Bryan Alexander

USA TODAY

Fifteen student filmmakers from around the world received Academy Awards on Saturday night at the 41st Student Academy Awards ceremony.

The event at the Directors Guild of America featured gold, silver and bronze medals presented by actors Adrian Grenier, Nate Parker and Demian Bichir.

The Oscar-winning directing/producing team from the animated feature Frozen — Jennifer Lee, Chris Buck and Peter Del Vecho — were also on hand to give awards.

The Student Academy Awards were started in 1972 to support and encourage excellence in filmmaking at the collegiate level.

Past winners have gone onto receive 46 Oscar nominations and have won or shared eight awards — including John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Robert Zemeckis, Trey Parker and Spike Lee.

The 2014 Student Academy Award winners are:

• Alternative

Gold Medal: Person, Drew Brown, The Art Institute of Jacksonville, Fla.

Silver Medal: Oscillate, Daniel Sierra, School of Visual Arts, New York

• Animation

Gold Medal: Owned, Daniel Clark and Wesley Tippetts, Brigham Young University, Utah Silver Medal: Higher Sky, Teng Cheng, University of Southern California

Bronze Medal: Yamashita, Hayley Foster, Loyola Marymount University, California

• Documentary

Gold Medal: The Apothecary, Helen Hood Scheer, Stanford University

Silver Medal: White Earth, J. Christian Jensen, Stanford University

Bronze Medal: One Child, Zijian Mu, New York University

• Narrative

Gold Medal: Above the Sea, Keola Racela, Columbia University, New York

Silver Medal: Door God, Yulin Liu, New York University

Bronze Medal: Interstate, Camille Stochitch, American Film Institute, California

• Foreign Film

Gold Medal: Nocebo, N Lennart Ruff, University of Television and Film Munich, Germany

Silver Medal: Paris on the Water, Hadas Ayalon, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Bronze Medal: Border Patrol, Peter Baumann, The Northern Film School, United Kingdom