Award-Winning Faculty
Dates reflect the faculty member's time at the School of Cinematic Arts.
Tom Abrams, writer-director
Associate Professor (1989-present)
Emmy Award
1992 Rugrats - Best Children's Television Series
Montreal World Film Festival
1987 Shoeshine - First prize
Cannes International Film Festival
1990 Performance Pieces - special award
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| Wilbur T. Blume's 1955 Oscar for The Face of Lincoln. |
Assistant Professor (1995-present)
International Documentary Association
2007 Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award
National Board of Review
2007 Darfur Now - Top Five Documentaries of The Year
NAACP Image Award
2008 Darfur Now - Outstanding Documentary
Wilbur T. Blume, producer
Lecturer (1948-59)
Academy Award
1955 The Face of Lincoln, best short subject (2 reel)
Frank Capra, director
Lecturer (1934-35)
Academy Award
1934 It Happened One Night, best director
1935 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, best director
1938 You Can’t Take It With You, best director
P. David Ebersole, producer
Staff (dates unknown)
American Film Institute’s Franklin J. Schaffner Award
1993 Ding Dong, best film and best director
Howard Estabrook, writer
Lecturer (1936-38)
Academy Award
1931 Cimarron, best writing, adaptation
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., actor/producer
Guest Lecturer on February 6, 1929
Academy Awards
1940 Honorary Award (posthumously)
Sheridan Gibney, writer
Adjunct Professor (1974-79)
Academy Awards
1937 The Story of Louis Pasteur, best original screenplay
Mark Jonathan Harris, producer-director-writer
Professor (1978-present)
Academy Awards
1967 The Redwoods, best short subject
1997 The Long Way Home, best documentary-feature
2000 Into the Arms of Strangers: Kindertransport, best documentary-feature
Tomlinson Holman, sound
Professor (1987-present)
Academy Award
2001 Scientific and Technical Award (Technical Achievement Award) Certificate, "for the research and systems integration resulting in the improvement of motion picture loudspeaker systems."
Audio Engineering Society
1981 Fellowship
2006 Silver Medal
British Kinematograph Sound and Television Society
1991 Fellowship
Cinema Audio Society
1997 Career Achievement Award
1997 Honorary Membership
IEEE
2007 Masaru Ibuka Award
2008 Fellowship
Motion Picture Sound Editors
2000 Honorary Membership
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
1987 Samuel L. Warner Medal
1988 Fellowship
1990 Eastman Kodak Gold Medal
World Technology Network
1999 Fellowship
1999 Finalist, World Technology Award for Information Technology
Patents
23 U.S. and International
Ross Hunter, producerAdjunct Professor (1975-77)
Emmy Award
1977 Arthur Hailey’s The Moneychangers
Golden Laurel Award (Producers Guild of America)
1959 Imitation of Life, best dramatic award
1968 Thoroughly Modern Millie, top producer
Judy Irola, cinematographer/director/producer
Professor (1992-present)
Cannes Film Festival
1979 Northern Lights, Camera d’Or Award
Sundance Film Festival
1994 An Ambush of Ghosts, cinematography award
Fargo Film Festival
2007 Cine Manifest , Ruth Lanfield Award
American Society of Cinematographers
1995 Membership
David James
Professor (1992-)
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
2007 Film Scholar
Richard Jewell
Professor (1976 -)
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
2008 Film Scholar
Sol Lesser, producer
Adjunct Professor (1967-79)
Academy Award
1960 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for Lifetime Achievement
Jerry Lewis, actor-director-producer-composer-writer
Adjunct Professor (1967-77)
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (Emmy)
2005 Governor’s Award
French Legion of Honor
1984
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
2004 Career Achievement Award
Venice Film Festival
1999 Career Golden Lion
Leonard Maltin, director, co-producer
Adjunct Professor/Lecturer
Caucus For Television Producers
2007 Journalism Award
Mardik Martin, writer
Senior Lecturer (1990-)
Writer's Guild of America
2006 Raging Bull 101 Best Screenplay List
2007 ARPA Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award
Bill Melendez, producer-director
Lecturer (1961-1970s)
Emmy and Peabody Award
1967 A Charlie Brown Christmas, outstanding children’s program
Peabody Award
1984 What Have We Learned Charlie Brown, outstanding animated program
Nina Menkes, directorAdjunct Professor/Sr. Lecturer/Visiting Professor/Artist-in-Residence (1991-2001)
American Film Institute
1986 Magdalena Viraga, Independent Filmmaker Award
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
1986 Independent/Experimental Film and Video Award
William Cameron Menzies, art director
Lecturer (1951-53)
Academy Awards
1928 Tempest, best art direction
1929 The Dove, best art direction
1941 Gone With the Wind, special award for production design
Ben Shedd, director, co-producer
Adjunct Professor/Lecturer (1979-1989)
Academy Award
1978 The Flight of the Gossamer Condor, best documentary-short subjects
Norman Taurog, director
Adjunct Professor (1967-81)
Academy Award
1930 Skippy, best director
Lawrence Turman, producer
Professor (1991-present)
Producers Guild of America
1999 Golden Laurel Award, Hall of Fame – Motion Pictures
King Vidor, director
Adjunct Professor (1966-77)
Academy Award
1979 Lifetime Achievement Award
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
1977 Career Achievement Award
Venice Film Festival
1982 Career Golden Lion
Jennifer Warren, co-executive producer
Adjunct Faculty (1991-Present)
Academy Award
1988 Short Form Documentary - You Don't Have To Die
Darryl F. Zanuck, producer
Guest Lecturer on March 30, 1938
Academy Awards
1940 How Green Was My Valley, best producer
1947 Gentlemen’s Agreement, best producer
1950 All About Eve, best producer
Golden Globes
1954 Cecil B. DeMille Award
Directors Guild of America
1966 Honorary Life Member Award
Robert Zemeckis, director
USC Widney Professor (2008- Present)
Academy Award
1994 Forrest Gump, best director
Directors Guild of America
1994 Forrest Gump, best director
Golden Globe
1994 Forrest Gump, best director
