University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts Viterbi School of Engineering
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| Motto | Limes regiones rerum [1] |
|---|---|
| Motto in English | Reality ends hither[2] |
| Type | Individual film school |
| Established | 1929 (1929) |
| Parent institution | Academy of Southern California |
| Dean | Elizabeth Thou. Daley, Ph.D. (1991–present) |
| Academic staff | 96 full fourth dimension 219 office time[iii] |
| Administrative staff | 144 full time 499 student workers[3] |
| Undergraduates | 876[3] |
| Postgraduates | 715[iii] |
| Location | Los Angeles California United States |
| Website | movie theater |
The University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts (SCA)'s vii divisions—Film & Television Production; Movie house & Media Studies; John C. Hench Division of Blitheness + Digital Arts; John Wells Segmentation of Writing for Screen & Television; Interactive Media & Games; Media Arts + Practice; Peter Stark Producing Programme—offer programs in the cinematic arts.
The USC School of Cinematic Arts is led by Dean Elizabeth Monk Daley, who holds the Steven J. Ross/Time Warner Chair and is the longest-serving Dean at the University of Southern California, having led the Cinema School since 1991.
History [edit]
The George Lucas Instructional Building (top) was demolished in 2009 after the opening of the new Cinematic Arts Complex (bottom).
When Douglas Fairbanks became the first President of the nascent University of Motion Moving-picture show Arts and Sciences in 1927, i of the more innovative items on his agenda was that the Academy should accept a "grooming school." As Fairbanks and his enablers reasoned that preparation in the cinematic arts should be seen as a legitimate bookish subject at major universities, given the same degree considerations every bit fields similar medicine and law. Although cinema studies programs are now widely entrenched in academia, dorsum then it was a novel thought and many universities turned Fairbanks down. Merely he found tepid acceptance at the University of Southern California that agreed to permit one class, called "Introduction to Photoplay" that debuted in 1929, the same year every bit the Academy Awards. Adamant to make information technology a success, Fairbanks brought in the biggest industry names of the era to lecture, including Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, William C. DeMille, Ernst Lubitsch, Irving Thalberg, and Darryl Zanuck.[4] From that one class grew a Section of Cinematography (1932) in the College of Messages, Arts and Sciences, renamed the Department of Cinema (1940), which led to the establishment of the USC School of Cinema-Telly (1983), which was renamed the USC School of Cinematic Arts (2006) [5] .
On September 19, 2006, USC announced that alumnus George Lucas had donated U.s.$175 meg to aggrandize the film schoolhouse with a new 137,000-square-foot (12,700 one thousand2) facility. This represented the largest unmarried donation to USC and the largest to whatsoever picture school in the earth.[6] His previous donations resulted in the naming of 2 buildings in the schoolhouse'due south previous complex, opened in 1984, after him and his and then-wife Marcia, though Lucas was non fond of the Spanish Colonial Revival architecture used in those buildings. An architectural hobbyist, Lucas laid out the original designs for the project, inspired by the Mediterranean Revival Way that was used in older campus buildings as well as the Los Angeles expanse. The project besides received some other $l one thousand thousand in contributions from Warner Bros., 20th Century Pull a fast one on and The Walt Disney Company.[1]
In autumn 2006, the school, together with the Royal Film Commission of Jordan, created the Scarlet Sea Constitute of Cinematic Arts (RSICA) in Aqaba, Hashemite kingdom of jordan.[seven] The beginning classes were held in 2008, and the first graduating class for the university was in 2010.
The USC School of Cinematic Arts announced information technology would remove an exhibit devoted to actor and former USC student John Wayne, after months of insistence from a small number of students denouncing the Hollywood star's views and the portrayal of Indigenous Americans in his films. The exhibit has been relocated to the Cinematic Arts library which has many collections for the report of figures whose lives and works are office of society's shared history. These materials are preserved for posterity and made accessible for inquiry and scholarship as will the materials in the Wayne Collection.[8]
Divisions [edit]
Motion-picture show & Television Production [edit]
The current Chair is Gail Katz, holder of the Mary Pickford Endowed Chair; Vice-Chair is Susan Arnold.
Picture palace & Media Studies [edit]
The Division of Movie theater & Media Studies is the central hub for film theory at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. The current Chair is Priya Jaikumar.
John C. Hench Division of Animation + Digital Arts [edit]
The John C. Hench Segmentation of Animation + Digital Arts teaches courses in blitheness and digital arts. These include classic character animation, 2-D and 3-D storytelling, performance capture, visual effects, motility graphics, finish-movement, experimental filmmaking, installations and multimedia, documentary blitheness, and visualizing scientific research. The electric current Chair is Teresa Cheng, who holds the John C. Hench Endowed Division Chair.
