About the Festival
The College Television Awards competition is a major TV Academy Foundation event that recognizes excellence in college student produced video, digital and film productions. It is national in scope, accepting entries each year from hundreds of colleges and universities.
CATEGORIESEntertainment Programs Comedy
Drama,
Children's
Interactive Media
Animated ProgramsAll forms of Animation
Informational ProgramsDocumentary
Newscast
Magazine
Commercials MusicBest Composition
Best Use of Music
Narrative SeriesComedy/Drama
AWARDS 1st Place Award - $2,000
2nd Place Award - $1,000
3rd Place Award - $500
*There is only one award in the Series, Children’s, Music and Commercials categories.
A Directing Award of $1,000 is presented for best direction of a Comedy, Drama or Documentary. In addition, the Kodak Worldwide Student Program gives 1st place winners in selected categories film stock worth $2,000 and software packages to the first place winners in the rest. Final Draft provides their scriptwriting software to all first place winners and subscriptions to Script magazine to all winners. The Seymour Bricker Family College Award of $4,000 goes to a 1st or 2nd place winner in any category whose work best represents a humanitarian concern.
All entries are judged online in preliminary panels composed of Television Academy members. Finalists in each category are judged by Academy Blue Ribbon Panels at the Television Academy Headquarters. Judging is open to all 15,000 + members of the Television Academy.
One aim of the competition is to give these outstanding students’ works exposure to the television and film industry and to other students and faculty nationwide. First and second place winners are matched up with Television industry mentors. Excerpts from the winners are screened at the ceremonies and at later Academy Foundation events. They are also screened at the Academy Foundation’s College Television Awards Screening the day after the Awards Gala. Past festival hosts include Charles Champlin, Warren Littlefield, Fred Silverman, Sam Haskell, Josh Schwartz, Martin Bruestle and George Pennachio. The high quality of entries has stimulated increasing interest from Los Angeles producers and commercial distribution organizations. Besides being a showcase for student productions, the College Television Awards is also a point of industry contact for students as they pursue career opportunities.
News & Updates
ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES FOUNDATION'S 30TH COLLEGE TELEVISION AWARDS TACKLES PROVOCATIVE TOPICS
UC Berkeley Captures Four Awards, UCLA Three and Brigham Young,
Northwestern and AFI Two Each at Culver Studios Gala
Los Angeles, CA – Stories about a physicist-turned-terrorist, a young boy confronting the death of his grandfather, a musician who performs with Coca-Cola bottles and a 16-year-old, shapeless girl desperate to reach puberty were among the top winners tonight at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation's 30th College Television Awards.
The University of California, Berkeley, snagged four College Television Awards at the Culver Studios ceremony, hosted by Dancing with the Stars’ Tom Bergeron. Students from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) grabbed three awards, with Brigham Young University, Northwestern University and the American Film Institute (AFI) taking two each.
Other schools honored included the University of Southern California (USC); Montana State University; University of Florida, Gainesville; Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Art Center of College and Design; and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Among the celebrity award presenters were such notables as: Masi Oka (Heroes), Carlos Bernard (24), Chris O'Donnell (Grey's Anatomy, The Company, Legend), Tony Potts and Shaun Robinson (Access Hollywood), Jorge Gutierrez and Sandra Equihua (El Tigre)), Tichina Arnold (Everybody Hates Chris), Christine Devine (Fox 11 News), Amber Stevens (Greek), Jennette McCurdy (iCarly), Christian Kane (Leverage), Snuffy Walden (Lipstick Jungle), Jason Gray-Stanford (Monk), Pauley Perrett (NCIS), Timothy Omundson (Psych), Shailene Woodley (Secret Life of an American Teenager),Jim Parsons (Big Bang Theory), Elodie Keen (The Closer, Saving Grace, Life), Ricardo Chavira (Desperate Housewives) Jordana Spiro (My Boys), Navi Rawat (Numb3rs)and Corey Reynolds (The Closer).
The recipient of the prestigious $4,000 Bricker Humanitarian Award went to the Ugandan war drama Acholiland. The director, Dean Israelite, also walked away with the $1,000 Directing Award.
The Foundation will showcase the winning works and other entries free to the public at
4:30 p.m. Sunday at the 30th College Television Awards Screening, held at the Television Academy’s Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre in North Hollywood. The event will be hosted by George Pennacchio, entertainment reporter for ABC7 Eyewitness News.
In addition, the winners' works and behind-the-scene coverage of The College Television Awards will be featured on mtvU, MTV Networks’ Peabody- and Primetime Emmy® Award-
winning 24-hour college network. It is the largest and most comprehensive media network for college students, reaching 750 campuses and more than 7.5 million college students nationwide.
This year, the Television Academy Foundation received a record number of submissions -- 712 student videos and films from 214 schools in 42 states. That represents almost twice the number of entries received the previous year.
The Foundation awarded $2,000 for first-place recipients, $1,000 for second and $500 for third. Several also received film stock grants from Kodak and product from Final Draft Scriptwriting Software.
The College Television Awards recognize excellence in undergraduate and graduate student video, digital and film production in 12 categories: Animation, Children’s, Comedy, Commercial, Documentary, Drama, Interactive Media, Magazine, Music Composition and Music Best Use, Newscasts and Series.
