Award-Winning Faculty
Dates reflect the faculty member's time at the School of Cinematic Arts.
Note: In some cases, (e.g. Executive Producers) listings reflect the faculty member's work on a winning project and not the award itself.
| 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 Kate Amend, Editor Adjunct Professor (1992-present) ♦Eddie Award 2001 Into the Arms of Strangers Best Edited Documentary ♦Outstanding Documentary Editing Award 2005 International Documentary Association Mitchell Block Producer, Director-Writer Adjunct Faculty (1979 - ) ♦ Academy Award 2006 Big Mama Best Documentary Short ♦ Emmy Awards 1978 No Lies - A Woman's Special Best Community Service Program 2008 Carrier Best Cinematography ♦ Selected - National Film Registry Library of Congress 2008 No Lies ♦ Broadcast Film Critics Award 2008 Stealing America Best Documentary ♦ Elected Life Member 1996 University Film & Video Association 1992 International Documentary Association Ted Braun, Writer-Director 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 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 Award 1940 Honorary Award (posthumously) Sheridan Gibney, Writer Adjunct Professor (1974-79) ♦Academy Awards 1937 The Story of Louis Pasteur Best Original Screenplay Don Hall, Sound & Post-Production (1996-present) ♦Emmy Outstanding Achievement Sound Editing 1967 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea 1970 Tribes - Movie of the Week ♦BAFTA The Best Sound Track 1970 Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid ♦Cinema Audio Society Outstanding Achievement World of Sound 1970 Patton 1971 The French Connection 1974 The Towering Inferno 1975 Young Frankenstein ♦Golden Reel Award Motion Picture Sound Editors Best Sound Editing 1971 Patton 1972 The French Connection 1973 The Poseidon Adventure ♦Peabody Award Outstanding Contribution to Production 1976 M*A*S*H Television Series ♦BHS Hall of Fame Outstanding Graduate 2002 Inductee for Career Achievement ♦Motion Picture Sound Editors [MPSE] 2004 Career Achievement Award ♦Academy Award 2006 John Bonner Award Dedication & Service to AMPAS 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
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Tomlinson Holman, Sound Professor (1987-present) Academy Award ♦2001 Scientific & Technical Award Technical Achievement Award ♦Audio Engineering Society 1981 Fellowship 2006 Silver Medal ♦British Kinematograph Sound & Television Society 1991 Fellowship ♦Cinema Audio Society 1997 Career Achievement Award 1997 Honorary Membership ♦IEEE, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers 2007 Masaru Ibuka Award 2008 Fellowship ♦Motion Picture Sound Editors 2000 Honorary Membership ♦Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers 1987 Samuel L. Warner Medal 1988 Fellowship 1990 Eastman Kodak Gold Medal ♦World Technology Network 1999 Fellowship 1999 Finalist, World Technology Award Ross Hunter, Producer Adjunct 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 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 2007Cine Manifest Ruth Lanfield Award ♦American Society of Cinematographers 1995 Membership ♦Montana Independent Film 2007 Festival Documentary Award Best Feature  David James Professor (1992-present) ♦Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences 2007 Film Scholar Richard Jewell Professor (1976 -present) ♦Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences 2008 Film Scholar Sol Lesser, producer Adjunct Professor (1967-79) ♦Academy Award 1960 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Lifetime Achievement Jerry Lewis, Actor, Director, Producer, Composer, Writer Adjunct Professor (1967-77) Academy of Television Arts & 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 Jeremy Kagan, Producer, Director ♦D.C. Independent Film Festival 2006 ACLU Freedom Files ♦Humanitas Award 2004 Crown Heights ♦Directors Guild Nomination Outstanding Children's Programming ♦NAACP Image Award Best TV Movie ♦Parents Choice Award ♦GLADD Nomination Best TV Movie 2002 Bobbie's Girl ♦Emmy 1996 Chicago Hope Outstanding Directing Television Series ♦Golden Globe 1994 Roswell Leonard Maltin, Director, Co-Producer Adjunct Professor/Lecturer (-present) ♦Caucus For Television Producers 2007 Journalism Award Mardik Martin, Writer Senior Lecturer (1990-present) ♦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 & 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, Director Adjunct 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 & 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, 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 Senior Lecturer (1991-Present) ♦Seattle & Boston Film Festivals 1994 The Beans of Egypt Maine Best Pick ♦Academy Award ♦Cable Ace 1988 You Don't Have To Die Short Form Documentary ♦Cine Golden Eagle 1983 Point of Departure ♦Film World Award 1975 Night Moves ♦Theatre World Award 1970 6 Rms. Riv. Vu Darryl F. Zanuck, Producer Guest Lecturer on March 30, 1938 Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award ♦Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences 1937, 1944, 1950 ♦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
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