Interactive Media & Games Partition [edit]
The Interactive Media & Games Division teaches video games, which brand up the fastest growing segment of the entertainment industry. USC has been a pioneer in didactics the foundations of games and interactive media while too moving the field forward with innovative research concepts. The Princeton Review has ranked USC the #1 Game Design school in North America every yr since its ranking organization began in 2009. The current Chair is Danny Bilson.
Media Arts + Practise [edit]
The Media Arts + Practice Division (MA+P) creates and analyzes media for fields as diverse as business, medicine, education, architecture, police force, urban planning, filmmaking. The current Chair is Holly Willis.
John Wells Segmentation of Writing for Screen & Television [edit]
The USC Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts offers Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees in Writing for Screen and Television for students who seek professional preparation for a career in screen and television writing. The programs emphasizes modest, workshop-manner classes. Students nourish a multifariousness of invitee speaker presentations, accept manufacture internships, are provided with mentors and are taught by professors who are actively working in the entertainment industry. Each fall, 30 undergraduate and 32 graduate writing students are selected to brainstorm the program. The electric current Chair is David Isaacs.
Peter Stark Producing Plan [edit]
The Peter Stark Producing Program is a two-year (four semester) full-time graduate program. Approximately 24 Peter Stark Program students are enrolled each autumn. The curriculum is designed to prepare a select group of students for careers as producers and executives of film, television, and new media. The current Chair is Edward Saxon.
Faculty [edit]
The School of Cinematic Arts also has an agile Board of Councilors who help guide the hereafter management of the School and work with the Dean to ensure the School is properly resourced.
Facilities [edit]
Donations from film and game industry companies, friends, and alumni have enabled the school to build the following facilities:[9]
- School of Cinematic Arts Circuitous, completed in 2010, which includes:
- 20th Century Pull a fast one on soundstage
- George Lucas and Steven Spielberg Buildings, featuring the Ray Stark Family Theatre, which is equipped for 3D presentation, as well as ii digital theatres, the Albert and Dana Broccoli Theatre and Fanny Brice Theatre
- Marcia Lucas Mail service-Production Center
- Marilyn & Jeffrey Katzenberg Center for Blitheness
- Sumner Redstone Production Building which contains two stages Redstone ane and Restone ii
- Interactive building (SCI), home of the USC Interactive Media & Games Division, the USC Division of Media Arts and Exercise, and several research labs (the Game Innovation Lab, the Mobile and Environmental Media Lab, the Mixed Reality Lab and the Creative Media & Behavioral Health Center, among others)
- Robert Zemeckis Heart for Digital Arts, domicile of Trojan Vision, USC'south student tv set station
- Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre Complex, featuring a 365-seat theatre that also serves as a classroom with USC kinesthesia member and Academy Laurels winner Tomlinson Holman's THX audiovisual reproduction standard used in pic venues worldwide. The Frank Sinatra Hall, dedicated in 2002, houses a public showroom and drove of extensive memorabilia commemorating Sinatra's life and contributions to American popular culture.
- David L. Wolper Centre at Doheny Memorial Library
- Louis B. Mayer Film and Television Written report Eye at Doheny Memorial Library
- Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Annal
At the center of the new television complex is a statue of founder Douglas Fairbanks. He is seen holding a fencing foil in one manus and a script in the other to reverberate his strong ties with the USC Fencing Club.
Distinctions [edit]
The Eileen Norris Cinema Theater, a 340-seat theater that regularly hosts film screenings, lectures, and special events.[x] It was where THX was first developed and installed.[11]
- Since 1973, at least one alumnus of SCA has been nominated for an Academy Accolade annually, totaling 256 nominations and 78 wins.[12]
- Since 1973, at least one SCA alumnus or alumna has been nominated for the Emmy Accolade annually, totalling 473 nominations and 119 wins.[12]
- The pinnacle 17 grossing films of all time take had an SCA graduate in a key creative position.[12]
- The Princeton Review has ranked the Interactive Media and Games Partition'southward video game design program best in North America multiple years in a row.
- Both The Hollywood Reporter and United states Today have ranked SCA the number one film program in the world, with its unmatched facilities, proximity to Hollywood, and numerous manufacture connections being the principal rationale.
