship, awarded by Northern California Chapter of National Television Academy, Peter Jordan, 2007
Sheldon "Shelly" Fay Memorial Videography Scholarship, awarded by Northern California Chapter of National Television Academy, Erin Hudson, 2005
Sheldon "Shelly" Fay Memorial Videography Scholarship, awarded by the Northern California Regional Emmy Awards, BASE, Mark Rinehart, 2002
Sheldon "Shelly" Fay Memorial Videography Scholarship, awarded by Northern California Chapter of National Television Academy, Meg McKinney, 2000
Sheldon "Shelly" Fay Memorial Videography Scholarship, awarded by Northern California Chapter of National Television Academy, Anne Alvergue, 1999
Peter J. Marino, Jr. Memorial Production Scholarship, awarded by Northern California Chapter of National Television Academy, Yuriko Gamo Romer, 1996

Fulbright Scholarship

Nilima Abrams, India (2012-2013)

Briar March, USA (2009-10)
Michael Seely, Poland (2009-10)
Thomas Burns, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia (2009-10)
Emmanuel Dayan, USA (2006-07)
Sadia Shepard, India (2001-02)

Dore Schary Award
First Prize, Documentary, Guguletu Ballet, Kristin Pichaske, 2004
Finalist, Being Ghetto, Michelle Cabalu, 2002
First Prize, Documentary, Cricket Outta Compton, Joanne Shen, 2000
Films and Videos on Human Relations Themes, In the Mind of the Beholder,
Karen Davison, 1999
Finalist, Occidental Encounters, Yuriko Gamo Romer, 1997
Odessa Steps, David Mehlman, 1997

Eastman Scholarship Award
Honorable Mention, Charlene Music, Eastman Product Grant, 2008
Honorable Mention, Meghan O’Hara, Eastman Product Grant, 2008
Honorable Mention, Alison Stewart, 2002

Princess Grace Foundation Award
Tanglewood, Sara Newens, 2010
Film Honoraria, Imaginary Circumstances, Anthony Weeks, 2009
Monsieur Borges and I, Jasmin Gordon, 2005
Time Lost, Carla Gutierrez, 2003
Film Honoraria, Uivic: The Time of Going Round, Meg McKinney, 2000
Film Honoraria, Drawbridge, Will Zavala, 1997
My Roots are Buried Here, Gail Huddleson, 1996

IDA/David L. Wolper Student Documentary Achievement Award
Nomination, Little Mom, Maria Fortiz-Morse, 2010
Winner, The First Kid to Learn English From Mexico, Peter Jordan, 2009
Nomination, Famous 4A, Michael Attie, 2009
Nomination, My Name is Sydney, Melanie Levy, 2009
Winner, Long Haul, Erin Hudson, 2007
Nomination, Bullet Proof Vest, May Lin Au Yong, 2007
Nomination, Monsieur Borges and I, Jasmin Gordon, 2006
Finalist, Pare Lorentz Award, Radio Grito, Michael Seely, 2006
Nomination, Paris 1951, Jasmin Gordon, 2005
Finalist, Urga Song, Jessica Woodworth, 1999
Certificate of Merit, Beauty Before Age, Johnny Symons, 1997
Certificate of Merit, Spirits Rising, Ramona Diaz, 1996
Winner, Out of My Mind, Katie Cadigan, 1995
Winner, Living with AIDS, Tina DiFeliciantonio, 1987

Angelus Award
Outstanding Documentary, Love Hacking, Jenni Nelson, 2011
Finalist, Smoke Songs, Briar March, 2011
Outstanding Documentary, Danza del Viejo Inmigrante (The Old Immigrant's Dance), Charlene Music, 2010
Honorable Mention, Imaginary Circumstances,  Anthony Weeks, 2010
Finalist, Sueña despierto (Dreams Awake),  Kevin Gordon and Rebekah Meredith, 2010
Finalist, In Circles, Emile Bokaer and Alaa eldin El Dajani, 2009
Finalist, A Miracle in Stockton, Carolina Kondo and Anthony Weeks, 2009
Finalist, Garden of Innocence, Carolina Kondo, 2009
Finalist, The First Kid to Learn English from Mexico, Peter Jordan, 2009
Finalist, Roz (and Joshua), Charlene Music, 2008
Finalist, Under a Storybook Sky, May Lin Au Yong, 2008
Honorable Mention, Bullet Proof Vest, May Lin Au Yong, 2007
Finalist, Legend of Rosalie, Nick Berger, 2007
Finalist, Long Haul, Erin Hudson, 2005
Outstanding Documentary, Unhitched, Erin Hudson and Ben Wu, 2005
Finalist, Under the Roller Coaster, Lila Place, 2005
Finalist, The Last Mountain, Sally Rubin, 2004
Honorable Mention, A Thousand Words, Melba Williams, 2003
Finalist, Guguletu Ballet, Kristin Pichaske, 2003
Outstanding Non-Fiction Filmmaking, Death On a Friendly Border, Rachel Antell, 2001

UFVA Carole Fielding Student Grant
A Shadow Is Never Still (Working Title), Tijana Petroviç, 2012

The Words in the Margins (Working Title), Sara Mott, 2012

SAINT, John Rory Fraser, 2011
The Art of Jihad, Alaa eldin El Dajani, 2010
the sea is a harsh mistress, Jason Sussberg, 2010
Danza del Viejo Inmigrante (The Old Immigrant's Dance), Charlene Music, 2009
Feathers & Coins, Ashley Tindall, 2006
Punjabi Cab, Liam Dalzell, 2004
Purify, Marisa Pearl, 2004
Those Who Trespass, Renee Fischer, 2002

Director's Guild of America Award
Student Film Award - Women Filmmaker; West Coast Honorable Mention, XXXY,
Laleh Soomekh and Porter Gale, 2000
Ida Lupino Award for Documentary, Spirits Rising, Ramona Diaz, 1996

The Caucus for Producers, Writers & Directors Foundation
Danza del Viejo Inmigrante (The Old Immigrant's Dance), Charlene Music, Spring 2009
Under the Roller Coaster, Lila Place, Spring 2005

The Robert Flaherty Film Seminar

J. Christian Jensen, 2012

Tanya Sleiman, 2009

CILECT
CILECT Prize -- First Place, Documentary, Famous 4A, Michael Attie, 2010