Film School Awards

FSU's Film School has won a total of eight "Student Oscars" from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and has placed as a regional finalist sixteen times (four times in the year 2003 alone). Four student titles have gone on to win top awards in festivals that qualified them for entry into the non-student Oscars.

The FSU Film School has won a total of 30 student Emmys from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. In 2003, the Film School was the first school in the history of the Academy to place First, Second, and Third in the Comedy category. In 2004, the Film School set another record in the Academy's history by being the first school to win five student Emmys in one year (two First place, two Second place, and one Third place). In 2011, with four wins, it garnered the most awards of any school in the country that year.

Since the creation of the Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker's Award in 1998, the FSU Film School has won the award twice: in 2000 with Jason Doty's "Escape Back to the Movies," and in 2005 with Matthew Pope's "The Line Starts Here." The Film School has also placed finalists every year since 1999.

The FSU College of Motion Picture Arts was honored in 2004 by the Directors Guild of America for its "Distinguished Contribution to American Culture." In the 2005 DGA Student Filmmakers Awards for African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos and Women, the FSU Film School took home half of the honors awarded, winning first place in both "Best Woman Student Filmmaker" and "Best Latino Student Filmmaker."