- The current acceptance rate for the USC School of Cinematic Arts is 3%.[13]
Awards for USC Picture palace brusque films [edit]
- In 1956, producer Wilber T. Blume, a USC Movie theater instructor at the time, received an Academy Award for best live activeness short flick for a motion-picture show he created entitled The Face of Lincoln. Blume also received an Academy Award nomination that yr for documentary short.[xiv]
- In 1968, George Lucas won first prize in the category of Dramatic films at the third National Student Film Festival held at Lincoln Centre, New York for his futuristic Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB.[xv] [sixteen] [17]
- In 1970, producer John Longenecker received an University Award for best live activity short film for a movie he produced while attending USC Movie house 480 classes as an undergraduate—The Resurrection of Broncho Baton. The flick's crew and cast included Nick Castle, cinematographer; John Carpenter, moving picture editor and original music; James Rokos, director; Johnny Crawford, lead actor; and Kristin Nelson, atomic number 82 actress.
- In 1973, Robert Zemeckis won a Special Jury Award at the Academy of Move Picture Arts & Sciences' second annual Student Film Awards presentation for A Field of Honor.
- In 2001, MFA pupil David Greenspan won the Palme d'Or for brusque moving picture at the Cannes Film Festival for his student film Edible bean Cake.[18]
- In 2006, director, co-author, and producer Ari Sandel received an Academy Award for all-time live activity short film ("West Bank Story") fabricated as a USC Movie theatre graduate schoolhouse project.
- In 2009, MFA student Gregg Helvey was nominated for an Academy Award for his MFA thesis moving-picture show, Kavi.[19]
Notable SCA alumni [edit]
Run across also Listing of Academy of Southern California people
SCA has more than than 12,000 alumni.[iii] [20] Among the nearly notable are:
- Sasha Alexander
- Scott Alexander
- Elizabeth Allen
- Thom Andersen
- Judd Apatow
- Gregg Araki
- Aditya Assarat
- Doug Atchison
- John August
- John Bailey
- Kelley Baker
- Richard L. Bare
- Hal Barwood
- Walt Becker
- Jim Bernstein
- David Bezmozgis
- Laura Bialis
- Gregg Bishop
- Paul Harris Boardman
- Dominic Arizona Bonuccelli
- A. C. Bradley
- Charles Braverman
- Mehcad Brooks
- Norman Buckley
- Bryan Burk
- Ben Burtt
- Trey Callaway
- Steven Cantor
- John Carpenter
- Nick Castle
- Aneesh Chaganty
- Sharon Choi
- Adam Christian Clark
- Jon Chu
- Art Clokey
- Ryan Coogler
- Ericson Core
- Jack Couffer
- R. J. Cutler
- Mark Z. Danielewski
- Thomas Del Ruth
- Scott Derrickson
- Caleb Deschanel
- Trygve Allister Diesen
- Craig Detweiler
- Susan Downey
- Daniel Dubiecki
- Richard Edlund
- Lindsay Ellis
- Kevin Feige
- Bobby Florsheim
- Frank E. Flowers
- Tyler Fredrickson
- David Gallagher
- Bob Gale
- Gavin Garrison
- Douglas Gayeton
- Scott Gimple
- Alfred Gough
- David S. Goyer
- James Grey
- Macy Gray
- Brian Grazer
- Luke Greenfield
- Kevin Greutert
- Ashley Greyson
- Javier Grillo-Marxuach
- Lawrence Guterman
- Conrad Hall
- Jane Hamsher
- Ray Harryhausen
- Grant Heslov
- Matthew Ryan Hoge
- Sean Hood
- Ron Howard
- Martin Hynes
- James Ivory
- O'Shea Jackson Jr.
- Joe Johnston
- Rian Johnson
- Larry Karaszewski
- Jonathan Ke Quan
- Richard Kelly
- Nahnatchka Khan
- Karey Kirkpatrick
- Randal Kleiser
- Tim Kring
- Eric Kripke
- Kurt Kuenne
- Ken Kwapis
- Brandon Laatsch
- Jon Landau
- Alexander Sebastien Lee
- Chris Chan Lee
- Shawn Levy
- R. Eric Lieb
- Doug Liman
- John Longenecker
- George Lucas
- Albert Magnoli
- Gregory Markopoulos
- Richard Martini
- Joseph Mazzello
- John Milius
- Miles Millar
- F. Hudson Miller
- John Lloyd Miller
- Derek Mio
- Stephen Mirrione
- Raamla Mohamed
- Walter Murch
- Don Murphy
- Tab Irish potato
- Tom Neff
- Laura Neri
- Eric Newman
- Doug Nichol
- Dan O'Bannon
- Tracy Oliver
- Randy Olson
- Tom Oesch
- Richard Outten
- Chris Parson
- Paula Patton
- Sam Peckinpah (drama major)
- Charlie Pecoraro
- Michael R. Perry
- Brian Wayne Peterson
- Shawn Piller
- Stu Pollard
- Dan Povenmire
- Santiago Pozo
- Ben Proudfoot
- Ben Queen
- Kevin Reynolds
- Ben Ripley
- Shonda Rhimes
- Jay Roach
- Steven Robiner
- Barry Rubinow
- Jason Russell
- Gary Rydstrom
- Walter Salles
- Edward Saxon
- Josh Schwartz
- Ben Shedd
- Stacey Sher
- Robert Sherman
- Christine Shin
- Sofia Shinas
- Sigurjón Sighvatsson
- John Singleton
- Bryan Singer[21]
- Stephen Sommers
- Dror Soref
- Guido Mina di Sospiro
- Kevin Stea
- Adam Stein
- David H. Steinberg
- Tim Story
- Chris Terrio
- Jon Turteltaub
- Lee Unkrich
- Christopher Vogler
- Matthew Weiner
- John Wells
- Alexander Winn
- Freddie Wong
- Marianna Yarovskaya
- Robert Yeoman
- Rayka Zehtabchi
- Robert Zemeckis
- Laura Ziskin
- Bradley Steven Perry
Other notable kinesthesia members and instructors (past and present) [edit]
Run into also [edit]
- Glossary of motion picture show terms
- The Dirty Dozen (filmmaking), a grouping of students in the 1960s
References [edit]
- ^ a b Michael Cieply, A Film Schoolhouse's New Look Is Historic, The New York Times, February 9, 2009, Accessed February ten, 2009.
