Student Academy Awards held Saturday night

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – There was a international flavor to Saturday night's Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 38th Annual Student Academy Awards, with top medalists spanning the globe — from Norway to South Korea to Israel to Brazil.

"For the first time Foreign Film is not just an honorary category, as it has been for the past 31 years," said event co-presenter, "Alias" actress Jennifer Garner.

Garner noted that foreign students submitted 52 films from 32 different countries this year, and the winner of the new foreign prize was Norway's Hallvar Witzo, director of "Tuba Atlantic."

The Academy established the Student Academy Awards in 1972 to support and encourage excellence in filmmaking at the collegiate level. Past Student Academy Award winners have gone on to receive 43 Oscar nominations and have won or shared eight awards.

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