
2025 Academy Awards (Courtesy of Deadline)
Join us in celebrating the Grad Film community at the 2025 Academy Awards! See below for the list of Grad Film nominees, and find the full list of NYU Tisch Nominees here.
SOUND
A Complete Unknown
Tod A. Maitland (Adjunct Faculty, Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film)
Logline: New York, 1961. An unknown 19-year-old named Bob Dylan arrives with his revolutionary talent. He forges relationships with music icons of Greenwich Village on his meteoric rise, culminating in a performance that reverberates worldwide.
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT
A Lien
Tara Sheffer, Producer (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV)
Logline: A young couple face up to and deal with a dangerous immigration process.
BEST PICTURE & BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Nickel Boys
Jomo Fray, Cinematographer (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV)
Logline: Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, "Nickel Boys" chronicles the powerful friendship between two young African-American men navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.
Check out the full list of nominees at Oscars.