rich 1.0 BEVERLY HILLS, California (AP) — After a week of studio visits, fancy dinners and Hollywood meetings, the winners of the 42nd Student Academy Awards finally got their chance to thank the academy. Fifteen young filmmakers spent a week in Los Angeles as the film academy's guests before receiving their awards at a ceremony Thursday night. Members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences chose the 14 winning student films from 1,686 submissions — triple last year's entries, said academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs. Winners were recognized with gold, silver or bronze medals in five categories: animation, documentary, narrative, foreign and alternative. Spending a week as Student Academy Award winner has been "surreal," said documentarian Emily Kassie, 22. "One of the most exciting parts is getting to meet our peers and being among this very high caliber talented group of filmmakers," the Brown University student said. "I think we were all blown away when we saw each other's films." Besides providing professional community, winning a Student Academy Award bodes well for a filmmaker's future. Past winners — a list that includes Spike Lee, Trey Parker, Robert Zemeckis and John Lasseter — have gone on to receive 47 Oscar nominations and eight statuettes. Latest Stories from The Associated Press https://audioboom.com/channels/4277258-latest-stories-from-the-associated-press Audioboom https://audioboom.com 480 95 https://audioboom.com/i/16738581/600x600/c 600 600 <iframe width="100%" height="95" src="https://embeds.audioboom.com/posts/3589359/embed?v=202301" style="background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; width: 100%" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="allowtransparency" scrolling="no" title="Audioboom player" allow="autoplay" sandbox="allow-downloads allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation"></iframe>