- ^ The New York Times reports the motto as meaning "Reality ends here", but a more direct translation of the Latin approximates as, "The edge is the regions of things".
- ^ a b c d e USC Cinematic Arts (PDF), University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts, 2013, retrieved January 27, 2017
- ^ Rachel Abramowitz, 50.A.'s screening gems, Los Angeles Times, Accessed June xvi, 2008.
- ^ Stuart Silverstein, George Lucas Donates USC's Largest Single Gift [ expressionless link ] , The Los Angeles Times, September 19, 2006
- ^ John Zollinger, George Lucas Donates $175 Million to USC Archived 2015-02-23 at the Wayback Motorcar, USC Public Relations, September twenty, 2006
- ^ Jordan Signs Cinema Pact With USC, USC Public Relations, September 20, 2006
- ^ "SCA to Remove John Wayne Showroom". Daily Trojan. USC. 10 July 2020.
- ^ Facilities
- ^ Eileen Norris Movie house Theatre Complex, USC Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts Facilities, Accessed January 3, 2009.
- ^ USC Self-Guided Tour Archived 2012-10-14 at the Wayback Automobile, University of Southern California, Accessed June 8, 2009.
- ^ a b c Mel Cowan, Cinematic Arts Celebrates 80th Anniversary With All New Campus, University of Southern California, March 31, 2009, Accessed May 1, 2009.
- ^ https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2019/12/16/amid-deaths-students-raise-concerns-over-workload-civilization-and-climate-within-the-school-of-cinematic-arts/
- ^ "The 28th Academy Awards, 1956". The Oscars. Academy of Motion Flick Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
- ^ The Student Movie Makers, Fourth dimension Magazine, February 2, 1968
- ^ Rinzler, J.W., The Consummate Making of Indiana Jones; The Definitive Story Behind All 4 Films, Del Rey, 2008, ISBN 978-0345501295.
- ^ Bapis, Elaine M., Camera And Action: American Film As Amanuensis of Social Change, 1965–1975, McFarland, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7864-3341-four.
- ^ Alumni Contour: Cannes Do Spirit, Trojan Family unit Magazine, Spring 2002, Accessed September xix, 2006.
- ^ KAVI – a short film written and directed by Gregg Helvey » Cast/Coiffure. Kavithemovie.com. Retrieved on 2014-06-05.
- ^ "History". USC Cinematic Arts. University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
Our over 10,000 living alumni include scholars in teaching institutions throughout the earth, artists, technicians, writers, directors, and industry executives, many operating at the highest levels in their fields.
- ^ Weinraub, Bernard. "Motion picture; An Unusual Choice for the Role of Studio Superhero", The New York Times, July 9, 2000. Accessed Nov 27, 2007. "Mr. Vocalist attended the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan for two years, and so transferred to the University of Southern California."
- ^ "Passings: Dick Hoerner, 50.A. Rams fullback, dies at 88; John A. Ferraro, actor, director and USC teacher, dies at 64". Los Angeles Times. December xix, 2010. Retrieved December 24, 2010.
- ^ Kaufman, Amy (October 9, 2012). "James Franco to teach a USC film product class next spring". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ David Kehr, Jerry Lewis, Mercurial Comedian and Filmmaker, Dies at 91, The New York Times, August 20, 2017.
- ^ "Respected Cinematographer, Professor and USC Alumnus obituary". USC Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts. Dec 2, 2010. Retrieved December 12, 2010. [ dead link ]
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