BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – There was an international flavor to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 38th Annual Student Academy Awards, with top medalists hailing from homelands from Norway to South Korea to Brazil.
Saturday night's ceremony represented the first time students from institutions outside the U.S. could win a medal, and Norway's Hallvar Witzo took the new foreign film prize with "Tuba Atlantic."
Even one of the top Hollywood-produced winners, "Thief," spun around a young Saddam Hussein, was set in Iraq and in Iraqi-Arabic with subtitles. The movie won a gold medal in the narrative category for Julian Higgins of the American Film Institute.
Other gold medal winners included New York director Zach Hyer's "Correspondence" in the animation category and Chicago-based Wonjung Bae's "Vera Klement: Blunt Edge" in the documentary category.
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